THE TEACHINGS OF BJARKA: Birch Tree – Healer – “Allmother” – Love Magic Counsellor
THE TEACHINGS OF BJARKA: Birch Tree – Healer – “Allmother” – Love Magic Counsellor
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This
is the third webinar
offered by Imelda Almqvist, in partnership with (and hosted by)
Christian Thurow! Our exciting (and extremely well-attended) first
two tele-seminars introduced how the runes of the Elder Futhark can
be used to make sigils and even ‘runic
vaccines’
in pandemic times. We also explored how ancient Norse magical
ingredients can be used in this work. In this new class we will dive
even deeper into the matters of spiritual protection and
sigil-making.
Many
people master the runes only on a very basic level: they absorb the
meaning most commonly attributed to the 24 runes of the Elder Futhark
and perhaps do an occasional rune reading for someone. Only true Rune
Magicians
step through the cosmic portal each rune presents! In this class I
wish to demonstrate how we find many dimensions of meaning and cosmic
wisdom, “behind” (or deep inside) every rune.
Bjarka
is the Rune of the Birch Tree and also the Rune of the (Cosmic)
Mother, all mothers of all species. This seminar will explore how
there were non-human mothers on Earth long before human mothers
evolved. We will draw strength and inspiration from our relationship
with them.
In
magical work Bjarka/Birch is associated with feminine power. It was
traditionally used in healing ceremonies for women and girls.
In
some places in Fennoscandia, (the geographical peninsula comprising
the Scandinavian and Kola Peninsulas, mainland Finland, and Karelia),
the birch tree was perceived as the world tree and she had a male
counterpart in the Oak Tree. Both trees exist as runes – in this
seminar we will take one step outside the Elder Futhark to widen our
range of symbols, our vocabulary for magical workings and sigils,
with an additional rune.
One
interesting fact this is that linguists connect the Russian word for
birch tree to a verb (“birch” > beryoza = «берёза»)
–and that verb means to keep safe! (Source
Olga Stanton)
This
third seminar in the Covid-19 Lockdown period explores how we can use
spiritual methods to stay safe and protect those we love, how to
reach out to others more vulnerable than ourselves. We learn how to
feed and nourish desirable outcomes while starving negative thinking
and reducing negative manifestations (but please note: positive
and
negative
always depend on the perspective of the viewer, they are not black
and white!)
This
seminar will provide a deep exploration of accessing the sacred
feminine within ourselves – which means that by extension and
necessity we also need to harness the sacred masculine deep within
ourselves (no matter what our gender identification or sexual
orientation is)!
We
will dance with new possibilities at the Heart of Creation and learn
how to co-create healthy reality in partnership with powers greater
than ourselves!
And
yes we will also dip (briefly) into the subject of Old Norse Love
Magic!
Join Christian and me on April 30th at 8 pm (London UK Time), 3 pm (New York/US East Coast Time)!
About Imelda
Imelda
Almqvist is an international teacher of shamanism and sacred art. So
far she has published two books:Natural
Born Shamans: A Spiritual Toolkit for Life (Using shamanism
creatively with young people of all ages) in
2016 and Sacred
Art: A Hollow Bone for Spirit (Where Art Meets Shamanism) in
2019. She
has presented her work on both The Shift Network and Sounds True. She
appears in a TV program titled Ice Age Shaman, made for the
Smithsonian Museum, in the series Mystic Britain talking about
Neolithic arctic deer shamanism. Her third book: Medicine of the
Imagination - Dwelling in possibility (an impassioned plea for
fearless imagination) will be published by Moon Books on 30
October 2020.
She
is currently working on her fourth book, about the pre-Christian
spirituality of The Netherlands.
Website http://www.shaman-healer-painter.co.uk/
Informative blog on the topic of the runes of the Elder Futhark and how rune magicians in Scandinavia work with them: http://www.shaman-healer-painter.co.uk/post.cfm?p=1178