My Synchro-Signs finally arrived, hooray!
I read the introductory material in the book, then I read through all the "cards," although for most I just read the keywords, and only read the in-depth material on a few of them.
I was pleased with the tiles. They're not actually cardboard, they're some kind of art board which is much stiffer than cardboard. You couldn't put a crease in it, unless you really were trying to. They feel a little like plastic or ceramic. They make a "click" sound when they fall against each other, so in that way they feel a little like runes.
I like the way a lot of them overlap in meaning, so that you can have subtle differences among similar concepts. I also like that there are 101 of them, so that a lot of concepts are represented which don't exist in tarot or runes. With the diverse symbols and the possibility of combinations, you can actually get very subtle and sophisticated shades of meaning which aren't possible (or at least it would be very difficult) in tarot.
I found that this isn't the kind of thing where you can forget the book altogether and just intuitively read them. I mean, I think you could do that afterwards, but I think at first you really need to read at least the keywords so you see where she's coming from. Certain of the tiles, I couldn't even tell what was being represented until I read about it in the book (such as Lightning).
I actually like the spread she has in the book, which is a five-position spread with four tiles for each position. I tried it, and the reading was wonderful -- very accurate, and a completely different feeling than a tarot reading.
Although she correlates each tile with a Major tarot card, I found that her assignments made absolutely no sense to me whatsoever and I'm going to ignore them.
I will definitely be using these in the future and I'd love to join a study group, if one forms.
-- Lee