Long reading...yup..its longer..
For this reading, I felt that seven runes was an appropriate number, and laid them in the following order.
......5........
.............7
......6........
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......4........
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3....1........
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.......2........
Don't ask why. It just
felt right!
1: Current influences
2: Past Influences
3: Emotional desires
4: Obstacles, especially introspective
5: Positive result
6: Key to obstacle
7: Warning rune
Current Influences.............Peorth
This rune is generally considered to be rather mysterious, and this may tie in with a feeling of being out of your depth, lost in a labyrinth that is always changing, and wondering where you want to be, let alone how you get there.
However, this rune also suggests that a change is in the air. This process has already begun, perhaps, but you do not know what the end result will be. Peorth has been linked to pregnancy, and the 'dice-cup'. Although not apparently related, these do have something in common. Both suggest that you must follow the change before you know what the results will be. They suggest BIG changes, not to be taken lightly. You must decide what is at stake here, and this may be what is bothering you.
Past Influences.................Inguz
Classically, this is the Male Fertility and Creative aspect. Taken literally, it may suggest that you feel dominated by the men around you. By extension, you may be pandering to other people's desires of what you should be, and not showing enough of your own unique character.
As a past influence, this may be something that is increasingly less important, or even a part of the distant past in your life, but it is something that is still affecting the important decision that you make in your life.
One notable thing is that the male aspect here ties in with the female aspect of your current influences. This indicates a change in your expression of yourself, and perhaps even the balance of your male/female energies.
Emotional desires............Raidho
This is the rune of journeys, and as a desire, it shows that you want to get away from your current situation. I think this is quite a simple reading, as desires are usually pretty basic.
Part of you is screaming 'get out!', and you may or may not want to follow this advice.
Obstacles...............Tiewaz
As in the shorter reading, this came up as something that is holding you back. You perhaps feel unwilling or unable to take more control in what goes on in your life.
However, don't be afraid!... The spear of justice is your's to wield. Get out there and stab that negative energy...figuratively speaking, of course.
Positive result..........Berkana
When the snows recede, the trees grow leaves again, and spring comes around. Once winter has left your life, you will be free to regrow.
This will be a good time to start new things, either projects, or changes in your life. Make this a fresh start. Once you have pinned back your world to just the things that you want to be there, the initiative and the energy will be yours!
Key to solution........Kenaz
This is the rune of the guiding light. Follow your own path, lit by your own torch.
Find a light, that can guide you out, and follow it until you are free. Find some thing, that interests you, and can absorb your negative energy, and replace it with positive vibes, and make you feel whole and happy.
This rune also has an aspect of physical healing, as a tool of cautery. In 'olden-times', sometimes the only way to heal an injury was by the application of fire, to burn out the wound, and take away infection. This is symbolic, but it does indicate that relatively drastic measures may be required to heal your emotional wounds.
Warning..............Eihwaz
Eihwaz is the rune of polar opposites. I intended to read this rune as a reversal, or murkstave. However, this is one of the runes
which has no reversed meaning. From the situation you are in, the inevitable path is upward.
However, this does not mean that there are no warnings.
As a rune of opposites, there is a suggestion that changes will divide you from things or people that are currently close to you, and this can put strain on your life.
It also suggests, as a very symbolic rune of pairs, that you will need a friend and ally on your journey, someone who will not question who you are. Eihwaz is about the balance that keeps poles together, and you need someone as a friend who will be an equal. A friendship without a balance and equality is not a real friendship. All journeys work better with a companion, and yours will be no different. Think, two heads are better than one, etc..
Again, this reading is about moving on, albeit through a possibly painful patch to start with. The way is out there for you to enter a new and fertile phase of your life, but you have to have the motivation and determination, and self-pride, to cut through all the crap in your life, and emerge out on the sunlit plains of the other side, as it were.
Hope this is of use to you...
