The Runes: Berkano ᛒ

[@Aline27434]

Berkano/a is exactly what you describe her to be. I have her as a tattoo and she is indeed a very powerfull but gentle rune for the development of self. Eversince I have her, she has freed me of old harmfull patterns and started the beginning of a new life. All in a very gentle way. I absolutely love this rune! Love your channel!

[@teresafigueiredo]

I love the way you see and respect women's, they have an important part in the society!

[@atypicalaspie7208]

Here in Finland, and in most other countries in Northern Europe, women were treated better in pre-Christian times than after the arrival of Abrahamism.

[@sevenis9712]

This came right on time.i just lost my job of 25 years due to this corona virus mess. Luckily I was already preparing to leave but in about a year. Thankfully I already paid off my house and car. I had a dream about change. This is me walking out of the old and walking away from not so great people and into a new life. I believe this time will help my knowledge and spiritual skills evolve into something stronger and more detailed.We also have a birch tree.This discussion was right on time!

[@Helen-Ophion]

Huging you, have also same friends. Stranglely lately before the Covid i was observing many people who loved their jobs and were doing cery well were not appreciated by the owners for who they worked. And good people tented to be dismissed or lose their jobs undeservingly. I also was same luky as you

[@sevenis9712]

Елена Федотова Thank you.

[@Nattfridur]

I find it interesting that "the big C" brought many people to new spiritual experience by kicking them out of their routines. For me it brought an injury (out of built-up anger) and a forced pause from working. Shortly after this I had a vision about the rune Ingwaz; I dug deeper and see some things in my life clearer now. Best wishes for you! 💚

[@idunnagerth4759]

Loved this one arith, as I love all your works, but really appreciated your critic to society and reeinforcing women's right to freedom

[@jurikurthambarskjelfir3533]

Whamen

[@savannahappleby1259]

These videos are excellent. Thank you.

[@sarahsunshine6817]

Your respect for the universe is so evident in your teachings. I use my runes for both their actual meanings and symbols on them. Awesome accent too! Adds spice to the video!

[@SiddhaGiovannaBellini]

Berkano is my favorite Rune, for all the things you have so gently explaned...very beautiful video Arith, tack så mycket!

[@FoucaultShanez]

Thanks,Arith! often watch you when have doubts in reading runes

[@babykraken1]

It’s great how you try to get beyond old dualisms, using your wide knowledge.

[@c.maria.norrman]

I listened to this while tending to my harvest of wild garlic - felt very fitting!

[@ArithHärger]

Very fitting indeed! Good luck with your harvest :p

[@jurikurthambarskjelfir3533]

How was the harvest?

[@gundsaiwala]

I'm one of those that were never a child. So the absence of Berkano - in a psychologic way - is something to meditate about. It always surprises me how the runes talk to us in all our different levels of existance (physic, psychologic, spiritual). And I'm certain that we all appreciate your knowledge about them, but mostly your intention to spread it with respect and kindness. Thank you very much for another enriching video.

[@0LadyMisfit0]

I feel like you are speaking right to me. So many points you brought up hit home. I am so glad I clicked on this video.

[@MsCapi]

Thank you so much for your knowledge. Need this in my life right now.

[@polishfolkwitch]

I love your videos from this particular series, I always learn new perspectives about the runes from you. Thanks Arith!

[@TerriBoggsNLTL]

I think this series is absolutely AMAZING.. you go far more in depth than ANY other information source I have looked at (and please believe me when I say, I have been doing tons of research!) Thank you so very much for your work on this series! It means the world to me, and I am sure many others!!

[@stellasmithson3836]

Thank you Arith

[@danielo.m.288]

Great! I was waiting for Bjarka

[@concienciapoder]

You are just great. Simple, direct, smart and funny. Ive been seeing videos about runes for a few months, yours are the best I've found, to me at least. Congrats :-)

[@PhysicsForge]

As usual, a fantastic work!

[@garychynne1377]

thank yew arith. as i listened to you i thought the past must come through the present to become the future. i get the feeling your thinking about becoming a parent. have fun. good luck.

[@jaymeVos]

Great video. My favorite rune. Makes me feel a need to be around trees.

