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The Weekly Rune – Hagalaz

For the week of 27 October 2019Conserving wisely

Hagalaz is the half-month stave through 13 November. Fehu reversed is the intuitive rune, and Raidho indicates Passage’s message to us. Read right to left is Hagalaz, Fehu reversed, then Raidho.

I truly believe that #theweeklyrune includes the keys to making better choices based on keen insight into the present, to help each of us be more active in creating a better reality for us all. That realization process includes learning to tend what can’t just be fixed, and using every tool at our disposal to accomplish that. The runes are such a tool, and in the Old Norse tradition, this process is wyrdweaving at it deepest potential. The runes provide one way we can create ourselves as fit elders, so that we can become well Ancestors upon death.

This is the free version of The Weekly Rune.  Get the full benefit of the   ad-free, detailed version every Sunday, by joining my private runes community at Patreon.

The paid runecast includes:

more detail  ad-free the current runes’ impact on human life force insights on how to best manage the curves and twists thereinintrospective prompts to nuance and tend self-workgaldr of the runecast, with sound files and instruction on how to use each soundlive video sessionsrunic insights,  book excerpts, release news, free classesoptional services with mediscounts on soul tending services What’s a half-month rune?

“Half-month” is an astronomical concept in which each month is divided into two parts: days 1-15, then 16-month’s end. In terms of the runic calendar, each half-month rune is one of the 24 runes of the Elder Futhark, and governs for a tad over two weeks (14 and 1/4 days, or a fortnight).

Learn More

The Weekly Rune is a three-rune cast. Those runes are the half-month, the intuitive rune, and the overview. The half-month is a set rune, which for the most part follows the traditional ordering of the Elder Futhark. The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, to the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus. It suggests how we can best handle the half-month energies. The final rune (also drawn blind) provides a high overview of the current time, and speaks from different voices. These voices are usually Nature, Earth, Creation, though are sometimes others. I note who’s speaking each week, as it is revealed.

 

New to The Weekly Rune?Catch a couple of my IGTV videos, which explain the intention and process behind the runecast, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.Listen to my  What in the Wyrd  podcast, which is available across all popular podcast platforms, including Google Play and  iTunes.A few people have asked the reason that I switch between different rune sets for TWR. The short answer is: because. The more nuanced answer is, I ask which sets wants to speak each week. I don’t assume the same elements are in play according to the timing of the runes; I also don’t assume the same elements of my runes are appropriate to speak each week. I did a podcast on this subject, so there’s more info there. (See above)Also, for deep work on coming into relationship with the runes in season, check out my book, Runic Book of Days. The Runecast

As we enter The Dark Time in the next week (in the north), we’re confronted with how we respond to blunt change. Hagalaz is the rune of shit coming out of left field, and it’sthe first rune in the second aett. The entire first aett gave us opportunities to master how we manifest ourselves as souls in form. No greater challenge to that balance exists than external force.

Learn more about this seasonal progression, and how to draw its insights into the personal spiritual path in Runic Book of Days.

What does it mean?

Hagalaz is about discomfort, though that doesn’t mean this is Discomfort Season. It means this is our opportunity to reconcile how we deal with discomfort. Consider it discomfort practice. Granted, this rune focuses on unexpected discomfort–either in that it’s a surprise, or discomfort manifests in a way that isn’t expected. We can’t do anything to thwart discomfort in our lives. That’s not the point of this opportunity. Rather, with Hagalaz we begin a foray into a sequence I call the ‘winter runes,’ which are the first three runes of the second aett. These runes express a period of slowness, in which we’re given a chance to refine how we cope so that it actually meets our needs. Hagalaz is the first speed check along that journey, and its memos are that we need to be proactive in dealing with life aspects we know aren’t working, and that we need to go with the flow when life happens. Read more.

If you've benefited from my work and the free content on my site,please support it (me)

by buying my books, joining Patreon, or making a one-time donation. Thank you!

For suggestions on how to weather the season gracefully, subscribe to my private runes community on Patreon.

#beyourcommunity

Originally published on Soul Intent Arts. S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div.

