1. Whoever sent him $50 (witchtrash I think he said) is a fucking moron.
2. Why does he have runes written there?
I'm just gonna go ahead and grab one of my rune sets and do that instead of cards on this.
3. I'm unreasonably annoyed that he keeps saying "mitigate" when he means mediate.
At any rate, if you'd rather not go poking around my IG:
Mannaz, Sowilo, Laguz, Kenaz merkstave (reversed), Jera, Wunjo merkstave.
So, what we have here starts with Lucas having a desire for mutual joy in a partnership, a connection to others and a desire for change, for the moment, he believes that he's going to achieve this (for realsies this time), because of his creativity, his positivity, and his ability to resist that which would drag him down.
Here's where we see the universe starting to fuck with Lucas, however. Laguz does tend to coincide with the ebb and flow of things in nature and can mean success at the expense of losing something else, which means Lucas may see some minor success--just enough to make him t hink he's made it for sure, before it yanks it all away from him again.
Or, more realistically, until Lucas messes it up through sheer incompetence.
Anyway...
Kenaz merkstave is a block; a creative block, a financial block, a personal block, a relationship block, probably also a cockblock since we're talking blocks, Jera is roughly the equvialent to the Wheel in a tarot deck and is similar to Laguz in that they both deal with there being a back and forth and with the merkstave Wunjo at the end I read this as something will appear to be a shining beacon right there to give Lucas what he wants in Jera, only to have it once again pulled right away by the last rune.
Wunjo upright/not reversed would mean situations changing for the better, balance, happiness, reaching one's goals, good relationships, everything Lucas has been chasing for 9 years.
Wunjo merkstave is essentially, "LOL, you
thought, Princess."
Failure, strife, fights, instability, negative changes, loss, being alone, being used, isolation, you know, what Lucas experiences on the daily.