# Wunjo

Traditional meaning: joy, perfection

Meanings when upright:

- bilocality in awareness
- passionate love and union
- joy in self-recognition
- sacred marriage (by Mannaz)
- lifting of the Veil
- community peace
- a social worker

Meanings when inverted:

- severance from the divine
- madness and insanity
- groupthink/collectivism
- loss of identity
- strife and alienation

Wunjo can be useful for:

- strengthening links and bonds
- binding runes toward specific purposes

Anglo-Saxon rune poem:

> Wenne bruceþ, ðe can weana lyt
> sares and sorge and him sylfa hæfþ
> blæd and blysse and eac byrga geniht.

> Bliss he enjoys who knows not suffering, sorrow nor anxiety,
> and has prosperity and happiness and a good enough house.

There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Wunjo.

A modern poem:

> Where do our nerves know where to end?
> X equals X times two,
> all but nought to the stratosphere.
> I touch your cheek, and I feel the sheer
> softness, and the pressure against an aching tooth
> in your jaw, and my fingertips starting to sweat.
> I know, and I know that you know, and you know
> that I know that you know.
> Reaching across an imaginary line
> that between our bodies divides
> a canvas, symmetry mode, whatever I do
> to you is mirrored in sensation on my own hide.

> I would to atone self-flagellate
> if not for the knowledge that the bloody pain,
> although on your skin leaving no wound,
> would convince that it had become serrate.
> This vessel of mine is just as much yours
> now as it was when Inside I was born,
> reincarnate, held century's prisoner.
> I should take care of it, I think, to minimize
> the pain transferred from this bond of our life.