 Kelley is an author, animist, and deathwalker in North Carolina. She teaches rune work, ancestral healing, and deathwalking, as well as mentors and leads the soul tending intensive training, The Spirited Path. As an interfaith minister, she has served her local community and an international client base since 2000 through Soul Intent Arts, and advocates embodied soul tending and sacred activism through Nature. #beyourcommunity

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The Thinning Veil

An expression heard 

in pagan circles this time of year is, “The veil is thinning,” to which my question has always been, “What veil?”

The idea behind this seasonal slogan is as we get closer to Samhain, Alfablot, and The Dark Time, in many northern and western European traditions this time of the year represents fleeting light, emphasis on the Ancestors, Nature tucked in for root growth, and every effort focused on how to survive the winter on the spoils of our harvest.

Historically the cold and darkness took a deep toll on the human psyche and stirred emotions, psychology, and concerns around safety and survival. We’ve internalized that amalgam of seasonal transition as a thinner veil between earthly and spirit realms. The result of this seasonal sheerness is an uptick in spirit engagement and shenanigans.  Read the full article on Medium.

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S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div.

 Kelley is an author, animist, and deathwalker in North Carolina. She teaches rune work, ancestral healing, and deathwalking, as well as mentors and leads the soul tending intensive training, The Spirited Path. As an interfaith minister, she has served her local community and an international client base since 2000 through Soul Intent Arts, and advocates embodied soul tending and sacred activism through Nature. #beyourcommunity

@kelleysoularts

We don't heal In isolation, but in community

The Weekly Rune – Wunjo

For the week of 20 October 2019Pragmatic joy

Wunjo is the half-month stave through 28 October. Sowilo is the intuitive rune, and Tiwaz indicates Pragmatism’s message to us. Read right to left is Wunjo, Sowilo, then Tiwaz.

I truly believe that #theweeklyrune includes the keys to making better choices based on keen insight into the present, to help each of us be more active in creating a better reality for us all. That realization process includes learning to tend what can’t just be fixed, and using every tool at our disposal to accomplish that. The runes are such a tool, and in the Old Norse tradition, this process is wyrdweaving at it deepest potential. The runes provide one way we can create ourselves as fit elders, so that we can become well Ancestors upon death.

This is the free version of The Weekly Rune.  Get the full benefit of the   ad-free, detailed version every Sunday, by joining my private runes community at Patreon.

The paid runecast includes:

more detail  ad-free the current runes’ impact on human life force insights on how to best manage the curves and twists thereinintrospective prompts to nuance and tend self-workgaldr of the runecast, with sound files and instruction on how to use each soundlive video sessionsrunic insights,  book excerpts, release news, free classesoptional services with mediscounts on soul tending services What’s a half-month rune?

“Half-month” is an astronomical concept in which each month is divided into two parts: days 1-15, then 16-month’s end. In terms of the runic calendar, each half-month rune is one of the 24 runes of the Elder Futhark, and governs for a tad over two weeks (14 and 1/4 days, or a fortnight).

Learn More

The Weekly Rune is a three-rune cast. Those runes are the half-month, the intuitive rune, and the overview. The half-month is a set rune, which for the most part follows the traditional ordering of the Elder Futhark. The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, to the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus. It suggests how we can best handle the half-month energies. The final rune (also drawn blind) provides a high overview of the current time, and speaks from different voices. These voices are usually Nature, Earth, Creation, though are sometimes others. I note who’s speaking each week, as it is revealed.

 

New to The Weekly Rune?Catch a couple of my IGTV videos, which explain the intention and process behind the runecast, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.Listen to my  What in the Wyrd  podcast, which is available across all popular podcast platforms, including Google Play and  iTunes.A few people have asked the reason that I switch between different rune sets for TWR. The short answer is: because. The more nuanced answer is, I ask which sets wants to speak each week. I don’t assume the same elements are in play according to the timing of the runes; I also don’t assume the same elements of my runes are appropriate to speak each week. I did a podcast on this subject, so there’s more info there. (See above)Also, for deep work on coming into relationship with the runes in season, check out my book, Runic Book of Days. The Runecast

 

This time of year is all about transition, regardless of which hemisphere we live in. The north is advancing on the Dead Time, while the south progresses into light. Both make steep demands on our ability to be present in seasonal dynamics and work our tools to meet their requirements. As we near the end of our time with Wunjo, we also experience a bit of transition high and free-fall for what comes next. Indeed, it’s a heady combination.

