The Runes from the Matronae

 So, this all started with a rant online with someone who is part of the leadership in a heathen organization.

I mentioned HWU as a source of possible people who might want to help setup an online seidr server, on discord. I got attacked. Apparently one of the leaders had a huge falling out with the group because the Icelandic Seidr people didn't want to take students from outside of Iceland. Putting aside any accusation of folkishness, or ethnocentrism, or xenophobia which I am sure she and others threw at them.

I pointed out that no teacher is obligated to take on a student. They can refuse at any time for any reason. We do not have the right to bully them into teaching their spiritual traditions or their culture to us or anyone. And Americans have this bullish way about them in demanding and feeling entitled to any practice or titles they want simply because they want them.

So I'm the bitch, apparently. I literally left facebook for five days to try not to attack her in kind. I'll leave the group on my own terms so I don't get permabanned for ripping on leadership. But, seriously. What kind of heathen-karen throws a hissy fit, rage quits and slanders a whole group of people because she didn't get what she thought she was entitled to? And I'm in the wrong?

So between this and the domestic terrorist attack on DC this week, I'm so anxiety stricken that I am shaking and manic. I knew I was going to have to rant this out of my system and without facebook or tiktok I lost a couple of major venues for such ranting.

So it led me back to this blog and to my laptop. Totally different feeling then what I get when I pick up my phone. 

I decided that since this past 12 months have been absolute nightmarish roller coaster ride I would change directions. Honestly, some of the best ideas come to me on the toilet mid poop.

I had been flatline on Angrboda's book for a whole year and decided to pick up that idea I had for the series of Runes as told from women and goddesses perspectives. We had just finished a month ago talking about the Matronae from pre-Roman Gallic Europe. The cool thing about them is that the triple goddesses are not based on reproduction but based on aspects of a stable and peaceful society.

The three aspects are Children/Family which is the basic building block of a community as well as the future of that community; Food which sustains the community and is also a form of trade/currency; and Wisdom or Lore which is the process through oral tradition of passing the values of community, lessons, myths, and identity from one generation to the next which supports community over the centuries. 

Then I thought of the three sets of eight of the runes. The first set is primal forces and animals. That is definitely the mundane and physical survival of the community. Each rune could be connected to battles, chores, rites of passage for women. The second set of 8 is definitely agricultural. The third set is about wisdom, continuation of lines, ancestors and rebirth. 

It definitely fits or overlaps.  

This would be an opportunity to provide an alternative to the reproductive based trinity and an exclusive feminine look at the meaning and function of the runes from women's lives or goddess spirituality.

Fuck the heathen community and its anti-feminist, pro-colonizing crap.