She sees, arising a second time, earth from the ocean, greenly growing

The historical Vǫluspá does not end in the fires of Ragnarök; it ends with a vision of a world reborn. The Seeress describes a second earth rising from the waves, where the "unsown fields shall bear fruit" and the surviving gods meet again to marvel at the ancient runes they once knew.

In our Vǫluspá Oracle, this final narrative arc is the ultimate "Lifting of the Fog." It reminds us that every ending in our own wyrd is merely the fertile soil for a new beginning. As the April tide comes in, let these cards guide you toward your own "Green Earth." The prophecy tells us that no matter how deep the winter, the sun will always return to the hallowed halls.

All things end, in this poem, all things are reborn. Many comparative papers have been written on this poem as it does seem similar to the concept of Armageddon or End Times. All mythologies seem to have the same type of story, in which the entire landscape is destroyed and replaced with a new one.

• Fimbulvetr (Fimbulwinter): The "Great Winter." Three successive winters without a summer. This is the ultimate "Fog"—a time of total isolation and testing before the final transformation.

• Ragnarök: The "Fate of the Gods." Not merely an ending, but a necessary "clearing of the lens." It is the moment when the old structures are consumed so that the "Green Earth" can rise once more from the sea.

It's likely, a few of these stories may have been based on passed on legends and memories of great natural disasters that happened. To ancient people valleys, rock formations, mountains, rivers all changed in what seemed like a blink of the eye, but in reality it was over vast spans of time.