Golden sun, when shining through the blue waves, tints green. This is how you may see your heart with inner sight, when looking down to the chest from the height of the Water - golden in the middle but with emerald edges. We already saw a similar green glow in the crown of Berkana.
Now let's focus on this upper emerald part.

There is a rune for this — Wunjo.

It means joy and bliss, and we can also consider love, desire, and even victory aspects.

Etymologically, the proto-germanic word "wunjô" descends from PIE "wenh" - "to love". Interestingly words "venus", "to venerate", and "to win" also descend from the same PIE root.

Venus - Roman goddess of love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. The Norse goddess Freyja is associated with the same domains, and interestingly, she is one of the Vanir - "natural" or "shamanic" faction of gods. Some scholars trace the "Vanir" word to the same PIE root "wenh".

So even if it's not attested in the sources explicitly, both from functional and etymological perspectives we can confidently connect Freyja with the Wunjo.

Freyja was known to possess a somehow important necklace "Brísingamen" but details of its significance are lost in time. Though unattested in sources this necklace reminds the Crystal we are making from Earth as part of the Runic Alchemy process.

From the Runic Alchemy perspective, Wunjo is a full-height vertical of simultaneous resonance of all five levels: Water, Air, Emptiness, Earth, and Fire, followed by a descending transition from Water and an ascending transition from Emptiness, both ending at the Air level - our chest.

The Water flow, the river, can be compared to the flow of time, from the future to the past. It always goes in this direction and we can directly perceive only the present, merely guessing the future and recalling the past. But sometimes on the river, when a normal current faces an obstacle, the whirlpool may form, causing Water to loop, so locally, time may turn back for a while letting us hang on and look around.

This is the power of Wunjo - the flow of Laguz, facing the rising vector of the Sowilo sun, causes the time to make a few circles and let us look around. Those bits of joy and happiness in our life usually happen when we hurry not, but are being in the moment and realizing how amazing is all this stuff around. 

By integrating the Wunjo rune, we can adopt such a mindset of being happy.

[New chapter about Wunjo added to the book](https://runicalchemy.com/kindred#wunjo-rune)

P.S. if you caught a deja vu - yes, it's a duplicate post with illustration fully redrawn.

Wunjo - whirlpool in the time (again)