I'm doing more rune readings now. I've evolved my rune casting techniques over the years, and am now doing them more intuitively than I did before. I have a stronger connection to Odin now than I did before. Also, long time readers may recall that I received a new rune set that I felt was going to help me connect more with female ancestral power when I read the runes. It worked out great and has really made my readings more smoothly intuitive.

For years now, I've taught rune classes, read runes for charity at Pagan Pride Day fundraisers, and did the occasional rune casting for people in my social network, either in person or online. My first rune readings were all in person, and then my first professional rune readings were by phone, but in the internet age I've come to find I really like the format of doing my rune readings via messaging, chat, or email. 

I'm going to be giving a short talk on runic orthography called Rune Shapes at Pagan Pride Day this year. Las Vegas PPD will be held on Nov. 16th, 2024.

My first rune set I made from river rocks I picked up near my house when I still lived in Sonoma, California. I had a strong connection to that particular set, and although I made other sets and had some other commercially made sets, I didn't feel as connected with those. I used the river rock set until some of the rocks literally turned to sand. 

I tried using other sets, both ones I made and commercial sets, and it just wasn't the same. For a long time, I taught rune reading and wrote about it, but didn't do readings. Then I started reading again after I became a godspouse of Odin, and found it was a whole new ballgame.

As longtime readers of this blog may recall, one day I was doing a reading by phone for a friend and one of the runes disappeared and could not be found. She made me a new set, out of elm wood from her land. Elm wood is associated with female ancestral power in heathenry because Askr and Embla were the first man and woman in our mythology, carved from driftwood. Although I didn't seem to connect to any particular ancestor beings when I used the new rune set, I do think it connected me with an ancestral female power, the power of intuition. 

I decided to do more rune readings. So, since I had just listed some of my weaving crafts on eBay with my magicalrealistartist seller name, I checked to see if I could sell rune readings there too. It turns out they have a whole category for services, and there were several listings for tarot readers. So I went ahead and made a eBay listing for a rune reading via messaging. 

Here's what I wrote: 

Rune Reading with famous rune expert Erin Lale