Hagalaz
Hagalaz is the rune of hail: sudden, destructive natural forces that arrive without warning and cannot be negotiated with. Its traditional meanings include disruption, unlearned lessons, shadows in the unconscious, and necessary change.
Hail is cold, indifferent, and it melts into water. It falls from the sky, wrecks the harvest, and is gone. It doesn't hate you. It just is.
If you drew Hagalaz today
Something is being disrupted ... or needs to be. Don't take it personally. The storm is clearing the field; your job right now is to read it and prepare for the aftermath. What is the hail hitting, and what is coming through unscathed? Was the damaged structure already compromised before the storm?
Find just one thing you can protect and shelter through the storm, and make that your focus.
Cautionary shadow
Hagalaz becomes dangerous when you use it as a story. "I'm cursed. This always happens to me." The shadow is the part of you that grabs the storm and makes it your identity, then uses it as an excuse to stop moving forward.
What's been smashed that you've been pretending to hold together like nothing happened? Can you let it go and start again?
Go deeper
Hagalaz is the Tower of the Elder Futhark, and is associated with ground-clearing magick that sets the stage for something bigger.