The Pagan Grove

Ancient runestone from Sweden via Creative Commons I have been practicing divination for a long time now.  I made my own set of "c...

Modified from original sketch by John Bauer Public Domain Tiw is a guiding star;  well does it keep faith with princes; ...

From the Runic Tarot by Caroline Smith and John Astrop The sun is ever a joy in the hopes of seafarers when they journey...

The Eolh-sedge is mostly to be found in a marsh, it grows in the water and makes a ghastly wound, covering with blood eve...

From Ralph Blum's Rune Deck Peordh is a source of recreation and amusement to the great, where warriors sit blithel...

From the Runic Tarot by Caroline Smith and John Astrop The yew is a tree with rough bark, hard and fast in the earth, s...

From the Haindl Rune Oracle Summer is a joy to men, when God, the holy King of Heaven, suffers the earth to bring forth s...

From Ralph Blum's Rune Deck Ice is very cold and immeasurably slippery; it glistens as clear as glass and most like t...

From the Haindl Rune Oracle Trouble is oppressive to the heart; yet often it proves a source of help and salvation to t...

Photo by Cassi Saari.  Creative Commons license. I have always had a closeness with birch trees.  The stark white bark of many varieties...

From the Runic Tarot, by Caroline Smith and John Astrop Hail is the whitest of grain; it is whirled from the vault of he...

Bliss he enjoys who knows not suffering, sorrow, nor anxiety, and has prosperity and happiness and a good enough house. ...

Generosity brings credit and honor, which support one's dignity; it furnishes help and subsistence to all broken men who ...

The torch is known to every living man by its pale, bright flame; it always burns where princes sit within. ...

Riding seems easy to every warrior while he is indoors and very courageous to him who traverses the high-roads on the back ...

The mouth is the source of all language, a pillar of wisdom and a comfort to wise men, a blessing and a joy to every knig...

The thorn is exceedingly sharp, an evil thing for any knight to touch, uncommonly severe on all who sit among them. ...

The aurochs is proud and has great horns; it is a very savage beast and fights with its horns; a great ranger of the moors,...

Wealth is a comfort to all men; yet every man must bestow it freely if he wish to gain honor in the sight of the Lord. ...

Since I began my work with an Anglo-Saxon hearth, I've been wanting to acquire a set of Anglo-Saxon runes to work with.  I've lo...