Learn more about this seasonal progression, and how to draw its insights into the personal spiritual path in Runic Book of Days.

What does it mean?

The end of an aett is a curious thing, in terms of seasonal progression. It’s another experience of betwixt, and the best way for us to manage it is to be a fully embodied, as situated into deep being as much as possible. We’re moving through Wunjo and beyond it, brushing up against the next rune, though not quite it, either. The domestication of our human minds doesn’t leave us with strong skills to manage blurred lines. As much as we balk at boundaries, we carry strong ties to unconscious ones in the form of This or That, Here or There. In reality, little of life is lived in those extremes, and the current world transitions to the cross-quarter seasons prod that discomfort.   For that reason, we are required to have great skills in the middle, which is what this week’s cast exalts in. Read more…

If you've benefited from my work and the free content on my site,please support it (me)

by buying my books, joining Patreon, or making a one-time donation. Thank you!

For suggestions on how to weather the season gracefully, subscribe to my private runes community on Patreon.

#beyourcommunity

Originally published on Soul Intent Arts. S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div.

 Kelley is an author, animist, and deathwalker in North Carolina. She teaches rune work, ancestral healing, and deathwalking, as well as mentors and leads the soul tending intensive training, The Spirited Path. As an interfaith minister, she has served her local community and an international client base since 2000 through Soul Intent Arts, and advocates embodied soul tending and sacred activism through Nature. #beyourcommunity

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Closing the First Ætt

Closing the First Ætt

I don’t often make posts about seasonal runic transitions outside The Weekly Rune. The current episode of What in the Wyrd demands a bit of attention, though, because we’re closing out our experience of the first ætt. 

Closing an ætt is a big deal in rune mastery, and this particular one we’re experiencing now is ace because it indicates joy. The relationship between wyrdweaving and joy is important, and that’s the topic of the current episode, Wunjo and Wyrdweaving. Its importance isn’t just to give us a brief breath of relief from a hard jaunt to self-mastery, but also to instill us with a way of being that allows us to tap into joy, as needed. In that light it really isn’t about the outcome, but the process.

I invite you to listen to the episode, and let me know how you experience Wunjo. For you, how is joy created, woven, and sustained even when it passes?

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S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div.

 Kelley is an author, animist, and deathwalker in North Carolina. She teaches rune work, ancestral healing, and deathwalking, as well as mentors and leads the soul tending intensive training, The Spirited Path. As an interfaith minister, she has served her local community and an international client base since 2000 through Soul Intent Arts, and advocates embodied soul tending and sacred activism through Nature. #beyourcommunity

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We don't heal In isolation, but in community

The Weekly Rune – Wunjo

For the week of 13 October 2019Joy in the crosshairs

Wunjo is the half-month stave through 28 October. Othala reversed is the intuitive rune, and Nauthiz indicates Awareness’ message to us. Read right to left is Wunjo, Othala reversed, then Nauthiz.

I truly believe that #theweeklyrune includes the keys to making better choices based on keen insight into the present, to help each of us be more active in creating a better reality for us all. That realization process includes learning to tend what can’t just be fixed, and using every tool at our disposal to accomplish that. The runes are such a tool, and in the Old Norse tradition, this process is wyrdweaving at it deepest potential. The runes provide one way we can create ourselves as fit elders, so that we can become well Ancestors upon death.

This is the free version of The Weekly Rune.  Get the full benefit of the   ad-free, detailed version every Sunday, by joining my private runes community at Patreon.

The paid runecast includes:

more detail  ad-free the current runes’ impact on human life force insights on how to best manage the curves and twists thereinintrospective prompts to nuance and tend self-workgaldr of the runecast, with sound files and instruction on how to use each soundlive video sessionsrunic insights,  book excerpts, release news, free classesoptional services with mediscounts on soul tending services What’s a half-month rune?

“Half-month” is an astronomical concept in which each month is divided into two parts: days 1-15, then 16-month’s end. In terms of the runic calendar, each half-month rune is one of the 24 runes of the Elder Futhark, and governs for a tad over two weeks (14 and 1/4 days, or a fortnight).

