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Consulting oracles used to be difficult and dangerous. You had to make a pilgrimage plagued with hardship, trudging through the desert to a holy place or person. Or kill a calf to read its liver or a bird to read its entrails. Or study for years to read ink dropped in water. Who has the time? Traditional methods just aren't convenient today. What's a divine wonderer to do? Funny you should ask.
The Book of Ordinary Oracles, Lon Milo DuQuette shows us how to use items lying around the house--from pocket change to chopsticks--to divine answer to everyday questions. He also tells us how to ask the right question and interpret the answer. The tools he provides will make consulting oracles as easy as reaching into your pocket or cupboard. Can one use channel surfing as an oracle? You bet! DuQuette's anecdotes illustrate various divination techniques. Laugh your way to wisdom while learning new ways to look at the I Ching and how to read tarot cards for yourself.
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One of my favorite authors, DuQuette brings us this new, fun book about divination using pocket change, popsicle sticks and even your TV remote.
No more spending money on psychics or spending hours trying to decipher your geomancy reading. If you don't know your Caput from your Cauda Draconis, then this book is for you.
Even the book itself is an Oracle. Just flip through the book at random and you will find along the edges a little fortune-cookie like phrase, with Duquette's own quirky sense of humor mixed in.
I flipped through the book twice and got "Flip twice more and pick the answer you like best" followed by "You knew the job was dangerous when you took it".
The book its self is a small square, 200 pages long, and does include traditional forms of divination to a degree, such as I-ching and the Tarot, although immensely simplified.
Although this book gently pokes fun at divination as a whole, it is also sincere about the divination techniques it teaches and it can serve as a useful tool to understand the fundamentals of all forms of divination.
All in all, a great, light hearted, useful book that would make a wonderful birthday present for someone interested in divination to any degree.
