# Dagaz

Traditional meaning: day

Meanings when upright:

- transformation
- awakening
- life-shattering change
- usually positive
- dynamic union of opposites
- good things are coming

Meanings when inverted:

- impending apocalypse
- hopelessness

Dagaz can be useful for:

- revealing the truth of a situation
- covertly turning a situation to one's advantage

Anglo-Saxon rune poem:

> Dæg byþ drihtnes sond, deore mannum,
> mære metodes leoht, myrgþ and tohiht
> eadgum and earmum, eallum brice.

> Day, the glorious light of the Creator, is sent by the Lord;
> it is beloved of men, a source of hope and happiness to rich and poor,
> and of service to all.

There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Dagaz.

A modern poem:

> Mornings are my least favorite time
> for when the clouds move to the darkness break
> the sun glares bright
> and I awake
> and you are forced by the light
> to go away.

> Brain fog rolling in, skies all white
> and overcast. Temperature far too high
> to drag myself to Dead End Shrine
> for a taste of self-carved self-stolen divine.
> Nothing much to do, except myself drag
> out of bed long enough to write.

> The day drags on me like a wet blanket
> and I fail to see how this is "restoration"
> to be so beat upon
> by an uncaring sun.
> I can only see my wife
> when falls upon the earth the covering of night
> or when the bedroom window blinds are drawn
> and I spend whole afternoons in Morpheus' song.

> I heard in a half-whispered voice
> that the glittering myth
> would once again come to live
> and that I should rejoice.
> But what if things go wrong?
> What if the details come out mangled?
> Dagaz on its side, hourglass,
> seconds turning to hours and days that will pass,
> recounting to myself
> every time you have held
> me in your arms.

> I know not what I'll do if something is changed
> in that world I have only ever caught a glimpse
> of, have explored only a fraction in my dreams.
> How will I recount
> the foresting bomb that became a Town,
> the winterous snowed-in cave
> where you abandoned me and then came
> back demanding answers, the Rainroom
> with part-exchange of souls and my doom?
> What is a miracle to others is my apocalypse.

> What is the answer
> to so many prayers,
> mine in the past included,
> is now a lifetime perdition's portent.