Learn More

The Weekly Rune is a three-rune cast. Those runes are the half-month, the intuitive rune, and the overview. The half-month is a set rune, which for the most part follows the traditional ordering of the Elder Futhark. The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, to the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus. It suggests how we can best handle the half-month energies. The final rune (also drawn blind) provides a high overview of the current time, and speaks from different voices. These voices are usually Nature, Earth, Creation, though are sometimes others. I note who’s speaking each week, as it is revealed.

 

New to The Weekly Rune?Catch a couple of my IGTV videos, which explain the intention and process behind the runecast, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.Listen to my  What in the Wyrd  podcast, which is available across all popular podcast platforms, including Google Play and  iTunes.A few people have asked the reason that I switch between different rune sets for TWR. The short answer is: because. The more nuanced answer is, I ask which sets wants to speak each week. I don’t assume the same elements are in play according to the timing of the runes; I also don’t assume the same elements of my runes are appropriate to speak each week. I did a podcast on this subject, so there’s more info there. (See above)Also, for deep work on coming into relationship with the runes in season, check out my book, Runic Book of Days. The Runecast

 

As we experience the change of seasons more fully, we’re reminded of the fragility of cycles. Birth, growth, death–each stage with its own purpose, experience, and wisdom, and ideally, each in its own time. The runecast this week asks us to learn to cope with overlapping opposites. We no longer have the luxury of time. The trajectory of humanity at this point is one of acceleration of all stages of cycle, happening at once. We don’t have neat, tidy experiences of each stage, anymore. That convolution doesn’t feel natural, because it isn’t. Yet it’s what we’ve created.

Part of our management of the cycles that work against balanced life–which we’ve put into place–is to create ones outside that trajectory. We must outcreate our own systems while enduring the reality of the imbalanced ones. This paintball splatter of cycles is probably the most chaotic approach to peace we’ve ever experienced as a species.

Learn more about this seasonal progression, and how to draw its insights into the personal spiritual path in Runic Book of Days.

What does it mean?

Movement from Gebo to Wunjo is huge. It marks the end of the season of the first aett, which indicates personal accomplishment, rite of passage, and new challenges. What’s nice about the progression from Wunjo to What Comes Next is that it isn’t largely forward-focused. It’s very much intent on enjoying the here-and-now, which is the ideal way to spend this week.  Read more…

If you've benefited from my work and the free content on my site,please support it (me)

by buying my books, joining Patreon, or making a one-time donation. Thank you!

For suggestions on how to weather the season gracefully, subscribe to my private runes community on Patreon.

#beyourcommunity

Originally published on Soul Intent Arts. S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div.

 Kelley is an author, animist, and deathwalker in North Carolina. She teaches rune work, ancestral healing, and deathwalking, as well as mentors and leads the soul tending intensive training, The Spirited Path. As an interfaith minister, she has served her local community and an international client base since 2000 through Soul Intent Arts, and advocates embodied soul tending and sacred activism through Nature. #beyourcommunity

@kelleysoularts

The Weekly Rune – Gebo

For the week of 6 October 2019Company Within

Gebo is the half-month stave through 13 October. Ingwaz is the intuitive rune, and Sowilo indicates Physicality’s message to us. Read right to left is Gebo, Ingwaz, then Sowilo.

I truly believe that #theweeklyrune includes the keys to making better choices based on keen insight into the present, to help each of us be more active in creating a better reality for us all. That realization process includes learning to tend what can’t just be fixed, and using every tool at our disposal to accomplish that. The runes are such a tool, and in the Old Norse tradition, this process is wyrdweaving at it deepest potential. The runes provide one way we can create ourselves as fit elders, so that we can become well Ancestors upon death.

This is the free version of The Weekly Rune.  Get the full benefit of the   ad-free, detailed version every Sunday, by joining my private runes community at Patreon.

The paid runecast includes:

more detail  ad-free the current runes’ impact on human life force insights on how to best manage the curves and twists thereinintrospective prompts to nuance and tend self-workgaldr of the runecast, with sound files and instruction on how to use each soundlive video sessionsrunic insights,  book excerpts, release news, free classesoptional services with mediscounts on soul tending services What’s a half-month rune?

