Hearthside

The last few years I have been doing something with Rune Rasmussen’s Nordic Animist Year and using his years along with the Rune poems to create a sort of Farmer’s Almanac type prediction for the year. Now, I had been doing that in about February the last couple years, so that I had a taste of the year already but had not got too far into it. Unfortunately, time has gotten away from me this year. I have a lot more Heathen and non-Heathen commitments this year, and also with it being the Year of Aun/Unn, I have had a divided focus.  So now it is nearing the end of May and I am just writing this. The Ar year, “Ar” being the Jera rune. It is the “Year” Year. Happy Year?  But more seriously, this year marks the end of a period of stagnance in the Runic Animist Years. We had a 3 year period of stagnance (think covid in this case) and we are emerging. The Ar year is about the return to greenery and abundance. We can expect warmer weather, better crops, and coming out of our stagnanc...