

Understanding Runes: The Journey to Authentic Knowledge
Looking Beyond the Gurus Let's be really honest. It's time to step away from the so-called gurus and prominent authors who claim to know...


Sitting with Heimdall
A couple of years ago I explored which of the deities I had led my students to work with. There was one serious (and total) blackout....


Balancing wisdom and experience with runes
Usually in my rune teaching I focus on one rune, and its associated deity, a month. But I leave a few months free for whatever needs to...


Elder Futhark or Younger Futhark?
I started learning the runes before mobile phones or the internet was really a thing- way back around 1998, seriously committing in 1999....


Exploring numerology, life, and Tarot
Working with Tarot I learn so much about life’s lessons. This blog is my take on what I have learnt about numerology from the...


Experiencing the landscape of the runes in Bodo
After basing my life on the Younger Futhark runes, and the Norse pantheon I have finally managed a trip to Norway. We arrived (I...


Why I work with the Younger Futhark
The simplest answer is because it was how I was taught. I was never that interested in the runes- but I did want to find a...


My journey to expereince Jord
In my mind I’d always made a lazy connection between Jord- Earth and “Mother Earth”. Modern life means when I think of the word “Earth” I...


Working with Thor
I wasn’t overly excited to work with Thor. I rather like Hel, and Loki and Frey. To a large degree I was working with Thor to give me a...


A rune a month… (or how I found myself again)
I’ve been holding a lokk-seidr circle for about nine years now. We gather- usually twice a month- to chant (the lokk), and enter an...


Learning with Skadi
I work with, and teach a different rune each month. Deeply connecting with the rune and associated deity. When the month rolled around to...


Shamanic journeying in Denmark...
It’s three years since I’ve been able to visit Denmark, and the last time was at a very traumatic point in my life. I seem to find the...


Chanting the elements for healing
I don’t connect the elements to the four quarters as some do, and as yet I haven’t found a personal connection to the element of ice- so...


Which is the most powerful rune?
I had a shaman client today and the session really left me considering how I used the rune sounds to hold the healing... I should point...


Re-claiming Hel, the All Mother.
I’m part way through a month of deep diving into the rune (younger futhark) “rei” and the Goddess Hel. I sat down to explore my...