Kari Tauring shares over twenty years of research and practice in Norse spiritual traditions that culminates in Völva Stav.... More > This advanced manual explains, trains, and sets the reader on the path to becoming a völva, staff carrier of Indigenous European spiritual practice. < Less

Asking where the runes come from is a bit like asking in what year did Adam and Eve leave the Garden of Eden? Yet, they are... More > connected questions. Linguistically, runes come from Phoenician roots that split into Greek and Italic to eventually form the runes with Hebrew and Arabic on the other side of the family tree. This is the Indo-European Family of Languages. The languages and the stories they tell are connected at the core and this book attempts to weave them back together. Mythology that is equally as ancient is essential to understanding the runes. You will find the stories of Norse mythology, Eastern philosophy, and even Native American traditions fleshed out in the Glossary of this book. Because it is all connected. < Less

Kari Tauring shares over twenty years of research and practice in Norse spiritual traditions that culminates in Völva Stav.... More > This advanced manual explains, trains, and sets the reader on the path to becoming a völva, staff carrier of Indigenous European spiritual practice. < Less

Kari Tauring shares her twenty-year relationship to the nature energetic sounds and symbols of her Indo-European tradition... More > through personal and family stories, Norse mythology, and Eastern and Native American philosophy. This book is a sweet combination of deep scholarship and ritual practice. < Less

“The approach we took to creating this book was of my own devising" says editor David de Young. "Kari pulled a rune daily... More > and wrote about it as it seemed to apply to the day it was selected. His editing took the same approach. "This methodology caused this book to come alive for us long before it was complete.” Even writing deadlines were ritualized, on the solar quarters and cross quarters.

Humor and artistic license create a fun and personal read, though the scholarship is solid. For example, in her choice of rune names was based on the musicality of the words as she has used them in almost two decades of song and spiritual practice. The book is at once personal and universal, inspired and academic, humorous and full of serious thought. de Young has called the book “a sort of guidebook for the human spirit.” < Less