ᛜ · sound “ng” · Ing, the seed
Ingwaz (ᛜ) is rune 22 of the 24 runes of the Elder Futhark, in Tyr's aett. Its name means ing, the seed.
A seed at rest: gestation, inner growth and a phase coming to completion. Energy gathers quietly before it is released. Let it build.
Ingwaz looks the same turned upside down, so it has no reversed meaning. It is one of the nine runes that read the same either way up, and it is always read as ing, the seed.
Let it ripen before you act.
Ingwaz is named for Ing, a god of fertility also known as Yngvi and connected with Freyr. The Old English rune poem describes Ing as a hero first seen among the East Danes. The shape is a small diamond, and it is one of the few runes that stands for the sound ng.
Ingwaz is a seed at rest: potential that is gathering before it shows. In a reading it often marks a period of quiet completion, a project maturing, or the calm before something is released. It is the same turned around, so it has no reversed reading here.