This week's External Influence is the Spirit Guide Dingo! When this guide appears, it can often be a reminder to spend some time relaxing in connection with nature. Use this quiet moment of grounding and contemplation to examine what you have learned from the mistakes in your past and how to use these judgments of your behavior to adjust yourself for the future. Apply what you have learned to your future actions. This will enable you to be critical of your own mistakes and downfalls with a compassionate air in order to build yourself into a more appropriate you. Take time not only to study your own self, but to look to your relationships with others. Study how to react in situations and how others are reacting to or treating you. You may feel misunderstood or taken for granted at times, but know that connecting with the Dingo Spirit Guide will show you the way to remind yourself of your own personal importance. Do your best to challenge yourself in your individual work as well as in your position in a group or work environment. Do your best to fulfill your role and show your skills. Adjust accordingly in a flexible manner full of empathy and justice for others and yourself. Risks may be necessary to take in order to achieve this growth.

This week's Rune is Gebo! Symbolized by the crossing of two forces, this Rune looks at the interaction between the divine and the mortal. Gebo represents this connection, exchange, as well as balance and a sign of a gift! When we interact with others, it will always result in some sort of consequence. In the best of interactions, this is a gift and a positive result. Gebo particularly represents the gift we find in connecting with the divine. Always remember to think of it as a gift given with the understanding and intent of returning a gift. This ensures a balance mentally and physically. Gebo represents not only the cross over of human and divine, but the connection between lovers, a contract, or a partnership. Call upon Gebo this week in order to become more attuned with streams of energy, the power of balanced relationships, and the union of the Goddess and God. This week, remember to give as much as you receive. This is also represented by the barter system where one exchanges fair items or money so that both parties are pleased. It is also seen in the connection of two lovers. Let this week show you are giving can be a gift and allow yourself to connect with those around you in romantic, platonic, and business-like ways.

This week's Internal Influence is the Spirit Guide Wasp. This helpful creature aids in reducing populations of more dangerous insects while pollinating plants at the same time. These industrious guides teach us that now is the time to take our responsibilities seriously. Work hard to complete your goals with determination and enthusiasm. When this guide appears, we are reminded to have discipline within ourselves in order to achieve what we may not have been able to reach lately. Push just a bit harder. However, Wasp also reminds us to take time to do something adventurous and unusual to shake up our routine and re-energize ourselves. In this way, we can fuel our ability to bring dreams into reality. The Wasp reminds us to have perseverance in order to bring about the change and action we need. Don't let resistance make you hesitate, but use that in order to become more flexible. Look within yourself and connect with your compassion. The Wasp teaches us to use our greatest form of compassion in order to learn the hard lessons of humility, ego, and the balance of transformation and healing. This week, let the powerful Wasp guide show you how to dig deep and connect to both strength and empathy. Now is the time to connect with the element of Earth in order to organize your emotions and actions into a productive and disciplined order. Do not let your ego take over. Recognize the lessons you need to learn and adjust in order to become closer to a transformed you. It may be hard to have discipline, but you can do it. Shake up the hard work with those moments of fun and adventure this week to fuel your inner healing and transformation.