The Power Of The Runes Deck

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.

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 love the Artwork, and I would really suggest these to Tarot readers who are beginning the runes, or novice galdr readers in general. A couple of the cards are deceiving like Gebo, as it shows what looks like to people doing the X sex position ~chuckles~, so newbs are likely to mix up the truth...INTIMACY in GIFT form is what GEBO is about, not sex ~chuckles~, other than that one card the rest are awesome for novice :)

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.

The cards look more like a game than like quality oracle cards. The cards are dull with no shine at all, with poor print quality. The illustrations are unique though.

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.

Some of the artwork is questionable

another way to discover the runes...very interesting cards. I love it

Mensajes no tan claros. Imágenes dejan que desear. Funcionan mejor las runas.

Face of every card is amazing. But the BACK of the card is very bad and give away the result. As a part of card “usage”, card has two meanings: positive (card in regular position) and negative (card in up side down position). If you look at the back of the card the pattern is not uniformed. As you can see on the picture: the blackish side is a bottom and brownish is the top. Thus, user always knows how to flip the card in order to get positive result.

Me encantan las imágenes de cada runa, y los nombres en cada carta. Son muy útiles para los que comenzamos a tirar las runas. El material de las cartas es algo delgado pero aceptable y el tamaño más grande que el de tarot estandar. El empaque general muy débil por lo que la caja de las cartas se estropeó un poco. El pedido me llegó muy rápido en correo normal. Las recomiendo.

Excelente calidad