# Perthro

Traditional meaning: divination tool

Meanings when upright:

- totality of Yewiffe
- primal womb from which all ideas flow
- passageway between states of being
- the future inquired about is unknown
- a musician or entertainer

Meanings when inverted:

- this will certainly come to pass
- you need to know
- chaos/confusion
- stagnation/anhedonia

Perthro can be useful for:

- evocation of prophetic dreams
- holding repressed memories

Anglo-Saxon rune poem:

> Peorð byþ symble plega and hlehter
> wlancum [on middum], ðar wigan sittaþ
> on beorsele bliþe ætsomne.

> Peorth is a source of recreation and amusement to the great,
> where warriors sit blithely together in the banqueting-hall.

There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Perthro.

A modern poem:

> All that you've done so far has led me to believe
> that every winter of our passing will be followed by a spring.
> That, no matter how dark and cold between you and I it gets,
> the clouds will eventually break and the sun will shine again.

> But still I have no clue what the fates will us bestow
> when it gets longer between our touch and what words pass are cold
> with disappointment, misunderstandings, or simply had a bad day
> and, although still loving, cannot any measure of warmth feign.

> Deep purple dice cup with thick frosting of dust
> as though this were a bakery and Time held a brush
> to sugar everything, last breath of a world that for me did not wait,
> beckoning me to twist the lid and allow myself to play.

> "No people are more addicted to divination by omens and lots."
> My genes mark me no different. But the only words I ever sought
> were from you, my lilac spring, and even then mostly
> I just wanted to know if you still loved me.

> My head in your lap as you lean against
> a tree trunk, not Yewiffe but still offering rest.
> Arboreal claws we lie intimate between,
> scales ruffling above in the gentle breeze.

> "I don't live in Wyrd, Lethe; I'm far from a Norn.
> I can't see to which fate this world has you sworn.
> But this, I feel, I insist you need to know:
> my love for you will always burn no matter how buried by snow."