This week's External Influence is the Spirit Guide Dolphin. When this guide appears, it can often be a sign to focus on practices concerning breath and sound. Engage in breathing exercises to soothe and relax your mind and body. By regularly practicing this, it can aid you in becoming calmer in a stressful environment or situation. Controlled breathing can enable you to align your mind, body, and spirit. The dolphin's connection with breathing, sound, and water combine to create a guide that can bring about creative energies and compassionate intelligence. This week will be a prime time to reconnect with sound and music. Allow yourself to get lost in music that you love. Sing out loud and share the joy you feel with those around you. Put love into all your actions this week. Even the smallest action of compassion and empathy can change someone's entire day. The Dolphin guide can often be a reminder to put more effort into communicating more clearly and to understanding the messages others are attempting to communicate to you.

This week's Rune is Raidho! It is symbolized as being a solar chariot carrying the sun across the sky. This connects with it's representation of being the Rune of travel, flow, movement, and progression. By drawing from the powers of Raidho, we can find solace in cycles and rhythms. Just like with the movement of the wheel, life turns in patterns and flows that we can tap into such as the passing of days or the path of the sun. It connects the eight major festivals of the year and gains a symbolism for ritual or ceremonial magic by aiding in the flow of energy from one place to another. While progression can be measured by the phases of the moon as well, Raidho connects specifically with patterns of the flow associated with solar powers rather than lunar ones. Drawing from the origin of it's name, this Rune deal with counsel and advice. Urging chivalrous actions. Raidho will aid you in moving energy to a specific place or in completing journeys. Use this Rune when you need to connect with the flow of life or to expand your thought process. Allow yourself to dance and move as a way to engage in the passing of one moment to the next. Work hard so that you will come to best possible outcome of your journey with the understanding that the outcome is not an end, but a beginning to a new transformation. Keep in mind that each cycle exists within a larger cycle and that by keeper a larger picture in your mind, you will decrease any chance of circling without direction. Enjoy the process of movement physically, mentally, and spiritually.

This week's Internal Influence is the Spirit Guide Kestrel! When this guide appears, it is a sign to focus on strengthening your mental acuity and patience. Take time to gather your answers and think things through for you will know when the opportune moment to act has come. This week is the perfect time to practice and advance our mental powers, strengthen our morals, and increase our intelligence. Kestrel reminds us that size does not equal strength, but that our strength comes from decisive, intelligent actions and forethought. Hold grace and humility close in every action. When you have make your decision, stick to it and fully commit. This spirit guide is known for it's ability to connect us with a sense of timing, honor, patience, and accuracy. Consider if you have been letting some part of yourself slack or if you have been spending too much time alone. Recognize when you need solitude and when you need to be around those you care for this week. Be proud of your depth of thought, intelligence, and strength of moral and mind. Know that these skills will allow you to become adept at recovering from any situation with skill and grace.