[@Dr.Iggulden_ND]

One of the reasons I love your vids Arith, I come to learn more about a rune and get an awesome lecture on tree magic too! I get it tho, to the unlocked mind all things are interconnected. Like Indras net.

[@curtismiller8312]

Thanks you , your lessons are always appreciated. 🙏✌

[@JoanneGriffin-uh9ps]

Your music at the beginning? Beautiful! Artwork as well (artifacts?) are colorful & beautiful as well in intro. Thank you , so enjoy all that you share ❤!

[@ContagiousGhoul]

I love what you do. Thank you for doing what you do, Iam a legal minister in Norse paganism. I've been practicing for 18 years and it's a nice feeling to learn something even if it is small. SKOL

[@cincoy3679]

Curious Contagion That so nice. Do you know where there one in the USA. ?

[@BaltimoresBerzerker]

I repeat the question above. I only know of one on the east coast. Private property gathering place

[@ContagiousGhoul]

I am currently building a long house in wyoming my ancestry is heavily Scandinavian. I have a bunch of famed viking in my bloodline and ancestry, one notably is Ivar the Boneless.

[@ContagiousGhoul]

What exactly are you all looking for maybe I can help

[@BaltimoresBerzerker]

@@ContagiousGhoul I ask because 1. I want to learn 2. I want to get married to my fiance but I think this bond warrants more than judicial recognition. I was raised catholic and want a traditionalist wedding but refuse to fake my way through a religion I don't believe in to have them wed us. Out of self respect and respect for the church they hold dear, I find that method wrong. We are both interested in a traditional pagan wedding.

[@NikkiEvernight]

Awesome! Some interesting interpretations in this Arith, I like and enjoyed this very much, thank you !

[@ArithHärger]

Thank you my dear friend ^^ always happy to have your approval hehehe

[@NikkiEvernight]

@@ArithHärger Always pre-approved you are! :D

[@caroamnell4786]

Great video! You should consider writing a book on runes with all this information. It would be really interesting and helpful for those who wish to learn more. I have read so much nonsense on the Internet regarding the runes! Hugs !

[@magjacstories3945]

As I was creating my runes set, I put a labradorite stone in each rune before cooking it in the oven. Now I understand why I was inspired to put TWO labradorite stones in the rune Berkano. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, brother.

[@XENA_O_VANIR]

Love listening and learning as always!! Thank you for all of your research!!!

[@G.V.3]

Your interpretation of runes does so much for my, thank You 🙏🏻

[@bridgetkorns8174]

How very interesting that I drew this Rune for the first time on the last day of Scoepio Season in 2022, which has a very similar esoteric meaning- Rebirth. Thank you for these very thoughtful Rune videos. I really enjoy these Meditations as I learn the Runes.

[@runamerrywinter6482]

thank you for doing all you do xoxo

[@christophegourves7844]

ho!! merci beaucoup pour cette explication spirituellement rafraîchissante !!!!! je viens de m’abonner et je vais parcourir votre chaîne afin de mieux comprendre mon jeu de rune et la culture qui l’entoure !! merci beaucoup pour la possibilité de sous titre belle et prospère continuation ✨☀️🌿🙏

[@kirrahmae6650]

Your resistance shall be mitigated ha ha!!

[@danielakesselring7683]

Many thanks 💝 to you. I like your explanations about the runes...grounded with history. Well done 👍🏻

[@angaidhjones2605]

500th like for me :D Thanks for the video ! I never saw the rune like that and a lot of what you say makes more sense now.

[@brucereeves732]

There is an amanita muscaria on your shoulder. Thank you for a wonderful video.

[@fabionovelli3136]

Thank you very much Arith... I needed the se words

[@JK-ex6rn]

