This week's External Influence is the Spirit Guide Rabbit! When this guide appears, it can have a range of reasons and meanings for you to interpret. Listen carefully and be observant this week as you work to understand the energies Rabbit brings this week. Know that this week is ripe with fertile, productive energies available to you. Use the quiet softness of rest to build strength for that forward push towards your goals. This week's energies will be a strong force to connect with in order to get things done! Allow yourself to be creative both in hobbies as well as in how you view your circumstances and build solutions to the problems around you. The Rabbit Spirit Guide brings a burst of ability this week that can be harvested to create abundance, productivity, and happiness. Don't be afraid to show your love to those you hold close and be open to reconnection with family or friends that may have become distanced.

This weeks Rune is Naudhiz. This rune depicts two sticks rubbing against one another in order to create the need fire. The need fire burns in the darkest of times while the darkness it flickers in represents the future which remains hidden to us. It translates literally to 'need'. Representing those things in life we cannot life without. When used correctly, the need-fire can promote creativity and positive transformation, however, when used unwisely it can be a driving force of destruction. Naudhiz represents the forces of friction and fire that instigates growth. It represents distress coupled with guidance to deal with it and move beyond the problem. When Naudhiz appears, it aids in clairvoyance, protection, and overcoming psychological obstacles such as bad habits. This week, the challenges in our environment may make us choose. Consider your options and look towards the light. There is a bright, burning power within that could destroy you if left to negative habits and toxic energies. However, this bright fire also aids in our greatest achievements, protection, and creations. This week is burning with opportunity, but often change and growth only comes from moments of challenge or distress. Do not let this overcome you, but remember the beauty of your abilities and engage in them to aid not only yourself, but those around you. Naudhiz comes to those who need deliverance from distress by reminding us of the love and passion in the world. Choose your path wisely and walk with light, love, and empathy so that you may give a guiding light and fire to yourself and others rather than a destructive fire burning away the positive.

This week's Internal Influence is the Spirit Guide Wolf. During this week, you may find yourself slipping into parts of your mind that are not beneficial to you. Take time to weed out these parts of your personality as a part of your inner growth. If you feel misunderstood, work on maintaining your confidence and self-esteem. Allow yourself to settle into positive rituals and structures that will give you a foundation of solid grounding in which to grow and feel secure. While you weed out the unneeded and unnecessary parts of yourself, know that this is also a prime week in which to build your confidence and other positive behaviors. Connect with those around you and allow yourself to feel vulnerable with those that you trust and love. It is ok to gain help from others around you so that you may grow and develop as an individual, a team, and a family. You can maintain freedom through structure by connecting with the Wolf Spirit Guide this week.