(8) Belief - Question Mark
You are invited to examine your beliefs, both rational and irrational, and see if they are serving your higher purpose.
Belief encompasses many aspects of your value judgements from beliefs about yourself, to faith in a deity, to your attitude towards prejudice and tolerance, to questioning the very nature of the universe and your place in it.
Spirituality, values, ethics, morality, political ethos, mortality, religious faith or none, the unknowable universe – just some of the words associated with beliefs.
The Rune of Belief suggests that the time is ripe to examine your moral compass – your ethical values and ideological principles, alongside your understanding of life’s big mysteries.
Doing this can be extremely uncomfortable and many people avoid addressing the serious side of what exactly it is they believe – are you one of them?
For instance, do you need to ponder faith in a divine being or discover your true perspective on life beyond the grave? Maybe you want to challenge erroneous ideas about failure and success? Perhaps you have irrational convictions that you are unworthy of love and respect?
Whatever your personal issues, developing full awareness of your existing beliefs will allow you to challenge them and, if needed, establish a new framework for healthy purposeful living.
Your beliefs today may even have been determined primarily by others - childhood influences or current social and community norms often play a major role. While it seems that a strong belief in something or somebody can provide spiritual nourishment, if this is your emotional prop, it still requires your careful consideration from time to time.
Know that it is easier to hang onto outmoded beliefs than to make an effort to think clearly about the moral values and ethics you have chosen to live by – are you fully aware of your choices in respect of your current convictions?
The Rockefeller Center inscription, New York, includes the following extracts which you might like to consider:
"I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. I believe that character, not wealth or power or position, is of supreme worth."
Now for your own questioning to begin.
This Rune is a member of The Inquiry Set which encompasses attributes requiring active curiosity, objective reasoning, the capacity to question yourself and mind-training.
"I seem to have been like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Isaac Newton
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The Rune of Belief suggests that the time is ripe to examine your moral compass – your ethical values and ideological principles, alongside your understanding of life’s big mysteries.
Doing this can be extremely uncomfortable and many people avoid addressing the serious side of what exactly it is they believe – are you one of them?
For instance, do you need to ponder faith in a divine being or discover your true perspective on life beyond the grave? Maybe you want to challenge erroneous ideas about failure and success? Perhaps you have irrational convictions that you are unworthy of love and respect?
Whatever your personal issues, developing full awareness of your existing beliefs will allow you to challenge them and, if needed, establish a new framework for healthy purposeful living.
Your beliefs today may even have been determined primarily by others - childhood influences or current social and community norms often play a major role. While it seems that a strong belief in something or somebody can provide spiritual nourishment, if this is your emotional prop, it still requires your careful consideration from time to time.
Know that it is easier to hang onto outmoded beliefs than to make an effort to think clearly about the moral values and ethics you have chosen to live by – are you fully aware of your choices in respect of your current convictions?
The Rockefeller Center inscription, New York, includes the following extracts which you might like to consider:
"I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. I believe that character, not wealth or power or position, is of supreme worth."
Now for your own questioning to begin.
This Rune is a member of The Inquiry Set which encompasses attributes requiring active curiosity, objective reasoning, the capacity to question yourself and mind-training.
"I seem to have been like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Isaac Newton
Return to Interpretations