Awhile back I bought The Oracle of the Radiant Sun on eBay for a dollar. To be honest, it never occurred to me that I could buy tarot decks from eBay before — though it never occurred to me to try and sell readings on eBay either. Anyway, this oracle deck and book set caught my eye somewhere at sometime and it had been in the back of my mind until I saw it up for auction.

My first thought upon opening the package was that it was really poorly packaged. One of the covers of the book folded to make part of the box meant to hold the cards. So if I were to just read the book, all the cards would fall out of the box anyway and the box would still be attached to the book! And by cutting the box from the book (which I did do), I no longer had a box to keep the cards in. Needless to say I’m putting them in a little drawstring bag that I purchased from this seller on etsy. (I haven’t gotten the bag yet, but the picture of the fabric just matches the cards perfectly!)

Anyway, I just finished my first professional reading with these cards yesterday and I really, really enjoyed it! The spreads offered in the back of the book are so flexible that questions are answered in a snap (if you know something about astrology). Now, I admit that astrology isn’t my strongest suit, but it doesn’t take a lot of knowledge to understand the basics behind these cards. I was really impressed by how a romance reading flowed using the horary reading method outlined in the text. I’ve done several “yearly” readings for friends with these cards, but I really enjoyed this horary reading and think that this will become a staple of my card reading offerings.

Of course the cards are really beautiful as well.