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The Runes: A Pandemic Journey (2024)
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Kari Tauring took a deep dive into the 16 Runes of the Younger Futhark during the Global Pandemic and uprisings for justice in Minneapolis. In 2020, she taught an online course exploring her discoveries. This is the “manual” her students have been asking for!
It is a complete guide to Moving Into the Younger Futhark solo or with others. It is a self-study manual in the same vein as Völva Stav. Each chapter begins with embodiment exercises based on the rune shape and the animal associations suggested by Graham Butcher of Ice and Fire Stav. Pertinent verses from the Icelandic and Norwegian rune poems anchor the exploration of the mythos that helped sustain her ancient forebears who had experienced “times like these.”
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The rune shapes started changing around 700 CE. There was famine and disease caused by climate change. A constant cold, wet wind came from the north, ruining crops. Our warming planet is shrinking the very ice that was forming then. Viking excursions began to “shrink the world” through the import of new ideas, products, …and people. Tauring links the political upheaval in Minneapolis directly to this öorlog, providing resources to talk about it in a healing way. In 800, the Holy Roman Empire began to control Europe’s trade routes and converting the citizenry for political and financial gain. Here, Tauring sees the parallel to the burgeoning theocracy of a country designed by cult leaders. Tauring finds hope and healing in the runes and poetry they left.
“In his collection of poetry that spans over three decades, de Young deftly reconstructs a captivating and familiar universe populated with keen — at times, whimsical — insights on love, loss, pain, delight, and personal growth.”—Michael Leggs, author of Advance the Engine Summer
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