I was a member of B.O.T.A for many years and have studied Tarot for decades, but I don’t use it for readings and divination, ever. To me it is a 78 page book of Ancient Wisdom accessible through the symbols of an orthodox deck. It contains all the material in Kabbalah, astrology, numerology, gematria and much else, all hyper linked by the numbers involved and the Hebrew alphabet, not to mention the sychronicity of the time when the book is opened to read about the laws of the universe, within and without.

There is a rune named RIT in some rune sets and RAIDHO in others. These are words from old German tongues. It looks like an upper case R. Since English has Germanic languages in its ancestry it won’t be too surprising to note that the rune concerned has to do with both RITual and horse RIDing.

If you ever saw the Kirk Douglas movie The Vikings, or the more recent fantasy adventure The 13th Warrior, you will remember that at a point in each story when nobody knew what to do, an old female shaman of the tribe was asked to throw the runes, or the bones. She threw a handful of things with marks on them on the ground, picked up those that landed in a certain way, and told the puzzled warriors exactly what had to be done. And she was obeyed implicitly. She had used the sacred language of the runes to access the mysteries of the immediate future, the wisdom of Odin.