The Elfin Star Runes: Following the Elf Star to Faerie contains a description of an original elven rune set of 49 runes. It is set up into 7 chapters with 7 runes described and illustrated in each chapter that relate to the elfin magicks that guide us in the spiritual evolution of the elfae peoples - The Magic, Healing, Thaumaturgy, Enchantment, Sorcery, Wizardry, and Witchcraft. These 7 groups of runes relate to an important energy on each of the points of the seven-pointed elven star: with Magic relating to the first point of the star or Will; Healing relating to the second point or Love; Thaumaturgy to the third point or Art; Enchantment to the fourth point or Innovation; Sorcery to the fifth point or Truth; Wizardry to the sixth point or Reflection; and Witchcraft to the seventh point or Celebration. The Elfin Star Runes may be used to assist you in what you need to develop as you progress upon the Elven Way for s'elf development and further awakening to your elven nature. They also may be used as an oracle system to know what the wisdom of the ancient elven has to say to you. We Silver Elves often draw an elfin star rune for further information to accompany our daily spiritual practice of throwing the I-Ching or in a tarot reading about a specific question for which we are in need of guidance. The Elfin Star Runes may also be used for your magic to write words in both English and Arvyndase, the magical language of the Silver Elves, and also in numbers. All 49 runes or sigils for these runes can be laid upon an elven star and will be found to conform to the various lines of the star. Thus, we call them The Elfin Star Runes. The acute angled seven-pointed star, which is often called the faerie star these days, was first associated with we elves and called the elven star by the Elf Queen's Daughters of which we Silver Elves were a part and who first awakened us to our elven nature back in the mid 1970's (for more on this see our books Elf Magic Mail vols. 1 & 2). We continued using the elven star in our own elf letters that we sent out first by snail mail in the late 70s, the 80s and 90s and then later, with the invention of the internet, by email (see our books The Magical Elven Love Letters vols. 1, 2 & 3). We also very commonly and quite often wore elven stars as amulets and still today have them as talismans all over our eald (elven home and demesne). Somewhere, or some when, we don't know exactly but surely in the late 1990's or early 2000's, the faerie community adopted the elf star and started calling it the faerie star. We don't mind, but we do think we elfae folk should know something of our own history and we still reserve the right to refer to it as the Elven Star even if nearly everyone else now calls it the Faerie Star, for it is one and the same. And when you come down to it, all we elves are fae from the Faerie Realm but not all fae are elves ... or faeries for that matter.