a friend read my ruins and i don't know if it could be any more appropriate or accurate for my life and this is exciting. the reading is in 3 parts.
situation now
uruz
strength - a wild ox
ruin of termination and new beginnings, drawing aruz indicates that life you have been living has outgrown it’s form. that form must dies that life energy can be released in a new birth, a new form. this is a ruin of passage and, as such, part of the cycle of initiation. growth and change, however, may involve passage into darkness as part of the cycle of perpetual renewal. as in nature, the progression consists of 5 parts death, decay, fertilization gestation and rebirth.
events occurring now may well prompt you to undergo a death in yourself. 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 than for opportunity disguised as loss. it could involve the loss of someone of something to which there is an intense emotional bond, and through which you are living a part of your life, a part that must be retrieved so you can live it out for yourself. in some way, that bond is being severed, a relationship radically changed, a death experience.
seek among the ashes and discover a new perspective and a new strength.
learn to adapt yourself to the demands of such a creative time.
firm principals attached to this ruin, and at the same time humility is called for, since an order to rule you must serve. this ruin puts you on notice that your soul and the universe support the new growth.
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action
the unknowable
____ is the end, ____ the beginning. this is the ruin of total trust and should be taken as exciting evidence of your most immediate contact with your own true destiny which, time and again, rises like the phoenix from the ashes of what we call fate.
the ___ ruin can portend a death. but that death is usually symbolic, and may relate to any part of your life as you are living it now.
relinquishing control is the ultimate challenge for the spiritual warrior.
here the unknowable informs you that it is in motion in your life. in that blankness is held undiluted potential. at the same time both pregnant and empty it comprehends the totality of being, all that is to be actualized. and if, indeed, there are “matters hidden by the gods”, you need only remember: what beckons is the creative power of the unknown.
drawing the blank ruin brings to the surface your deepest fears: will i fail? will i be abandoned? will it all be taken away? and yet your highest good, truest possibilities and all your fertile dreams are held within that blankness.
willingness and permitting are what this ruin requires, for how can you exercise control over what is not in form? the blank ruin often calls for no less an act of courage than the empty handed leap into the void. drawing it is a direct test of faith.
the blank ruin represents the path of karma -- the sum total of your actions and of their consequences. at the same time, this ruin teaches that the very depths of old karma shift and evolve and you shift and evolve. nothing is predestined: the obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
whenever you draw the blank ruin, take heart: no that the work of self-change is progressing in your life.
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new situation
B
growth
another of the cycle ruins, berkana denotes a form of fertility that fosters growth both symbolicly and actually. the growth may occur in affairs of the world, family matters, ones relationship to ones self or to the divine.
a ruin that leads to blossoming and ripening, berkana is concerned with the flow of beings into their new forms. it’s action is gentle, penetrating and pervasive.
what is called for here is going into things deeply, with care and awareness. first disperse resistance, then accomplish the work. for this to happen, your will must be clear and controlled, your motives correct. any dark corner 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 attitude, a blossoming can occur.
