This week's External Influence is the Spirit Guide Unicorn. This creature was seen as an elusive, living being across many cultures in it's various forms from the first Greek Unicorn, or Ch-I Lin, to the Chinese Kirin. When this spirit guide appears, it comes as a sign that this week provide ample opportunities to open your mind and power through conventional thinking in order to aid your creative self in blooming. Beauty comes in so many forms and actions. This week is prime for reminding you of that. Reconnect with what fills you with joy and excitement. What makes you feel magical? Allow your mind to be open to this week's flow of energy and the invisible aspects of the world. Work on something that you may have been holding back and be open to the infinite possibilities around you. The Unicorn spirit guide is one of the strongest symbols of innocence, creative expression, and magic. These qualities mirror it's other aspects of manifestation and success. There is a vast amount of negativity swirling in our environments lately, but this week will teach you how to connect with the pure vibrational tone within us all in order to cleanse away the heaviness lingering lately. Refresh your sense of awe and wonder about the world to bring about that surge of personal power and will. See the beauty and magic that grows within us all.

This week's Rune is Wunjo. This rune is depicted as being a banner or weather vane. These symbolize the rune's meaning of kinship and interaction between individuals from the same source or place. Wunjo is the rune of joy, hope, pleasure, and fellowship. The weather vane moves in concert with the air around it, signifying the harmonious relationship of an object with it's environment and those around it. This week we will see an increase in joy and harmony. Allow yourself to connect with the boundless joy of interacting with those around you as well as the spirits within all around us. It reminds us of the bliss found in seeing the happiness around us all. By holding honor and integrity, we can find a freedom in our own strength. In this way, we can build a strong foundation with those around us. Wunjo aids us in that building of social and familial bonds as well as increasing our levels of happiness and inspiration for a specific goal. This week, Wunjo will show you that you have the strength and ability to reach the goals you have been aching for. That you can find the happiness and joy that you feel has been just out of your reach. This rune symbolizes Oneness. Find peace within and around yourself and thus reaching a joy and peace.

In the Internal Influence position, we see the spirit guide Kestrel. This small, but powerful raptor is known for it's strength, fearlessness, and tenacity. This guide comes to us when we need to view our life from a new perspective in order to gain needed information. Consider your future goals and inner needs carefully. Take time by yourself this week to mull things over, but be careful if you are spending too much time alone. The kestrel guide reminds us to analyze and think carefully as we choose the perfect moment to make our moves. Fully commit and then move gracefully to reach your goals. Strength comes from intelligence, decisive thought and actions. Use your mental abilities to the best you can and use every opportunity you can to learn. This week, soak in all the information that you can in order to help yourself advance and grow into the best version of yourself that you can. Remind yourself that being ignorant is not wrong. Remaining ignorant is what will cause stagnation. Every opportunity is a chance to learn, adapt, and grow. This week is a chance to move forward and allow yourself to advance into a happier and more independent version of yourself. By allowing yourself to learn, to grow stronger, and act with grace, you will allow yourself a chance to become stronger as a singular person. In this way, you will also become stronger within your environment and social groups.