Rune: Nauthiz

Names: Nauthiz, Naud, Nyd
Represents: Constraint, Necessity, Pain, Endurance
Alphabet: N
Color: Blue
Sequence Number: 7 Blume, 9 Meadows, 10 Cooper - Tyson - Thorsson
Aett: Heimdall
Gods: Norns
Plants & Minerals: Beech
Potency: to come into being under pressure & restraint... achievment in adversity.
Challenge: You must meet your own needs before you can meet the needs of others.
Primary Uses: Used for meditation and focus, copig with stress, overcome crisis, break through limitations, develop perserverance & endurance.
Stroke Order: Carve the vertical down, then diagonal upper-right to lower-left

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Blume see's Nauthiz as the rune of "the shadow self". It is a time to identify patterns of self denial, misfortune and pain. Nauthis advises that we embrace the shadow self, acknowledge our pains and sufferings as teachers and lessons. It is a time to acknowledge our whole selves and with restraint, humor and love, perservere the pain of self realization. Nauthiz is another rune in the cycle of initiation; the teacher disuised as pain and limitation.

Meadows aligns Naud with the "Three Fates" or Norns. It is a wyrd rune, that holds the power of all that came before and opens the potential of all which is to come. Naud is the essense of existing simultaneously in past-present-future. To control what will be, we must take the power, the lessons, of what came before and make conscious choice in present. This means we must own who we are, hold it, fulfill it, before we can choose our fate (what we will become).

Cooper also align's Nyd to the Norns. His is a much more compact concept of inner strength, of fortitude and perserverence. Tyson goes a step darker, stating that Nyd, the strength to survive, would be unnecessary without Haegl: Rune of Hardship & Suffering. The two go, at times, hand in hand. There is no glory in Nyd for Tyson, for the suffering one survives through is not noble or holy.