Runes Flashcards
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Mannaz (U) The Self
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- The starting point is the self. Its essence is water. Only clarity, a willingness to change, is effective now. A correct relationship to your self is primary, for from it flows all possible right relationships with others, and the Divine.
- Remain modest. That is the Oracles council. Regardless of how great may be your merit, be yeilding, devoted and moderate, then you will have true direction in your life. Be in the world, but not of it. That is implicit here. Remain open and receptive, yeilding to the impulses flowing from the Divine within and without. Consider at all times, what is coming to be, and what is passing away, and focus on that which abides. Nothing less is called for from you right now.
- This is a time of major growth and rectification and, as a rule, rectification must come before progress. The field must be tilled before the seed is planted, the garden weeded before the flower blooms, and the self must know stillness before it can sing its true song.
- If you take the rune Mannaz , The Self, and cut it down the middle, you have the rune of Joy (Laguz) with it’s mirror image. There is a subtle caution here against carelessness, as the self and the Self come into balance.
- Nothing in excess was the second phrase written over the gateway to the temple at Delphi. The first council was Know thyself.
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Mannaz (R) The Self
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- Mannaz reversed urges you to begin by being clear with yourself. Rather than turning to others, look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress.
- No matter what part of your life is in chaos, stop and consider: you will recognize the outer enemy as a clear reflection of what you have, until now, been unable to or unwilling to recognize as coming from within.
- Above all, be humble. Breaking the momentum of past habits is the challenge here. In the life of the Spirit you are always at the beginning.
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Gebo (Partnership)
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- Drawing this rune is an indication that partnership in some form is at hand.
- In love relationships, in business matters, in partnering of every kind, you are put on notice not to collapse yourself into that union. For true partnership is only achieved by separate and whole beings, who retain their separateness even as they unite. Always remember to let the winds of Heaven dance between you.
- There is another realm of partnership you are being called to consider. A union with the Higher Self, union with the Divine
- The Divine is in all things, and always enters into equal relationships.
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Ansuz-Signals (U)
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- The keynote here is receiving messages, signals, gifts. Even a timely warning may be seen as a gift. The message may be that of a new life unfolding, for new lives begin with new connections, surprising linkages that direct you on to new pathways.
- Take care now to be especially aware during meeting, visits, chance encounters, particularly with persons wiser than yourself.
- The Rune of Signals is associated with Loki, the ancient trickster fom the pantheon of the Norse gods. He is the Heyoka, the sacred clown of the North American Indian, a mocking shadow of the creator god, as well as the bringer of benefits to humankind. He is the reminder that even scoundrels and thieves can be the bearers of wisdom. When you draw this rune, expect the unexpected.
- The message is a call, a call to a new life.
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Ansuz (R) Signals
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- You may be concerned over what appears to be failed communication, lack of clarity or awareness either in your past history or in a present situation.
- You may feel inhibited from accepting what is offered.
- A sense of futility of wasted motion may overwhelm you. Remember however, that what is happening is timely for your process.
- Ansuz Reversed reminds us: Consider the uses of adversity.
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Othila (U)-Separation
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- This is a time of separating paths. Old skins must be shed, outmoded relationships discarded. When you receive this Rune, a peeling away is called for. Radical severance.
- The appropriate action here is submission and quite possibly, retreat-knowing how and when to retreat and posnessing the firmness of will to carry it out.
- Real property is associated with Othila, for it is the Rune of acquisition and benefits. However, the benefits you receive, may come from something you must give up. Such a surrender can be particularly demanding when what you are called upon to relinquish is an aspect of your behaviour or some part of your cultural inheritance.
- Whether it is your attachment to your position in society, to the work you do or even to your beliefs about your own nature, the separation called for will free you to become more truly who you are.
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-Othila (R)-Separation
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- This is not a time to be bound by old conditioning, old authority.
- Consider both what will benefit you and also what will benefit others, and act according to the Light you possess now in your life.
- Because you may be called upon to undertake a radical departure from old ways, total honesty is required. Otherwise through negligence or refusal to see clearly, you may cause pain to others and damage to yourself.
- Adaptability and skillful means are the qualities to cultivate at this time. And still you have to wait for the universe to act
- Receiving this Rune, remember: We do without doing and everything gets done.
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Uruz(U)-Strength.
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- The rune of terminations and new beginnings. Drawing it indicates that the life you have been living has outgrown its form which now must die so that life energy can be released in a new form. Uruz is a Rune of passage.
