Tag: rewilding

casting runes — 26may26
eihwaz
```
this mortal coil
slipped between mists
we will meet again
within the otherside
this knot lingers still
```
A rune poem, based on an Elder Futhark rune selected at random.
Today’s rune is eihwaz, it’s name meaning “yew”, is a rune of change and transformation. It represents the cycle of life/death/rebirth and is symbolic of the axis mundi (the world tree). The yew is envisioned as a path towards both the underworld and the heavenly realms. Eihwaz is frequently associated both with poison and protection as part of its perceived dual nature.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
26 May 26

white noise

the words turn to blur
every voice fades
to white noise
dew wet trousers on
an early kneeling morn

chapped lips imagine
kisses in chill mists
dreams are made of
morns made like these—
the smell of apples
drifting in

23 May 26

Receptions
From deep within the weald, there is a longing to sit with, to learn from.
Go fly to the mountain, raven, sit on the stone-filled heath. Become the fells, be come the high places. Better yet: sink down into the underwood deadfall and loam, wrap roots around and tangle hair with moss, lichen the bone. Grow antlers. Become the stone. Who needs these wings?
They come. They receive. They go.
Grow to flint, knapped and worn. Become the old trunk they come sit with and exchange, clear off scalloped white fungus as they while away until there is nothing more. They take that away too, and cast away when bored. But that is the way.
When you are not looking, comes the wolf. Not just a wolf. The winter wolf.
And being stone will then be the whiling away while the longing melts of winter.
21 May 26
casting runes — 21may25
dagaz
```
we are twist
until we are break

this cats cradle
all at tangle
we are caught
between
day & night
```
A rune poem, based on an Elder Futhark rune selected at random.
Today’s rune is dagaz, which has been translated as “daybreak”, that transitional moment between night and day. By extension, it might also be interpreted as “twilight” and is representative of liminality, transformation, the space between worlds, and suggests walking in both the material world and otherworld.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
21 May 26
casting runes — 15may26
hagalaz
```
hail seeks no permissions—
it arrives as revelation
small & indifferent

the field it falls on is i—
the silence after, too 

roots that never
believed in a summer
grieve not when
one draws to an end
```
A rune poem, based on an Elder Futhark rune selected at random.
Today’s rune is hagalaz, which has a core meaning of “hail”, which was associated with potential, transformation, renewal and change; hail is imagined a seed from which change will arise. Hagalaz is also seen as representative of things beyond our control: a clash between fire and ice.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
15 May 26

slipping snares

slipping those witchy snares
letting hedges fall away—
i am not here to cosplay

i sky scree lake water blue
i dark root mycelium bound
i æsclāst, that wending path

fever, dreams draw heat
forest and wode, grown old
crows rise calling—

blood on virgin snow

13 May 26

casting runes — 12may26
othala
```
ancient this wood
sheltering spirit
a compact made
in the ever ago

moss at north
& lichen scalloped
at deadfall we hoard

fox bark, underdark
a crow calls, naming
from branch & from floor
```
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.
12 May 26

oculus obscura

i am not of dreaming
her eyes mind not me
laugh crow at skies 
laugh stone at feet

i am hoar of unnight
shattered & unseen
laugh flint scrape skin
laugh bone under me

11 May 26

atelier
We held feather to flame and come out charred, there, in the underwood, the oaks rising sentinel high. The many mutter and shuffle, not wanting to be left behind. But the barrier is the bending of knee supplication, to both the underwood and also the trees.
And stiff knees bend not.
Though fevered and enflamed, I wish I could remain here kissing, improbable memories, unlikely times. We might talk to the old skull stone and antler, carving names with flint beyond the skin’s deep. We might slumber afterglow warm, sweat dripping chill on your side.
This bone atelier, sanctuary and rain. Inkstained. I close blind eyes tight to stay.
10 May 26
casting runes — 10may26
uruz
```
a discarded broken thing
you wouldn't look twice
at what can be seen—
an old thing overlooked

raindrops splinter
on corrugated steel
```
A rune poem, based on an Elder Futhark rune selected at random.
Today’s rune is uruz. The rune is named after the now-extinct aurochs, a wild ox and has become associated with standing up to challenges, having both confidence and courage, stubborn tenacity, and boundless strength and health. Uruz is alternately associated with the more raw elements which include rain, primordial potential, and the slag/dross cast away during the making of iron.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
10 May 26