My home town Matlock came from "Moot Oak", site of an ancient tree where different tribes came to meet, located at the point where three valleys join. The area represents a place where Welsh (Brythonic), Anglo-Saxon and Norse cultures mixed, and this influences my own shamanistic-druidic practice. I wanted to encapsulate this trinity within a divinatory tool, so created these runestones: symbols originating in Norse mythology, that influenced the stories of Anglo-Saxon cultures, depicted on Welsh stone.

I see divination as a tool for everyone, whatever your beliefs. Any divinatory system is a way of accessing our innate creativity, of looking within. We look for patterns in a chaotic system -- the thrown runes, the randomly picked cards, the flight of birds -- and then ask the deepest parts of our minds to give meaning to those patterns. As a tool for reflection, for personal insight, or for rekindling a creative spark that has become dim, I think the runes are one of the best.