- Positive growth and change, however, may involve a descent into darkness as part of the cycle of perpetual renewal. As in nature, this progression consists of five stages: death, decay, fertilization, gestation and rebirth. Events occurring now may well prompt you to undergo a death within yourself. And since self-change is never coerced-we are always free to resist-remain mindful that the new form, the new life, is always greater than the old.
- Prepare then, for opportunity disguised as loss; the loss of a relationship or an activity to which you have an intense emotional bond, and through which you are living a part of your life, a part that must now be retrieved so you can live it out for yourself. In some way, that bond is being severed, the relationship radically changed. Seek among the ashes and discover a new perspective and new strength.
- The ancient symbol for Uruz was the aurochs, a wild ox. When the wild ox was domesticated-an immensely difficult task-it could transport heavy loads. Learn to adapt yourself to the demands of such a creative time. Firm principles attach to this Rune. At the same time humility is called for, since in order to rule you must learn how to serve.
- The Rune of Strength puts you on notice that your soul and the universe support the new growth.
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Uruz Strength (R)
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- Without ears to hear and eyes to see, you may fail to take advantage of the moment. The result could well be an opportunity missed or the weakening of your position, a feeling that your own strength is being used against you.
- Some will experience strength reversed in the form of minor failures and disappointments. For others, those more deeply unaware, it may provide a hard jolt. Reversed, Uruz calls for serious thought about the quality of your relationship to your Self.
- But take heart. Consider the constant cycling of death and rebirth, the endless going and return. Honor your passage into darkness: when in deep water, become a diver.
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Perth (U)-Initiation
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- A mystery Rune pointing to that which is beyond our frail manipulative powers. Perth is on the side of Heaven, the Unknowable, and has associations with the Phoenix, that mythical bird which consumes itself in the fire and then rises from its own ashes. It’s ways are secret and hidden.
- On the side of the earthy, the mundane, there may be surprises, unexpected gains or rewards. On the other side of human nature, this Rune is symbolized by flight of the eagle. Soaring flight, free from entanglement, lifting yourself above the endless ebb and flow of ordinary life to acquire broader vision-all this is indicated here.
- This rune is concerned with the deepest stratum of our being, the bedrock on which our destiny is founded.
- For some, drawing Perth means experiencing a death. If need be, let go of everything, no exceptions, no exclusions. When you recieve this Rune, renewal of your Spirit is at stake.
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Perth (R)-Initiation
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- A counsel against expecting too much, or expecting in the ordinary way, for the old way has come to an end: you simply cannot repeat the old and not suffer.
- Call in your scattered energies, concentrate on your own life at this moment, your own requirements for growth. The Rune of Initiation counsels you neither to focus on outcomes nor to bind yourself with the memory of past achievements. In doing so, you rob yourself of a true present, which is the only time in which self-change can be realized.
- You may feel overwhelmed from meeting obstruction upon obstruction in your passage. Yet you always have a choice: you can see this apparent negativity as bad luck, or you can recognize it as an obstacle course. Then each setback, each humiliation, becomes a test of character.
- When your inner being is shifting and reforming on a deep level, patience, constancy and perseverance are called for. So stay centered, see the humor and keep your faith firm
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Nauthiz -constraint
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- Constraint is a great teacher disguised as the bringer of pain and limitation. It has been said that only at the moment of greatest darkness do we become aware of the light within and recognize the true creative power of the self.
- The role of Constraint is to identify the shadow, our dark and repressed side. Places where growth has been stunted, resulting in weaknesses that are often projected on to others. Do not take this world personally, this Rune is saying: work with the shadow, examine what in your nature attracts hardship or misfourtune in to your life. the troubles, denials, setbacks of life as your teachers, guides and allies.
- When something within you is disowned, that which is disowned wreaks havoc. A cleansing is required here, in undertaking it you fund a will and strengthen character.
- Remember that “suffering in its original sense, merely meant “undergoing”. Thus you may be required to undergo the dark side of your passsage and bring it into the Light.
- Controlling your anger, restraining your impluses, keeping your faith firm-all this is at issue here. Modesty and good temper are essential at such a time.
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Inguz (U) Fertility
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- This rune is akin to the moon, the intuitive part of our nature, with its urge toward hamonizing and adjusting in the sphere of personal relationships. Fertility embodies the need to share, the yearning to be desired, a search after similarities.
