<html> <head> <title>Uruz</title> <link href="./style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" title="main" media="all"> </head> <body> <p class="center"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_uruz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/uruz.svg" alt="Uruz rune" title="Uruz rune"></a></p> <h1>Uruz</h1> <p>Traditional meaning: aurochs (a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230814165852/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurochs">now-extinct cattle species</a>)</p> <p>Meanings when upright:</p> <ul> <li>growth</li> <li>raw life energy</li> <li>anchors / grounding</li> <li>restoration of the self</li> <li>stamina/strength to endure</li> <li>boundaries/integrity of the self</li> <li>psychological healing</li> <li>freedom</li> <li>new beginnings</li> <li>initiation / challenge</li> </ul> <p>Meanings when inverted:</p> <ul> <li>emotional blockages</li> <li>need for grounding</li> <li>out of touch with reality</li> <li>let go of the past</li> <li>difficulty making a change</li> <li>overprotectiveness</li> <li>strength used wrongly</li> </ul> <p>Uruz can be useful for:</p> <ul> <li>applying spiritual/mystical lessons to the physical world</li> <li>remaining calm</li> <li>grounding</li> <li>physical strengthening / healing</li> <li>acquiring knowledge of the self</li> </ul> <hr> <p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p> <blockquote>Ur byþ anmod ond oferhyrned,<br>felafrecne deor, feohteþ mid hornum<br>mære morstapa; þæt is modig wuht.</blockquote> <blockquote>The aurochs is proud and has great horns;<br>it is a very savage beast and fights with its horns;<br>a great ranger of the moors, it is a creature of mettle.</blockquote> <p>Norwegian rune poem:</p> <blockquote>Úr er af illu jarne;<br>opt løypr ræinn á hjarne.</blockquote> <blockquote>Dross comes from bad iron;<br>the reindeer often races over the frozen snow.</blockquote> <p>A modern poem:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>I don't want our minds to merge completely</strong>,<br/> being one person in two bodies.<br/> It's surreal to experience bilocality,<br/> but I'd miss you something fierce.</p> <p>Even though there are times<br/> when each other we cannot stand,<br/> they stand few and far between.<br/> There is no deal that can be dealt by the divine<br/> to make me discard this life of ours newly began.</p> <p>You said it once before, and it still rings true:<br/> "Lethe, I don't want to ever lose you."<br/> And lose me you would if you let me subsume<br/> into your heart when pangs<br/> the pains of existence yet again.</p> <p>In emergency I gave you part of my soul.<br/> Does that mean we won't ever again be alone?<br/> Maybe in some sense. But in others I hope<br/> you get as much time<br/> to by yourself unwind<br/> every night when from work you come home.</p> <p>I love you, you know. And I only want<br/> that you get as much <strong>freedom</strong> as you've always sought.<br/> And if with me's the future<br/> you've always desired,<br/> there's no need to yearn - it you've already got.</p> </blockquote> </body> </html>