we picked a solstice rune last night. mine was growth, rebirth, birch tree. the flow of beings into new forms. with resistance, with work, and through crisis. i don't really want to work but i want to grow, and inevitably i grow old. is jasper old? he feels like a baby to me, but his body has grown old. i feel his old baby soul. the idea is growing old. if we keep growing we grow old. some kind of old grace, some integrity specific to this body, some kind old growing mystery. 

what is called for here is to consider your issue

with care and awareness. first disperse resistance,

then accomplish the work.

ralph h. blum, the book of runes