I love watching your videos. As you say, it is your personal opinion on this as there is so much knowledge from a bygone era. I am Asatro and try to live then 😊 I have, like everyone from the Danish faith communities, the biggest here "Forn Siđr" and Asatro Collection also my beliefs about the various things like stories, myths, legends, damage / songs And a lot different interpretations of our Edda poems (the older Edda and the younger Edda) and personally did I think that the Vålven divination tells us something? We often debate our personal approach, attitude, beliefs, meaning, and interpretations about all that stuff. And there is something for every taste as we are all so different. Not like in Christianity where everyone has the 10 commandments etc. I personally have a shamanistic, animistic approach to my faith. Then you just got it with hehe but yeah I like your videos as its how you watch it and then I learn something new from a different view. And our faith is an eternal school approach hehe even though I am 34 years old today and started to believe in Nordic mythology when I was 16 years old even though I have read, heard, seen all that in all these years, I am still learning new things all over time and what I know and have learned are not necessarily "the right" but man where I love my faith and take pride in it 😊 I hope you are doing well ? And as we say in the Asatro here in Danish: År og fred (Year and Peace)😊🌈🍀

[@tomthewanderingwolf]

I really liked this intro!

[@blackthornsloe8049]

Love the explanation of this rune.

[@fenrisulfr3558]

Yay runes!

[@thorbjrnyuzen8501]

Nice tempting intro

[@dragorsi]

I enjoy when a human being talks about being a human being :D

[@vsevolodarkona1902]

judging by some of the comments, I would say some people eat shit for breakfast. Arith stands for women's rights, clearly giving a critic against modern society and how little women are valued and making a critic to modern day neo paganism that continues to paint a denigrating image of women and the same old abrahamic ideas that women should stay at home. Arith is clearly demonstrating the value of women and that they are much more than "household tools", yet some "housewives" come here twisting his words and play the victims ffs. Now I understand why in the previous Q&A video Arith has been asked "why are wiccans little bitter bitches?" - thats why! Great video btw Arith, as always!

[@Svitlana__k]

Thanks

[@danielag.ishikawa]

Aaa eu acho que voce como homem pode sim falar sobre Berkano e sua ligação com o feminino justamente porque voce conhece e entende o sistema patriarcal que vivemos e como ele está obsoleto e errado ;)! E imagino que seja un homem sensível a ponto de entender a feminilidade dessa runa então está tudo bem, grata por mais uma otima aulinha!

[@Elena-zq8in]

"Berkano" - origin: from Middle High German berc, from Old High German berg, from Ur-Germanic * bergaz, from Ur-Indo-European * bʰerǵʰos ("height"), documented since the 9th century.

[@orion7570]

Good job

[@BryanRobertAugustThul-ONELOVE]

It happened in 2020 C.E. to me; B Thank you May your journey only Be better Blessed... B.R.A.T.😇

[@silviomatias35]

YEAHHHH Finally you keep going wujjuuu

[@md93721]

Sir,may I use runes to meditate on them to invoke their energy through my consciousness and direct that energy?Thank you.

[@seankerr9158]

I’m using them this way too. Would like to hear more about the energies and their properties specifically. So far no harm in attuning to these energies, as far as I can tell. Would like to hear from someone with more experience.

[@maxbuckley9762]

I love your outlook on the rune /meanings of the rune its self Looking at women as some sort of house keeper will only get you into a world of hurt Maidens have long since took up sword and shield wayyyyyyy before this testosterone storm was flying around Leave behind the yesterday Live in the today Look onward to the tomorrow Hail the gods and goddesses

[@atypicalaspie7208]

Women in ancient Finland would usually not touch a sword unless they had to defend their home and children when the men were away.

[@walgekaaren1783]

If you would put Berkana and Odal together as a bindrune, first drawing Gebo, and making it look like bow and arrow, by adding the Berkana looking in its upward position, tilted due to being drawn on Gebo, then sealing it with Kaunaz making the Odal. It really looks like the vision, what Jacob had about the Heavens Gate. Would it allow to gleam lost knowledge, such as the true names of the runes and other such knowledge, lost to time? OwO

[@inept_]

you're telling me the may pole wasn't made out of maple?

[@AlbuquerqueBandit]

AAARIIIITH HAAARGERRRRRRRRRR

[@lalu00nebulosa]

Arith have you ever thought about writing a book about runes and their practical use in divination? Can you suggest me a book that helped you understand better? Thanks 😊

[@BaltimoresBerzerker]

Last question. Regarding the name of runes and ritual. Language changes over time, even in homogeneous cultures, countries, etc. So if the pronunciation etc changes, but the intention and general ritual stays the same or similar, does it matter in a religious sense? Academically it clearly matters.

[@atypicalaspie7208]

As far as I can tell, the words for the most important things weren't as likely to change.

