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Vikings! - Uruz

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URUZ

Key Phrase

‘To find your true strengths, you must first face your weaknesses’.

Viking Rune Equivalent and Meaning
Strength. To strengthen the will; increased sexual potency and energy; heightens skills for hunting; increases inner knowledge and wisdom; it is protective when used in defence of one’s territory, property, children or the self.

Keywords
Strength, energy, primal force, passion, vitality, instinct, wildness, raw creative power, fertility, the unconscious mind, primitive mind, irrationality,  ‘rites of passage’, physical strength, physical speed, untamed potential, good health, freedom, adventure, test, action, courage, tenacity, understanding, wisdom, endurance, assertiveness, the common good, over-coming obstacles, masculine potency, the shaping of power and pattern and the formulation of the self.

URUZ is ‘Energy Released’

Uruz is symbolised by the Auroch, or ox. The ‘auroch’ was a species of wild oxen or huge bovine, similar to a longhorn bull, that was once found all over Europe. They had become extinct since sometime in the 17th Century. Aurochs were reputed to have had horns as long as six feet and were highly prized by people as drinking horns. Paintings of aurochs have been found in Neolithic caves. It was believed that the hunting of the aurochs had a significance as a ‘rite of passage’ for boys entering manhood. Uruz is the rune of the ‘god of the Sacred hunt’ and his shaman or priest.

The ancient people of the Norse saw the horn of the auroch as a symbol of strength. It was used to swear oaths upon, make firm friendships by and to clinch deals.

Uruz shows the untamed sides of the self, indicating ‘that which one can achieve.' Uruz is the rune of ‘will and enforcement’. It represents the physical movement of things in our world, as well as ideas and notions.

As for age, Uruz is a ‘roadmap of life’ – we are born, we live, we die. We have the physical ability to control what happens in the material world around us as we live, but we have no control over birth or death.

On the mental side, Uruz is a perfect example of ‘thought’. An idea starts within our subconscious, then comes into our active mind, then into our physical world.

Uruz is a formative or protective force which is un-manifested, but which can shape things to come.

Uruz represents an awareness of death and of our own mortality. Within the ‘rites of passage’, the boy who has killed the auroch has entered manhood and has therefore been initiated into the first level of the mysteries - the awareness that the source of all life, is death. This rune also often represents ‘terminations and new beginnings.’

The meaning of the symbol of the Uruz rune can relate to a wild energy, an untamed potential, a tenacity and driving force.
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