Critical Review of the Younger Futhark: An Historically Accurate Universal Rune Set

22 December 2019, 06h19: Summer Solstice for the Southern Hemisphere Today is the summer solstice – where we are at the peak of summer daylight hours in the Southern Hemisphere and the peak of winter hours applies to the Northern. This is the last edition of the Runes Series; a follow-on post from these posts: [...]

Critical Review of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc: An Historically Accurate Universal Rune Set

23 September 2019, 09h50: Spring Equinox for the Southern Hemisphere Today is the spring equinox – where we experience the same number of daylight hours and night time hours in both the Southern and Northern Hemispheres. This spring equinox edition follows on both my Evolution of the Runic Alphabets and Critical Review of the Elder [...]

Critical Review of the Elder Futhark: An Historically Accurate Universal Rune Set

21 June 2019, 17h54: Winter Solstice for the Southern Hemisphere Today is the winter solstice – that time of year where the hours of darkness outweigh the hour of light in the Southern Hemisphere, the exact opposite is true for our Northern counterparts. The activity of life slows down in preparation for rest and restoration [...]

Moon Lore #1: Full Moon Names for the Southern Hemisphere

Tips on Working with La Luna: I improvised a list of names for the Southern African Full Moons, which are suited to our cultivation times, crops, seasonal occurrences and weather events. Historically the lunar cycle (lunation) was used to determine the time of year in the lunisolar calendar. Modern religious and spiritual movements have allocated [...]