- The completion of beginnings is what Inguz requires. Drawing this rune may mark a time of joyous deliverance, of a new life, a new path. A Rune of great power, receiving it means you now have the strength to achieve completion, resolution, from which comes a new beginning. Above all, completion is crucial here. It may be timely that you complete some project now; if so, make that your first priority. Perhaps a difficult state of mind can be clarified or resolved. The appearance of this Rune indicates that you must first fertilize the ground for your own deliverance.
- All things change and we cannot live permanently amid obstructions. The Rune of Fertility signals your emergence from a closed, chrysalis state. As you resolve and clear away the old, you will experience a release from tension and uncertainty.
- You may be required to free yourself from a rut, habit or relationship; from some deep cultural or behavioral pattern, some activity that was quite proper to the self you are leaving behind. The time of birth is always a critical one. Movement sometimes involves danger, yet movement that is timely leads out of danger: Now it is time to enter the delivery room.
- Inguz counsels preparation. Being centered and grounded, freeing yourself from all unwanted influences, and seeing the humor, you are indeed prepaed to open yourself to the Will of Heaven, and can await your deliverance with calm certainty.
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Eihwaz(U)-Defense
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- As we are tested we fund the power to avert blockage and defeat. At the same time, we develop in ourselves an aversion to the conduct that creates stress in our lives. If there appears to be an obstacle in your path, consider that even a delay may prove to be beneficial. Don’t be too overly eager to press forward, for this is not a time or situation in which you can make your influence felt. Patience is the counsel Eihwaz offers; nothing hectic, no acting needy or lusting after a desired outcome.
- This Rune speaks to the difficulties that can arise at the beginning of a new life. Often it announces a time of waiting-for a spring to fill up with water, for fruit to ripen on the bough
- Perserverance and foresight are called for here. The ability to foresee consequences before you act is a mark of the profound person. Avert anticipated difficulties through right action, this Rune is saying. And yet even more than we are doers, we are deciders. Once the decision is clear, the doing becomes effortless, for then the universe supports and empowers our actions.
- Receiving the Rune of Defense, you are put on notice that, through difficulties and discomfort, growth is promoted. This may well be a trying time; certainly it is a meaningful one. So set your house in order, tend to business, be clear and wait on the Will of Heaven.
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Algiz(U)-Protection
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- Control of emotions is at issue here. During times of transition, shifts in life course and accelerated self-change, it is important not to collapse yourself into your emotions-the highs as well as the lows. New opportunities and challenges are typical of this Rune. And with them may come trespasses and unwanted influences.
- Algiz serves as a mirror for the Spiritual Warrior, the one whose battle is always with the self. the Warrior’s protection is like the curved horns of the elk, or the warning rustle of sedge grass, for both serve to keep open the space around you.
- Remain mindful that timely right action and correct conduct are your only true potection. If you find yourself feeling pain, pbserve the pain and stay with it. Do not try to pull down the veil and escape from life by denying what is happening. You will progress, knowing the fact is your protection.
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Algiz (R) -protection
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- Be thoughtful about your health and do not add to the burdens others are carrying. Look carefully at the associations you form at this time. If you see fit to become involved with people who are using you, remain conscious of that fact and take responsibilty for your own position, then you can only benefit.
- And yet, regardless of whether your enterprise prospers or suffers, do not be overly concerned: you may not win, but you need not lose, for you will always learn from what takes place.
- Temperance and courtesy are the sinews of this Rune’s protective powers.
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Fehu (U)- Possessions
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- Possessions is a Rune of fulfillment: ambition satisfied, love fulfilled, rewards recieved. It promises nourishment, from the most worldly to the sacred and Divine. For if the ancient principle, “As above, so below” holds true, then we are also her to nourish God.
- This Rune calls for a deep probing of the meaning of profit and gain in your life. Look with care to know what you require for your well-being. Is it wealth and possessions or rather self-rule and the growth of a will?
- Another concern of Fehu, is to conserve what has already beeen gained. This Rune urges vigilance and continual mindfulness, especially in times of good fortune, for it is then that you are likely to collapse yourself into success on the one hand, or to behave recklessly on the other.
- Enjoy your good fortune and remember to share it; the mark of the well nourished self is the willingness to nourish others.