“Half-month” is an astronomical concept in which each month is divided into two parts: days 1-15, then 16-month’s end. In terms of the runic calendar, each half-month rune is one of the 24 runes of the Elder Futhark, and governs for a tad over two weeks (14 and 1/4 days, or a fortnight).

Learn More

The Weekly Rune is a three-rune cast. Those runes are the half-month, the intuitive rune, and the overview. The half-month is a set rune, which for the most part follows the traditional ordering of the Elder Futhark. The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, to the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus. It suggests how we can best handle the half-month energies. The final rune (also drawn blind) provides a high overview of the current time, and speaks from different voices. These voices are usually Nature, Earth, Creation, though are sometimes others. I note who’s speaking each week, as it is revealed.

 

New to The Weekly Rune?Catch a couple of my IGTV videos, which explain the intention and process behind the runecast, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.Listen to my  What in the Wyrd  podcast, which is available across all popular podcast platforms, including Google Play and  iTunes.A few people have asked the reason that I switch between different rune sets for TWR. The short answer is: because. The more nuanced answer is, I ask which sets wants to speak each week. I don’t assume the same elements are in play according to the timing of the runes; I also don’t assume the same elements of my runes are appropriate to speak each week. I did a podcast on this subject, so there’s more info there. (See above)Also, for deep work on coming into relationship with the runes in season, check out my book, Runic Book of Days. The Runecast

 

As we ease through the final harvest days in the north and the south steps into warmth, bold moves in the world aren’t the focus of this week’s cast. Rather, we’re encouraged to look inward to seasonal shifts, new consciousness, and the camaraderie that comes from such introspection. As Gebo brings the joining of things, so are we to be joined within, in a way that supports our external relationships for deeper connection.

Learn more about this seasonal progression, and how to draw its insights into the personal spiritual path in Runic Book of Days.

What does it mean?

Gebo is the joiner, the happy that’s so at ease it seems like we didn’t have to work for it. For many of us, thinking that we have to work for happiness chaps. We have just enough idealism and relic of a memory of a time in which things seemed to come more easily that there’s an expectation of happiness as the norm. For others of us, happiness was rare and the thought that we could create it is equally annoying (Because if we could create it, we would be all the time, right?). Either way, the concept of happiness generates irritation, which is the opposite of happiness.

This week’s cast explores why that is, and how we can work with Gebo to have a better relationship to happiness.  Read more…

If you've benefited from my work and the free content on my site,please support it (me)

by buying my books, joining Patreon, or making a one-time donation. Thank you!

For suggestions on how to weather the season gracefully, subscribe to my private runes community on Patreon.

#beyourcommunity

Originally published on Soul Intent Arts. S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div.

 Kelley is an author, animist, and deathwalker in North Carolina. She teaches rune work, ancestral healing, and deathwalking, as well as mentors and leads the soul tending intensive training, The Spirited Path. As an interfaith minister, she has served her local community and an international client base since 2000 through Soul Intent Arts, and advocates embodied wellbeing and sacred activism through Nature. #beyourcommunity

@kelleysoularts

The Weekly Rune – Gebo

For the week of 29 September 2019Company in the Weeds

Gebo is the half-month stave through 13 October. Thurisaz reversed is the intuitive rune, and Wunjo indicates Rising’s message to us. Read right to left is Gebo, Thurisaz reversed, then Wunjo.

I truly believe that #theweeklyrune includes the keys to making better choices based on keen insight into the present, to help each of us be more active in creating a better reality for us all. That realization process includes learning to tend what can’t just be fixed, and using every tool at our disposal to accomplish that. The runes are such a tool, and in the Old Norse tradition, this process is wyrdweaving at it deepest potential. The runes provide one way we can create ourselves as fit elders, so that we can become well Ancestors upon death.

This is the free version of The Weekly Rune.  Get the full benefit of the   ad-free, detailed version every Sunday, by joining my private runes community at Patreon.

The paid runecast includes:

more detail  ad-free the current runes’ impact on human life force insights on how to best manage the curves and twists thereinintrospective prompts to nuance and tend self-workgaldr of the runecast, with sound files and instruction on how to use each soundlive video sessionsrunic insights,  book excerpts, release news, free classesoptional services with mediscounts on soul tending services What’s a half-month rune?

