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What in the Wyrd

by Kelley Harrell

Kelley Harrell explores animism and soul tending seasonally through the Elder Futhark runes.Join the Runes for Change community at https://www.soulintentarts.com/join/For more information, visit soulintentarts.comFind her book, ”Runic Book of Days,” online and in book stores.

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Episodes

  1. Rooting with Algiz

    In this episode, animist and author, Kelley Harrell, explores the Season 6 focus of runes as verbs, featuring Elder Futhark rune, Algiz. Kelley discusses Algiz as the call to explore our relationality to ecosystem and how we experience community through it. Refer to Liveable Runelore for full...

  2. Risking with Perthro

    In this episode, animist and author, Kelley Harrell, explores the Season 6 focus of runes as verbs, featuring Elder Futhark rune, Perthro. Kelley discuss perthro as the invitation to explore relationality to risk and how it informs what we do here.Throughout Season 6, refer to...

  3. Enduring with Eihwaz

    In this episode, animist and author, Kelley Harrell, explores the Season 6 focus of runes as verbs, featuring Elder Futhark rune, Eihwaz. Meaning 'yew,' Kelley discuss Eihwaz as the invitation to defy death by leading with our sacredness. Throughout Season 6, refer to...

  4. Cycling with Jera

    In this episode, animist and author, Kelley Harrell, explores the Season 6 focus of runes as verbs, featuring Jera. Meaning 'year,' Kelley describes Jera as the antithesis of grind culture, heralding a seasonal time to pause, take stock, and choose how we invest our harvest rewards. Throughout...

  5. Transforming with Isa

    In this episode, animist and author, Kelley Harrell, explores the Season 6 focus of runes as verbs, featuring Isa. Often described as meaning rest, this chilly rune brings anything but comfort. In this episode Kelley sits with active stillness as the agent of change Isa brings. Throughout Season…

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  6. Episode 116 - Persevering with Nauthiz

    Animist and author, Kelley Harrell, discusses the Season 6 focus of runes as verbs, with Nauthiz. Another not-so-wanted rune, it offers a powerful ritual and deep integration into place as sure-fire ways to survive the second aett. Throughout Season 6, refer to Liveable Runelore for episode…

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  7. Episode 115 - Adapting with Hagalaz

    Animist and author, Kelley Harrell, discusses the Season 6 focus of runes as verbs, with Hagalaz. It's the rune few people want in their casts, though it offers keys to surviving the second aett. Kelley discusses: 0:30 Upcoming events 3:44 Hagalaz as hail 4:36 Hagalaz as speedbump into the second...

  8. Episode 114 - Reveling with Wunjo

    Animist and author, Kelley Harrell, discusses the Season 6 focus of runes as verbs, with Wunjo. It's the rune everyone wants in their casts, though may be challenged in really experiencing it. Throughout Season 6, refer to Liveable Runelore for episode notes. Learn more in her book, Runic Book of...

  9. Episode 113 - Bonding with Gebo

    Animist and author, Kelley Harrell, discusses the Season 6 focus on runes as verbs focusing on Gebo, and why community and belonging rely on gratitude. Throughout Season 6, refer to Liveable Runelore for episode notes. Learn more in her book, Runic Book of Days, study the runes, animism, and soul...

  10. Episode 112 - Imbuing with Kenaz

    Animist and author, Kelley Harrell, discusses the Season 6 focus on runes as verbs with Kenaz, and keeping our creativity and agency on task with our calling. Throughout Season 6, refer to Liveable Runelore for episode notes. Learn more in her book, Runic Book of Days, study the runes, animism…

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  11. 111 - Moving with Raidho

    Animist and author, Kelley Harrell, discusses the Season 6 focus on runes as verbs with Raidho, and what it says about the relationship between movement and agency. Throughout Season 6, refer to Liveable Runelore for episode notes. Learn more in her book, Runic Book of Days, study the runes,...

  12. 110 - Creating with Ansuz

    Animist and author, Kelley Harrell, discusses the Season 6 focus on runes as verbs with Ansuz, and what it teaches us about expressing creative energy that transmutes into a being with its own agency. Throughout Season 6, refer to Liveable Runelore for episode notes. Learn more in her book, Runic...

  13. 109 - Quickening with Thurisaz

    Animist and author, Kelley Harrell, discusses the Season 6 focus on runes as verbs, with Thurisaz, and its distinction between being alive and intentionally living. Throughout Season 6, refer to Liveable Runelore for episode notes. Learn more in her book, Runic Book of Days, study the runes,...

  14. 108 - Embodying with Uruz

    Animist and author, Kelley Harrell, discusses the Season 6 focus on runes as verbs, with Uruz. Through sacred aurochs Audhumbla, Uruz presents us with intentionally embodying ourselves as a key requirement of soul-in-form, so that we have full access to our agency. Throughout Season 6, refer to...

