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Mystic Glyphs: An Oracle Based on Native American Symbols

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Mystic Glyphs is a great set of oracle cards that comes with a companion book. I thoroughly enjoy this set. The author has explained the symbols well and gives easy to understand instructions for doing three different types of readings. My readings are very accurate. It amazes me that I can think of a problem or question silently in my mind and the cards answer specifically the nature of my question with great precision. I have read for friends and they are amazed as well. This is a great set for beginners and advanced readers. The book explains everything about the cards and positions. It has a symbol dictionary at the back of the companion book for easy reference to the symbols.

This card and book set is based on Native American symbols illustrated as Glyphs.

For those of you who have seen the Native American Petroglyphs found in various places across the Southwest, you know they are primitive symbols carved or chipped into stone. They are wondrous to behold as they have stood against time and the imagery sparks the imagination.

Ms. Rogers has introduced these glyphs into a card deck similar to tarot decks. There are 72 cards, square in shape, depicting various petroglyphs.

Ms. Rogers has made petroglyphs her study and she provides in her book a brief history of her adaptation of these petroglyphs to cards, her interpretation of the symbols and their meanings and suggested layouts for these cards.

Complications: This deck is not based on the Rider Waite deck, nor is there any correspondence to any other Tarot Deck. The cards are square, as opposed to the usual rectangle cards. While the deck can fit comfortably into your hand, the shape lends itself to the idea that the cards can turn up in one of 4 different directions: upright, reversed, facing left or facing right. Ms. Rogers has included meanings for all four directions, which means that this deck requires a lot of study and reference to her book in order to be accurately read.

This is not a deck that you can pick up and use your already established tarot knowledge. This deck will require some research and some working time to get this down.

The spirituality explored here appears to be Native American. The animal associations seem to be on line with generally accepted Native American associations. Interpretations, however, seem to belong to Ms. Rogers.

If you feel an association to the Native American spirituality and want to explore the ancient symbolism of the native peoples, this would be a deck you should look into. Interpretations, as always, are in the mind of the reader, and this deck offers a new way to look at these symbols. boudica