The Heretical Heathen Podcast

Beyond Divination: The Observer's Rune Work

Most people approach rune magic through divination - casting runes to see what they "say" about the day. But that's backward. You end up projecting meaning onto events, getting lost in interpretation. My approach inverts this: meditate on a rune, then observe your actual day and find events that genuinely correspond to it. This teaches you to spot runic forces and archetypal patterns already at work in reality. Once you develop that skill, you look inward and recognize those same patterns in yourself - your behaviors, your patterns, your shadows. And once you see them clearly, you can use rune work to engage with them directly, transforming the patterns that hold you back.     Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

The Traveler's Rune

What do you encounter when you scry Raidho? This episode documents an unfolding vision: meeting a spirit guide dressed in white, descending through a winter landscape and into darkness, standing before Hel herself in the depths, and being carried upward along Yggdrasil by a cosmic bird to return home. Raidho reveals itself not as simple forward movement, but as a cyclical descent and return - a shamanic journey through multiple realms. We explore what the rune shows about true travel: not linear progression, but the spiraling wheel that moves through worlds.   Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

A Heathen Watches Naruto

A heathen watches Naruto and discovers something deeper than a shounen battle anime. The series isn't really about its protagonists at all - Naruto and Sasuke are containers for something far larger: the eternal balancing of opposing forces. We explore the series as a meditation on suffering, examine Itachi Uchiha as an archetypal complex made flesh, and trace the Sharingan's connection to Maya - the illusory veil that appears across heathen cosmology and Western occultism. What does this anime reveal about the nature of perception, power, and the forces that move through us? Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

The Random Heathen Ramblings Clarification

After appearing on Jesse's Random Heathen Ramblings podcast, I wanted to expand on some key points from our conversation. Heathenry has become ossified by dogma and textual authority, but living practice demands mystery. I also explore why aliens and anomalies might actually be our modern attempt at an authentic spirituality.   Check out the original conversation: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2bCpTgIZc612Ld4o5CbgFp?si=bN4vxftBS-eEpVPrLBSS-g   Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

The God-Rune: Scrying Ansuz

What do you see when you scry Ansuz, the rune of divine speech and inspired communication? This episode documents a scrying session with the fourth rune of the Elder Futhark - exploring the visions and insights that emerge when gazing into Odin's breath. We discuss Ansuz's connection to language, prophecy, and the creative power of the word itself.   Music: https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/