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Berkano Rune Meaning
Pronunciation: Bear-khan-aw
Key concepts: Fertility, growth, profit, new beginnings, renewal, healing
English Corresponding Letter: B

Overview
Berkano is the rune of new beginnings and renewal, recovery and life changes, physical
and spiritual birth and rebirth, fertility and growth, motherhood and sacral wisdom. It is
associated with healing birch tree, activity and energy to grow family or business,
increase of mental, spiritual or material profit.

 
About Berkano (Berkano,
Berkanan, Berkana, Baircan,
Beorc, Bjarkan)
Literally translating, Berkano means “birch twig”. Birch was the first tree that grew
on Earth a er the ice age stepped back. Beautiful birch trees with white trunks and
pleasantly refreshing aroma of leaves naturally grow in the North and birch twigs
are widely used for healing and strengthening health. Birch forests for our ancestors
in Northern Europe were sacred places, sanctuaries that hold the wisdom and
healing powers. The literal translation, use and symbolic meaning of birch tree
pretty clearly tell what Berkano rune stands for. It is a sign of new beginnings,
healing, renewal and regeneration, growth, profit, beauty and new life. It is
associated with dark green color, Earth element, feminine energy and Freya –
goddess in Norse mythology related to Earth, love, beauty and fertility.

 
 

Study Tip

The “B” of Berkano stands for Birth

 

 
  

Berkano Rune Meaning in Divination

If you are asking about new ventures, health and development, this rune in
divination definitely brings good news. It doesn’t promise immediate results, but
invites to get on a journey because it’s the right time for that! Berkano is the rune of
birth and can mean both – physical birth of a child or a symbolic birth and rebirth. It
predicts success, yet you have to accept challenges to get rewards and enjoy your
success.

Meaning in Career or Prosperity goals:

Plant a seed! It will take time for that seed to grow, maybe it won’t be easy, but
Berkano tells that it’s a good time to plant that seed and get on a journey. Pay
attention to the opportunities of development and growth that come in your way.
Some challenges might not be easy, but we have to overcome them in order to
grow. Don’t fear of di iculties, because Berkano says – you are capable of growing
through them and your prosperity, career goals and success are achievable. Profits
will come if you start working on your idea, focus your attention or direct your
energy into new beginnings or renewal of something you’ve previously abandoned.

Meaning in Love:
This rune that radiates feminine energy is also the rune of home, family, building
and growing family. It might mean that it’s time for a baby to come in the family, but
it also can point to the right time to start building a family, move in together or
propose, buy a family house or start a new adventure – plant a seed for a new
project together with your family members. This rune of new beginnings can also
indicate that falling in love waits for you around the corner, the springtime for your
heart is coming to awaken love inside of you, so, why don’t you help yourself to
open up for the positive, healing energy of love inviting it in your life!

Meaning in Health:
Berkano points to health improvements and healing. This rune reminds that not
always mental and physical health are healed fast and easily, sometimes even right
before being fully healed we experience exacerbation – it’s a part of the way to
healing. Just like with childbirth – carrying a child and giving birth is not easy, it’s
mentally and physically challenging process, yet it’s not something to fear of, it is
possible and it creates a new life – at the end the result is much bigger than the
struggle on the way. Those di iculties we experience are a natural part to healing –
releasing what is no longer needed to let the health into our bodies. Ask yourself are
you doing whatever is good for your health? Maybe some specific habit change is
really needed to experience health improvements in your life. Habit changes usually
aren’t easy, but o en, that’s the only challenge we have to accept to see our health
returning and thriving.

Meaning in Spirituality:
To avoid stagnation you have to direct your attention to growth. If you feel you
haven’t really followed your spiritual path lately, come back to it. Don’t abandon
your path or something you really want to learn or achieve spiritually just because
you can’t achieve what you want right now. Practice, be patient and give it some
time because every seed needs time before it turns into a flower.

Berkano reversed:
Reversed Berkano warns about stagnation, lack of development or lack of action
taken to promote growth and development. Positive outcome and success are the
results of taking action and doing what is needed to promote growth and develop
your ideas turning them into reality. Do not just sit and wait for the good times to
come! Patience is a good thing, but you also need to take action and accept
challenges, overcome di iculties and grow in order to achieve something more,
something better or di erent than what you have now. In a reverse position it also
can indicate that not events, but your own character traits are standing on the way
between you and success and that you might be the one who actually slows down
your own development. Are you stubbornly refusing the opportunity of growth? Or
maybe you are holding on to beliefs and habits that aren’t beneficial to you?

Berkano Rune Magickal Uses

This rune represents feminine energy, motherhood and healing and it has some
magical properties that it o ers specifically to women, yet it’s not for women only as
all of us has both – feminine and masculine energies inside, and we need both of
them.

You can use this rune in your life to

• Promote growth and development
• Get out of feeling stuck in life, escape stagnation
• Build your stress resistance
• Attract love and start new relationships
• Find support while carrying a child and comfort getting ready for a childbirth
• Deal with challenges and find your stability while going through these challenges
• Heal infections, fertility and female health issues
• Promote conceiving a baby and safety in childbirth

You can work with Berkano in many di erent ways:

• Use it in meditation for finding stability through challenges – imagine the strong,
balancing Earth energy coming through the symbol of Berkano.

• Draw this sign on papers where you describe your ideas, goals, new plans and new
beginnings of something in your life to find your way to success and profit through
challenges.

• Decorate your home or your altar with Berkano to promote growth and fertility.

• Use it as your talisman to attract health, spiritual growth and strengthen your
stress resistance.

• Use this sign for healing infections, recovering from trauma or solving fertility or
female health issues – awaken the energy of this sign through meditation, lighting a
candle with this sign engraved on it or placing a candle in front of a drawing that
depicts Berkano.

Governs:
Birth, rebirth and renewal
New beginnings
Healing from traumas and manifesting health improvements
Building and growing family
Promoting growth and development
Courageously accepting challenges to experience growth
Staying strong and stable overcoming challenges
Blessings for motherhood and reproduction
Putting the knowledge and skills in practice, taking action to promote growth

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