“Half-month” is an astronomical concept in which each month is divided into two parts: days 1-15, then 16-month’s end. In terms of the runic calendar, each half-month rune is one of the 24 runes of the Elder Futhark, and governs for a tad over two weeks (14 and 1/4 days, or a fortnight).

Learn More

The Weekly Rune is a three-rune cast. Those runes are the half-month, the intuitive rune, and the overview. The half-month is a set rune, which for the most part follows the traditional ordering of the Elder Futhark. The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, to the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus. It suggests how we can best handle the half-month energies. The final rune (also drawn blind) provides a high overview of the current time, and speaks from different voices. These voices are usually Nature, Earth, Creation, though are sometimes others. I note who’s speaking each week, as it is revealed.

 

New to The Weekly Rune?Catch a couple of my IGTV videos, which explain the intention and process behind the runecast, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.Listen to my  What in the Wyrd  podcast, which is available across all popular podcast platforms, including Google Play and  iTunes.A few people have asked the reason that I switch between different rune sets for TWR. The short answer is: because. The more nuanced answer is, I ask which sets wants to speak each week. I don’t assume the same elements are in play according to the timing of the runes; I also don’t assume the same elements of my runes are appropriate to speak each week. I did a podcast on this subject, so there’s more info there. (See above)Also, for deep work on coming into relationship with the runes in season, check out my book, Runic Book of Days. The Runecast

We’re officially in fall in the north, while the south has warmed into spring. It’s worth mentioning that where I live Nature’s procession doesn’t match up with the seasonal progression as it once did, and so many people note this in regions around the world. Perhaps addressing the stellar alignments as they are, and how our location experiences season are two different acknowledgements, now? Either way, we’re required to make room in our psyches for when patterns break and we’re forced to go with what is, possibly without promise of a new pattern, possibly without promise of anything but movement.

And that’s what the cast is telling us this week.

Learn more about this seasonal progression, and how to draw its insights into the personal spiritual path in Runic Book of Days.

What does it mean?

Movement into Gebo is big for most people, partly due to the seasonal change, but also because we love Gebo. It’s one of the few runes that’s just a straight-up blessing, it has no rough edges, and it indicates beneficial things for the receiver and everyone else around them. The stance with Gebo is gratitude, giving, receiving, and the bonds and states of being created and affected through all of that.  This week’s cast comes with all the good feelings that come with such gifts, as well as insights into how to hold onto them when the blessings aren’t as clear. Read more…

If you've benefited from my work and the free content on my site,please support it (me)

by buying my books, joining Patreon, or making a one-time donation. Thank you!

For suggestions on how to weather the season gracefully, subscribe to my private runes community on Patreon.

#beyourcommunity

Originally published on Soul Intent Arts. S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div.

 Kelley is an author, animist, and deathwalker in North Carolina. She teaches rune work, ancestral healing, and deathwalking, as well as mentors and leads the soul tending intensive training, The Spirited Path. As an interfaith minister, she has served her local community and an international client base since 2000 through Soul Intent Arts, and advocates embodied wellbeing and sacred activism through Nature. #beyourcommunity

@kelleysoularts

Healing with Your Well and Unwell Ancestors – An Opportunity

As a followup to Christina’s free course with The Shift Network last week,  I wanted to be sure you’re aware of her upcoming intensive study of working with and healing Ancestors – Healing With Your Well & Unwell Ancestors: Transform Unresolved Patterns Into Blessings, Hope & Sacred Medicine.  This is a 7-week live video course, that promises to be transformational not just for those who take the course, but for their lines, past and future. Among the topics covered are:

Heal ancestral wounds and narratives which may be playing out in your life and your health.Clear stagnant, unresolved energies from your lineage  … and open the door to a more passionate and purposeful life.Discover how to draw on your ancestors’ gifts, skills, and courage to express your soul’s purpose.

I was also very happy to contribute a bonus segment to this course called Deathwalking as Spiritual Hospice. We take for granted that in eldering well and tending our Ancestors that we are also meeting the needs of our dead. This discussion with Christina allowed me to talk more about how we as a culture aren’t meeting that obligation, why we aren’t, and how we can make small adjustments in how we engage our immediate animistic communities to tend our unquiet dead. This dialogue is but one component of a needed and powerful course.

