ᚾ · sound “n” · Need
Nauthiz (ᚾ) is rune 10 of the 24 runes of the Elder Futhark, in Heimdall's aett. Its name means need.
Need and constraint. A limit or a lack is pressing on you, and it also makes you resourceful. Patient friction is how a fire gets started.
Nauthiz looks the same turned upside down, so it has no reversed meaning. It is one of the nine runes that read the same either way up, and it is always read as need.
Meet the real need first; the rest can wait.
Nauthiz means need, distress or constraint, and gives English "need". Rune poems describe need as a hard companion that also teaches, and the Old English poem adds that it can be a help to those who heed it in time.
Nauthiz shows where you are being limited, and asks what the limit can teach you. In a reading it can mean scarcity, a delay you cannot skip, or a want that will not go away. The usual counsel is to work with what you have rather than wait for better conditions.