Toward Ecosophy

I know that a great many of us have lots of unexpected free time at the moment. Since I've noticed that my readers tend to be an unusually creative and eccentric bunch, it occurs to me to ask -- what interesting things are you doing while you wait for the outbreak to wind down? 

Since what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, I'll start things rolling. Some months ago I started work on a translation of Johannes Bureus' Adul-Runa Rediviva, a remarkably strange Latin book about the runes. Bureus was a Renaissance Hermetic occultist, deeply involved in circulating Rosicrucian ideas in Scandinavia in the early 17th century, as well as the first scholar in modern times to study the runes; he combined both interests in Adul-Runa, and interpreted the runes using the sacred geometry in John Dee's enigmatic Monas Hieroglyphica as a basis. (As I said, remarkably strange.) 

Normally I do Latin translations the way some people do crossword puzzles, for relaxation -- there's actually a lot in common between the two habits. In recent months, unfortunately, I've been sufficiently swamped that I haven't been able to put time into translating Bureus. Now that everything's shut down, though, I've been able to devote an hour or so each evening after dinner to that relaxing pastime. Since I've got Dee's Monas in English and Latin, and know my way more generally around the occult scene of the Rosicrucian era, if all goes well I should have a translation of Adul-Runa with detailed commentary in print sometime next year. (And if the shutdown lasts longer than Bureus does, I've got a bunch of Giordano Bruno texts, including his essays on magic, to work on...) 

So that's what I've been doing in my unexpectedly copious free time. What about you, fellow hermits?