Episode 106 - Introducing the Runes as Verbs

Whole new season. Whole new series.

Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, introduces working with the runes in season... as verbs. As animists, it’s not all about the nouns, but also the relationship between them. How we engage nouns, how we continue to find relationship with them and see where we’re personally connected to them--all of which really means, it’s about the verbs.

As we work through The Weekly Rune for this seasonal exploration of Nigel Pennick’s runic calendar, join me on What in the Wyrd to explore the half-month runes as verbs. In each episode, we’ll talk about how I arrive at the verb or verbs that I do for the half-month, and how we can find relationship with the rune to take action with it in our lives.

Learn more in her book, Runic Book of Days, study the runes, animism, and soul tending with Kelley, and get info about longterm mentoring and training at Soul Intent Arts. Support the podcast by joining her community on Patreon.

Episode Transcript

Episode 106 - Intro to the Runes as Verbs

I’m Kelley Harrell, and For almost five years on What in the Wyrd we’ve found ways to make the elder futhark accessible in our daily lives, right? That's kind of my whole take on working with the runes. This season I’m shaking it up a little and talking about the runes as verbs.

I’m also changing podcast hosts, so there’s that.

So, yes the runes as an alphabet tell us much about a culture and period of history that was undergoing radical change on pretty much every level. And If you work with runes in divination, they give wonderful insight as an oracle. But y'all know for me it's working with them in season and exploring runic calendars, so when I sit with what really speaks to me about the runes, It's not the nouns that we’ve so often associated with them, you know, those tidy keywords that they were distilled down to, in the 80s. The runes represent concepts in context, not keywords.

And as an animist, it’s not all about the nouns, but also the relationship between them, how we engage those nouns, how we continue to find relationship with them and see where we’re personally connected to them--all of which really means, it’s about the verbs.

As we work through The Weekly Rune for this seasonal exploration of Nigel Pennick’s runic calendar, join me on What in the Wyrd to explore the half-month runes as verbs. In each episode, we’ll talk about how I arrive at the verb or verbs that I use for the half-month, and how we can find relationship with the rune to take action with it in our lives.

Learn more about me and my work, the weekly runecast, and past episodes of what in the wyrd
at my website soul intent arts dot com

I’m looking forward to this new chapter of the podcast, starting this month, and thank you for all that you do.

Episode 106 - Introducing the Runes as Verbs

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