Tarot, Runes & Mystic Symbols
Exploring the layered meanings of images, letters and symbols. Tarot, Runes & Mystic Symbols is an intention theme in the Cosmos & Symbols group.
Answer at a glance
Tarot, runes and mystic symbols is about the images themselves and the meanings people have layered onto them over time. Look at a card or a carved letterform first, then look up what it is said to mean; where the pages cite a reading they say which period it is recorded in.
- Scope
- Not divination, and not a claim about the future. Where sources record how a symbol was read in a given period, we cite that context rather than restating it as a result.
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-28
Group
Definition
Exploring the layered meanings of images, letters and symbols.
A card or a carved letter is an image before it is a meaning, and the meanings arrived afterwards, from different people at different times. This theme is for reading them in that order.
What it does not represent
Not divination, and not a claim about the future. Where sources record how a symbol was read in a given period, we cite that context rather than restating it as a result.
- This site promises no healing, no efficacy, and no health or financial outcome. An intention is the meaning a wearer gives a piece, not something the object does.
- A cultural record says who believed something, when, where and in what setting. It is not turned into “this stone brings that result.”
- None of this is presented as a divination result or a prediction about the future.
Questions to reflect on
- What do I see in this image before I look up what it means?
- Which reading do I keep returning to, and why that one?
Checked material associations
No checked material association has been published for this theme yet.
Still deciding?
Which pieces express an intention well is a matter of judgement, and other people’s reasoning is often more useful than a definition.