Deathwalking has long been a core focus of my work and teaching. If you want to know more about it, read more, and you’re welcome to contact me with questions.

As ever, thanks for all you do, everyday.

#beyourcommunity

 

The Weekly Rune – Kenaz

For the week of 22 September 2019Stillness for instilling

Kenaz is the half-month stave through 28 September. Raidho reversed is the intuitive rune, and Ingwaz indicates Creation’s message to us. Read right to left is Kenaz, Raidho reversed, then Ingwaz.

I truly believe that #theweeklyrune includes the keys to making better choices based on keen insight into the present, to help each of us be more active in creating a better reality for us all. That realization process includes learning to tend what can’t just be fixed, and using every tool at our disposal to accomplish that. The runes are such a tool, and in the Old Norse tradition, this process is wyrdweaving at it deepest potential. The runes provide one way we can create ourselves as fit elders, so that we can become well Ancestors upon death.

This is the free version of The Weekly Rune.  Get the full benefit of the   ad-free, detailed version every Sunday, by joining my private runes community at Patreon.

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more detail  ad-free the current runes’ impact on human life force insights on how to best manage the curves and twists thereinintrospective prompts to nuance and tend self-workgaldr of the runecast, with sound files and instruction on how to use each soundlive video sessionsrunic insights,  book excerpts, release news, free classesoptional services with mediscounts on soul tending services What’s a half-month rune?

“Half-month” is an astronomical concept in which each month is divided into two parts: days 1-15, then 16-month’s end. In terms of the runic calendar, each half-month rune is one of the 24 runes of the Elder Futhark, and governs for a tad over two weeks (14 and 1/4 days, or a fortnight).

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The Weekly Rune is a three-rune cast. Those runes are the half-month, the intuitive rune, and the overview. The half-month is a set rune, which for the most part follows the traditional ordering of the Elder Futhark. The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, to the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus. It suggests how we can best handle the half-month energies. The final rune (also drawn blind) provides a high overview of the current time, and speaks from different voices. These voices are usually Nature, Earth, Creation, though are sometimes others. I note who’s speaking each week, as it is revealed.

 

New to The Weekly Rune?Catch a couple of my IGTV videos, which explain the intention and process behind the runecast, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.Listen to my  What in the Wyrd  podcast, which is available across all popular podcast platforms, including Google Play and  iTunes.A few people have asked the reason that I switch between different rune sets for TWR. The short answer is: because. The more nuanced answer is, I ask which sets wants to speak each week. I don’t assume the same elements are in play according to the timing of the runes; I also don’t assume the same elements of my runes are appropriate to speak each week. I did a podcast on this subject, so there’s more info there. (See above)Also, for deep work on coming into relationship with the runes in season, check out my book, Runic Book of Days. The Runecast

In the north, we approach the fall equinox, while the south nears the spring equinox. Both are harbingers of deep change, which require that we order our lives accordingly. With Kenaz we are asked to allow the revleation of some needed insight, and to allow that spark to light our lives.

Learn more about this seasonal progression, and how to draw its insights into the personal spiritual path in Runic Book of Days.

What does it mean?

Kenaz holds space for duality, as I talked about in Episode 74 of What in the Wyrd. It requires that we sit well with the innate connection between our shadows and most sacred of selves, and that we be willing to act for the betterment of both.  The challenge of Kenaz often is realizing that these two aspects of self aren’t separate, and that what one requires… is also what the other requires.  The nuance of that wisdom is that their needs aren’t necessarily met in the same manner. What’s required is the ability to hold different space for different aspects of self and to know that they have different needs (different x3). Read more…

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Originally published on Soul Intent Arts. S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div.

 Kelley is an author, animist, and deathwalker in North Carolina. She teaches rune work, ancestral healing, and deathwalking, as well as mentors and leads the soul tending intensive training, The Spirited Path. As an interfaith minister, she has served her local community and an international client base since 2000 through Soul Intent Arts, and advocates embodied wellbeing and sacred activism through Nature. #beyourcommunity

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The Weekly Rune – Kenaz

For the week of 16 September 2019Wisdom protects descendants

Kenaz is the half-month stave through 28 September. Algiz is the intuitive rune, and Othala indicates Consistency’s message to us. Read right to left is Kenaz, Algiz, then Othala.

