This month’s rune is the second rune of the first aett, called
Uruz, Urur or Ur. Uruz symbolizes the aurochs, a now extinct
species of wild cattle, and the shape of the rune - a squared
off upside down U - is a clue to its meaning, resembling the
horns of a cow. Last time we learned about Fehu, the energy of
domestic cattle, and this is the other side to that spirit. The
aurochs was a huge and intense animal, bigger and more fierce
than the modern cow, dangerous to hunt because it would fight to
defend itself. All of these things are embodied in the energy of
the rune. In the rune poems it is equated to the courage,
fearlessness, and fighting spirit of the Aurochs, as well as the
destructive forces of nature which people have no control over
like freezing rain. In the Icelandic rune poem it is described
as:"lamentation of the clouds and ruin of the hay-harvest and
abomination of the shepherd."
(http://www.ragweedforge.com/rpie.html) The Norwegian rune poem
is more cryptic: "Dross comes from bad iron; the rein