Soul Intent Arts - North Carolina

Soul Intent Arts - North Carolina Soul Intent Arts -- embodied soul tending through Nature Learn more about her publications at www.kelleyharrell.com.

Kelley is an author, lifelong deathwalker and animist, and the founder of Soul Intent Arts in North Carolina. She teaches others to ethically build a thriving spiritual path as fit, embodied elders, who upon death become wise, capable Ancestors. Her work is Nature-based, and focuses soul tending through the Elder Futhark runes, animism, ancestral healing, and deathwork. Kelley is author of:
Runic Book of Days - 2019 Silver Nautilus Book Award winner
Life Betwixt - Essays on Animism in the Everyday and Shamanism Among
Teen Spirit Guide to Modern Shamanism
Real Wyrd - A Modern Shaman's Roots in the Middle World
Gift of the Dreamtime Reader's Companion
Gift of the Dreamtime - Awakening to the Divinity of Trauma

Learn more about Soul Intent Arts at www.soulintentarts.com.

12/13/2025

The Winter Trio and the Second Aett -

Join us Saturday, 13 December at 11am EST for a live conversation on the fundamentals of animism and how The Quest Serie...
12/11/2025

Join us Saturday, 13 December at 11am EST for a live conversation on the fundamentals of animism and how The Quest Series helps you root into land-based identity, ritual, cosmology, and carrying your spiritual truths in community.
We’ll be joined by folx who’ve completed the series, along with participants in the long-term training I mentor, The Spirited Path. Bring your questions, your lived experience, and your curiosity.

The next cohort of The Quest Series begins in January, and registration closes next week.

https://soulintentarts.as.me/meet

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12/10/2025

IYKYK

This week Isa requires us not just to be ready but to be prepared.Read more at: soulintentarts.com
12/09/2025

This week Isa requires us not just to be ready but to be prepared.
Read more at: soulintentarts.com

Feeling disconnected from the land you live on?It's not just you. Many of us walk what I call "the broken path" - spirit...
12/06/2025

Feeling disconnected from the land you live on?

It's not just you. Many of us walk what I call "the broken path" - spiritual traditions that don't center Nature. They don't fit where we actually stand.

Animism isn't about adopting someone else's practices. It's about noticing the relationships already in your life.

Right outside your window.
In the soil beneath your feet.
With the trees that have witnessed generations.

When you start seeing your environment as alive and responsive, something shifts. You're not just living somewhere - you're in relationship.

That connection becomes medicine. For you, and for your community. 🌿

Join The Quest Series to learn how to center these relationships, and by doing so remember that you are Nature.
Registration is open: https://www.soulintentarts.com/spirited-path/

The Broken Path isn’t where you end — it’s where you start reclaiming. 🌿In settler culture, our spiritual roadways are t...
12/05/2025

The Broken Path isn’t where you end — it’s where you start reclaiming. 🌿

In settler culture, our spiritual roadways are tangled, but your land relationship holds the keys.

Reconnect.
Remember.
Root yourself in place.

Your spiritual agency grows in the soil beneath your feet and the stories you choose to tell.

Reclaim your land-based identity in The Quest Series 🌱
Registration is open: https://www.soulintentarts.com/spirited-path/



Working with Nature Spirits isn't just about the unseen. It's about feeling rooted in your land, your story, your commun...
12/05/2025

Working with Nature Spirits isn't just about the unseen. It's about feeling rooted in your land, your story, your community.

🌿 Nature Spirits ground us, reminding us we're part of a greater ecosystem.

🌀 This connection deepens respect, heals old wounds, and fosters genuine relationships—both with the land and the human and other-than-human persons around us.

Join The Quest Series to learn how to center these relationships, and by doing so remember that you are nature.
Registration is open: https://www.soulintentarts.com/spirited-path/

Eihwaz: the rune of yew.Life and death in one breath.Evergreen, yet poisonous.Guardian of graves, maker of arrows.It ask...
12/04/2025

Eihwaz: the rune of yew.

Life and death in one breath.
Evergreen, yet poisonous.
Guardian of graves, maker of arrows.

It asks: how do you hold both?

In many ways I look at Eihwaz as a more mature take on the entire first aett: we are soul in form. But the first-aett experience of it is new, shiny, and very likely fun. We can’t come through entry into the second aett without realizing there’s a great deal more to formed being than that, and despite how fondly we may look back on our formative runes, we now are charged with holding that bright optimism amidst really challenging times.

By the time we get to Eihwaz, we can’t think of our mortality without thinking of our divinity, and we can’t think of our divinity without thinking of our mortality. They are inseparable.

This rune sits at the heart of the Futhark for a reason.
It's the pivot point.
The choice to remember your own sacredness, even when the world feels anything but.

The yew bends but doesn't break.
What about you?



Join Runes for Change at soulintentarts.com/join

Your daily dose of calm:🌿 Morning breath-out gratitude🪶 Midday moment of grounding🔥 Evening reflection & release🛏️ Bedti...
12/04/2025

Your daily dose of calm:

🌿 Morning breath-out gratitude
🪶 Midday moment of grounding
🔥 Evening reflection & release
🛏️ Bedtime - revoke, banish, clear, cleanse

Little steps, big shifts—for you and your circle.

Many of us crave Nature’s wisdom—but how often do we turn that craving into action?Connecting with Spirit is just the fi...
12/03/2025

Many of us crave Nature’s wisdom—but how often do we turn that craving into action?

Connecting with Spirit is just the first step.

Preserving the trees, rivers, and soil? That’s where our real power kicks in.

And when you combine the two? That's animism.

🌿
Through The Quest Series, learn how to connect with your ecosystem, and through doing so tend yourself, your community, your cosmology, and the planet. Registration is now open: https://www.soulintentarts.com/spirited-path/

Registration is now open:
12/03/2025

Registration is now open:

The Quest Series --Get the modern animist's toolkit: explore land-based identity through your ecosystem and of the implications of soul work in community with Kelley Harrell.

https://www.soulintentarts.com/ethical-pathmaking-the-quest-series/How do you stay spiritual in heavy times? How do you ...
12/02/2025

https://www.soulintentarts.com/ethical-pathmaking-the-quest-series/

How do you stay spiritual in heavy times? How do you stay community-engaged in terrible times? Animism is an invitation to enmash in ecosystem in a way that teaches you both. Registration for The Quest Series closes 16 December.

With The Quest Series, despite the broken path, modernanimists can create meaningful rituals,cosmology relaitonships, andcommunity.

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Soul Intent Arts - Embodied Soul Tending Through Nature

I’m Kelley Harrell, and I believe we can do better.

I believe we all share the calling to be fit, embodied elders, who upon death become wise, capable Ancestors. To fulfill that calling, we must respond at a soul level. Through actionable animism I teach others to find their unique spiritual paths in support of their quiet dead, healed ancestors, fellow humans, and peaceful coexistence with the spirits of the land they live on.

I’m an author, lifelong deathwalker and animist, and the founder of Soul Intent Arts on traditional Sissipahaw land in North Carolina. As an ordained interfaith minister, I teach others to ethically build a thriving spiritual path. My work is Nature-based, and focuses soul tending through the Elder Futhark runes, animism, ancestral healing, and deathwork.

Elder well, Die well, Ancestor well.