The Rune Uruz

The Rune Uruz

Uruz means aurochs, the European wild ox that became extinct in 1627. Uruz encompasses physical strength, endurance, courage, and the raw, wild power of freedom. It includes emotional and spiritual strength, sexual potency, and good health.

Pronunciation: “Oo – Ruse”

5. URUZ - Power, Manhood, Femaleness, A Wild Bull

The rune of the termination and new beginning.  If it is pulled, it means that the life you used to live has grown out of its frame and needs to be left behind now, so that the life-energy can liberate itself, like a rebirth, into a new one. Be prepared for the chance, that hides itself behind the costume of loss.  At the same time modesty is demanded, because in order to rule, you must serve first.

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Tarot Card Correspondence: Strength Card

To dig deeper in the Magick:

Futhark a Book of Rune Magic by Edred Thorsson, you can read Here

Rune Magic by Donald Tyson, you can read Here

Ur meant an elemental masculine potency.

Physically: strengthen agility and endurance. Emotionally: courage and boldness. Spiritually: freedom. Thus, that which can

never be domesticated or enslaved. The triumphant soul of

nature. The shape of Ur is a horn or erect phallus.

Yoga Pose: Bend at the waist, with the back horizontal

and parallel to the ground. Arms and finger-

tips point toward the ground; the head should IT

The U-rune is the mother of manifestation. In the mythology this is represented by the great cow Audhumla, which licked a great icy block of salt in order to form the primal androgyne Buri. Also, she
was the source of sustenance for the cosmic giant Ymir. Audhumla was herself formed from the dripping rime produced when the world fire met the world ice. This is also the unmanifested energized essence from which the cosmic ice and Audhumla were originally formed. Uruz is the patterning and formulating power in the multiverse, the source of the ordering principles that lead to the final formulation of the world. The U-rune is the unmanifested pattern of matter (contrast with the antimatter nature of isa) .

This is the cosmic seed, the world force analogous to the semen virile.

It contains the mystery of the formulation of the self, a composite paradigm of all the aspects of the psychosomatic complex, just as the multiverse is framed from the various worlds. Uruz is the forming force, not the form itself (see the H-rune). The U-rune is the shaping power that defines the origin and destiny of all things. This mystery may be demonstrated through the shape of the stave, as 

Uruz is the eternal reservoir of archetypal patterning. Because of its shaping power, uruz is a rune symbolizing wisdom and lore, as the pattern of preserved tradition that is sprung from the natural order. Just as this indicates a healthy society (one in

accordance with natural order), so too is this a rune of good physical health in the personal realm. The U-rune promotes strong and harmonious organic systems. It is the rune of vital strength and virility.

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