[@dabitz6167]

Birch, please!

[@awolpeace1781]

When is that Alder rune video coming?

[@anaisalimagedefreya8089]

Great vidéo Hello to you and thank you for your videos, I am in aesthetic school and I am learning seidr and runes. I have a blog and I want to write an article on cosmetics during the Scandinavian Middle Ages. Could you make a video or give me some information about it, if you have any of course? thank you very much Anais

[@tizianalatorre7513]

Question:do you think is it possible to worship the runes to put it around the Norse Wheel 8 Directions? Thank you and great new Berkana period!

[@stoltenborg]

Their names were not preserved, or their preservation was destroyed? An important distinction to consider.

[@karkir-joharkarntkristkark9507]

Branching out 🙂

[@Aeslyth]

you should have a video on rune casting

[@ArithHärger]

After I finish these series :)

[@Drarayanatramontini]

Hi Arith! What is the meaning when this rune appears to answer a question about how someone see you, specially in a man vision? Thank you for all wisdom, greetings from Brazil!

[@Hadrada.]

Your really pretty

[@ENNARELL]

My runes arrived wrapped in plastic. I pierced the film and pulled. Half of the runes exploded out of the packaging. Two landed on my legs and the rest on the floor. All were facedown except for this one ☝️ resting on my shin. Very interesting!

[@ConnyC1]

So funny.. "it happened once.. in the middle east" lol lol

[@Helen-Ophion]

How and where can I join to follow up gatherings?

[@tonyu5985]

I wonder where the Germans and Scandinavians got the runes from

[@dabitz6167]

From Odin.

[@ItsJakeTheBrake]

Greek and Roman alphabet

[@rustysglass]

A=apple .... Stuff like that

[@heornable]

Hmm great job on this. But it was three days ago. Normally you have a new video by now so i hope the racists didn’t discourage you from your work. There is SO much peace in blocking those racists and removing them from your channel. Just remove them and move on please. We want to learn more from you.

[@Yuuki_12]

Please do a video explaining the actual stories of the god, like the things they did not just facts about them

[@colinp2238]

Become a responsible adult. Does he mean me? Nahh!

[@jaymeVos]

Also I am a stay at home dad half the time ;) Me and mine share the load.

[@RichardWHardwick]

so many runes represent rebirth, new beginnings, growth of the spiritual self, I love your videos but there does seem to be a lot of repetition in the meanings you decree

[@yasscraftx21._.]

3 flies and 3 spiders

[@BaltimoresBerzerker]

Berkano is related to garderers?! :) I'm one. I hear you about the sexist religions, there are obvious examples. What are your thoughts on the traditionalist attitudes (pretty sexist in modern terms) of the reindeer herders of Siberia who are shamanic and animist? I recently watched Kate Humboldt for BBC visit them. Odd rules such as a woman can't step over things like a sleigh or pole, but men can, etc. Archaic cultural attribute or religious? Granted, they have N DNA, they're Asian with European admixture, not European.

[@user-bk2vg7ym5w]

Gives this man a pipe and a sniff of brandy on the rocks! Sure, I dink the rest of the bottle...

[@beatrizfiscowich33]

So glad to find you ! just in time to play with my brand new runes : hagalaz -algiz -berkana . tack so mycket , your videos are very interesting : )

[@atypicalaspie7208]

I'm a Finn. My ethnicity is my religion. To be a Finnish Pagan is to have Finnish ancestry, live in Finland, and speak Finnish. A Black person cannot be a Finnish Pagan.

[@Lycanthroperage95]

Atypical Aspie A Black Person with Finnish ancestry, or being raised within Finnish culture and values does have the gods within them, whether that be through blood, or psychology.

[@ludvigd4341]

Why

[@ludvigd4341]

@Atlantis' Thralls But if you've been born in Finland, raised in Finland, speaks Finnish and have Finnish citizenship and define themselves as a pagan, then they're a Finnish pagan. Or what's the definition of a finn?

[@nietzschean3138]

@@ludvigd4341 Does a piece of paper in the form of a passport change your genetics?

