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Five Stichomancies
How often do you do this?
How often do you do stichomancies? According to Wiktionary, stichomancy is, “divination by randomly selecting lines or passages from books.”
Okay, this is how you do it. You get into a mindless, meditative state then you walk past all the many bookshelves in your home or office. Your mind is shut off and you rely solely on feeling. As you walk past those many, many books, leave your mind completely open and see which book calls out to you.
When this happens take the book off the shelf. Cradle it in your arms and close your eyes. Feel the book as you open it up. With eyes still closed, flip through the book until you get an impulse to stop. Then drop one of your fingers down onto the page you opened up to. Open your eyes and read the paragraph or passage that your finger landed on.
That is stichomancy. It works as well as the Tarot, the I Ching, the reading of tea leaves, or any other form of divination. It is a matter of surrendering to and allowing spirit to deliver a message to you through artistic words that have already been spoken or written by others.
It is like saying to spirit, “I don’t know the question and I don’t know the answer, could you please provide both?”
