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casting runes — 22dec25
22Dec25 | 07.56 CST
© 2025
michael raven
c: 251222.0756
wunjo
```
waxing sun, waxing moon
with a world full widdershins
we walk in beauty with both
to set our world's spin to right
```
A rune poem, based on an Elder Futhark rune selected at random.
Today’s rune is wunjo, which is translated as “joy” and has been interpreted in both the earthly sense as well as in spiritual ecstasy. It has been associated with healing (emotional, mental and interpersonal) and some sources connect the rune to luck, the act of making a wish, or applied will. Wunjo can also be the inspiration for creativity.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
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poetry, rewilding, rune, wunjo
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poetry
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Solstice
21Dec25 | 10.04 CST
© 2025
michael raven
c: 251221.1004
Blessed Solstice everyone.
May the next turn of the wheel bring you joy, prosperity and abundance.
Photo by Miikka Luotio on Unsplash
tagged:
blessings, winter solstice, wishes
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thinking
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casting runes — 20dec25
20Dec25 | 18.05 CST
© 2025
michael raven
c: 251220.1805
thurisaz
```
all thumbs & blackthorn
to mark my face at blood

this goes beyond fey,
driving cold iron to heartwood
a give to ash & alder...

you would not understand
in either way
```
A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.
Today’s rune is thurisaz, which has several core translations: “thorn” or “giant”. The rune is often associated with pain or discomfort (often for an important transitional or transformative reason) or raw power that may be destructive. It is also considered protective, regenerative, and is frequently associated with women’s menstrual health.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
tagged:
poetry, rewilding, rune, thurisaz
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poetry
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casting runes — 19dec25
19Dec25 | 11.12 CST
© 2025
michael raven
c: 251219.1112
laguz
```
skiff & solemn sliding
through mist & mere
to lay down these arms
& surrender
to her petals fell
```
A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.
Today’s rune is laguz, which has a core meaning of “lake” and, by extension, may be interpreted as “river”, “ocean”, “sea”, “waterfall” or a general body of water. Some alternative interpretations define as “leek”. Following the more commonly accepted meaning, bodies of water were considered liminal spaces, a place between life and death or the threshold space between which spirit and substance resides. Laguz is often associated with feminine energies and journeys via water.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
tagged:
laguz, poetry, rewilding, rune
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poetry
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c: 251219.0910

we wander broken edge
only she knows full this waterdown
and i am always guessing

facewashing frenzy, poison years
and to quench the fevers raging
a mountain in skywater chill

she sings the dusk at waterdown
stepping past all edges
and i am left again guessing

tagged:

betwixt and between, paths, poetry, rewilding

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poetry

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casting runes — 18dec25
18Dec25 | 13.05 CST
© 2025
michael raven
c: 251218.1305
raido
```
his backstep to gloaming
cloakworn & graveled
as bonesky carries her down
all at the edge before dreaming
with raven feathers in their hair

to awake?
when cries burn obsidian
```
A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.
Today’s rune is raido, which has been translated as “ride” and the implied “journey”. This may be spatial and literal in practice (a physical journey), or it may be more figurative (an inner/shamanic journey, i.e., útiseta). The rune is associated with cyclic motion and the movement of the sun. Some consider the journey represented by raido to be that of returning.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
tagged:
poetry, raido, rewilding, rune
filed under:
poetry
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night, embers

18Dec25 | 10.09 CST

michael raven

c: 251218.1009

given of shadows
painted sliver moon
a fingernail pressed to
flesh renders cinnabar

chipped-tooth, still
i skate thin the edge
pricked pine at all bends
singing pain to wash pain
— here we go again

night, i slip to her embrace
rooted inside
a heart cries embers

tagged:

betwixt and between, poetry, rewilding

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poetry

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casting runes — 17dec25
17Dec25 | 10.41 CST
© 2025
michael raven
c: 251217.1041
othala
```
i fell chasms
i drowned lake bottoms
to reclaim my ancient teeth

old man crag
accepted my pointed bone
before he swept me home
a-chatter on north winds
```
A poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.
Today’s rune is othala, which has a core meaning of “heritage”, “inheritance” and “legacy”. These are all associated with home, kin, ancestors, stability and (in some interpretations) past lives or spiritual legacy.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
tagged:
othala, poetry, rewilding, rune
filed under:
poetry
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Solstice — an explanation of sorts
16Dec25 | 20.43 CST
© 2025
michael raven
c: 251216.2043
The season of withdrawing is upon us.
The sun slips lower with each passing cycle and we will soon have the longest night upon us — here, in Minneapolis we will see more than fifteen hours of darkness overnight at solstice, while places like Fairbanks, AK will see closer to eighteen hours of night.
I’ve decided this year to honor this cycle of nature and reduce my online presence over the days leading up to Winter Solstice, which takes place on December 21 — in accordance with the daylight hours and as my professional career allows (I still need to make money to pay bills, after all).
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tagged:
animism, old ways, solo path, solstice
filed under:
thinking
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beaivi
16Dec25 | 19.26 CST
© 2025
michael raven
c: 251216.1926
```
kissing the horizon
she slipsbone pale
fingers slick of hope
at return on the
other side of night
we wave and
give to grave our
many pasts on
black wings
of the crow
```
tagged:
betwixt and between, poetry, rewilding
filed under:
poetry
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