Year & Harvest
Jera is the good year, the rune of harvest and the natural cycle. It promises the reward of steady effort – what you have sown ripens when you give the course of things time. Good things take their time; today you may trust in the fruit of your patience.
‘Jera/Ger’ is the (good) year, the harvest, the cycle of the seasons. Related to the German ‘Jahr’ (year).
The Old English poem says: the year (the harvest) is the joy of people, when God lets the earth bring forth its fruits – for rich and poor alike.
Jera embodies the reward for patient work: sown in spring, harvested in autumn. Its form, with the two interlocking parts, depicts the eternal turning of the seasons.
No other rune is so much a promise: what you do in right measure bears fruit in its time.