Runes for Beginners: A Guide to Reading Runes in Divination, Rune Magic, and the Meaning of the Elder Futhark Runes (Divination for Beginners Series) Kindle Edition

I'm not going to read past the first chapter because of the blatant misinformation on the "history" of the runes. It first seems to imply that our "modern writing system" of letters and sounds to create words and describe ideas - rather than pictographs and images to communicate, was a European invention! It later goes on to describe how this "process" (of alphabets replacing pictograms) began in Egypt, as a more convenient way to replace their hieroglyphics.Not a single mention within the entire chapter of Mesopotamia??? The actual place where the first forms of writing began??? The earliest of which date back to 3500 BCE!! Not 1700 BCE, as this book claims.Furthermore, pictograms to represent ideas to make up phrases is not an ancient, pre modern, or inefficient writing method - see Chinese and Japanese, both MODERN languages which use this method of writing. Furthermore, Egyptian hieroglyphics are NOT pictograms to exclusively represent ideas, they can represent a word, a sound, a syllable, or a concept. Egyptian hieroglyphics were fit so perfectly for Egyptian culture and society that it is thought the system was developed all at once, similar to how the Korean writing system was invented just in a day. There was no adoption to alphabetic writings, because they already USED alphabetic writing.This book is cheap, but not worth it. I don't care to read any further, because this book, and it's spread of misinformation, infuriates me. I can't trust it on any other information, when all of this was so blatantly innacurrate. Seriously, not a SINGLE mention of Mesopotamian cuneiform?! In a description on the HISTORY OF WRITING!!

Book is small in more than just overall number of pages. Buyers need to beware the print in this book is ridiculous , you will need a magnifying glass to read the tiny print . Makes me think the publisher was just to cheap to use more paper and add more pages so the book could actually be read comfortably. Obviously disappointed

This book was a really good introduction to the runes. It had sections for background information before getting to brief yet informative descriptions of individual runes. The rune descriptions are not so long as to get boring, but give enough that you understand the...intent behind them. I also appreciated the resources listed at the end for further information on runes and Norse beliefs.

For someone relatively new to working with rune stones, I found this book extremely helpful in helping me along my journey. It is written in easy to understand language and following the idea of studying one rune per day is extremely helpful. The only thing I found missing was an explanation of Odins stone; although it is not a letter in the tunic alphabet, it is included in 'll the sets of runes I have acquired.

Concise and to the point. Any regular tarot reader could start reading runes after a quick run through this great book.

I have been reading runes for years. This guide provided me with more in-depth information. It is very useful as well as interesting and will appeal to anyone who is interested n runes.

I'm not a beginner, but i enjoy seeing the techniques and interpretations of others. I also use the old Futhark runes, in germanic. This book will be an invaluable learning tool. Thanks again Lisa Chamberlain

An excellent book to read for beginners. The author does a superb job of giving you just enough information for you to learn a lot without overwhelming you.

I already have several Rune books in my library so, why by another? I feel each book adds to the whole, this book is no different. Having said that, it is slightly different, in that, while most books give you an overview, then on to the meanings of the symbols for divinatory purposes, this book I feel adds more to the overall picture.Part two invites the reader to explore the runes for magical purposes, with ideas to experiment with. The three aett's or families, are explained.The rune meanings are explained in three sections, Primary themes, Additional meanings and Magical uses.In summary, a very useful guide, well explained ( there is also a free gift within).So, if you are embarking on your runic "journey" this guide, I feel would make an excellent companion.

Let me start by saying that I highly enjoyed this book and I really like the way Lisa Chamberlain writes. It also seems that Chamberlain publishes her books by herself and not through another publisher. If that is the case, then huge respects to her for that achievement! I did encounter some parts in the book that I didn't feel matched the rest of the content in quality, but this are easily fixed problems which I hope the author takes to heart as constructive criticism if she ever decides to write a new edition.The biggest improvement that could be made to this book is better explanation of reading of the runes. Chamberlain presents a rune reading system that reads the runes differently if they happen to point towards or against the caster/reader, non-reversed and reversed runes. This is completely fine, but it was never explained what it meant if the runes land blank side up, it wasn't even mentioned that it meant nothing (if that was the case), it was simply never mentioned. If I was to use the rune reading system in the book, I wouldn't know what to do if a rune lands on the blank side since it is never explained what it means or if it means anything at all.I'm also familiar with a different way to read runes, that read runes differently if the runes lands rune side up or blank side up. Here the rune side up has one meaning and the blank side up has a different (often opposite meaning). This is different to the system presented in the book where the runes apparently only have meaning if they land rune side up, with the rune pointing either towards or away from the caster/reader. Of course Chamberlain can present the system she herself most prefer in the book, but I think the system she presented should be explained more in detail, especially the meanings of blank runes which is not explained in the book.That is the biggest improvement to be made. Another smaller improvement to be made is the quality of the images in the book. The images in the book are kinda blurry, like if they were printed out of an office printer, but they are readable and useable. However if the images could be made to be more sharp and clear, that would be a great improvement. Lastly I noticed a small error in the explanation of the meaning of the rune Berkana, page 110. You wrote Tiwaz in there where you probably meant to write Berkana, when you mentioned possible meanings related to the gender of the querent.Other than that I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, and these minor problems makes me rate the book 4/5, but if these minor problems were to be fixed, I would easily give it 5/5. Overall a very good book, and I look forward to future works from the author.

The book is very bland but the most frustrating part was that it was bought as a gift in advance and so when it was opened and there was one duplicated rune and one missing it was too late to returns. Very poor indeed and avoid this item

Love the runes book. It’s easy to read and understand. Love the style and tone of the book. Going read more of her books

I was worried this may be a bit too Wicca leaning as I’m more interested in the Norse rune history but this book gave a wonderful overview of the history of runes from all angles. It tells you of how historic rune castings were conducted and also gives you a more modern perspective if that’s what you’re after. The overviews of each rune I found to be well detailed without being too in-depth. This was my first toe dip into the world of runes and I’m very happy with this book as a starting point and would happily recommend it to anyone else looking to learn or start using runes.