Laguz upright
Intuition, flow and the unconscious. What moves beneath the surface, and the sense to follow it.
Rune 21 of 24 · Tyr's Aett
ᛚ Laguz rune meaning
Laguz rune meaning: intuition, flow and the unconscious. Its name is read as “water, lake”; it is rune 21 of 24, in Tyr's Aett, with the sound l. Reversed: being overwhelmed, or intuition ignored.
- Place in the row
- 21 of 24 Tyr's Aett, aett 3
- Sound
- l said LAH-gooz
- Rune poems
- 3 of 3 named lagu · lǫgr
- Read as
- Water, lake from the rune’s name
Dickins, Runic and Heroic Poems, 1915.
Laguz reversed
Being overwhelmed, or intuition ignored. Fear of what is under the water.
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Where Laguz sits in the Elder Futhark
Laguz is rune 21, the fifth of the eight in Tyr's Aett, between Mannaz and Ingwaz.
Position in the row21 of 24
AettTyr's Aett
SoundL
Literal meaningWater, lake
ElementWater
Can be reversedYes
In a reading
What Laguz usually means when you draw it
Laguz is water: intuition, emotion and flow. It points to following your instincts and moving with circumstances.
Laguz in love
Emotional depth and intuition about a partner.
Laguz at work
Adaptability, creativity and trusting your gut.
Advice
Go with the flow, but know where it leads.
Primary source
What the rune poems say about Laguz
In brief, the Anglo-Saxon verse describes the sea as seeming endless and frightening to those who sail it in an unsteady boat.
“The ocean seems interminable to men, if they venture on the rolling bark and the waves of the sea terrify them and the courser of the deep heed not its bridle.”
Lagu byþ leodum langsum geþuht,
gif hi sculun neþan on nacan tealtum
and hi sæyþa swyþe bregaþ
and se brimhengest bridles ne gym[eð].
“A waterfall is a River which falls from a mountain-side; but ornaments are of gold.”
Lǫgr er, fællr ór fjalle
foss; en gull ero nosser.
“Water — eddying stream and broad geysir and land of the fish.”
Lǫgr er vellanda vatn
ok viðr ketill
ok glǫmmungr grund.
Bruce Dickins, Runic and Heroic Poems of the Old Teutonic Peoples (Cambridge University Press, 1915) — read the original text.
Both the original texts and the translations are from Dickins’s edition. The Anglo-Saxon verse reads lagu as the ocean, the Norwegian as a waterfall, the Icelandic as an eddying stream. Where the three rune poems come from
Laguz in the three rune poems, side by side
The three poems read Laguz three different ways: the ocean, a waterfall and water.
| Source | Name | The verse is about |
|---|---|---|
| Elder Futhark name (reconstructed) | Laguz | water, lake |
| Anglo-Saxon rune poem | lagu | the ocean |
| Norwegian rune poem | lǫgr | a waterfall |
| Icelandic rune poem | lǫgr | water |
Subjects in the words of Dickins’s 1915 translation; the first row is the modern reconstructed name and reading.
Calculated
Laguz by the numbers
Laguz turns up 17 times as the rune of the day in 2026, above the even share of 15.2 — joint 7th of 24 with 2 others. It lies reversed on 8 of them. Its longest gap between draws, from November 10 to December 26, spans 46 days.
Position in the row
21 of 24
Odds of drawing it
1 in 24 · 4.17%
Rune of the day in 2026
17 times · 4.66%
Reversed on those days
8 of 17
Can be reversed
Yes
Days in 2026:
- Jan 4 (rev.), 27 (rev.)
- Feb 11
- Mar 8
- Apr 7, 24 (rev.)
- May 29 (rev.)
- Jun 14 (rev.), 28
- Jul 19, 25
- Aug 13
- Sep 22
- Oct 2 (rev.), 9 (rev.)
- Nov 10
- Dec 26 (rev.)
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What happened to it
Laguz after the Elder Futhark
In the Younger Futhark
Survived as lögr, water or sea. Shape and meaning both held.
Worth knowing
The Norwegian rune poem reads it as a waterfall falling from a mountainside rather than as the sea.
Laguz: deity, tree and element
Pronounced
LAH-gooz
Deity
Njord and Nerthus
Tree
Willow
Element
Water
The poem above is a source; this table is a twentieth-century reconstruction.
How to type the Laguz rune
| Character | ᛚ |
|---|---|
| Code point | U+16DA |
| Unicode name | RUNIC LETTER LAUKAZ LAGU LOGR L |
| HTML | ᛚ or ᛚ |
The Unicode standard names it Laukaz, not Laguz, and its name also records Lagu and Logr.
Copy the character, or paste the code into a web page; it shows wherever a font covers the Runic block, added in Unicode 3.0.
Sources
- Bruce Dickins, Runic and Heroic Poems of the Old Teutonic Peoples (Cambridge University Press, 1915)
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