Pronunciation: Nawd-thiz

Need

Delays, restriction. Resistance leading to strength, innovation. Distress, confusion, conflict, and the power of will to overcome them. Endurance, survival, determination. A time to exercise patience. Recognition of one's fate. Major self-initiated change. Face your fears.

Drawing this Rune indicates that there might be delays and changes in the direction of your actions. There are strong reasons to review your plans carefully. Restriction is necessary. Difficulties and failures, however, can teach us plenty about ourselves. Look for the positive side of adversity.

Reversed: Constraint of freedom, distress, toil, drudgery, a lax approach. Necessity, extremity, want, deprivation, starvation, need, poverty, emotional hunger.

Represents "n" as in "now" in the Runic alphabet.