Reading runes can be challenging. The body of lore surrounding them is fairly murky, hence why the word 'rune' is synonymous with the word mystery. The techniques used for reading them ranges widely for each reader has their own style. Some whisper the query into the bag of stones whereas others hold the bag and focus upon the question.
Laying out the runes like a set of cards is a modern development. There are enough runes to place a single rune for each position of the celtic cross tarot layout and still have a few leftover for clarifying the results. Alternatively, single rune readings can give a good result as well. The ancient method of holding all the rune in your hand and dropping them onto a casting cloth is best suited to durable runes, thus the clay ones that came with my copy of Ralph Blum's The Book of Runes are not the best to use for this as I found out the hard way.
Runes that are dropped upon a cloth can be read by grouping and directional orientation. They can also be read on the basis of what one's intuition tells them is the correct order. Either method has great flexibility. A plain casting cloth can be altered to have areas that signify different focuses for reading. If such a cloth is used, the runes that land in those areas would be speaking on those matters.
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