Dr. Nikki's Rune Stones

Dr.Nikki's

Rune Stones:
Isa

Learn about the rune Isa here.

Isa…say it out loud. It sounds like
you are saying “ice-a” or “i-sa,” either
way you hear the world ice. Think of
the properties of ice. First, it is water
in it’s frozen state. Ice can cover
mountains or cool the drinks in our
glass. It is cold. When we touch it
we want to pull back and withdraw
because it is shockingly cold.
Although ice moves as it changes and
grows, it is normally at a relatively
slow rate. But ice can move quickly,

seemingly to zip across a table-top as it
hydroplanes upon a sheen of water it creates
for itself.

When Isa shows her cool face to you in your
casting, be prepared to spend some time
waiting. Isa talks about freezing the energies
around her. Look to the other runes in your
casting to clarification of where Isa is going to

The New Moon (with its hidden potential) and Neptune are the celestial bodies
associated with Isa.

Tarot Link: Isa with her withdrawn energy, folding in upon herself until only a
single line is seen, is aligned with the Tarot card of The Hermit. Hermit’s are a
special breed. In the modern vernacular the use has become somewhat of a
misnomer, allowing “hermit” to represent anyone who does not want to live within
modern society’s social constraints and interactions. At one time the Hermit
was the representation of the ultimate spiritual seeker. (There’s a difference
between a seeker and one who achieves.)

Color: Black, unknown, unfathomable, empty yet full is the color aligned with
Isa.

Polarity: Isa doesn’t ask you to wait, she gives you no choice. Her alignment
with feminine receptive energy should be kept in mind when she appears.

Healing Property: Isa is related to the effects of ice. Isa’s healing properties
are most focused on the loss of feeling or sensation. (How many
women/girls/men/boys out there have pierced their ears with a needle, some ice
cubes and potatoes? Not a method I recommend -- you use the ice to freeze
the ear, ceasing the sensation in that area – but it is a good basic example of
how ice is related to loss of feeling.)

Modern Letter Counterpart: Isa’s importance (and the importance of standing
still every once in a while) is indicated by her alignment with the modern vowels
of I and/or Y.

Special Runic Associations: Isa is said to strongly reinforce the meanings of
the runes that fall near it in your casting. It is said that to meditate on Isa is
to achieve the deep inner meditation allowing you to melt the ice that separates
you from your inner, warmer self.

there. Isa gives you the opportunity to go within to see where you may need to
reclarify something within yourself.

Isa talks about patience. Ice doesn’t move quickly, but the changes it creates
are massive. Creating moraines thousands of feet high, deep channels and
wide spans carved out between mountains to create valleys. Sediments, picked
up and incorporated into the glacier as it moves slowly across the ground, are
deposited as the ice melts. Ice can change the face of the earth, but it can
take eons, even millennia, for it to do so.

Isa, with its association with ice and winter also tells us to prepare. It is time
to go within to prepare in order to be ready for when the ice melts. Normally
ice melts first as a drop, then a trickle that turns into a rivulette, to a brook and
so on. As the ice melts, more is revealed and forward progress can be made.

Isa - Standstill

Isa belongs to the Aett of Hagal.

Key Word(s): Standstill, ice, freezing, and withdrawal are all keywords to
remember when Isa enters into your casting.

Element: Isa is aligned with both the elements of earth and water.

use her freezing gaze to put blocks in the way of your progress.

Don’t depend on others now is part of Isa’s message. She is
warning you that although you have received promises, those
promises may not be kept. You find yourself at the mercy of
other’s whims when you rely on them, and it is best to focus on
yourself at this time than fight against the tide. The standstill
that Isa represents is just that, a stand still. It isn’t a quagmire
of your own making. It is the baited breath, waiting for the flow
of energy to move again so you can best ride the currents.

Isa allows clarity. Some say the purity of water can be tested in the clarity of
the ice it creates. Some ice can be as clear as glass. Clear ice can even be
shaped into lenses of various forms to create funhouse like appearances when
you look through the ice lenses. Ice can be reflective, much like water,
showing us the image we are projecting to the world. Maybe Isa is showing
you that a time for personal review and introspection is at hand. You can’t
make much forward progress without knowing where you’ve been, where you’re
going and how you plan to get