On dark nights, it is easy to get lost. But every human has a built-in compass, an arrow always pointing upward to the guiding north star, the only star that remains constant in the sky. It's a quiet but firm inner voice, it tells us the right direction. When it speaks - the north star shines in the center of our forehead.

It is the Tiwaz rune:

It is named after the god Týr, the one-handed Norse god of war, honor, faith, fame, justice, and protection, who sacrifices his right hand placing it in the wolf Fenrir's mouth to let other gods bind him.

He is often associated with the Roman god Mars, who, contrary to the Greek Ares, was not seen as a destructive and destabilizing force but rather a god protector of peace and had a paternal role.
Týr in turn has an even stronger incline towards Order.

The Tiwaz name itself, if viewed from an etymology perspective, seems to be connected to Proto-Germanic tīwaz, meaning "a god, a deity," and to Proto-Indo-European deywós, meaning 'celestial, heavenly one'.

Tiwaz is one of the few runes explicitly mentioned in the sources as having direct magical application, specifically the rune of victory.

In the Old English runic poem, this rune is associated with a guiding star which is ever on its course over the mists of night and never fails.

Tiwaz is extremely powerful and useful both as a stand-alone practice and as part of the alchemical process.

• Stand or sit comfortably, and close your eyes.
• With closed eyes look upward, like to the inner sky.
• Make a hand gesture, similar to prayer but triangular, so the tips of your fingers almost touch, leaving only a little gap between, while palms and forearms go down diagonally, forming ascending and descending bars of the Tiwaz rune.
• Feel your vertical axis, your spine - the vertical trunk of Tiwaz, syncing you with Earth, Emptiness, Air, and Water levels.
• Slowly breathe in.
• While inhaling, as suggested by the ascending bar of the Tiwaz rune, shift your focus of attention from your expanding chest, the level of Air, upward through your head and above to the level of Water.
• Hold breathing for a moment and refresh the feeling of your entire vertical axis which starts from the ground, goes along your spine and center of your head crown, and upward beyond your body to the world of Water where your breath just finished.
• Slowly breathe out.
• While exhaling, as suggested by the descending bar of the Tiwaz rune - shift your focus from the top world of the Water back to the Air level of your chest.

Repeat calmly as long as you want.

After some practice, you can switch from pulsating mode to the mode of continuous stream by detaching the practice from breathing. Just keep these ascending and descending streams in parallel with your vertical axis.

Notice how in the middle of your forehead appears a buzzing feeling of activation similar to the feeling of activated hands. This is your guiding star.
With your closed eyes, you may see its glow on the firmament, the inner side of your skull. It will guide you through the dark times and will help you to distinguish true from false and right from wrong.

To hear this voice and see this light you need to be honest with yourself and have a light heart, you need to be strong by staying in the very center of yourself, the only point in the entire universe you truly can rely on.

It is not what you think, but what you do that matters. Put yourself into the world and observe what will you do there, and what decisions make. From your actions, you can learn about true yourself. You sometimes have no idea what will actually you do in certain circumstances.

So you have your faith stronger when you get to know yourself from your actions and you align what you think with what you believe in.

In that case, you start acting consciously, with more power, because you start doing what you believe in, and fears, doubts, distractions, and circumstances, while still exist - no longer make you weaker, but stronger, because you're no longer a random wanderer, but a traveler with a high goal, so you always remember where are you heading and not getting lost when you have to turn away from the straight line to find a way around. You always get back on your way.

Tiwaz rune guides you and gives you enough strength and courage to keep going. Faith is not absolute confidence and lack of doubts. Faith is walking forward even if you don't believe and lose hope.