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Tarot and runes readings are a creative way of exploring ones subconscious.
When faced with conflict or troubling situation in life, performing a
divination can help you face what you already know (and may have been afraid
to admit), or come to new solutions that hadn't originally come to mind. No
matter what rune or tarot card you draw, it can add new insight and
perspective to the question that is at hand.
Earthkat's Tarot
& Rune Set Review
Earthkat's
Creating a Rune or Tarot Set
Free
on Line Course on Tarot reading
This is Joan Bunnings web
site with her entire book “Learning the Tarot” online. This is a wonderful inexpensive way to
learn the tarot. There’s a
free online course, books, and tarot deck sets to browse. A wonderful website to get lost in.
Free Tarot & Rune on Line Readings
One of my favorite sites
for it’s variety of online divination tools.
Izolda's Tarot Review
An in depth verbal review
of more decks.
by Earthkat
Site © 2004
Creating Rune & Card Sets
The fastest and easiest
way to make a set (Rune or Tarot) is to use unlined index cards and magic markers.
Sometimes I cut the cards into circles (trace a kitchen glass for a uniform
shape). You can use rubber stamps for the back of the cards (both horizontal
and vertical symmetric shapes are best if you're picky, but anything will do
for decoration). I have also seen a tarot deck created from pictures clipped
from comic books and magazines, and clipart. You can sew pouches or make
paper envelopes to store your set.
For rune set stones, you can use natural stones you find outside,
semi-precious stones (tiger eye, quartz, agate, etc) found in stores, or
modeling clay. Craft stores sell a polymer clay that you can bake in the oven
to a stone hard finish. You can carve into the clay before you bake them. The
bulk clay comes in the color white or peach. It is also sold in smaller but
more expensive portions in a variety of colors. If you use stones, you can
paint them with acrylic paints (it dries real fast and they sell acrylic
paint pens, which is easier if you're unaccustomed to a brush). Some people
have bought semi precious polished stones (tiger eye, amethyst, quartz) and
drilled designs with a Dremmel tool.
Use your imagination and have fun designing your own personalized set.
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Amazon.com is a great
way to read a variety of reviews on line. Listed on this page you will find
my personal tarot & rune reviews. Click on the images to take you to
Amazon.com to read more reviews, or place an order.
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Ariadne's Thread : A
Workbook of Goddess Magic by Shekinah Mountainwater
These runes are found in the workbook Ariadne's Thread. These runes are
simple line sketches of pictures, and have more intuitive meanings than the
traditional Nordic runes. For example: a sketch of a flame means
transformation, the sun means healing, a seed means waiting. Numbers listed
for each rune for numerology, and also the phonetics are also listed in
order to write with these runes. I have made many sets for friends (pagan
and non-pagan) and they have all found them to be an inspirational tools.
There are no commercial sets or these runes, but you can make your own.
Click on the Divination web link for ideas in making your own rune set.
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The
Rune Cards by Ralph Blum
This deck has warmed me up to the traditional Nordic runes. The deck has
the symbol with a picture incorporating the letter into the design, and the
design has the meaning of the rune. The book is brief, explaining each card
in a page or two. I highly recommend this deck.
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Amazon.com Deck
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Tarot of the Cat People by Karen Kuykendall
My favorite tarot deck is the Cat Tarot. The artwork is colorful with
beautiful kitties, and it is an excellent visual aid to learning the tarot.
The companion book is a nice piece of fiction as well. It explains that
each suit has specific cats (domestic, wild), people (warriors, academics),
and geographic area (dessert, volcanic) of the Cat world. The suits, cats,
people, geography correspond with the elements. For example, the suit of
swords, has the element of fire, is located in the volcanic region of the
cat world, and the people are warriors. Play with this deck on line (free).
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The
Medicine Woman Inner Guidebook by Carol Bridges
I really like the images on this deck. They are very inspirational and
uplifting. The book has daily exercises and meditations. However, I found
some of the meditations a bit dopey, and long (one week working on each
card?) Every time I pick up this deck I am drawn to the images, but turned
away a bit on the dopiness of the book. Worth a look over.
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Women Runes
Amulets of the Goddess by Nancy Blair
The symbols in this book are both familiar cultural women symbols (bull
heads, spider) and more obscure (combs, dolphins). The author is a modern
abstract artist, that has studied pre-Christian religious symbols. Some of
her exercises are more women oriented towards emotions and menstruation,
but the images and research in this book I find intriguing and worth while.
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Medicine Cards Medicine Cards by Jamie Sams
& David Carson
Try to get the edition of this book without the orange
book cover. The newer addition also has a phrase pertaining to the symbol
written on the card. Instructions are given on how to use the set and each
card is explained in a page or two. Blank cards are enclosed to add your
own animals. I get a good feel for this set, and I really enjoyed looking
up the animals in Ted Andrews animal dictionary as well (see book review
for review of this book).
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