[@juni_pearl_9591]

As a stay at home mother & housewife, I sincerely hope that you understand that it takes all the self sacrifice, dedication, and devotion to others that you had just described regarding motherhood and tending the communal garden of ones community and surroudings. I do way more than all those tasks you descrived. I am the emotional caretaker of the home, which is something that really can’t be easily described or dismissed. You said something to the effect that you see woman as more than just housewives, as if being a housewife was a demeaning act, this truly upset me. It’s fine to see the potential of women to be more than that, but to describe the act with almost disdain, bothered me. All those boring menial tasks are done with love, self-sacrifce, and putting the needs of the group above my own. Additonally, stay at home mothers do way more things of value than just chores. I honestly hope that I’ve misunderstood you, because I have watched you for sometime now and generally enjoy your videos and value your insights. But this time, I could barely make it past the 14 minute marker......and maybe there is more that I missed, but I just had to click off. Sorry.

[@teresafigueiredo]

You must see at the end, he just describes the rune, and the society importance of women's.

[@idunnagerth4759]

yes, you clearly missed the point there. Arith isn't saying that with disdain, he is making a critic to society and giving value to women in general, a value to their freedom, watch it till the end

[@ArithHärger]

Hullo! How have you been? Well, I must honestly say that my intention wasn't, at all, to pass on a denigrating imagine on the work of housewives, on the contrary. As Simone Kaspy and Idunna Gerth in the comments below point out, it's a critic to society and to reinforce the importance of women's freedom, but it is also a critic to world-views within paganism, especially by certain new-age religions based on some aspects of a romanticized Germanic pagan past. There is often this idea that women should stay at home, whether they like it or not, and that's not freedom. A woman may like to be a housewife, and enjoy that, there's no problem in that whatsoever, but was it her choice? Did she really chose that life? Did she had the freedom to chose that life? Or was it simply a patriarchal idea and stay-home women do not actually have a choice and just slowly drift into that life and get used to it? Again, I'm not saying that the life of a housewife is something bad, on the contrary. But take a look at our society, it doesn't give value to housewives, and the work they do at home, and there isn't a monetary aid specificaly for women who chose to stay at home and take care of the house and children, yet society wants them at home, but doesn't give the proper value. You also see this in many neo-pagan communities and religious organizations - a bunch of men or "priests" giving a false value to housewives, when what they truly want is to bind their women at force them to stay behind closed doors as a form of control. It should be the woman to have the freedom to chose if she wants to stay at home or not, as it is the choice of a man as well. There's always work to do indoors or outdoors, but there isn't the freedom to chose and there isn't value to be given by our modern societies. Rest assure that when women are housewives, more often than not it's not their choice but they are force to do it (not saying it's your particular case). I appreciate your feedback, but what you wrote there was precisely the opposite of the message I tried to pass on, and maybe the fault is with me because I might not have expressed myself that well. Thank you.

[@juni_pearl_9591]

Arith Härger Thank you so very much for such a thoughtful reply!! I will most definitely watch to the end to see your complete message. I apologize for rushing to a conclusion and am admittedly a bit embarrassed. It is just something that I suppose is too near and dear to my own life and I may be overly sensitive about and I let that shape my reaction rather then listening to all you had to say (SORRY!!). .............. Your point about it being expected of women, yet looked down upon for its lack of financial earning, is exactly why I get defensive. It is because people sometimes look at me and say, “oh, that’s all you do?” As if running a household isn’t actual work, lol. I find it interesting that people seem to be more satisfied with my quick interjection that I also do part time work on EBay re-selling handbags and accessories. It always amuses me because that job is simple compared to the myriad of tasks that being a full time mother and housewife requires (accountant, handy woman, nurse, therapist, nutritionist, cook, etc....). However, I am very grateful for my choice in the matter. I got married and started a family children in my early 30’s so I had plenty of time to explore the world traveling and achieving many personal, educational, and career goals. My husband is completely supportive of my decision and we work together as a team to make sure our family is successful. I do know of what you are referring to in the Neo-pagan community though. I have see this sorta “alpha male,” mentality abound at times. I can see where they could view woman as chatel and attempt to deny them governance over their own lives under the guise of “it’s your role as a woman.”. However, I will say that I personally know a lot of women who also chose to be housewifes and several who aren’t but wish they could be. Again, the issue is personal choice.

