# Tiewaz

Traditional meaning: Tyr

Meanings when upright:

- self-discipline
- self-reliance
- willingness to do what is right despite the consequences
- integrity
- justice
- faith/loyalty
- keep your promises

Meanings when inverted:

- person of malleable character and weak will
- an untrustworthy person
- need to step back and reconnect with one's priorities
- run-down spirit

Tiewaz can be useful for:

- guarding against moral relativism
- self-regulation
- returning to reality / linear time after trance work

Anglo-Saxon rune poem:

> Tir biþ tacna sum, healdeð trywa wel
> wiþ æþelingas; a biþ on færylde
> ofer nihta genipu, næfre swiceþ.

> Tiw is a guiding star; well does it keep faith with princes;
> it is ever on its course over the mists of night and never fails.

Norwegian rune poem:

> Týr er æinendr ása;
> opt værðr smiðr blása.

> Tyr is a one-handed god;
> often has the smith to blow.

A modern poem:

> A cruel world this is where I must choose
> to live my truth
> or have a place to snooze
> at night, safe from thieves
> or murderers or even just
> the relentless and ever-encroaching heat.

> Raised on tales of heroes from the sky,
> but the days pass on rapidly by
> and my rights disappear
> into the ether
> as curled up in my bed I wait to die.

> Conflicting directives you have bestowed,
> to not lie to myself
> and yet take care of this vessel.
> For so long I've been trying to vindicate
> who I was this age minus eight,
> angel number, all portals
> to the outside world
> for the crime of poetry taken away.
> Keeping my mouth shut means safety
> but heavy conscience, soul decay.
> I might as well be no one at all.