Taking up the Runes Beltane including many photos and images

including many photos and images from rare archives

drawn from newly discovered materials collected by two Romanian ethnologists who lived and traveled with gypsies in Transylvania in the mid-19th century

and a guide to teaching others

spiritual and magical uses

allowing self-initiation into the three degrees of Ovate

Taking up the Runes Beltane including many photos and imagesAn accessible, in depth exploration of the runes as a living spiritual tradition. Diana Paxson has distilled her many years of experience working with the runes into this essential source book. Readers will learn the historical meaning of each individual rune and its use and meaning now, in contemporary culture. But, Paxson reveals, the real power of the runes comes from internalizing them and using their symbols as sources of wisdom and power. At the