Michael Conneely has been teaching the Runes for 23 years. His worldwide Runes Course website is www.rune-path.com. This course is aimed at helping you develop your own very personal relationship to each rune and using the runes as a journey of self-discovery and empowerment.
He first met the magic of the runes at Oxford University in the late sixties, when he was a student of the son of JRR Tolkien, and also living in a spiritual community in Glastonbury and learning the Arthurian wisdom through Geoffrey Ashe and Gareth Knight. He was so struck by the way each rune is a gateway to deep knowledge about our human nature and divine issues, including how to work through adversities and join with the Gods. He loved studying the Sagas such as the Havamal (The Sayings of the High One) and the Voluspa Saga (The Seeresses’ Saga).
His own novel about the Runes is the highly popular and much-liked novel: ‘Rune Magic’.
You can read in ‘Rune Magic’ how The Seeress prophesied at the beginning of time that the Gods of Asgard will not survive the final battle; the Nine Worlds are heading to destruction; beauty and order will fail. As the forces of chaos and darkness gather, Declan and Magda, two young people who have never even seen each other before, suddenly find themselves seized by Odin. He takes them from their own world to work together to save the magic of the Runes and create a new future for the gods. Caught up in the end of the worlds, they choose love, courage and even cunning, and they themselves undergo the awesome magic tests where Odin first won his great powers. But can the prophecy of the Seeress be averted?
His other novels include: ‘Druid’, ‘The Magic Land’ and ‘The Tribe’, and I am loving now writing ‘The Morrigan and The Dagda’.
By birth, he spans two great spiritual traditions: The Norse and the Irish.
From the land of the Runes and the Gods and Goddesses of the ancient Norse: his birth father lived in the Danzig Corridor on the Baltic shore and his grandfather was a Yakut Tribesman living on the Barents Sea coast.
And from ancient Connemara, in the mystical West of Ireland: his birth mother’s family has lived by fishing and farming on the Galway coast for centuries. And there’s even a film about the Conneely’s: The Secret of Roan Inish. Through his Druid Forest School, Michael teaches about the Gods and the Goddesses of the ancient Irish, and the Ogham Druid Tree Alphabet, as well as offering tours of the Sacred West of Ireland, its beauties, its culture and its earth energies: www.druidforestschool.com.
Michael is also an Astrologer and offers readings and teaches astrology courses as detailed in his astrology website: www.starwheelastrology.com. Exceptionally, over the years, he has learned to span both Western Astrology (which is essentially psychodynamic and evolutionary including the outer planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, and Chiron the Wounded Healer; as well as the vast and deeply ancient Vedic Astrology of Ancient India, which is orientated to the declaration of our Incarnational Life Purpose and our Destiny. He works with clients and students worldwide from the Healing Centre he runs in the West of Ireland with his wife, Healer Maggie Pashley. Maggie provides numerous Healing Modalities on-line presented in her website www.maggiepashley.com .
As a recent project, Michael has been working with students to contact past lives: accessing past life skills, or learning about and healing difficult life scripts through Rune Stance. Michael has recently created a Magical Will Course.
Michael is also now working on a huge new project: Returning Corra, working with a Chicago theatre-based artist and musician Douglas Chamberlin to meet the Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Irish, journeying to the Ogham Celtic Tree Alphabet and its Otherworlds, and organising retreats and visit to the ancient sacred sites in the West of Ireland. Watch this space.
He first met the magic of the runes at Oxford University in the late sixties, when he was a student of the son of JRR Tolkien, and also living in a spiritual community in Glastonbury and learning the Arthurian wisdom through Geoffrey Ashe and Gareth Knight. He was so struck by the way each rune is a gateway to deep knowledge about our human nature and divine issues, including how to work through adversities and join with the Gods. He loved studying the Sagas such as the Havamal (The Sayings of the High One) and the Voluspa Saga (The Seeresses’ Saga).
His own novel about the Runes is the highly popular and much-liked novel: ‘Rune Magic’.
You can read in ‘Rune Magic’ how The Seeress prophesied at the beginning of time that the Gods of Asgard will not survive the final battle; the Nine Worlds are heading to destruction; beauty and order will fail. As the forces of chaos and darkness gather, Declan and Magda, two young people who have never even seen each other before, suddenly find themselves seized by Odin. He takes them from their own world to work together to save the magic of the Runes and create a new future for the gods. Caught up in the end of the worlds, they choose love, courage and even cunning, and they themselves undergo the awesome magic tests where Odin first won his great powers. But can the prophecy of the Seeress be averted?
His other novels include: ‘Druid’, ‘The Magic Land’ and ‘The Tribe’, and I am loving now writing ‘The Morrigan and The Dagda’.
By birth, he spans two great spiritual traditions: The Norse and the Irish.
From the land of the Runes and the Gods and Goddesses of the ancient Norse: his birth father lived in the Danzig Corridor on the Baltic shore and his grandfather was a Yakut Tribesman living on the Barents Sea coast.
And from ancient Connemara, in the mystical West of Ireland: his birth mother’s family has lived by fishing and farming on the Galway coast for centuries. And there’s even a film about the Conneely’s: The Secret of Roan Inish. Through his Druid Forest School, Michael teaches about the Gods and the Goddesses of the ancient Irish, and the Ogham Druid Tree Alphabet, as well as offering tours of the Sacred West of Ireland, its beauties, its culture and its earth energies: www.druidforestschool.com.
Michael is also an Astrologer and offers readings and teaches astrology courses as detailed in his astrology website: www.starwheelastrology.com. Exceptionally, over the years, he has learned to span both Western Astrology (which is essentially psychodynamic and evolutionary including the outer planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, and Chiron the Wounded Healer; as well as the vast and deeply ancient Vedic Astrology of Ancient India, which is orientated to the declaration of our Incarnational Life Purpose and our Destiny. He works with clients and students worldwide from the Healing Centre he runs in the West of Ireland with his wife, Healer Maggie Pashley. Maggie provides numerous Healing Modalities on-line presented in her website www.maggiepashley.com .
As a recent project, Michael has been working with students to contact past lives: accessing past life skills, or learning about and healing difficult life scripts through Rune Stance. Michael has recently created a Magical Will Course.
Michael is also now working on a huge new project: Returning Corra, working with a Chicago theatre-based artist and musician Douglas Chamberlin to meet the Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Irish, journeying to the Ogham Celtic Tree Alphabet and its Otherworlds, and organising retreats and visit to the ancient sacred sites in the West of Ireland. Watch this space.