We found that Freyja is closely connected to the Wunjo rune.

But she has many names and one of them is Gef - "the giver". The etymology of this name can be directly traced down to the proto-Germanic name *gebô - 'gift', and here is a rune with the same name, Gebo:

It is the largest rune if seen from Runic Alchemy's perspective. It connects all five levels and does it twice in parallel: descending from the Water to the Fire and ascending from the Fire to the Water, meeting in the central point of Emptiness.

We touched Emptiness already when we were doing the Isa rune. We did it from outside by feeling how it is different from what it's not, from a pair of opposites, Fire and Water. It is similar to a magnetic field, which we cannot touch directly, but feel its springy force when we take two magnets into our hands.

In the Gebo rune, we learn about Emptiness from inside, from how Emptiness reveals its qualities in the Creation. Continuing our metaphor about the Isa rune as a magnetic force, we can compare Gebo to a pair of counter-moving currents, electrons drifting one way and ions the other between two oppositely charged poles.

By letting Fire and Water reunite inside the Emptiness, we observe the resulting process of Creation in its dynamics and learn how it is shaped by the surrounding vessel of the Emptiness.

Gebo is a bi-directional connection between the Water and Fire, and the connection is a change.

Through connection, you become open to something outside, so it can come and change you, and you can come and change it, even if just to get to know. Without a connection to something else, there is no reference point. You need to relate to something to make any sense. Even isolation is impossible without having something to isolate from.

We saw how the Kenaz rune starts everything from separation. The Emptiness, the creative force of separation, keeps everything apart, as we saw in the Isa rune. A thin and flat layer of Emptiness was locally stretched into the bubble, the cavity of Ingwaz, so it was filled with a small and precisely balanced amount of opposites. And Eihwaz rune sealed this bubble into a double static-dynamic equilibrium.

The cell preserves itself thanks to the membrane separating its fine-tuned local contents from the rest of the world.

But it's not alive if there is no exchange with the outer world. Life needs to let external resources in and byproducts out.
Life needs an inflow of energy and information.
Life produces energy and information, and it's changing the environment around it. It not only protects itself but also projects its internal law outside. The world is dangerous. But closing into full defense is even more dangerous.
If you don't trust the world, not open and connected enough, you'll miss resources, opportunities, and signs of upcoming danger.

Small whirlpools floating down the river, that are born on the water's surface, live for a while, and dissolve back into the river - are they connected to the water around? They are made of it.

Tongues of flame in a bonfire: some of them stay in the same place for some time, and some appear here and there briefly and fly to the night sky. They are small shapes of fire.

Let's do the Gebo rune and see what will happen.

We will cross our arms in front of our chest, elbows down, and hands up:

• The right hand points to the top left direction with the palm turned up, touching the Water and letting it pool before overflowing down the wrist.
• Rivulets of veins suddenly turn into bluish lightning, because Fire is rising from the bottom-left elbow, and it vaporizes the Water into stormy clouds of steam and smoke.
• The Fire itself cools down in contact with the Water, gives its power to the Air, and turns into dark stones of the left forearm.
• Left hand, with palm imperatively turned down, points to the top right direction, showing the Light the path of ascendance from the Fire trapped beneath the dark Earth.
• Wrists are crossing in the center of the Gebo, on the level of Emptiness, where Air and Earth are touching each other along the horizon.
• The tip of Crystal, the higher state of the Earth, which learned transparency from the Water, pierces the Horizon to let the Sun rise in the clear sky.
• The gift of Light propagates upward to the Water from the Sun held below the left palm turned down.
• And the gift of transparency, of the hard order, comes from the Earth Crystal down to the Fire, turning it into red gems.

This is how the Water and Fire, once divided, reunite and give gifts to each other, changing each other.

The Gebo is a promise.
You give, and you receive in response, and you hope the next time it will work, and it works, until it doesn't. And if it doesn't, maybe it's because you forgot to be open, so you will find the strength to trust and open yourself to the world again.

The Gebo rune teaches that in the very center, there is a gap between before and after, between perception and reaction. On the very edge between external and internal, there is still a thin layer of Emptiness, and if we are focused enough, we can slow the time down and catch this moment between before and after, the moment when nothing is yet and already happening, a slit between time frames.