Entry 22 – Thurisaz & Othala
If you do not know where you come from, you do not know where you are going.
Thorns are on both sides of the rose.
They hurt; they protect. Be careful when you pick your flower.
Have pity on the rose without a thorn. When you become the torn, you must choose what to hurt or protect. You are not a thorn to protect the busy bee that comes and goes, although there is the spore of the next rose.
When the gardener respects the rose, yeld. When he prunes in love, yeld.
When a boy of evil intent picks a flower for seductive advantage, protect and defend.
Though the rose grows old, protect and defend for it is the seed of the new which is because there was the old.
If you do not know where you come from, you do not know where you are going.
