Keywords: Personal need, duty, restraint, constraint, necessity, life lesson, patience, despair

Nauthiz translates as need, necessity, and distress. It warns to consider your deepest needs and guard against compulsive desires. However, with this rune also comes the power and strength to break free from this need and its restrictions. Being a rune of change, we must be careful not to go against our Word (fate) and use this rune constructively. It counsels patience. However unpleasant the hardship is, it is a learning experience that will ultimately benefit you. Nauthiz can also warn against taking a risky path. In conjunction with other runes, Nauthiz tends to have a delaying influence.

You are getting exactly what you need right now to make the best progress on your spiritual path. It may appear to be the very opposite of what you want, but this state is not permanent, it is merely a series of lessons that must be learned so that you can make the transition from negative to positive. Accept your past, keep your mind fixed on your goal, and learn from your present situation. The past is just a memory, the future, just a dream. The present is where the action is, the only place you have influence.

How to Use Nauthiz

Nauthiz represents need or necessity. Simply put, it councils one to take careful stock of your needs and desires, as these things often do not coincide. Nauthiz advises you not to give in to your desires while also lending you the energy to break free of them. The things that we need are often uncomfortable, but remember that they will benefit you in the long run. If you are at a point in your life where you feel you give in to your unhelpful desires far too often, Nauthiz can be a powerful rune to carry with you. Let it be a reminder to carefully consider what your wants are and what your needs are before making decisions. By keeping Nauthiz with you, it can lend you the energy needed to follow through with challenging choices. 

If you feel you are struggling and need spiritual support in this process of change, place Nauthiz upon your altar to channel its energy as you connect with your higher power. 

Handmade WitchRunes Pieces to Utilize the Energy of Nauthiz

Use the Nauthiz Norse Rune Pendant as a necklace, keychain, or other charm to carry the energies of Nauthiz with you. You may also hang it in your altar space 

Utilize Nauthiz individually or in conjunction with the other 23 runes of the Elder Futhark with the Elder Futhark Norse Rune Set