If we choose to believe that there are many questions to life,
we must also believe that the answers to these questions reside within us.

Each and every being has the capacity to quiet the mind,
enter the silence, and Know.
We believe that the Tarot and Oracle cards, Runes and the I Ching
allow us this journey if we but access their mysteries, and our own.

The Tarot
Today's Tarot card designs reflect specific trends in
sexuality, religion, culture, and philosophy.
There are literally hundreds of interpretations,
and more are being conceived as this is being written.
The diversity of the styles allows Tarot Readers to choose a deck
that suits their personalities, the subject of the reading,
the person receiving the reading, or any other variable as they so choose.
Certain decks have a serious tone, some have a dream-like quality,
others are full of cartoon images.
The true beauty lies in the Tarot's ability to retain its "soul"
through each metamorphosis and incarnation.
It is, on many levels, a mirror of those who work with it,
and allows them to make each reading a truly personal experience.


Tarot cards are used throughout much of Europe to play
Tarot card games such as Italian Tarocchini and French Tarot.
In English-speaking countries, where the games are largely unknown,
Tarot cards are utilized primarily for divinatory purposes,
with the trump cards plus the Fool card making up the twenty-two major arcana cards
and the pip and four face cards the fifty-six minor arcana.
The terms Major Arcana and Minor Arcana are used in occult tarot
and are seldom used by card players.
The divinatory meanings of the cards are derived mostly
from the Kabbalah of Jewish mysticism and from Medieval Alchemy.

Carl Jung was the first psychologist to attach importance to tarot symbolism.
He may have regarded the tarot cards as representing archetypes:
fundamental types of persons or situations embedded in the subconscious of all human beings.

The theory of archetypes gives rise to several psychological uses.
Since the cards represent these different archetypes within each individual,
ideas of the subject's self-perception can be gained by asking them
to select a card that they 'identify with'.
Equally, the subject can try and clarify the situation
by imagining it in terms of the archetypal ideas associated with each card.

For instance, someone rushing in heedlessly like the Knight of Swords,
or blindly keeping the world at bay like the Rider-Waite Two of Swords.

The late Dr. Timothy Leary has suggested that the Tarot Trump cards
are a pictorial representation of human development
from a baby to a fully grown adult,
The Fool symbolizing the new born infant,
The Magician symbolizing the stage at which an infant
starts to play with artifacts, etc.
In addition to this, in Leary's view the Tarot Trumps
can be seen to be a blue print for of the human race in the future as it matures.

Recently, the use of tarot for divination, or as a store of symbolism
has inspired the creation of modern oracle card decks.
These are card decks for inspiration or divination containing
images of angels, faeries, goddesses, Power Animals, etc.
Although obviously influenced by divinatory Tarot,
they do not follow the traditional structure of Tarot;
they often lack any suits of numbered cards,
and the set of cards differs from the conventional major arcana.

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The most common and easily recognized virtue of runes
is their magical and divination abilities. 
It was believed that by calling upon the appropriate rune
one could thereby make contact with the force in Nature
in which the symbol was representing. 
It is this combining with nature that has enabled insights
and even prophecies for centuries, right up to the present times of today. 

Today, you can see runic symbols everywhere,
even when you don’t realize you are looking at them. 
Trees, buildings, talismans, even the written word
can be recognized as runic symbolization,
be it a natural coincidence or not,
it simply shows that runes are a part of our everyday lives
and we only have to take a moment to recognize
their very existence to feel their impact.
 -Blessings-Chantell Sauer-

April 2009

The word "Rune" simply means
" mystery" or "secret..."

There is some evidence that runes historically served purposes
of magic in addition to being a writing system.
This is the case from earliest epigraphic evidence
of the Roman to Germanic Iron Age,
with non-linguistic inscriptions and the alu word.

An erilaz appears to have been a person versed in runes,
including their magic applications.
In medieval sources, notably the Poetic Edda.
The Sigrdrífumál mentions "victory runes" to be carved on a sword,
"some on the grasp and some on the inlay, and name Tyr twice."

In early modern and modern times,
related folklore and superstition is recorded in the form of the Icelandic magical staves.
In the early 20th century, Germanic mysticism coins new forms of "runic magic",
some of which were continued or developed further by contemporary
adherents of Germanic Neopaganism.

Modern systems of runic divination due to Stephen Flowers (Edred Thorsson) and others
are based on Hermeticism and classical Occultism,
while others like Ralph Blum have drawn from modern Self-help and New Age techniques.

Rune Might
by Edred Thorsson

Futhark: A Handbook of Rune Magic
by Edred Thorsson

Runecaster's Handbook: The Well of Wyrd
by Edred Thorsson

Runelore: A Handbook of Esoteric Runology
by Edred Thorsson

Stephen Edred Flowers (born 1953) is an American Runologist
and proponent of occultism and Germanic mysticism.
The Bonham, Texas-born author has over two dozen published books
and hundreds of published papers on a disparate range of subjects.
He is also known by the pen-name Edred Thorsson.
Flowers advocates "Esoteric Runology" or "Odianism",
an occultist version of Germanic Neopaganism.

In addition to being a prolific writer,
Flowers is well known for translating obscure texts and manuscripts
written in Icelandic, Old Norse and German into the English language,
making many of them available to a wider range of readers for the first time.

Practical Guide To The Runes
by Lisa Peschel

The Elements of the Runes
by Bernard King

Way of the Runes
by Bernard King

Principles of Runes
by Freya Aswynn

The Complete Illustrated Guide to Runes
by Nigel Pennick

The Book of Runes
by Ralph Blum

The Pagan Book of Days:
A Guide to the Festivals, Traditions, and Sacred Days of the Year
by Nigel Pennick

The Runes of Elfland
by Ari Berk (Author), Brian Froud

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The I Ching

Classic of Changes or Book of Changes;
also called Zhouyi,
is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts.
The book is a symbol system used to identify order in random events.
The text describes an ancient system of cosmology and philosophy
that is intrinsic to ancient Chinese cultural beliefs.
The cosmology centres on the ideas of the dynamic balance of opposites,
the evolution of events as a process, and acceptance of the inevitability of change.

In Western cultures and modern East Asia,
the I Ching is sometimes regarded as a system of divination.
The classic consists of a series of symbols,
rules for manipulating these symbols, poems, and commentary.

The I Ching has long been used as an oracle and many different ways
coexist to “cast” a reading, i.e., a hexagram,
with its dynamic relationship to others.

In China the I Ching had two distinct functions.
The first was as a compendium and classic of ancient cosmic principles.
The second function was that of divination text.
As a divination text the world of the I Ching was that of the
marketplace fortune teller and roadside oracle.
These individuals served the illiterate peasantry.
The educated Confucian elite in China were of an entirely different disposition.
The future results of our actions were a function of our personal virtues.
The Confucian literati actually had little use for the I Ching as a work of divination.

In the collected works of the countless educated literati of ancient China
there are actually few references to the I Ching as a divination text.
However, The I Ching has influenced countless Chinese philosophers,
artists and even businesspeople throughout history.
In more recent times, several Western artists and thinkers
have used it in fields as diverse as psychoanalysis, music, film,
drama, dance, eschatology, and fiction writing.

The Invisible Landscape:
Mind, Hallucinogens, and the I Ching
By Terence Mckenna

The Complete I Ching:
The Definitive Translation by the Taoist Master Alfred Huang
By Taoist Master Alfred Huang

I Ching Workbook
R.L. Wing

The Original I Ching Oracle:
The Pure and Complete Texts with Concordance
By Rudolf Ritsema

The I Ching Workbook
Wu Wei

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