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Due to the difficulty for many people to travel, and the expense involved, I offer my services and teachings online. The services listed below can be worked through email and on some occasions over Zoom. Save for the actual ceremony performance listed at the bottom, the rest can be worked online unless you perhaps are local or meet me at a Renaissance Faire in New England.
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Element Philosophy
78 page pdf download course + email Q&A with White Wolf to expand upon details
Cost - $450.00
Payment is accepted through Paypal, Personal Check, Money Order or marked silver
For as long as humans have inhabited the world, the elements have been a major energy dictating our every move, our every thought, emotion, act and reaction. Every cell in our bodies is under the spell and control of the elements. Every facet of this world is dictated by the elements. All that we have, ever had and ever will have comes from the elements and their vast and dynamic relationships.
Everything is made up of the elements. We are no different. Humans have known this for thousands of years around the world and throughout all indigenous pre-technologic cultures. It was common knowledge in the tribes of the western hemisphere, both north and south, as well as through Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and all through the many tribes of Europe, from the southern Celtic tribes to the far northern Scandinavian peoples. The exact elements and dynamics varied greatly from people to people and region to region of course. A highly dynamic view of the elements were studied and utilized by Asian cultures, while in true Heathenism only two were seen in such a powerful light; fire and ice.
Even though the modern world of technological advancements and pursuits has torn so many people and cultures away from the ancient wisdom of the elements, we are no less controlled by them. Their power is in every breath we take, every drink or bit of food we ingest, every ray of sun that touches our skin; they are in every sensation that our nervous system detects, every thought and emotion we experience; they are everywhere.
This course isn’t designed to be a true fit into the historically accurate heathenism energy of Seiðr. Like I talk about on the About Seiðr page, the elements beyond fire and ice were/are not part of the true Heathen views. They exist, certainly, but gods, goddesses and spirits were not aligned with or connected to the four elements, or the 5 elements, or others found in various cultures worldwide.
This course details elements that we are made up of and find in our environments. It has nothing to do with gods, goddesses, spirits of Heathenism, Seiðr. The course is for personal understanding and use of our human making and those elements in our environment that affect us in a very real, physical way.
I’ve always been fascinated with elements and how they create us and life around us. They are like a physical web connecting all physical life. Even though they are not part of the Seiðr path so to speak, I find them important and fascinating enough to present, rather separate from Seiðr path, here for those wishing to learn the dynamics about them.
This class details elements that we are made up of and find in our environments. The class is for personal understanding and use of our human making, and those elements in our environment that affect us in a very real, physical way.
I have a 78 page Element Philosophy booklet laid out. For those who sign up for an go through this 6 week class, you will receive this booklet.
Each one hour class will be dedicated to a specific section of Element Philosophy.
1 - Introduction - finding your elemental make up
2 - Breakdown of your elements, what they mean, how they coexist, manifest, support and challenge you
3 - How to tap into your elements, focus them, enhance them, balance them, work with them
4 - Continuation of week 3
5 - How your elements interact with the world around you, your external life and how to use that knowledge
6 - Q&A
Learn your personal element make-up and how to tap them for higher quality living.
6 weeks - 1 hr per week
Online - Zoom
Contact if interested and or for details
Rune Work
(Not currently running, but email if interested)
To read about the historical heathen standards in our teachings, please see the bottom of this page:
True Heathenism verses the Popular-Occult
Do you know how to scrape and carve?
Do you know how to read and interpret?
Do you know how to draw and paint?
Do you know how to test?
Do you know how to ask or obtain?
Do you know how to sacrifice to the Gods?
Do you know how to send or dispatch?
Do you know how to slaughter?
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Veistu hvé rísta skal?
Veistu hvé ráða skal?
Veistu hvé fá skal?
Veistu hvé freista skal?
Veistu hvé biðja skal?
Veistu hvé blóta skal?
Veistu hvé senda skal?
Veistu hvé sóa skal?
Rúnatal 144
In this course the student will learn the Elder Futhark piece by piece and as a whole. Each rune will be explored from the simplicity of its name to the layered depths of its meaning. The runes will be looked at in relation to themselves, their positioning in the rune cycle and their relationship to and with the other runes. Each rune is not only connected to its core energy, but also the expansion into life itself; days, times of day, seasons, direction and so on. Each rune is literally a world onto its own, and at the same time a single piece of existence.
Students will also learn how to properly make their own rune set(s), care for them and use them.