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Fehu(R) - possessions
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- There may be considerable frustration in your life if you draw Possessions Reversed- a wide range of dispossessions reaching from the trivial to the severe. You fall short in your efforts, you reach out and miss, you are compelled to watch helplessly while what you have gained dwindles away. Observe what is happenng. Examine these events from an open perspective and ask, “What do I need to learn from this in my life?”
- Even if there is an occasion for joy, do not let yourself be seduced into mindless joyousness. Reversed, this Rune indicates that doubtful situations are abundant and come in many forms and guises.
- Here you are being put in touch with the shadow side of possessions. Yet all this is part of coming to be and passing away, and not that which abides.
- In dealing with the shadow side of Fehu you have an opportunity to recognize where your true nourishment lies.
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Wunjo - Joy (U)
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- This Rune is a fruit-bearing branch. the term of travail is ended and you have come to yourself in some regard. The shift that was due has occurred; now you can freely receive Winjo’s blessings, whether they be in material gain, in your emotional life or in a heightened sense of your own well being.
- This is an alchemical moment in which understanding is transmuted from knowledge. the knowledge itself was a necessary but not sufficient condition; now you can rejoice, having been carried across the gap by the Will of Heaven.
- Joyousness accompanies new energy, energy blocked before now. Light pierces the clouds and touches the waters just as something lovely emerges from the depths: the soul is illuminated from within, at the meeting place of Heaven and Earth, the meeting of the waters.
- There is a new clarity which may call for you to renounce existing plans, ambitions, goals. It is proper and timely for you to do so, for Joy is a Rune of restoration, of the self properly aligned to the Self.
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Wunjo - Joy R)
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- Things are slow in coming to fruition. The process of birth is long and arduous, and fears arise for the safety of the child within.
- A crisis, a difficult passage - even if brief - is at hand. Consideration and deliberation are called for now. Ask yourself whether you possess the virtues of seriousness, sincerity, and emptiness; to possess them is to have tranquility, which is the ground for patience, clarity and perseverance.
- Seen in its true light, everything is a test. And so, focused in the present, sincere toward others and trusting in your process, know that you will succeed.
- In times of crisis Joy Reversed is a useful meditation
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Jera - Harvest (U)
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- A Rune of beneficial outcomes, Harvest encourages and supports any activity or endeavor to which you are committed. Be aware, however, that no quick results can be expected. A span of time is usually involved; hence the key words “one year,” symbolizing a full cycle before the reaping the harvest or deliverance.
- You have prepared the ground and planted the seed. Now you must cultivate with care. To those whose labor has a long season, a long coming to term, Jera offers encouragement of success. Know that the outcome is in the keeping of Providence and continue to persevere.
- Remember the old story about the farmer who was so eager to assist his crops that he went out at night and tugged on the new shoots. There is no way to push the river; equally you cannot hasten the harvest. Be mindful that patience is essential for the recognition of your own process which in its season, leads to the harvest of the self.
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Kano - Opening (U)
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- This is the Rune of Opening and renewed clarity, dispelling the darkness that has been shrouding some part of your life. You are free now both to receive gifts and to know the joy of non-attached giving.
- Kano is the Rune for the morning of activities, for seriousness, clear intent and concentration. It’s time to start something new. The protection offered by Kano is this: the more Light you have, the better you can see what is trivial and outmoded in your own conditioning.
- In relationships, there can now be a mutual opening up. There will be an awareness that will be reached, when you can put yourself in the others shoes.
- Recognize that while on the one hand you are limited and dependent, on the other, you exist at the perfect center where the hamonious and beneficient forces of the univers merge and radiate. You are that center.
- Simply put, if you have been operating in the dark, there is now enough light to see that the patient on the operating able is yourself.
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Kano - Opening (R)
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- Expect a darkening of the light in some situation or relationship. A friendship may be ending, a partnership, a marriage some aspect of yourself that is no longer appropriate to the person you are now becoming.
- Reversed, thes Rune points to the death of an old way of being and puts you on notice that failure to face up consciously to that death would constitue a loss of opportunity.
- Opening reversed calls for giving up gladly the old and being prepared to live for a time empty. It calls for developing inner stability and carries a warning not to be seduced by the momentum of old ways while waiting for the new to become illuminated in their proper time.
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Teiwaz - Warrior (U)
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- This is the Rune of the Spiritual Warrior, the one whose battle is always with the self. Funding a will through action yet unattached to outcomes, remaining mindul that all you can really do is stay out of your own way and let the Will of Heaven flow through you - these are among the hallmarks of the Spiritual Warrior.
