![]() ![]() You can also do a spread like tarot cards, with runes for past, present, and future. ![]() Sometimes I ask one or five more questions, and draw runes for each one. Whatever you believe about trees or energy, try to connect the living tree with the slices of wood in your hands.Īnd then ask the runes questions – anything you are wondering – and draw a rune from the bag or from a pile on the ground – think about its meaning as your answer. Is it clear to you? Sometimes I draw a second rune if I am uncertain. With each rune set, I include a small 3.5″x5″ Field Notes notebook with a sticker that describes each rune in a few words. I’m making these runes as a way to help you speak to yourself in a different way, for you to use them for advice and guidance in helping you to work through trauma and whatever is is plaguing you.Īs an artist, everything I paint or create, every story I write, is a way I am processing life and every beautiful and horrible thing that has happened to me. This energy work combined with the ways that the runes themselves help to give people advice about their lives is finally a way that I can use my desire to help people without anything getting in the way. I give all of my rune sets reiki as a way of energizing them before they reach their destination with another human. I haven’t found a true way to give my desire to help people a stronger place in my life until now. I also love to help people figure out their problems, but that’s another thing my deafness gets in the way of in general. I’ve often done this for friends and family members, but my deafness makes it hard for me to do this on strangers. Something else I’ve managed to blend into this practice of rune making is reiki-which is a Japanese method of healing through laying my hands on someone and acting as a funnel for life energy, which causes my hands to heat up and promotes relaxation that encourages people’s bodies to heal themselves. I realized I needed a physical practice like this to make me feel closer to my ancestors, closer to my writing, as well as complete me as a multidisciplinary artist. I made one rune set after another, each time I sliced a branch, I imagined I was looking inside the hearts of these trees I pass daily, the trees I whisper my deepest thoughts to, the trees that I feel speaking back. But then the making of the runes-going out into the woods behind my home and finding branches across my path, carrying them home, cutting them into slices, sanding them down, burning the runes onto them, and then layering them with resin, oil, and wax-became a spiritual practice for me. I didn’t set out to sell the runes at all. I am digging for the wisdom in my cells, the DNA linking me back to the seers, the völvas, the witches that practiced what we now call Norse magic. But digging up the bones of my ancestors is a newer experience for me and it all seems to connect to the language my ancestors used on stones and pieces of wood. I’ve heard spirits in the forest, even if they are only in my head. I’ve written down stories and poems since I was a child. My journey with runes did not begin until the summer of 2019. Her name is Runa, which means “secret lore” or “that which is hidden” or “mighty strength.” Unsurprisingly for me, my fictional character began to feel closer and closer to an actual ancestor of mine-or perhaps-the kind of person I would have been had I lived in the Viking Age. ![]() Since December of 2018, I’ve done a deep dive into my Viking ancestry through studying Norse magic and writing a novel series about a deaf seer during the late 800’s.
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