Too many places utilize the Christian laced aspects and definition of certain runes, removing life from them. Take for example the rune Thurz, which means Giant. But Thurz are the destructive Giants of natural disaster and adverse and sometimes chaotic events external to the self. To true Heathens and our ancestors, Thurz are very real, very much alive and have minds and spirits of their own. The Earthquake Thurz, the Hurricane Thurz, the Famine Thurz; Thurz of specific diseases and addictions are all prime realities of the very real and living Giants. Thurz is a combination of the runes Iss/Ice, and Ken/Fire. The two primordial elements that had the most potency to our Heathen ancestors of Germania and Scandinavia. Iss of Nifelheim and Ken of Muspelheim. The world of icy mist and the world of fire. Between them was an environment perfect for the making of the first Giant, Ymir. Ymir was the first Primordial Giant of which all other Giants come from. Thurz is Giant born of the meeting of Primordial Ice and Primordial Fire. Thurz is Giant.
Christianity placed the Thurz rune as a dead thorn, rather than the true mean of real Giants. This is just one very small example of the true historical accuracy of our Heathen ancestors being over-written and the life being removed from it but organized religions. To the true Heathen everything is alive and has mind and spirit and place.
The historically accurate order of the Elder Futhark is as such:
- Fehu ----- Feh
- Uruz ----- Ur
- Thurisaz -- Thurs
- Ansuz ---- Ass
- Raidho --- Reid
- Kenaz ---- Ken
- Gebo ----- Gifu
- Wunjo ---- Wynja
- Hagalaz -- Hagal
- Nauthiz --- Naud
- Isa ------- Iss
- Jera ------ Jara
- Eihwaz --- Eoh
- Perthro --- Pertra
- Algiz ------ Algiz
- Sowilo ---- Sol
- Teiwaz ---- Tyr
- Berkano --- Bjarak
- Ehwaz ----- Eh
- Mannaz ---- Madr
- Laguz ------ Lagu
- Inguz ------ Ing
- Othala ----- Odal
- Dagaz ----- Dagaz
Mildir fræknir, menn bazt lifa, sjaldan sút ala, en ósnjallr maðr, uggir hotvetna, sýtir æ glöggr við gjöfum --- Whatever you ask the runes will be proven true, those runes that came from the Gods, which the Spirit Powers made, which the Mighty Sage painted red. After that, silence is best. - Hávamál 80
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Rune Casting
(Not currently running, but email if interested)
This level of teaching/learning takes rune work to the next level, practical use of the runes.
Here the student learns how to cast the runes properly and from various levels of oneself and energies. The flow of energy and from where is taught in the context of casting. The interpreter of the cast is covered in great detail, from direction, spacing, overlaps, layering, solos, relations, categories, differences within each depending upon not only which energy the cast came from, but also the reason for the cast.
Utilizing the runes to shed light on aspects of your life you may wish assistance with. Things such as lifestyle changes; issues dealing with relationships, career, hobbies, sports, animals, plants and minerals; your personal elements and element make up, travel, working through trauma, and more. The runes are vastly dynamic and layered in what they can reveal. A rune cast can address the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of a targeted topic all at the same time. They can combine not only ideas and information based on the standard, but also open to including the energies of the seasons, elements, various trees and animals and time itself.
Depending upon what is being sought, a rune cast can be very straight forward, or highly complex. It all depends.
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Bone Casting
(Not currently running, but email if interested)
Very similar to rune casting, but less dynamic in nature. Bone casting is far more intuitive in the act and reading than that of rune casting. Though rune casting does require intuition, bone casting is almost all intuition. Rune casting could be looked at as traveling unknown country, but with a map. Bone casting is traveling unknown country without a map while trying to reach a destination.
Instruction is also offered in acquiring your own set of bones, how to do so properly, how to care and use them.
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Swinging Stone
(Not currently running, but email if interested)
In the circumpolar regions of the world during the Iron Age it is well known that not only Shamans from Siberia and the Sami’, but also Vulva from the Scandinavians (Northmen, Swedes, Danes, etc), used “Swinging Stones”. They carried staffs that they would hang stones, bones and skulls from leather cords. These were used just like pendulums for healing, divination, clairvoyant information and the like.
Students will not only learn how to make their own swinging sticks, but also how to use them and interpret the movement.
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Ceremony Guiding
(Not currently running, but email if interested)
Since I am a legally certified non-affiliated minister who can perform marriages, funerals, birth blessings and the like in States requiring such certification, I am sometimes available to perform such ceremonies.
Over the years I’ve guided traditional Lenape Vision Quests, guided traditional Medicine Wheel ceremonies; through both Native American and Seiðr practices I’ve helped and guided people on inner spiritual journeys, guided people in spiritual and physical healings, worked with animals, plants and the land. I've also held ceremony for those who have passed and those ready to be born.
I can teach students how to perform and run ceremonies of various kinds, based upon the elements found on this site.
Contact if interested and or for details
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