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Rainring index
This index of links gives you an up-to-the-minute overview of the pages and posts on this blog connected to the Rainring cards in one way or another, together with reviews and analysis from outside (see: Others Explore..)
This index last update 01/05/08 Stop press: set 9 completed and published
NOTE: My Masterclass series has been interrupted while I work on the expanded directory of meanings of the cards. This is now nearing completion. Check here or stop press for developments.
Rainring web address: www.rainringcards.com
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Rainring Masterclass 1-5This series of ‘lessons’ is intended to provide some kind of background, back-up and support to people attempting to get to grips with Rainring for the first time. It deals with the version of the cards found on the web, not those available in hard copy, which are more complex. However, a great deal of what can be found here will also be of immediate relevance to those using the 4-mention hard copy.
Class 1: Introduction to the grid - using group and set position to understand the meaning of an individual card
Class 2: The groups and aspects: the anatomy of Rainring’s fundamental spread.
Class 3: the sets
Class 4: an example reading featuring the centred octagon (Pts 1-3)
Class 5: detailed meanings of the individual cards
5 set 1 - complete
5 set 2 - complete
5 set 3 - complete
5 set 4 - complete
5 set 5 - complete
5 set 6 - complete
5 set 7 - complete
5 set 8 - complete
5 set 9 - complete
Others explore Rainring
This page contains a list, updated regularly, of articles, reviews etc about the Rainring cards written by other bloggers
Tales from Rainring This is the story written originally in 1996 and used to illustrate the Rainring cards. It is presented in serial form, with a new episode added on or close to the 20th of each month.
So far: episodes 1-9
This page presents a brief overview of what one can expect as a new user of Rainring, and also explores a spread obtained by asking the cards: What will be the effect of Rainring upon a moderate (i.e. not obsessive) user?
Image: Rainring cards’ box and the unicorn carthorse
The illustrations on the box of the hard copy of Rainring cards
POSTS
(Chronological order, most recent first)
Rainring and Psychotherapy (1)
Rainring and Psychotherapy (2)
Rainring and Psychotherapy (3)
This series of articles asks the question: in what ways is a Rainring reading similar to and different from a psychotherapy session?
“How would you describe the tarot?” is the question put to the Rainring cards. After a link to a print-screen of the spread as read on the website, there is an analysis, card by card of the nine-card spread used. This is both a meditation on the tarot and a demonstration of the Rainring cards in action.
The concluding part of this trilogy attempts to answer the questions: Why not just read tea-leaves? and What difference does it make whether I use Rainring, tarot, I Ching or any of the available systems?
This part comments in depth the two readings previewed in Part 1.
Is there any reason to explore Rainring, a contemporary system, given that we have the tried and tested tarot and I Ching?
How does the Unconscious view systems such as Rainring, tarot and I Ching? We introduce print-screens of two four-card spreads, one representing the view from consciousness, the other the view from the Unconscious.
The Unconscious blogs about blogging
Recommended as an introduction for bloggers to the Rainring cards in action - a far less deep and heavy subject than some of the others, using the 5-card square. The cards are surprisingly(?) complimentary about the blogging fraternity.
In this disarmingly simple 4-card spread, we ask the Rainring cards how they would describe themselves. The result is a startling and disturbing reading, which provides much food for thought.
For those interested in the intricacies of the visual, the names of the four illustrators of the Rainring cards, together with one example of the work of each of them.
The Unconscious’s advice on how to read Rainring
This short post gives a very brief analysis of a 9-card octagon spread to answer the question: how should a person go about reading Rainring cards - in other words, what attitudes, approaches etc are needed.
This is a very short post containing a link to an article on innovation /diffusion theory, and how footwear manufacturers use it to develop new products. It is about the psychology of adoption (and non-adoption) of the new.
(I have removed two early posts I did on synchronicity and the random factor, as I am not satisfied with them. I may return to these issues at a later date.)
