This week's External Influence is the Spirit Guide Dragon. This guide comes when there is a great shift of empowerment, self-confidence, and magic all around you. Prosperity and protection will be abundant this week, but know that this also comes with an increased feeling of vulnerability. Do not be afraid of risks, but let yourself push towards opportunities that will fuel your passions and fulfillment. Change may seem difficult or scary, but know that you will find success by stepping into your own strength and courage. The Dragon guide comes to aid us in reminding us of our potential and fire. This week will be the perfect opportunity to engage in hobbies and activities that will bring passion into your life. It will also be a ripe time for working on opening your mind to other lifestyles or cultures. As we find the Dragon represented in cultures all around the world, remember that we are all connected no matter how far or close. This week will connect you with a sense of regal and confident demeanor and an opportunity to evolve spiritually and mentally. Use this time to study earth-based paths and to connect with past lives or ancestors.

This week's Rune is Hagalaz! This Rune is symbolized as being the connections between realms. Depicted as the primal snowflake, the icy core of primal life within existence. It embodies the movement in and downward to learn the wisdom of the Norns. Hagalaz works with the powers of harmony, transformation, evolution, merging, and the past. It's name translates to "Hailstone" which represents the change of water into ice. As it provides transformation and protection, this rune also symbolizes destruction. But in the wake of this destruction, such as with hail onto the land, it brings positive transformation like the growth of plants as the hail thaws and refreshes the ground with water. Alternatively, Hagalaz uses this ideal to represent the framework of the universe, the Oneness, in which energy is constantly moving and transforming. This rune can be a gentle urge to study sacred geometry due to being represented as the 6 branches snowflake in which we can fashion all other runes out of it's lines. Making it the Mother of runes. Connect with Hagalaz when you feel the need to merge runic energies, gain aid in personal empowerment or transformation, healing physical or mental wounds, or protecting from further harm. Hagalaz comes to us to increase shamanic journeying, accessing ancestral memories, or to teach us how to build positive out of destruction. With connects to both sides of the spectrum, this rune warns of self-sabotage. Do not break yourself down, but rise above behavior patterns developed from the past in order to create a better self for your future.

This week's Internal Influence is the spirit guide Heron. Within you are vast amounts of innate wisdom so take the time to let yourself acknowledge and explore that. This guide reminds us the importance of grounding. Study this technique and increase your meditation so that you can work on diving into your own psyche in order to explore, expand, and strengthen your own self-reliance and talents. Often, the Heron spirit guide teaches self-reliance through your own unique and personalized ways. Don't let yourself get sucked into being like everyone else or by following in another's path. Reach your goals in your own ways even if others may view it as unconventional. Watch for opportunities this week. By regularly grounding yourself, this will enable you to recognize when an opportunity has appeared and you will be able to know when the perfect moment to act is here. If you feel overwhelmed or uncomfortable, try to remind yourself of your own resourcefulness. Focus on tact and forethought so that you feel more comfortable and ready to take on what may be around you this week. Over all, the Heron reminds us how much we can learn from working on our independence and self-care. Take time to work on yourself, but also include time to straighten up your home.