Rune of the Day: Uruz

Uruz is a rune of strength, health, and vitality. A rune of inner resources, those that are often tapped after a setback, those that help one come back stronger than ever. 

Frequently, that's what this rune is showing; that there is a challenge coming, one that will make you stronger.  It is also one, though, that will necessitate you giving up that which has been holding you back: be it an attitude, a belief, or a behavior. 

Uruz is telling you that you have the strength to change yourself, to make yourself better, and that this is the time to begin doing so.
 
 
Tarot Card of the Day:High Priestess (Reversed)

The High Priestess is the card of intuition, of knowledge both inner and outer.   Reversed, however, she generally means jumping to conclusions, lack of foresight, sometimes even willful ignorance. 

 This card reversed is a warning to really think about your decisions and to even research them a little more than you have.  Perhaps reserve judgment on a person or subject until things are more clear.

With Mercury in retrograde for most of the week, this would be a very good time to just sit back and wait without making any decisions or judgments.

The Two Together

Now is a good time to focus only on yourself.  Uruz is telling you that you need to change the old so that you can become stronger, while the (Reversed) High Priestess is telling you not to make any major decisions or to form any new opinions on anything substantial right now. 

Take this time to really examine your motivation for the things you want to do. Any significant changes you are thinking of making, take the time to really examine why you want to change.  Is it because it will make you feel better about you? Or is it because its what you think others expect of you/want you to do/want you to be like?  

If you are making decisions purely because you think it will make you, or your life, better and that's the only reason then go ahead.  Uruz is guiding you and has let you know you have the inner strength to be successful in these changes.  

If you are making changes for any other reason, take a step back.  While you may have the strength to make these changes the High Priestess is telling you that your thinking is faulty for why you are making them.  Let's be honest, changes we make just for others, rarely last long, not unless they are what we want for ourselves also. 

Do what will make you a better, and happier person in the long run.  You can't  truly make anyone else happy by changing, not unless its a change that also makes you happy, remember that!

Blessings!