- Embodied in this Rune is the energy of discrimination, the swordlike quality that enables you to cut away the old, the dead, the extraneous. And yet, with the Warrior Rune somes certain knowledge that the universe always has the first move.
- Patience is the virtue of this Rune. Here you are asked to look within, to delve down to the foundations of life itself. Only in so doing can you hope to satisy the deepest needs of your nature and tap into your most profound resources. The molding of character is at issue when you draw Teiwaz.
- Associated with this rune are the sun, masculine energy, the active principle. The urge for conquest is powerful here, especially self-conquest which is a lifelong pursuit and calls for awareness, single-mindedness and the willingness to undergo your passage with compasssion and in total trust.
- When this Rune comes in response to a relationship issue, it indicates the relationship is both timely and providential. There is work for you to do together. If the issue concerns devotion to a cause, an idea or a path of conduct, the Warrior Rune counsels perseverance, although at times the kind of perseverance required is patience. A Rune of courage and dedication, in ancient times Teiwaz was the glyph that warriors painted on their shields before battle. Now, allow this same symbol to strengthen your resolve in the struggle of the self with the Self
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Teiwaz - Warrior (R)
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- The danger is that through hasty or ill-timed action, life force leaks out or is spilled away. If an association is short-lived, do not grieve. Instead, know that is has fulfilled its span. Matters of trust and confidences are at issue here, and with them the authenticity of your way of being in the world.
- Reversed, the Warrior Rune calls for examining your motives carefully. Is it self-conquest with which you are concerned, or are you trying to dominate another? Are you lusting after outcomes, or are you focused on the task for its own sake?
- You will find the answers within yourself, not in outside advice. When you consult the Runes, you are consulting the Self, an action for the Spiritual Warrior.
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Berkana - Growth (U)
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- Berkana denotes a form of fertility that fosters growth both symbolically and actually. The growth may occur in affairs of the world, family matters, your relationship to your self or to the Divine.
- A Rune that leads to blossoming and ripening, Growth is concerned with the flow of beings into their new forms. Its action is gentle, penetrating and pervasive.
- Consider your issue with care and awareness; first disperse resistance, then accomplish the work, for this to happen, your will must be firm, your motives correct.
- Any dark corners should be cleansed; this must be carried out diligently and sometimes with expert help. Modesty, patience, fairness and generosity are called for here. Once resistance is dispersed and rectification carried out and seen to hold firm, then, through steadfastness and right action, the blossoming can occur.
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Berkana - Growth (R)
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- Events, or more likely, aspects of character can interfere with the growth of new life. You may feel dismay at failing to take right action. And yet rather than dismay, what is asked of you is diligence. You may be required to fertilize the ground again, for through correct preparation growth is assured.
- Examine what has occurred, your role in it, your needs, the needs of others. Are you placing your wants before the needs of others? Strip away until you can identify the obstacles to growth in this situation. Then, penetrating gently, imitate the wind.
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Ehwaz - Movement (U)
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- Ehwaz is a Rune of transit and transition and movement; of physical shifts, new dwelling places, new attitudes or new life. It also signifies movement in the sense of improving or bettering any situation.
- There is about this Rune a sense of gradual development and steady progress, with the accompanying notion of slow growth of a business or to the development of an idea. A relationship may need to undergo changes if it is to thrive and prosper. Moral effort and steadfastness are called for when you draw Movement. Let it be said this way: As I cultivate my own nature, all else follows.
- This Rune’s symbol is the horse, and it signifies the inseparable bond between horse and rider. Bronze Age artifacts show a horse drawing the sun across the sky. Here, measure of safety in your position.
- Now it is time to turn again and face the future reassured, prepared to share the good fortune that comes your way. The sharing is significant since it relates to the sun’s power to foster life and illuminate all things with its light.
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Ehwaz - Movement (R)
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- Movement that appears to be blocked. Be certain that what you are doing- or not doing - is timely.
- There are no missed opportunities; you have simply to recognize that not all possibilites are open to you.
- The opportunity at hand may be precisely to avoid action. If you are feelingg at a loss, unclear about the need to act, consider what is timely to your nature, and remember: What is yours will come to you.
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Laguz - Flow (U)
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- Unseen powers are active here, powers that nourish, shape and connect. the attributes of this Rune are water, fluidity, the ebb and flow of emotions, careers and relationships.