  15. Episode 107 - Tending with Fehu

    Animist and author, Kelley Harrell, discusses the Season 6 focus on runes as verbs, starting with Fehu. A nuance that gets left out when we approach Fehu as a noun is that it isn’t just about wealth. To maintain or grow wealth requires that we know how to tend it. When we talk about tending…

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  16. Episode 106 - Introducing the Runes as Verbs

    Whole new season. Whole new series. Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, introduces working with the runes in season... as verbs. As animists, it’s not all about the nouns, but also the relationship between them. How we engage nouns, how we continue to find relationship with them and see where…

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  17. Episode 105 - Half-Month Rune Jera - The Body Keeps the Door

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, discusses half-month Jera and its role following the trauma of the first three Second aett runes. This episode is the full weekly runecast for 12 December 2021, which are Jera, Ehwaz, then Uruz reversed through the voice of Survivor, along with sodalite. This...

  18. Episode 104 - Ansuz - Truthsaying Among Gaslighting

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, discusses half-month Ansuz, the personal challenge of speaking truth when the greater systems don't want to hear it, and what we can do to shape our wyrd in such times of trauma. Find the transcript for this episode at Soul Intent Arts. Learn more in her book,...

  19. Episode 103 - Tiwaz Happens

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, discusses half-months Tiwaz and Berkana, their relationship to each other in season, and how they influence our rites into elderhood. Find the transcript for this episode at Soul Intent Arts. Learn more in her book, Runic book of Days. Study the runes, animism,...

  20. Episode 102 - Sowilo and Closing the Second Aett in Pandemic Times

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, discusses half-month Sowilo, along with the personal and collective implications of closing the second aett in this season of pandemic. Find the transcript for this episode at Soul Intent Arts. Learn more in her book, Runic book of Days. Study the runes…

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  21. Episode 101 - Eihwaz, Psychosis, and Prophecy

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, discusses half-month Eihwaz, the stellar events of the December Solstice, and how prophetic visions aren't what we think they are. Special thanks to Brandice Schnabel (http://skywitnesshealingarts.com/ ) and The Spirited Path Community. Learn more in her book,...

  22. Episode 100 - Isa, Winter, and COVID Depression

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, discusses half-month Isa, winter, and how the timing of both with COVID affects seasonal depression. In this time of isolation, Kelley discusses intrusive thoughts and possession, and how they shape her Elevator Story. Learn more in her book, "Runic book of...

  23. Episode 99 - Nauthiz, the Collapse, and Sacred Tension

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, discusses half-month Nauthiz, needfire, and what both are asking us to do in the time of collapse. Learn more in her book, "Runic book of Days," and at Soul Intent Arts. Study the runes, animism, and soul tending with Kelley, and get info about longterm…

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  24. Episode 98 - Hagalaz and What Our Ancestors Knew About The Dead Time

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, discusses half-month Hagalaz, the convention of the "thinning veil," and what our Ancestors knew about it. Learn more in her book, "Runic book of Days," and at Soul Intent Arts. Study the runes, animism, and soul tending with Kelley, and get info about longterm...

  25. Episode 97 - Ansuz + Raidho = Kenaz, Pandemic-Style

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, discusses half-month Kenaz and the progression to it from Ansuz and Raidho, as we navigate times demanding we honor our calling. Learn more in her book, "Runic book of Days," and at Soul Intent Arts. Study the runes, animism, and soul tending with Kelley, and…

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  26. Episode 96 - Thurisaz, Community Unconscious, and The Lie of Separation

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, discusses half-month Thurisaz and its insights into community wounding and personal accountability. Learn more in her book, "Runic book of Days," and at Soul Intent Arts. Study the runes, animism, and soul tending with Kelley, and get info about longterm...

  27. Episode 95 - Uruz, Spirit Possession, and Self-Sovereignty

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, explores spirit possession and taking control of your own Uruz to outcreate the system. Learn more in her book, "Runic book of Days," and at Soul Intent Arts. Study the runes, animism, and soul tending with Kelley, and get info about longterm mentoring and...

  28. Episode 94 - Fehu, Assets, and Teen Spirit Growth

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, explores identifying your assets with Fehu, making space for them to change, and growing in response to it all. Learn more in her book, "Runic book of Days," and at Soul Intent Arts. Study the runes, animism, and soul tending with Kelley, and get info about...

  29. 93- Dagaz, Solstice, and the Time to Learn

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, explores half-month rune Dagaz, and offers insight into why spiritual rituals and emotional regulation skills not working, and refusal to wear masks and recognize basic humans rights for all come from the same place. Learn more in her book, "Runic book of…

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  30. Episode 92 - Ingwaz, Ritual, and Stress

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, explores half-month rune Ingwaz, pandemic, stress, and their impact on our seasonal rituals. Learn more in her book, "Runic book of Days," and at Soul Intent Arts. Study the runes, animism, and soul tending with Kelley, and get info about longterm mentoring and...

