Rainring Cards
Enigmatic oracle emphasizing obscurity, intuition, and subconscious exploration.
by Peter Ryley · 1996
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The record
Whilst reason seeks to make everything clear, what is required for users of the cards is obscurity, opacity, smoke and mirrors, mist or even fog. The headlight of consciousness focuses an intense narrow beam in one place, obliterating everything else. To drive in remote countryside lit only by moon or stars is an altogether different, a magical experience. I would like the cards to be that drive by moonlight, where it is our peripheral vision that is in play; where analysis takes the back seat, and indeed falls asleep completely from time to time. ~ Peter Ryley, author Unlike any tarot or oracle system, the Rainring cards are an intuitive cosmology and a tool for self-knowledge, designed to appeal to emotion, encourage intuition, and enliven the senses, as well as the intellect and reason. The deck has 94 cards, it has 81 pack cards in a grid of nine suit-like sets of nine cards; nine umpires; and four non-umpired cards. They are square, and can be read from four sides. In general, South is Conscious, North is Unconscious, West is Female, East is Male (with some exceptions). There are also three types of reversed meanings with these cards the opposite of the upright meaning
The cards
