Look out the window. And doesn't this remind you of when you were in the boat, and then later than night, you were lying, looking up at the ceiling, and the water in your head was not dissimilar from the landscape, and you think to yourself, "Why is it that the landscape is moving, but the boat is still?" -- Train Fireman from "Dead Man".

No matter how long you go, you will not reach the horizon.
You are not moving anywhere else, you always remain here and now.
Instead, your journey unfolds to you.
So riding is like sitting on a riverbank, looking upstream — the future flows down to you, bringing its events.

This is what the rune Raido reveals from the perspective of Runic Alchemy:

Once the vertical axis of simultaneity is achieved — when all five levels resonate — the first diagonal bar descends from the center of Emptiness down to Earth, like a road unfolding from the horizon.

The second, ascending, bar connects the Emptiness with the Air.
But the rainbow bridge, Bifröst, the path from Earth to Sky, does not appear in a clear sky.
The soul will learn nothing from the story where everything is nice and easy.
Behind the rainbow, dark storm clouds swirl — a raw Air born from Water evaporated by Fire, as we saw in the Ingwaz rune.

The third, top bar descends from the upper world of Water down to the Air.
Like the winds of a still-hidden Sun drawing northern lights across the night sky, the guidance of Tyr arrives in answer to the request we made in the Tiwaz rune because the Raido rune shares this diagonal with Tiwaz.

The Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem reads:

Riding seems easy to every warrior while he is indoors and very courageous to him who traverses the high-roads on the back of a stout horse.

It is not what you think, but what you do that matters. Put yourself into the world and observe what will you do there, and what decisions make. From your actions, you can learn about true yourself. You sometimes have no idea what will you do in certain circumstances.

From a practical point of view, the rune Raido is execution. You may not know exactly what will happen or how you’ll handle each challenge — but you trust the process, stepping forward and figuring it out as you go.

I suggest doing the Raido rune as a gesture:

• The left hand rises straight upward, aligned with the vertical axis of the spine, connecting all five worlds.
• The right hand bends in two places: at the wrist — symbolizing the level of Emptiness — and again at the base of the straight fingers.
  • The fingers trace the top descending bar of the northern lights, from Water to Air.
  • The palm, down to the wrist, follows the arc of the rainbow — ascending from Emptiness to Air.
  • The forearm descends from the wrist of Emptiness down the path of Earth.

We read runes from left to right:

It means all three transitions in the Raido rune begin and end at the same time.
It means that when we travel, we do it on all three levels.