  31. Episode 91 - Laguz, Flow, and The Broken Path

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, explores half-month rune Laguz, flow, and The Broken Path. Learn more in her book, "Runic book of Days," or at Soul Intent Arts. Study the runes, animism, and soul tending with Kelley, and get info about longterm mentoring and training at soulintentarts.com.…

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  32. Episode 90 - Mannaz and the Jury, in Quarantine

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, explores half-month rune Mannaz--the social rune--during quarantine. Learn more in her book, "Runic book of Days," or at Soul Intent Arts. Study the runes, animism, and soul tending with Kelley, and get info about longterm mentoring and training at...

  33. Episode 89 - Revisiting Ehwaz and Pandemic Life

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, revisits half-month rune Ehwaz from a previous episode (59), and invites listeners to participate in holding sacred space. Learn more in her book, "Runic book of Days," or at Soul Intent Arts. Study the runes, animism, and soul tending with Kelley, and get info...

  34. Episode 88 - Berkana, Embodiment, and Being Enough

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, discusses half-month rune Berkana, the seasonal timing of caregiving under duress, and embodiment of ourselves . Learn more in her book, "Runic book of Days," or at Soul Intent Arts. Study the runes, animism, and soul tending with Kelley, and get info about...

  35. Episode 87 - Tiwaz and the First Rodeo

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, discusses half-month rune Tiwaz, and third aett preparation for carrying less. Learn more in her book, "Runic book of Days," or at Soul Intent Arts. Study the runes, animism, and soul tending with Kelley, and get info about longterm mentoring and training....

  36. Sowilu, Synchronicity, and Serendipity

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, discusses half-month rune Sowilu, and when we just don't resonate with our omens. Learn more in her book, Runic book of Days, or at Soul Intent Arts. Study the runes, animism, and soul tending with Kelley, and get info about longterm mentoring and training....

  37. Algiz, Taboos, and Vitality

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, discusses Algiz, and how our protection and vitality hinge on honoring our taboos. Learn more in her book, Runic book of Days, or at Soul Intent Arts. Study the runes, animism, and soul tending with Kelley, and get info about longterm mentoring and training.

  38. Perthro and Letting Go

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, discusses Perthro and when we're asked to kill our darlings. Learn more in her book, Runic book of Days, or at Soul Intent Arts. Study the runes, animism, and soul tending with Kelley, and get info about longterm mentoring and training.

  39. Eihwaz and the Edges

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, discusses Eihwaz, liminal spaces, and our greatest challenge to animism everyday. Learn more in her book, Runic book of Days, or at Soul Intent Arts. Study the runes, animism, and soul tending with Kelley, and get info about longterm mentoring and training.

  40. Jera, Winter Solstice, and the Unknown

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, discusses Jera, and the impact of unconscious stress and our colonized fear of darkness around the holidays. Learn more in her book, Runic book of Days, or at Soul Intent Arts. Study the runes, animism, and soul tending with Kelley, and get info about longterm...

  41. Isa, Sacred Seed, and Soul Calling

    Author and animist, Kelley Harrell, discusses Isa, the sacred seed, and the duality of calling. Learn more in her book, Runic book of Days, or at Soul Intent Arts. Study the runes, animism, and soul tending with Kelley, and get info about longterm mentoring and training.

  42. Nauthiz, Ritual, and Boundaries

    Kelley discusses the modern relevance of needfire. Learn more in her book, Runic book of Days, or at Soul Intent Arts. Study the runes, animism, and soul tending with Kelley.

  43. Hagalaz and the Scary Runes

    Kelley discusses working with the runes in season vs divination.

  44. Episode 77 - Hagalaz and the Hotel

    Kelley talks about Hagalaz, betwixt, and how a hotel stay was a fraycation until needed deathwalking was done.

  45. Episode 76 - Wunjo and Wyrdweaving

    Kelley discusses Wunjo and wyrdweaving as states of being. Learn more in her book, Runic book of Days, or at Soul Intent Arts. Study the runes with Kelley.

  46. Episode 75: Gebo and the Communal Self

    Kelley discusses Gebo as the first aett progression into community . Learn more in her book, Runic book of Days, or at Soul Intent Arts.

  47. Episode 74 - Kenaz Light and Dark

    Kelley discusses Kenaz and its relationship to duality, shadow, and sacred self. Learn more in her book, Runic book of Days, or at Soul Intent Arts.

  48. Episode 73 - Real with Raidho

    Kelley discusses Raidho in the context of storytelling, and shares part of her own story. Find her autobiography, Gift of the Dreamtime at all major bookstores.

  49. Episode 72 - Ansuz is for Activism

    Kelley discusses Ansuz and life force as agents of change

  50. Episode 71 - Thurisaz and Fire in the Head

    Kelley discusses deeper nuances of Thurisaz and the unconscious.

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Kelley Harrell explores animism and soul tending seasonally through the Elder Futhark runes.Join the Runes for Change community at https://www.soulintentarts.com/join/For more information, visit soulintentarts.comFind her book, ”Runic Book of Days,” online and in book stores.

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