Winding down....and gearing up!

I want to thank the people who came out to my Anglo-Saxon Rune Class at Michigan Pagan Fest last weekend--and the wonderful people who put on the event!  I was so sorry I couldn't make it back up on Saturday. I-94, as I'm sure many others noticed, was a *mess*. When the GPS told me it would take me another 2.5 hours to get there (I live 40 minutes away and had already made it *past* the half-way point!) it was time to go home. Besides MPF this month, my husband and I also travelled East to Maryland for the Free Spirit Gather and had *so* much fun! We are looking forward to going back next years. I met some truly awesome people, took a few great classes, and managed *not* to come home looking like a lobster, despite it being a clothing-option event (and me being the type to shed my clothing whenever possible!)

I have one more event this weekend and then it's time to kick into high gear, creatively! The rune book is finished and in the hands of a number of awesome beta-readers; I have plans to make it available on its own as well as the companion book to my rune sets. (The current version of the book actually contains about 10K more words than the 50K word book my beta readers saw because I'm really terrible at leaving things alone). Now, I just have to make some rune sets...and other fun stuff. I have 200 lbs of clay sitting in my studio.

I'll be submitting the same class I taught for MPF for ConVocation 2017 and Free Spirit 2017--and will probably add a few other festivals to my calendar for 2017 as well.

Although I won't be in the ConVocation merchant room, I will have art in the Art Show and am  planning on merchanting at Free Spirit (where I will definitely have my *other* books for sale, too!) and most likely MPF and a couple of Pagan Pride events (locally).

Last but not least on today's announcements.... I got a lot of really awesome feedback from attendees of this year's ConVocation. For everyone who said the rune class should have been longer, I agree! I'm going to be proposing a 6 segment class at Pagan Pathways Temple in Madison Heights.

As for the comments about the Invo being "too long", I don't disagree that it was long (and apparently the room was hot), but the thing is, invocatory rituals go as long as they go. Everyone who wants to go up and talk to Deity deserves the chance to do so. Cutting the ritual short short would mean some people don't get to talk to their God/ess. And I would never be one to set a time-limit on how long a person could spend with the God/ess, either  (not that I suspect They would stand for that anyway!)  So the honest answer is that I don't think it's possible to make an invo any shorter than it ends up running. That said, I know we make it clear that folks are welcome to leave after their time with Deity, precisely because these things *can* run long and there's usually other things going on that someone may want to get to.

I appreciate the feedback and when I can, I make changes based on participants' suggestions--unfortunately, some things are out of my hands.

See everyone at Metro-Detroit Pagan Pride! (Don't be shy, come up and say "hi!")

Coming Soon -- Rune Sets!

 

The guide book is almost finished. This pocket-sized guide is nearly three hundred pages long--definitely more informative than your standard "little white book"!

 

In the guide-book, I talk a little bit about the history of the Anglo-Saxon Runes and their corresponding rune poem, then go into each of the runes in depth. I offer several ideas for how to cast your runes and ways to use some of them in galdr (magic).

 

Each rune set will come with not only this helpful guide-book, but a cloth pouch and traditional white cotton "casting cloth".  (Each pouch is large enough to carry your runes, the cloth, and the pocket-sized guide-book).