Hare And Fern Jewellery

Autumn mood on 🍂 Every year it's the same, autumn means getting back into creative mode, gloomy weather is simply something my body responds to the best. And nothing beats dark, cold, cosy days in an ancient land shrouded in ancestral magic like Ireland. Ireland is my fuel and my passion.
This Tiwaz/Tyr rune is a new, improved version of my best-selling silver rune pendants that are now made thicker and sturdier. Same look, improved quality! Available in my shop - link in bio.... Shown here with hawthorn (Irish "Sceach Gheal") berries and leaves from our garden that is slowly turning orange and gold.
At the moment I'm close to finishing all outstanding orders, so feel free to contact me with any custom ideas you might have before I commit all my time to new designs. Most of the upcoming pieces won't be Norse themed, but inspired by local Celtic heritage and general prehistoric, Indo-European archaeology - which is what I majored in. . . . #hareandfernjewellery #shopsmallireland #autumnmood #autumnishere #runes #runejewelry #elderfuthark #futhark #tiwaz #tyr #vikingjewelry #vikingjewellery #norse #norsemythology #odin #odinism #norsepagan #norsepaganism #germanicpagan #asatru #pagan #paganism #heathen #heathenry #paganart #paganartist #pagansofinstagram #heathensofinstagram #witchesofinstagram #handmadeinireland
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Autumn mood on 🍂 Every year it's the same, autumn means getting back into creative mode, gloomy weather is simply something my body responds to the best. And nothing beats dark, cold, cosy days in an ancient land shrouded in ancestral magic like Ireland. Ireland is my fuel and my passion.
This Tiwaz/Tyr rune is a new, improved version of my best-selling silver rune pendants that are now made thicker and sturdier. Same look, improved quality! Available in my shop - link in bio.... Shown here with hawthorn (Irish "Sceach Gheal") berries and leaves from our garden that is slowly turning orange and gold.
At the moment I'm close to finishing all outstanding orders, so feel free to contact me with any custom ideas you might have before I commit all my time to new designs. Most of the upcoming pieces won't be Norse themed, but inspired by local Celtic heritage and general prehistoric, Indo-European archaeology - which is what I majored in.
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Magical waterfalls in Glenariff (from Irish Gleann Aireamh, meaning "valley of the ploughman"), the Queen of the Glens. A very short drive from home ☘️💦

New listing in the shop - a rustic carved amber rune amulet. One of a kind and ready to ship.
Eihwaz rune literally means yew tree, thus it it connected to the sacred tree Yggdrasil (which is more likely a yew than an "evergreen" ash, as it's typically translated and interpreted) and its role as the world tree and axis mundi. As an evergreen, toxic tree with psychotropic (hallucinatory) properties that can grow to be exceptionally old, yew and therefore Eihwaz is related to the mysteries of life and death and mystic initiations, which deeply links this rune to Odin. Eihwaz symbolises a time of transformation of one's soul and body, the process of spiritual awakening and growth.

New custom made sterling silver bindrune pendant is travelling to France. If you'd like to get your own custom rune or bindrune, send me a message or visit my shop - link in bio 🔥

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Thurisaz rune pendant. Available in the shop.

Malin Head, Co. Donegal 🌊🇮🇪☘️🌼

There is no place more beautiful on this planet. Deeply in love with this wee island I call home 🌊
Malin Head, Ireland's most northerly point.

New business cards are here! 🌿🐇

A set of antler Tiwaz pendants I made earlier this month for my mates from @north_pack 🔥
I haven't been very active on IG since I reopened the shop a month ago. Getting back to work and reviving a dormant business is a hell of a work and sometimes it feels like I have lost all the skills I used to have. Right now I'm working on open orders and finally have time to start brainstorming new designs. The tough part is to make them numerous enough and coherent enough to create a collection - it makes sense to do that before launching my standalone website.
What would you like to see from me in the future?

