The Power Of The Runes Deck Cards – April 15, 2002

Beautiful graphic, card size is nice . Goal was to use as tool to learn Runes

The cards arrived today. I love the cards. Some of the pictures I didn't connect right away, but the Runes are speaking to me, so the pictures are secondary to me. My wife, who is an old school Tarot reader, did a flip through with me. She immediately connected with the pictures. She was like "with this deck, I would learn the Runes!" Done, I'll order another deck for my wife.

I usually prefer to read the runes as stones, wood carvings, and other methods but if you're looking for a deck of cards with the runes this is a good deck. The accompanying book is very basic, and they include an extra card with Yr which is not part of the Elder Futhark. The card artwork is very good and the names of the runes are spelled out in runes at the top of the card, which is a great touch leading towards deeper understanding of the rune. Overall, very good.

I like these cards, and already have integrated them into my daily practice. Just one note to clarify for Americans. The image for the rune Elhaz, is of a lady on a "Elk" descending from the sky on a rainbow bridge. I love the image, but I just wanted to clarify for folks that in American an Elk is a very large deer like creature, and in Sweden and such the Elk is what in America is called a Moose. They are very different animals and so if you are an American looking at this card saying, that is not an Elk, but a Moose. You are correct, it is actually meant to be Moose, but it is called an Elk outside the US. This has subtle but important shifts in meaning for the the card. The reason being that the Elk in the US is more like a powerful Stag, and thus falls perhaps more under that meaning for a creature ie. Kingship etc. The Moose however is a quiet giant of a creature with a someone other-worldly gait like a giraffe. Moose can be so still and quiet they seem to have the ability to hide in plain site sometimes! Anyway, the Moose seems more aligned with the spiritual principle of contact with the higher self, or the soul, and this what the Elhaz rune is pointing to, in part, as as a symbol to represent the powers of this rune.

This is a great deck, drawn largely from the works of Thorsson and other contemporary but serious writers on the subject. The imagery is beautiful, stirring, and inspiring. The artist has clearly internalized the tradition and added a great deal of integration to the imagery that occurs in much of the contemporary literature. Yet the artist's voice is not lost either, and despite the fact that my own understanding often diverges from the artists, I have chosen to replace this deck.This is a worthy deck.

Sure some of the art looks like a kid in high school did it during lunch but most of it looks pretty great (especially in a dark room lit only by candles). The readings have been VERY consistent and accurate but that's probably more thanks to my ancestors ;) Great learning tool for those who want to read runes and have the feel of Tarot.

These are awesome cards. The artwork is really good and very symbolic. These are a great alternative to staves or stones.

These cards are great. The artistic impressions are wonderful. I highly recommend these cards to both the novice and adept as a tool for the art of Divination.