- The Rune of Flow encourages you to immerse yourself in the experience of living without having to evaluate or understand. It speaks to the satisfaction of emotional needs, the awakening of the intuitive or lunar side of your nature. For while the sun strives for differentiation, the moon draws us toward union and merging.
- Drawing Laguz often signals a time for cleansing; for revaluing, reorganizing realigning. It may call you to study spiritual matters in readiness for self-transformation.
- Success now lies in contacting your intutive wisdom and attuning to your own rhythms. A Rune of the self relating rightly to the Self.
- Flow represents what alchemists called the conjunctio, or sacred marriage. In fairy tales, it is the end where the hero and heroine live happily ever after.
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Laguz Flow (R)
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- A counsel against overreach and excessive striving, drawing Flow reversed is a warning against trying to exceed your own strength, or operate beyond the power you have funded to date in your life.
- Laguz Reversed often indicates a failure to draw upon the wisdomm of instinct. As a result, the intuitive side of your nature may be languishing, leaving you out of balance. What is called for now is to go within,to honor the receptive side of your Warrior Nature.
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Hagalaz - Disruption
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- Change, freedom, invention and liberation are all attribures of this Rune. Drawing it indicates a pressing need within the psyche to break free from constricting identification with material reality and to experience the world of archetypal mind.
- The Rune of elemental disruption, of events that seem to be totally beyond your control, Hagalaz has only an upright position, and yet it always operates through reversal. When you draw this Rune, expect disruption, for it is the Great Awakener, although the form the awaking takes may vary. Perhaps you will experience a gradual feeling of coming to your senses as if you are emerging from a long sleep. Then again, the onset of power may be such as to rip away the fabric of what you previously knew as your reality, your security, your understanding of yourself, your work, your relationships or beliefs.
- Disruption takes many forms; a relationship fails, plans go awry, a source of supply dries up. but do not be dismayed. Whether you created the disruption, or whether it comes from an outside source, you are not without power in this situation. Your inner strength, the will you have funded until now in your life-provides support and guidance at a time when everything you have taken for granted is being challenged.
- The term radical discontinuity best describes the action of Hagalaz at its most forceful, the more sever the disruption in your ife, the more significant and timely the requirements for your growth. In the midst of disruption, at the centre of the storm, take heart: know that the universe and your own soul are demanding that you do, indeed grow.
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Raido - Journey (U)
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- This Rune is concerned with communication, with the attunement of something that has two sides, two elements, and with the ultimate union that comes at the end of the journey, when what is above and what is below are united and of one mind.
- Inner worth mounts here, and at such a time you are not intended to rely entirely upon your own power. Instead ask what constitutes right action in this situation. Ask through prayer or mediation, through addressing the Witness Self, the Teacher within. Not intent on movement, be content to wait; while you wait keep on removing resistances. As the obstructions give way, all remorse arising from trying to “make it happen” disappears.
- The journey is toward self-healing, self-change and union. You are concerned here with nothing less than unobstructed perfect union. and yet the union of Heaven and Earth cannot be forced. Regulate any excesses in your life. Material advantages must not weigh heavily on this journey of the self toward the Self. Stand apart even from like-minded others. This part of the journey-the soul’s journey- cannot be shared.
- Raido carries within its form the element of Joy, for now the end is in sight. You are no longer burdened by what you ‘ve left behind, Heaven above you and the Earth below you untie within you to suppoert you on your way. A simple prayer for the soul’s journey is : I will to do Thy will.
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Raido (R) Journey
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- Be particularly attentive to personal relationships
- Ruptures are more likely than reconciliations, and effort may be required to keep your sense of humor. Whatever happens,, how you respond is up to you.
- The requirements for your progress may totally disrupt what you had intended. Desired outcomes may elude you, but all inconviences will acutally be rerouting opportunities with union and reunion as the only abiding destinations.
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Thurisaz - Gateway (U)
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- This Rune indicates that there is work to be done both inside and outside yourself. Gateway represents the frontier between heaven and the mundane. Arriving here is a recognition of your readiness to contact the Divine to illuminate your experience so that its meaning shines throught its form.
- Thurisaz is a Rune of non-action. Thus, the gateway is not to be approached and passed through without contemplation. Here you are being presented with a true reflection of what is hidden in yourself or in your situation; what must be exposed and examined before right action can be undertaken.
- This Rune strengthens your ability to wait. Now is not a time to make decisions. Deep transformational forces are at work in this Rune.