[@juni_pearl_9591]

Simone Kaspy Thanks.

[@jon-paultaylor]

I enjoy your video's Arith and usually agree but your tone when describing the duties of a housewife bothered me a little.....it's one of the most important jobs anyone can do in society,who tends the next generation,moulds them to a great extent..... having raised my eldest son on my own I have a small insight into that role and believe me if I hadn't had help I wouldn't have coped as many women do , without help...... nothing wrong with women on an equal footing with men,it's as it should be, and CERTAINLY nothing wrong with being a housewife it's a job that requires complete commitment (sadly lacking these days)and unbelievable strength as well as sacrifice.... interesting vid anyway👍

[@ArithHärger]

Hello there, how are you? If you allow me, let me copy paste 2 replies I've given concerning this: " (...) well, I must honestly say that my intention wasn't, at all, to pass on a denigrating imagine on the work of housewives, on the contrary. As Simone Kaspy and Idunna Gerth in the comments below point out, it's a critic to society and to reinforce the importance of women's freedom, but it is also a critic to world-views within paganism, especially by certain new-age religions based on some aspects of a romanticized Germanic pagan past. There is often this idea that women should stay at home, whether they like it or not, and that's not freedom. A woman may like to be a housewife, and enjoy that, there's no problem in that whatsoever, but was it her choice? Did she really chose that life? Did she had the freedom to chose that life? Or was it simply a patriarchal idea and stay-home women do not actually have a choice and just slowly drift into that life and get used to it? Again, I'm not saying that the life of a housewife is something bad, on the contrary. But take a look at our society, it doesn't give value to housewives, and the work they do at home, and there isn't a monetary aid specificaly for women who chose to stay at home and take care of the house and children, yet society wants them at home, but doesn't give the proper value. You also see this in many neo-pagan communities and religious organizations - a bunch of men or "priests" giving a false value to housewives, when what they truly want is to bind their women at force them to stay behind closed doors as a form of control. It should be the woman to have the freedom to chose if she wants to stay at home or not, as it is the choice of a man as well. There's always work to do indoors or outdoors, but there isn't the freedom to chose and there isn't value to be given by our modern societies. Rest assure that when women are housewives, more often than not it's not their choice but they are force to do it (not saying it's your particular case). I appreciate your feedback, but what you wrote there was precisely the opposite of the message I tried to pass on, and maybe the fault is with me because I might not have expressed myself that well. Thank you." "(...) the problem here is that in the rune poems this rune was never ever related to the figure of the housewife and/or her work, nor related to the same old pattern of the man in the field and the woman in house, which not only is a feudalist construction but also an abrahamic religious idea that men must work and women must serve. This idea isn't real in a germanic pagan past in any way, not historically, not archaeologically speaking, and neither in the rune poems. This idea was transported to the rune by Wicca (which was in great great part a "paganization" of christian values and morals) and then transported into Odinism and later into Ásatrú, reinforcing the same social-religious structure of men at work and women must serve. You can easily see this by the study of the rune poems, none of them talk about housewives, so that is simply a modern interpretation, trying to create parallels between our modernday world views with world views of the past, or in other words, reinventing the past and transforming it into the mirror image of the present. Besides, the runes, in my opinion, are meant to help in personal evolution and growth, so we can't simply cling on to obsolete ideas that only work for past-perceptions and past world-views. We live in the now, not in the past, so we need to adapt to the new realities we live in, in order to survive, wouldn't you agree? Thank you."

[@jon-paultaylor]

@@ArithHärger thanks for the reply Arith I thought it odd and that I'd possibly misread your tone and I'm glad you've taken the time to make it clearer,thank you.....stay safe and keep the vids coming,I listen to them while working and they're always a bright spot in my day👍

[@ooz8539]

Don't you think it's very dangerous to play with things you don't know the name off ie would it not be offensive to the element when you mispronounce the name if someone miss pronounce your name differently wouldn't you be upset you should only practice what you know show the name and how to approach it carefully and with the humidity remember what you sow you will reap what you open will come through and you may not be able to close and what you shut may not open I will say if you don't know something don't mess with it leave it alone if it it is not broken don't fix it have a good week be careful out there and a prosperous one Blessed be to all