![]() 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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