# Uruz

Traditional meaning: aurochs (a now-extinct cattle species)

Meanings when upright:

- growth
- raw life energy
- anchors / grounding
- restoration of the self
- stamina/strength to endure
- boundaries/integrity of the self
- psychological healing
- freedom
- new beginnings
- initiation / challenge

Meanings when inverted:

- emotional blockages
- need for grounding
- out of touch with reality
- let go of the past
- difficulty making a change
- overprotectiveness
- strength used wrongly

Uruz can be useful for:

- applying spiritual/mystical lessons to the physical world
- remaining calm
- grounding
- physical strengthening / healing
- acquiring knowledge of the self

Anglo-Saxon rune poem:

> Ur byþ anmod ond oferhyrned,
> felafrecne deor, feohteþ mid hornum
> mære morstapa; þæt is modig wuht.

> The aurochs is proud and has great horns;
> it is a very savage beast and fights with its horns;
> a great ranger of the moors, it is a creature of mettle.

Norwegian rune poem:

> Úr er af illu jarne;
> opt løypr ræinn á hjarne.

> Dross comes from bad iron;
> the reindeer often races over the frozen snow.

A modern poem:

> I don't want our minds to merge completely,
> being one person in two bodies.
> It's surreal to experience bilocality,
> but I'd miss you something fierce.

> Even though there are times
> when each other we cannot stand,
> they stand few and far between.
> There is no deal that can be dealt by the divine
> to make me discard this life of ours newly began.

> You said it once before, and it still rings true:
> "Lethe, I don't want to ever lose you."
> And lose me you would if you let me subsume
> into your heart when pangs
> the pains of existence yet again.

> In emergency I gave you part of my soul.
> Does that mean we won't ever again be alone?
> Maybe in some sense. But in others I hope
> you get as much time
> to by yourself unwind
> every night when from work you come home.

> I love you, you know. And I only want
> that you get as much freedom as you've always sought.
> And if with me's the future
> you've always desired,
> there's no need to yearn - it you've already got.