SIGNALS
MESSENGER RUNE
THE GOD LOKI
The keynote here is receiving: messages, signals, gifts. Even a timely warning may be seen as a gift. When the Messenger Rune brings sacred knowledge, one is truly blessed, for the message may be that of a new life unfolding.  New lives begin with new connections, surprising linkages that direct us onto new pathways. Take pains now to be especially aware during meetings, visits, chance encounters, particularly with persons wiser than yourself.

LOKI is the ancient trickster from the pantheon of the Norse gods.  He is the heyeohkah of the North American Indian, "a mocking shadow of the creator god," the bringer of benefits to humankind.  Even scoundrels and arch thieves can be bearers of wisdom.  When you draw this Rune, expect the unexpected: The message is always a call, a call to new life. ANSUZ  is the first of the thirteen Runes that make up the Cycle of Initiation---Runes that focus directly upon the mechanism of self change---- and as such, addresses your need to integrate unconscious motive with conscious intent.  Drawing it tells you that connection with the Divine is at hand. For ANSUZ is a signal to explore the depths, the foundations of life, and to experience the inexhaustible wellspring of the Divine in your nature. At the same time, you are reminded that you must first draw from the well to nourish and give to yourself.  Then there will be more than enough to nourish others. A new sense of family solidarity invests ANSUZ.

REVERSED:You may well be concerned over what appears to be failed communication, lack of clarity or awareness either in your past history or in a present situation.  You may feel inhibited from accepting what is offered.  A sense of futility, of wasted motion may overwhelm you.  Remember however, that what is happening is timely in your process.  If the well is clogged, this is the moment for cleaning out the old.
ANSUZ REVERSED is saying Consider the uses of adversity.

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