The Fifth Book of Zinlin
It is easy to feel alone in difficult times and to forget the resources at our disposal, some of which we may never have used before. If we continue living by the same patterns, making the same repeated use of the resources available to us, then we will stay on the same path, or even the very same place, for a very long time.
To look around and reach out to unfamiliar places or people, or to break with patterns in our relationships and reach out to someone familiar but in a new way, can take courage. So recall a time when you carried courage in you and relive that experience. Observe the sensations of your head and limbs and your core, especially in your heart and in your breathing. With courage in you, are you not light yet strong, aware of danger or risk yet not afraid? Are you not resolved to action, with a clear goal of your own but accepting of come what may?
To work out answers to our questions on our own and to resolve our own problems is a valuable strategy. But do not base your self-respect on being always self-reliant. There is a time for seeing that a question or an issue is beyond our own resources and, with courage and clear thinking, to assure ourselves of the resources we do have and to find the resources we still need and find a way of bringing them to our aid. Abandon, then, any thought of betraying family or friendship or your own expectations by asking for help, for now may be the time to be strong enough to expose your uncertainty and vulnerability, perhaps to the very people who have taught you to be decisive and self-reliant or have always believed and expected that of you.
If you have a sense of things not being right with you or in your world, whether the reason be clear or unclear, then it may be time to consult with another of appropriate wisdom.
If you have been grappling, or perhaps avoiding a question or issue for some time, then it may be time to consider the type of help you need from others; or the type of change you need in your environment.
In this, the Fifth Book of Runes, you will have your attention drawn to an aspect of your social and physical environment that you can use in reaching an answer to your question or resolution of your issue. You may be surprised that it is an aspect that you had not considered before. The Runes ask you to look outwards, far and wide, for strength and support, and to abandon shame and fear and thoughts of being weak or foolish.
Draw your Rune Die and throw it now to reveal the Rune that speaks to the aspect of your world that may be the best place to look first for help. Your task is to relate your Rune interpretation to the external resources at your disposal, in a manner of helpfulness and wisdom.
Roll the die