This week's External Influence is the Elephant Spirit Guide. When this Guide appears, it can often mean that it is time for you to look towards the connections you have formed with family or those you consider as close as family. Reflect on the memories, experiences, and love that you have shared and spread throughout your life and how these have combined to aid in the growth of your own personal development. Express your love and loyalty to your family. In particular, make sure to express your appreciation for your mother or female relatives. You may feel fear this week as large opportunities come to you, but know that through determination that you will find success. You will accomplish your goals, overcome trials, and find a strength within yourself. There is a vein of royal coursing with your soul. Mind this part of yourself by connecting with the humble, yet noble part of yourself. Do not express yourself as better than others, but work to show a caring, intelligent, and powerful force to aid those around you. Take time to breathe power into this royal part of yourself in order to grow into a better version of yourself a little more each day.

This week's Rune is Dagaz! This Rune is symbolized as the balance between night and day which lends to it's meaning as a balance between polarities. It represents the times of the year when the sun is at it's highest and represents the light of the day. As the sun crests the sky each day to fill the world with light, Dagaz is considered the Rune of enlightenment. When evolving, we first find the light within ourselves and then we are able to grow it to encircle us and shine on the world around us. Connect this week with Dagaz in order to understand the magic in both the light and the dark so that you may find fuel from the passionate flames of fire or to move without fear in the darkness. Dagaz connects the ability to harness power and opportunity with the wisdom of how and when to use it. Fire can be powerful, but it can also burn. Dagaz aids us in finding the balance. Get outside this week and soak up the sun!

In the Internal Influence, we see Alligator. Don't rush. Let this week be about gathering information and organizing your thoughts as well as your environment. If making a decision, take the extra time to gather as much research as possibly from multiple perspectives before making your decision. This week's challenges may make you feel like nothing but the negative exists, but remember that where there is death there is life. Where there is darkness, there is light. Alligator represents the principles of land and water, life and death. Without one, there is no other. Others may think you are doing nothing, but in silence there is contemplation. In slowness, there is deliberation. Allow yourself to be strong as you work on protecting yourself and your territory. It may help to spend time cleaning and refreshing your home environment in order to aid in dealing with the outer environment of the world. Meditation will be beneficial to you in order to clean your inner mind, as well. Digest the information that has come to you, gather and absorb more research, and consider your options before making a decision. Alligator is a symbol of new knowledge and beginnings. Allow whatever challenges appear this week to promote growth rather than destruction. The Alligator represents death as well as life and mimics Naudhiz in a reminder that one can either live a life of destruction or use their inner knowledge and ability to grow in a positive light for themselves as well as those around them. Do not be dragged down by your past experiences. Gather knowledge from all around and do not let yourself be too afraid to heed the knowledge you may even be hiding from yourself. Transformation and growth is all around us if only we listen and work.