I truly believe that #theweeklyrune includes the keys to making better choices based on keen insight into the present, to help each of us be more active in creating a better reality for us all. That realization process includes learning to tend what can’t just be fixed, and using every tool at our disposal to accomplish that. The runes are such a tool, and in the Old Norse tradition, this process is wyrdweaving at it deepest potential. The runes provide one way we can create ourselves as fit elders, so that we can become well Ancestors upon death.

This is the free version of The Weekly Rune.  Get the full benefit of the   ad-free, detailed version every Sunday, by joining my private runes community at Patreon.

The paid runecast includes:

more detail  ad-free the current runes’ impact on human life force insights on how to best manage the curves and twists thereinintrospective prompts to nuance and tend self-workgaldr of the runecast, with sound files and instruction on how to use each soundlive video sessionsrunic insights,  book excerpts, release news, free classesoptional services with mediscounts on soul tending services What’s a half-month rune?

“Half-month” is an astronomical concept in which each month is divided into two parts: days 1-15, then 16-month’s end. In terms of the runic calendar, each half-month rune is one of the 24 runes of the Elder Futhark, and governs for a tad over two weeks (14 and 1/4 days, or a fortnight).

Learn More

The Weekly Rune is a three-rune cast. Those runes are the half-month, the intuitive rune, and the overview. The half-month is a set rune, which for the most part follows the traditional ordering of the Elder Futhark. The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, to the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus. It suggests how we can best handle the half-month energies. The final rune (also drawn blind) provides a high overview of the current time, and speaks from different voices. These voices are usually Nature, Earth, Creation, though are sometimes others. I note who’s speaking each week, as it is revealed.

 

New to The Weekly Rune?Catch a couple of my IGTV videos, which explain the intention and process behind the runecast, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.Listen to my  What in the Wyrd  podcast, which is available across all popular podcast platforms, including Google Play and  iTunes.A few people have asked the reason that I switch between different rune sets for TWR. The short answer is: because. The more nuanced answer is, I ask which sets wants to speak each week. I don’t assume the same elements are in play according to the timing of the runes; I also don’t assume the same elements of my runes are appropriate to speak each week. I did a podcast on this subject, so there’s more info there. (See above)Also, for deep work on coming into relationship with the runes in season, check out my book, Runic Book of Days. The Runecast

As the north progresses to the second harvest sabbat and the south verges into the spring equinox. Both are potent times of change–one conserving efforts, while the other makes plans.  This week we have a very clear message in Kenaz that we are to find our way through the darkness. That challenge portends that  we are very clear about our truth, understand how we’re to carry it forward, and are charged with making this a life pursuit. That formula falls into a micro process within the runes, along the lines of:

Soothsaying + Storytelling = Meaning
Ansuz + Raidho = Kenaz

Learn more about this seasonal progression, and how to draw its insights into the personal spiritual path in Runic Book of Days.

What does it mean?

The meaning of Kenaz has shifted over time and culture, blending an understanding of both a speck of light in darkness, and a small but searing tension. Both elementally point to fire in their own way, which can’t be ignored. Examining this irritation metaphorically, Kenaz represents insight that we’ve earned and are burning to share or in some way pass on. It doesn’t necessarily have to be to others, but into other projects, inspirations, creations. Most evident in Kenaz is that we’ve come into profound new awareness, and have been changed by that insight and the process that led to it. Read more…

If you've benefited from my work and the free content on my site,please support it (me)

by buying my books, joining Patreon, or making a one-time donation. Thank you!

For suggestions on how to weather the season gracefully, subscribe to my private runes community on Patreon.

#beyourcommunity

Originally published on Soul Intent Arts. S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div.

 Kelley is an author, animist, and deathwalker in North Carolina. She teaches rune work, ancestral healing, and deathwalking, as well as mentors and leads the soul tending intensive training, The Spirited Path. As an interfaith minister, she has served her local community and an international client base since 2000 through Soul Intent Arts, and advocates embodied wellbeing and sacred activism through Nature. #beyourcommunity

@kelleysoularts