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Stav- finding the wisdom in the Younger Futhark runes. As a woman practising Stav for over twenty years, the balance of Seidr and Galdr is something that is really important to me. The standard “Stav” conversation goes something like this: Galdr is masculine, logical and structured.Seidr is feminine, intuitive and unquantifiable. Therefore, because the core of Stav, the stances, is taught in a structured way, Stav is galdr. As a very “seidr” female in a predominantly masculin

Stav is based on the 16 runes of the Younger Futhark The healing arts within Stav: A Personal Perspective I work within the Stav lineage, and my teacher is Shaun. I was fascinated, yet slightly unnerved, to read the chapter on the healing bind rune in the recently published book, “Stav” by Roland Zerpe. I am grateful to have so much of the tradition collated into one book. However, I feel unsettled by the lack of distinction between the tradition and the author's personal exp

A Unique Experience with a Shaman Student I'm still reflecting on the fun I had today with a shaman student. She has a background in...

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...

I have been teaching shamanism for about 12 years now, and I have explored various ways. I don't think shamanism can be easily...

Honestly there is not that much information left to us. We have descriptions of clothing, ritual items, and the use of a song. It seems...

It was a weird one in the barns- my seidr circle- on Sunday. Initially there was interest in the full day session, then for a variety of...

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....

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...