Oracle of the Radiant Sun

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This very nicely boxed set comes with 84 cards and a 144-page book. Unlike this partnership's other decks, the Moon Oracle, the Runic Tarot (which isn't actually a tarot, but an oracle) and the Elemental Tarot, the images here have a real Victoriana feel to them. The cards are relatively small at 10cm by 6,5cm (4 by 2 1/2 inches), which is a good thing in terms of shuffling, especially as there are 6 more cards than in a tarot deck. The card stock is sturdy and laminated, and the backs are non-reversible, done in a pale beige with a sun face in white. From the book: "This Sun oracle is a unique system based on eighty-four illustrated cards describing the meaning of the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn in the twelve Houses and twelve signs of astrology, and sets out a clear and simple means of remembering and developing the interpretation. As in Horary astrology, the Sun oracle does not use the outer planets Uranus, Neptune and Pluto." The cards are designed with seven different layouts, to make recognizing the different planets easier. For example, Mercury has a split layout, with different images on the two diagonal halves of the card. The Moon has two images di

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