Edited by Robert Scott
Price: $10.99
Publication Date: 26 March 2018
Place of Publication: Asheville, North Carolina
ISBN: 978-1986615204 / 1986615200
Pages: 152 pp
Binding Type: US Trade Paper
Trim Size: 5 x 8
Sticks and Stones and Animal Bones
Birds and Cards and Far-away Stars
Welcome to The Diviner’s Handbook, a collection of essays, prayers, artwork, and poetry which deals with both ancient and modern divination practices, techniques, systems, and beliefs.
This is not the typical how-to manual, however. There are plenty of books like that already. This is not a how to read the signs and work the system book, but rather a how to be a diviner book. It is a collection of prayers to guide you, poems to inspire you, warnings to remind you of your responsibilities, and meditations on the art by those who practice it. With work drawing upon techniques as varied as augury, bone casting, cartomancy, ogam, and runelore, there is something here for nearly every practitioner.
Divination has ancient roots, but is very much alive in modern times. It is our hope that The Diviner’s Handbook will become a trusted companion to you in all of your oracular work. And may that work be insightful, inspirational, and full of hope.
It can be purchased in paperback format through Amazon, and through Barnes and Noble. All of the proceeds from The Diviner’s Handbook – as well as many of the other volumes in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina series – will be used to help promote the revival of the worship of the Greek and Egyptian Gods, with a portion of the proceeds given to a worthy charitable organization in their name. So, not only will you be getting a wonderful book about divination – but your money will be going to do good work and help the revival of ancient polytheistic religions.
ATTENTION Librarians, Teachers and Retailers: The Diviner’s Handbook is also available at reduced cost for academic institutions, lending libraries (public and private) and retailers. Check our online store, or email baeditor@gmail.com with any questions.
We are rebuilding the Library of Alexandria one book at a time!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Dedication … 3
Keeper of the Stones: Earth Oracle by Pegi Eyers … 5
Introduction by Robert Scott … 11
From the Desk of the Editor-in-Chief by Rebecca Buchanan …. 17
Inspiration
Odin and the Volva by Lorenz Frølich (1895) … 19
A Series of Prayers for Divination by Rachel Iriswings … 20
Cartomancy Prayers to La Madama by Blue Huntington … 22
Water and Leaves by Jessica McKenna … 23
Prayer to Apollon by Jessica McKenna … 25
Scrying Prayer to Xolotl by Blue Huntington …. 26
Scrying Prayer to Xolotl by Blue Huntington … 27
Prophet by Jamie Houghton …. 28
Prayer to Hermes by Jessica McKenna … 29
bear/carry/suffer across/beyond/through by Alexeigynaix … 30
What Ozymandias Saw by Katie Anderson … 37
The Call
Attic Red Figure Kylix … 39
The Pythia Speaks by Jennifer Lawrence … 40
Delphic Maxims and the Oracle at Delphi: Advice on Divination from the Ancient Oracle by Robert Scott … 42
Words to Seers and Diviners: Following the Delphic Maxims by Robert Scott … 44
Spoken-Word Nostradamus by Katie Anderson … 48
malefica for a false seer by Jennifer Lawrence … 50
Trinitarian Prophesy: An Examination of Oracular Praxis on Mind, Body, and Spirit by Katie Anderson … 52
Cassandra’s Curse by Robert Scott … 63
Searching for Thomas Saxon by J.K. Bywaters … 65
Sticks and Stones and Animal Bones
Bone Casting by Blue Huntington … 75
Rune Poem I by Rebecca Buchanan … 76
Runic Hourglasses by Rebecca Buchanan … 77
birth by Rebecca Buchanan … 85
Fairy Tale Runes by Alura Rose … 86
Using Fairy Tales for Divination and the Creation of Fairy Tale Runes by Alura Rose … 87
Coed Dau Ddeg (Twenty Trees) by Melia Phosphorou … 90
Ancestral Bone-Casting Rite by Blue Huntington … 96
In the Cards
The Hierophant from the Alchemical Tarot by Robert M. Place … 99
The Hermit by Gerri Leen … 100
Who Are You Covenanting With? by Fay Robertson … 102
The Fool Card by Merit Brokaw … 105
The Cards by Gerri Leen … 106
the trees have died; the pixels never lived by Alexeigynaix … 107
Aesop’s Two of Swords by Merit Brokaw … 112
A Walk in the Wildwoods by Rebecca Buchanan … 113
Hierophant’s Book by Merit Brokaw … 117
Earth Oracle: A Set of Interpretive Cards by Pegi Eyers … 119
Messages From Above
Astrological Clock, Venice … 127
Scorpio Squared by Gerri Leen … 128
Saturn Return by Alexeigynaix … 130
Courting the Crows by Rev. Kimberly Rich … 131
How to Perform an Augury by Rebecca Buchanan … 134
Calchas stands upon the cliff of Aulis by Rebecca Buchanan … 136
Cartomancy Prayer by Blue Huntington … 139
Appendix A: Recommended Reading … 141
Appendix B: Our Contributors … 142
Appendix C: About Bibliotheca Alexandrina
— Current Titles — Forthcoming Titles … 148
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