Tarot is older than most people realise, and stranger. It began as a card game in fifteenth-century northern Italy — nothing mystical about it — and only gradually accumulated the symbolic weight it carries today. What kept it alive wasn't superstition but something more durable: the recognition that a good image, held up at the right moment, can say something true about where you are. The cards don't predict. They reflect. And sometimes that's exactly what's needed.
Nordic tradition brought its own way of reading the world. The runes of the Elder Futhark — the oldest Germanic script, carved into stone and wood across Scandinavia — were never just an alphabet. Each stave held a meaning: Fehu for cattle and wealth, Uruz for strength and wildness, Thurisaz for the thorn that both protects and wounds. The Norns — Urd, Verdandi, Skuld — sat at the roots of Yggdrasil and wove the threads of every life, not as rigid fate but as the accumulated weight of what was, what is, and what is taking shape. You could look at those threads. You could understand them. That's all a reading is.
Sunna Wolf's Readings brings these two traditions together — not to fuse them artificially, but because they ask the same questions. Both are interested in pattern, in the forces you can't quite name that shape the choices in front of you. I'm based in Seattle, Washington, and whether you're sitting across from me or drawing cards on your own from this site, the intention is the same: to help you see your situation more clearly, and leave with something useful.
The Readings
One card drawn from the well. It sounds simple, and it is — but a single card read honestly can cut through more noise than a spread of ten read carelessly. This is the reading for days when you have one specific thing on your mind, or when you want a clear signal rather than a full conversation. Think of it as asking the well one direct question and getting one direct answer.
Three cards, three positions: Urd for what was, Verdandi for what is, Skuld for what is becoming. The oldest structure in the well, and still the most useful for most situations. Where you came from shapes where you're standing, and where you're standing shapes what's possible — this spread makes that chain visible. It won't tell you what to do, but it will usually show you what you've been avoiding looking at.
Five positions drawn from the five forces of Norse cosmology — Jörð, Logi, Ægir, Vindr, Ýmir. Earth beneath you, fire ahead, water within, wind around, spirit at the end of the thread. This spread works particularly well when a situation feels like it has more moving parts than a three-card can hold — when you need to see the landscape, not just the road.
Seven positions mapped to the seven realms of Yggdrasil, from Ásgarðr to Niflheimr. Each realm represents a different layer of what's at work in your life: your own spirit and will, the world around you, your allies, your gifts, your shadow, what opposes you, and where this is all tending. When a situation feels genuinely complex — not just busy, but layered in ways that are hard to articulate — this is the spread to reach for.
Seventeen cards drawn across twelve Norse months and five thematic threads. The months run from Þorri in the deep of January through Mörsugur at year's end; the final five speak to the year's overall energy, its central challenge, your greatest strength, where to direct your attention, and where fate is quietly tending by the time the wheel turns again. This is a reading you sit with over time, not one you consume in a sitting.
Premium Spreads
Ten cards in ten positions — the most widely known spread in tarot, and still one of the most honest. It maps your present moment against what underlies it, what recently passed, what approaches, how you see yourself, how the situation is reading you, your hopes and fears held together (they are usually the same thing), and where this is heading. The Celtic Cross doesn't flatter. It shows you the full picture, which is why people keep coming back to it when something actually matters.
Twelve cards drawn across the twelve astrological houses — not because astrology and tarot are the same system, but because the twelve houses offer a remarkably complete map of a human life. Career, home, partnership, hidden things, long journeys of the mind, money, daily work, transformation. One card falls on each house, and together they give you something like a current state of play across every major area at once. This is the reading for when you want altitude rather than depth — to see how everything connects before deciding where to focus.
Three staves drawn from the ancient pouch. The Elder Futhark is the oldest runic alphabet — twenty-four staves used across Scandinavia and the Germanic world, each carrying a meaning rooted in natural forces and lived experience rather than abstraction. Fehu speaks of wealth and what flows. Isa speaks of ice, stillness, waiting. Sowilo speaks of the sun breaking through. The three-rune draw follows the oldest structure: situation, action, outcome. What is actually happening, what to do about it, and where this leads if you do.
Whatever brings you here — curiosity, a decision you're sitting with, a pattern you can't quite see clearly — the intention behind every reading on this site is the same. Not to tell you what will happen, but to help you see what's already in motion. The threads are always being woven. A reading just helps you find them.