i was thinking about angels and reversals. snow angels, impressions left, the grass underneath, reversing the image, flight. reversals as setbacks, as turning tables, as dark and light intricately joined. 
my rune for the new year is gateway, place of non-action, the god thor.

with a gateway for its symbol, this rune indicates that there is work to be done both inside and outside yourself. thurisaz represents the frontier between heaven and the mundane. arriving here is a recognition of your readiness to contact the numinous, the divine, to illuminate your experience so that its meaning shines through its form.
thurisaz is a rune of non-action. thus, the gateway is not to be approached and passed through without contemplation. here you are being confronted with a clear reflection of what is hidden in yourself, what must be exposed and examined before right action can be undertaken. this rune strengthens your ability to wait. now is not a time to make decisions. deep transformational forces are at work in this next-to-last of the cycle runes.
visualize yourself standing before a gateway on a hilltop. your entire life lies out behind you and below. before you step through the gateway, pause and review the past: the learning and the joys, the victories and the sorrows- everything it took to bring you here. observe it all, bless it all, release it all. for it is in letting go of the past that you reclaim your power.
step through the gateway now.

when i drew the rune it was sideways, so i think it both sides are involved. and that goes along with the inchoate notion that things are not black or white but black and light and all the tones between, so i read the reversal.

a quickening of your development is indicated here. yet even in times of accelerated growth, you will have reason to halt along the way, to reconsider the old, to integrate the new. take advantage of these halts.
if you are undergoing difficulties, remember: the nature of your passage depends upon the quality of your attitude, the clarity of your intention and the steadfastness of your will. be certain that you are not suffering over your suffering.
drawing thurisaz reversed demands contemplation on your part. hasty decisions at this time may cause regrets, for the probability is that you will act from weakness, deceive yourself about your motives, and create new problems more severe than those you are attempting to resolve. impulses must be tempered by thought for correct procedure. do not attempt to go beyond where you haven't yet begun. be still, collect yourself, and wait on the will of heaven.

enough about me, eh, kids. maybe it's your rune too. who knows, as freddy says. it's all change all the time. we just have to keep track of where we personally are.

postscript, r. just said on my birthday i picked the rune #12, and on new years day, #21. and my birthday is 12-21.