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Health and nervous constitution, together with business and communicative instinct.

Communication, commerce, wit and quickness of mind.

Writing without conscious direction so that a spirit, daimon or the unconscious produces text; a 19th-century Spiritualist technique still used in trance and channeling work.

Opening a book at random and taking the first passage as an answer; sortes Biblicae and sortes Vergilianae in antiquity, still worked with scripture, poets or a chosen text.

Staff of Hermes with two serpents, representing balance, healing, and communication

Explore your career path, life purpose, and how to align your work with your soul's calling.

The most complete spread for deep insight into complex situations. Examines all aspects of a question.

Break through creative blocks and discover new channels for your artistic expression.

Compare two potential paths or decisions to see their likely outcomes and make an informed choice.

The search for water, minerals, lost objects or answer-points with rods or a pendulum, on site or over a map.

Thirty-six everyday-object cards read in pairs, lines or the Grand Tableau; concrete, sentence-like and popular in France, the Low Countries, the Balkans and Russia.

Imagination, intuition, dream and often the sea or travel.

The twenty ogham letters (feda) of the Irish tree alphabet cast or drawn as lots; a modern druidic reconstruction from medieval Irish grammars.

Reading character and events from the lines, mounts and shape of the hand; chiromancy, one of the seven forbidden arts of Renaissance magic and still widely practised.

A weighted bob on a chain is held over a chart or question and its swing read as yes/no or as an index of unconscious response.

Reading ordinary playing cards through suit/element and rank/number cycles; the popular cartomancy of the 18th and 19th centuries and still widespread.

Explore the dynamics between you and another person, whether romantic, platonic, or professional.

Twenty-four Elder Futhark runes drawn or cast and read singly, in spreads or scattered on a cloth; a modern reconstruction from Eddic and epigraphic sources.

Seventy-eight cards (22 trumps, 56 minors) laid in spreads and read through image, position and correspondence; the dominant card system of modern Western magic.

A classic spread examining influences from your past, current situation, and potential future.