All of the Runes have an image, or symbol, that sets the train of recollection, ideology, and meaning in motion. This image isn't the 'meaning' of the rune, it is the picture that sparks off of the meaning and gives it form and reality.

The prompt-symbol for Rad is a horse and cart. The person who starts on a journey with a horse and cart can bring more along for the trip and will get to the journey's end with more as well. All journeys, however commonplace, add to our experience; but the quintessential journey is the one inside ourselves that ends with self-understanding. Rad tells us to equip ourselves as well as we can for every journey we undertake. Rad also foretells that we will be journeying soon and that we should prepare for the important changes to come. Its secondary meaning is thus transformation.