- Visualize yourself standing before a gateway on a hilltop. Your entire life lies out behind you and below. Before you step through the gateway, pause and review the past: The learning and the joys, the victories and the sorrows-everything it took to bring you here. Observe it all, bless it all, release it all. For it is the very act of releasing the past that you reclaim your power. Now, step through the gateway.
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Thurisaz - Gateway (R)
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- A quickening of your development is indicated here. And yet even when the growth process acclerates, you will have reason to halt along the way to reconsider the old, to integrate the new. Take advantage of these halts.
- If you are undergoing difficulties, remember: the nature of your passage depends upon the quality of your attitude, the clarity of your intention and the steadfastness of your will. Be certain you are not suffering over your suffering.
- Drawing Thurisaz reversed demands contemplation on your part. Hasty decisions at this time may cause regrets, for the likelihood is that you will act from weakness, deceive yourself about your motives and create new problems more severe than those you are attempting to resolve. Impulses must be tempered by thought for correct procedure. Do no attempt to go beyond where you haven’t yet begun. Be still, collect yourself, and wait on the Will of Heaen.
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Dagaz - Breakthrough (U)
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- Drawing Dagaz can signal a major shift or breakthrough in the process of self-change, a complete transformation in attitude-a 180 degree turn. For some, the transition is so radical that they are no longer able to live the ordinary life in the ordinary way.
- In each life there comes at least one moment which, if recognized and seized, transforms the course of that life forever. Rely, therefore, on radical trust, even though the moment may call for you to leap empty-handed into the void. With this Rune, your Warrior Nature reveals itself.
- If breakthrough is followed by the Rune of The Unknowable, the magnitude of the transformation may be so great as to portend a death, the successful conclusion to your passage.
- A major period of achievement and prosperity is often introduced by this Rune. The darkness is behind you, daylight has come. Nevertheless, you are reminded not to collapse yourself into thoughts for the future or behave recklessly in your new situation. Considerable hard work can be involved in a time of transformation. Undertake it to do it joyfully.
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Isa - Standstill (U)
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- You may find yourself entangled in a situation to whose implications you are, in effect, blind. You may be powerless to do anything except submit, surrender, even sacrifice some long cherished desire. Be patient, for this is the period of gestation that precedes rebirth.
- Positive accomplishment is unlikely now. There may be a freeze on useful activity, all your plans are on hold. You may be experiencing an unacccustomed drain on your energy and wonder why: a chill wind is reaching you over the ice flowes of old, outmoded habits.
- Holding on can result in shallowness of feeling, a sense of being out of touch with life. Seek to discover what it is you are holding on to that perpetuates this condition and let it go. Shed, release, cleanse away the old. Doing so will bring on the thaw.
- Usually Isa requires some sacrifice of the personal. At such a time, you cannot hope to rely on help or friendsly support. There is, however, no reason for anxiety. Submit and be still, for what you are experiencing is not necessarily the result of your actions or even your habits but rather arises from conditions about which you can do nothing. What has been full, must empty, what has increased must decrease. This is the way of Heaven and Earth. To surrender is to display courage and wisdom.
- Just as winter is a time for going within, drawing Isa can introduce a period of restoration and renewal at the deepest level. In your solitude, remain mindful that the seed of the new is present in the shell of the old, the seed of unrealized potentail, the seed of the good. Trust your own process and watch for signs of spring.
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Sowelu - Wholeness
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- This Rune embodies the impulse toward self-realization and indicates the path you must follow, not from ulterior motives but from the core of yor individuality. What you are striving to bring into form is what, by nature, you already are. You must become conscious of your essence and bring it into form, express it in a creative way. A Rune of great power, and an expression of the life force available to you, Sowelu marks a time for regeneration right down to the cellular level.
- You may see fit to withdraw in the face of a pressing situation, especially if events or people are demanding that you expend your energy now, Know that such a retreat is a retreat in strength and can include a voyage inward for centering, for balance Timely retreat is among the skills of the Spiritual Warrior
- Do not act hauty or snobbish. Even in a time of bountiful energy, you are required to face and vanquish your refusal to let right action flow through you. Nourish this capacity, for it is a mark of true humility.
- Practice the art of doing without doing; aim yourself truly and then maintain your aim without manipulative effort.
- By our power we do nothing; even in loving, it is love that loves through us. This way of thinking and being enables us to grow into wholeness, and that is the ultimate goal of the Spiritual Warrior
