Day & Breakthrough
Dagaz is the day, the morning light between night and day, the rune of breakthrough, awakening and hope. It promises that darkness turns to light – a change for the good, a clear moment of insight. Today a door opens; step through it with confidence.
‘Dagaz’ is the day, the daylight – related to the German ‘Tag’. Rune of breakthrough, of the turn from dark to light.
The Old English poem praises the day as the Lord’s sending, dear to people, glorious light, joy and hope for rich and poor, useful to all.
The change from night to day, from dusk to morning, was a fundamental experience – Dagaz marks exactly this moment of turning, in which everything clears.
Some rune rows place Dagaz at the end of the Futhark – as a hopeful conclusion: after all the dark, the new day.