# Eihwaz rune meaning (Yew Tree): upright and reversed

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- Meaning: Yew Tree
- Sound: EI (EYE-wahz)
- Proto-Germanic: *ī(h)waz
- Aett: Heimdall's Aett
- Element: Earth
- Reversed reading: no (symmetrical, always read upright)

## Upright

Keywords: endurance, transformation, tree of life

### General

Like the yew, you have a strength that is both long-lived and protective; you carry an endurance that does not fall easily. This is a good time to go down to your roots and go through a real inner change. As one door closes, a new one is opening on much firmer ground.

### Love

Your relationship has been through a test, and instead of breaking your bond it has rooted it. The commitment between you now lives deep down, in a place that does not shake. That endurance will carry you through future difficulties together too.

### Career

A demanding project or long-term goal in front of you will prove you have more staying power than you thought. You will find in yourself the deep-rooted strength needed to finish something left half-done.

## Practical Tip

Thought to help protect something already won and to finish work left half-done, and to strengthen the bond in relationships.

## Rune Poem

In the poem the yew is hard on the outside and deep in its roots, a keeper of fire.

## History and Myth

The yew lives for centuries; modern readings link it to the world tree Yggdrasil and to the threshold between life and death.

## Inner Life

Spiritual resilience; bending in the storm without breaking.

## Shadow Side

Rigidity; refusing to bend at all.

## Harmony and Tension (modern interpretation)

Makes a deep mystery with Perthro; stands up to the storm of Hagalaz.

## In Talismans (modern interpretation)

Used in talismans for steadfast protection.

## Question for the Day

Can I bend before the storm and stay standing?