Jera (ᛃ) — Year, Harvest, Cyclical Reward

Jera (ᛃ), twelfth rune and fourth of Heimdall's ætt, is the rune of ár — the year, the full agricultural cycle from planting to harvest. The Old Icelandic Rune Poem affirms: 'Ár er gumna góði' — a good year is a boon to men. Jera's two interlocking halves represent the two seasons of the Germanic calendar (summer and winter) turning into one another in perpetual succession. After the destruction of Hagalaz, the constraint of Nauthiz, and the frozen stillness of Isa, Jera is the reward that comes only to those who have endured the full cycle — the rune that cannot be hastened, only awaited.