Oracle of the Radiant Sun: Astrology Cards to Illuminate Your Life

I was so disappointed to receive only the book that accompanies the cards, but no cards.

This is an oracle deck of 84 cards, and it is based on horary astrology. It is divided into 7 suits (one for each of the luminaries and inner planets: sun, moon, mercury, venus, mars, jupiter and saturn) and each suit has 12 cards (one for each of the planet's position through the zodiac signs). Well, I really like astrology cards, but there are few on the market, and even fewer that are of any quality. I ordered the Oracle of the Radiant Sun without knowing anything about it, simply because I was very pleased with the authors' other product "The Moon Oracle", and I was certainly not disappointed! The cards are simply beautiful, illustrated with great detail and vibrant symbolism and their size is the regular playing-cards size, which makes them very easy to use. They come together with a 144-page book that gives descriptions for each of the cards as well as instructions and examples on how to do readings. The suggested spreads always use the 12 astrological houses. So, this is a more sophisticated system than most regular oracles but it is intuitive and easy to use, and you don't need to have any knowledge in astrology to use this deck. The descriptions of the cards are adjusted for their divinatory use, but they are so insightful that if you study them it's like doing an entire introductory course on astrology! I think that picking an oracle or tarot deck and deciding which one is best is a very personal choice, but still, I agree with the reviewer below saying that this must be the most underrated oracle ever. It is one of those that get you so excited that you're certain there will be about 150 raving reviews out here...

Or maybe it isn't, I'm saying this because it deserves more than 5 stars. The art is way out, from deco-Egyptian, neo-British huntsman quasi-Spanish abstract impressions of Tantric with cartoon twists, Voodo Veves and Alchemical glyphs? Is that what you would call the wonderfully eclectic style? And the book is fabulous - if you've ever needed a quick and easy divination tool, work with this kit for about a month, and you'll be amazed at how clever your readings are! The packaging is awful - I hate the foldover book/box, but I cut the deck holder off of one so I can use the book (I bought a couple of extra ones so I can have a neat deck after I've worn my first set out from shuffling). Even with the presentation problem, this deck beats the pants off the over-the-top Tarot decks selling for 5 to 10 times the marketplace price for ease of use and power of imagery. Unless you are strictly working with a specific deck for a specific reason, this one is hard to top for clarity and uniqueness. A beginner can easily pick up some astrology with this set - and a quick read of a traditional astrologer like John Frawley will give you enough skill to do some reasonably accurate predictive timing, which is something most Tarot readers have a problem with. Having been a divination professional for decades, I know how important that kind of information can be for seekers, yet most Kabbalistic deck re-designers don't seem to take the questions of everyday people into account. In other words, I can't say enough about how great this deck is. Whether you are a beginner at divination or an old hand that has become tired of the standard Tarot images, try this on for size, I'm sure you'll like the fit and the look of this stylish divination system.

I have been collecting and reading Tarot decks for as long as I can remember. Usually I always ignored Oracle decks as they are in a completely different structure than what is a traditional Tarot Deck. But when I first saw this book and deck set, and looked at the few images the deck showed, and the really cheap price, I was sold. Now to be quite honest with you, being Latino the only experience I have with Astrology is Walter Mercado, and the rest, well I can say I am astrologically illiterate. So of course I had my doughts on purchasing this deck. But the cheap price and the beautiful images shown in the back won me over. This oracle deck is as it proclaims, Radiant, but more than that it is truly breathtaking. And you do not have to even know astrology to start reading because each of the 84 cards has a key word that can get you to start reading right away. So if you are a seasoned Tarot reader, or a newbie, these are truly perfect.I had seen Caroline Smith's previous works with the Elemental Tarot, and I thought they were okay, was not really impressed. But these are just beautiful. . One of the things that really first attracted me to these cards is the art work. Each image conjures and inspires the psyche within in ways that I never thought possible. The art used is a collage of Medieval, and renaissance images, that reminds me of art work used in ancient grimoires, occult books, and ancient maps The other thing I loved about this deck is that the cards are really eclectic, and one does not have to be a student of Astrology to use them.. Occult and religious Images grace each card, images such as Voodoo Veves and other occult sigils, Buddha, Hindu Gods, Biblical characters such as Solomon and Moses, dragons, demons, Greek gods, Egyptian images, Angels, fairies, and so on and so on. Each card is breathtaking, and beautiful. Unlike traditional tarot, this does not have the Major or Minor arcana. Instead it is broken into 7 suites. They are the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Each suite has 12 cards each using the 12 zodiac signs, Leo, Scorpio and so on. The cards are the size of playing cards, and shuffle with ease for small hands. The cards are of a medium thick stock with a nice coating for durability. The thing I love the most about this deck is that one does not have to be fluent in Astrology, and it is a good tool for those who want to begin to learn about Astrology. But not just that the images really wakes the curiosity, and at least for me, made me want to search the meaning behind the pictures. There where only two problems that I found with this kit. One although I love the book that it comes with, it is made in a way that the back flap is also the base where the cards are held. So when you are reading the book, there is this big flap that is anointing, until of course you use scissors and carefully cut along the crease to get rid of this really annoying flap. If you are a