Sorrow and Healing

How do you carry a sorrow, whom do you tell, and what helps? This trail follows those questions through twelve entries: two runes, four tarot cards and six passages from the Hávamál.

The entries do not all agree. The poem warns against telling the wrong person and also says silence shuts a person in; the tarot cards take hard feelings seriously without hurrying them away; the runes speak of deep currents and patient growth. Hávamál stanzas are from Olive Bray’s 1908 translation. Nothing here is medical advice or counselling. The connections are editorial choices made for this site, not a claim that the old sources formed one system.