8 Sessions | 2 Hours each
16 Total Hours
We invite you to join Andreas Kornevall for our first Academy class to be taught from Europe - The Grove Of Hidden Roots - a unique offering which will explore the Northern European oracular traditions through the esoteric mythos, lore, and praxis of Rune and Sigil Craft. The Lineage of study is called Forn Sed, which is the old custom of Northern European fairy tale and folk traditions.
Stories and myths will be investigated throughout the course, and we will be studying The Eddas (ancient Norse poetry), fairytale traditions, and Skaldic Poetic Metre. Underscored here will be relationships, initiations and how to shape old stories into ceremonies for mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and coming of age which are applicable in our modern times.
This is a hands-on course with practical and applicable methodology in crafting talismans, bead work, and pottery for offerings and the consecration of sacred objects. Craft-work can be worked on in between the zoom meetings, especially in making and blessing your own runes.
Techniques and practices such as light trance and Orcaular speech will also be explored and experienced as we journey through the Nordic realms of creation, up and down the Tree of Life, to reveal the hidden meanings and messages of the Runes.
Students will also learn about the traditional High Seat ceremony (how to lead and how to partake). A ceremony such as a High Seat is a community event and held by a group of people, it can be arguably described as the oldest Seidr (Shamanic for lack of better word) ceremony there is an account of in Northern Europe.
Course content will also include:
Runes and sigils:
- The Runes of Creation - the creation myths and their associations
- The Seven Souls - understanding the Northern multi-soul perspective
- The Labyrinth (dragon wisdom)
- Younger Futhark (Viking Age) and Old English
- Futhark (characters from Anglo-Saxon runes)
Rune-Galder - Norse for “mantra recitation”
- Creating personal rune-sigil alphabets
- Working with dream sigils and sacred and secret names
The Sacred Forest Work
- Journeys through the Tree of Life
- Magical talismans, spells, and bind runes
- Mysteries of Mithras, numerology
- Lost northern star constellations, and precession of the equinoxes
If developing relationships with runes or magical alphabets, creation of sacred talismans in alignment with Nordic traditions, myth and storytelling, and Oracle Arts calls to you we invite you to join us by registering here! This course will greatly enhance the ongoing development of the Oracular Consciousness, and will culminate in the ability to cast and read the runes for yourself and your community as a divinatory practice.
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