Rune Set - Moonstone

Twenty-five runes hand carved in moonstone, with an information card.

Moonstone is the one to pick if you read to a lunar rhythm, and it is also the gentlest stone in this range to handle: cool, slightly translucent, with the shimmer moving as you turn it. Rune work has a reputation for being blunt, and moonstone takes some of the edge off without taking the honesty out.

What You Are Getting

Twenty-five hand carved stones with an information card. Twenty-four of them are the Elder Futhark, the oldest runic alphabet, in use across Germanic Europe from roughly the second century. The twenty-fifth is blank.

About that blank rune. It is not ancient. Ralph Blum popularised it in The Book of Runes in 1982 and it has been in almost every commercial set since. Some readers use it for the unknowable and some take it straight back out of the bag. Both are defensible, and you should know which you are doing rather than find out mid-reading.

Try It With

Taking Up the Runes or The Runecaster’s Handbook to learn the staves, the Bone Rune Set if you want a second set in a different material, and a Rune Reading if you would rather be read for. More in runes.