| Then an incident occurred in the coven, in which my husband Lionel compromised himself
with a visiting priestess. I was devastated. However this was the trigger for a major change of focus in my life.
I separated myself for one day and called out to Wodan. All of a sudden I knew who it was outside
that circle! Bollocks to Saturn; it was Wodan all along! That wild unceremonial verbally violent scream of invocation
resulted in my being enlisted in His service. And so I remain to this day.
The same night I ‘got the runes' - just like that! Everything fell into place. Poor old Lionel spent the remainder
of our relationship in second best position. So there I was on my tod in a coven full of ‘Celts', ‘Greeks', and one
Jewess. I was as potty about the ‘Old Man' as a love struck thirteen-year-old about ‘Elvis'. Didn't talk about
anything else but him day in day out: everyone was sick of hearing about it; Lionel even more so, poor sod! This went
on for quite few years.
No one wanted to know about my recent discovery of Wodan; it was rejected out of hand as Nazi! But soon after this, I
met others who followed the Northern path albeit in a slightly different way: I joined the Odinic Rite, sometimes
more appropriately spelled Odinic Right. Little did I know. I was just a pagan looking for my own ancestral gods, and
doing Rune Readings at a psychic fair in Camden. By the time you read this I will be doing rune Readings via the Net.
Through the Odinic Rite though, I met some very valuable people, of whom the most influential was my good friend Jane
Whitehead, without whose personal assistance, typing and editing skills, ‘Leaves' would never have been written, and
none of you would have heard of me today! Wassail to Jane!
For a short time, I think it was 1985/6, I was running a ‘Runic Guild' outfit under the auspices of the O.R.;
nothing to do with the ‘Rune Guild' proper. That fell apart when I had the audacity to invite another woman to join:
it took me years to realize that her surname was Jewish. I really hadn't got a clue.
I decided from then on to run my own outfit; Asatru Folk Runic Workshop. I advertised and gave weekend seminars on
the Runes, which raised enough money to publish ‘Leaves' out my own pocket as I did not think any publisher would
want it. Thanks to Edred Thorsson, Llewellyn accepted it, and it was first published by them in 1990.
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