Unsettling and re-drawing the boundaries we inherited in our settler cultures, renewing our practice of protection. Last week’s ritual took place on the Last Quarter Moon in Taurus guided by the water spirits, Frejya and the rune Algiz (pictured), the energy of the sound “ex” and the energy of protection. Many thanks to our participants for joining in and contributing with their experiences and questions to the runes and oracle. Elk sedge. What does protection feel like outside of patriarchy, the materiality of safety, the nationalist and colonial nature of protection were some of the themes that arose during our ritual on Bidston Hill protected by two river estuaries and the Irish sea on the third. Questions of boundaries. What our mothers taught us about boundaries, what their families did. Symbiosis, Scales, Accounting as elements and nuances to be considered in modes of protection, offers of safety. Algiz as Mirror. Concluded with a walk on the Bidston Hill as we communed with the trees here. Thank you to all the matterspirits who guided us in this ritual.