Exploring the ancestral land. Beltany stone circle, Co. Donegal, one of the finest stone circles in Ireland 🇮🇪 Photo by my love @digital.liam

Reminder! The auction for this unique pendant ends in about an hour and a half, at 8 pm BST/IST. If you want to place a bid, please go to the previous post 🍀

* AUCTION TIME * Hey everyone, so I decided to post the auction first and the giveaway later today. Up for auction is this copper and sterling silver pendant I revealed last week. It is a one of a kind folklore-inspired piece measuring 3 cm in diameter, depicting hills with standing stones and a hare.
Bidding starts at £30. Please put your bids in comments on my Instagram profile, in increments of £5. Auction ends at 8:00 pm BST/IST tomorrow, 19 June. Highest bidder agrees to pay for the pendant and shipping within 24 hours, otherwise it goes to the second highest bidder. Good luck! 🍀

A beautiful shot reposted from @mute_moth, featuring my Ægishjálmr pendant and an illustration by Arthur Rackham 💎
P.S. A giveaway will be announced today at 8 pm BST/IST... Stay tuned!

Sterling silver Othala rune and beach treasure from northern Irish coast 🌊

Trying to decide how to proceed with this unique new piece. Should I put it up for sale or make an auction (starting price would be around £25)?

My new business artwork by the amazing @linnsetane 🌿
Many asked about the meaning of my new name. Previously, I mentioned my old name was confusing and hard to remember for my non-pagan audience, so I wanted a new name that will be both "ordinary" and have pagan connotations for those who see them. Another criteria was that the name should reflect my connection with Ireland. That's how "Hare and Fern" was born...
Rabbits and hares are heavily featured in Irish folklore (as we...ll as British). Being an important part of Irish landscape, they were long revered as magical, related to the aes sídhe, fairy race that originated from Tuatha Dé Danann ("people of the goddess Danu") who retreat to live in the Otherworld, beneath the mounds. Burrowing under the ground (under the sídhe), rabbits and hares act like messengers of the gods. Cesaer wrote that the Celts regarded them as taboo food. Seen as an emblem of fertility for thousands of years, hare's symbolism has been demonised with advancing Christianisation. Wise women or witches were believed to shapeshift into a hare or use hares as their familiars. Coincidentally, a wild rabbit's gestational period is 28-31 days, the length of a lunar cycle and woman's menstrual cycle, thus cementing women's "cunning nature". Just like other elements of the old religion, hare's mythological place blended into new folklore as a part of the peculiar nature of Celtic Christianity. Even as late as the end of the 19th century, there are records such as one from Co. Kerry where people apparently didn't eat hares; the souls of their deceased grandmothers were supposed to have entered into them.
One of the most "magical" depictions of hares is that of a Moon gazing hare, which is what I chose for my new logo. The hare is standing next to another characteristic feature of the Irish landscape, a standing stone, which has a Celtic Triskele engraved on it. A fern is growing next to the stone, chosen as a plant traditionally believed to mark the entrance into the Otherworld and attract the fairies. Finally, I've decided to translate the new name to Irish (giorria agus raithneach) and write it using Ogham.
Hope you all like these changes!
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This hand carved antler pendant depicts a Triskele, a variation of a triple spiral that emerged early in prehistory and continued to be in use to this day.
From the triple spiral at the entrance of the megalithic tomb of Newgrange in Ireland to Triskele shaped three hares on medieval church windows across Europe, the symbolic significance of a Triskele keeps sparking imagination and offers a variety of interpretations. Some of common connotations include underworld-human worl...d-faerie world, life-death-rebirth, sea-land-sky, spirit-mind-body, mother-father-child, maiden-mother-crone, past-present-future, etc.
The Triskele is associated with Manannán Mac Lir, old Irish god of sea and the ruler and guardian of the Otherworld who ferries souls to the afterlife. The Isle of Man (Mannin in Manx language) is named after him, and the flag of the Isle of Man features a Triskele in form of three armoured legs.
The pendant is decorated with a large blue glass bead, a hint to Triskele's connection with the sea. Ready to ship - link in bio 🌊
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