Romance: Part Two

One of the best things about reading runes for people is when there is not trouble, there's just love. A beautiful couple from out of state came in a little while ago. These fine gentlemen from elsewhere radiated love and affection - not PDA, but the emotion, the braided auras, the care with which they treated each other was glorious. I was honored to be in their presence.

They were there for a "temperature taking," if you will. Kind of a fine-tuning.

When I do a couple's reading, I use three sets of runes - one for each person, and one set for the relationship itself. Unsually I start with the relationship, then move from partner to partner. I love seeing what runes come up consistently or differently in the various positions.

This couple is solid. Their relationship is good, and they very much love each other. Like all of us, they have work to do, and just needed a little direction and confirmation.

The runes Berkano and Uruz featured in the personal reading of one - telling me there is a strong protective nurturing nature. Surrounding runes told me there was also some self-doubt or fear going on relating to that. An incident they revealed confirmed this, and so we pulled runes to advise.

Berkano, Frigga's rune, the rune of deep nuture, motherhood, gestation.

Uruz, a rune of primal strength, the Aurochs, Audhumla, gives us movement and power. If we are not aware of our strength, we can, when startled, trample or gore. Sometimes that's appropriate, but it also can affect us negatively, leaving us to wonder who we are, really, to have acted so.

I used my own experience with a Berkano Uruz moment to illustrate how these forces can act together, and to put the experience of the man into perspective. Once upon a time, I was threatened by someone while my young son was standing behind me. The person kept yelling and yelling, and there was no where to run. I felt, as if they were not my own, my hands rise, and pull the person's hair! It was terrifying! I had not been in a fight of any kind since I was in eighth grade, and there I was, 40 years old and pulling someone's hair!

It took a lot of working through to answer the question of who am I, really? And, really, we are a lot of people all rolled into one. At that moment, I was a mother protecting her child. Just as, in his Berkano Uruz moment, the man was a person protecting his loved one. In both cases, our heart was under attack, and we were committing a sort of self-defence.

Hair-pulling is not ideal, of course. But self-forgiveness and acceptance is important for growth and love.

By the end of our session, the young man was looking differently at himself, encouraged by the reading and, importantly, by his partner.

The urge to protect our loved ones is strong, as primal as Uruz.