This book offers a major contribution to the study and analysis of divination, based on continuing fieldwork with the Mambila in Cameroon. It seeks to return attention to the details of divinatory practice, using the questions asked and life histories to help understand the perspective of the clients rather than that of the diviners. Drawing on a corpus of more than 600 cases, David Zeitlyn reconsiders theories of divination and compares Mambila spider divination with similar systems in the area. A detailed case study is examined and analysed using conversational analytic principles. The regional comparison considers different kinds of explanation for different features of social organization, leading to a discussion of the continuing utility of moderated functionalism. The book will be of interest to area specialists and scholars concerned with religion, rationality, and decision-making from disciplines including anthropology, African studies, and philosophy.

This oracle card deck is designed to connect you with your Divine Energy, the part of you answering the deepest, most profound personal questions that we all share: 'What is my soul's desire?' and 'What am I here to learn?' Each of the 63 cards offers a specific personal invitation to become more Divinely awakened and empowered, in addition to addressing the particular soul shift necessary to achieve that possibility. Every invitation you accept helps you advance your soul's growth and move toward both inner peace and outer success. Each card offers manageable steps that you can achieve day by day to advance toward your highest goals on a spiritual level. In the process, you'll get out of your own way and begin to experience the personal success and satisfaction that you seek in your life, as well as bring your special gifts and energy to the planet.

This is a much needed textbook on fixed stars and their relationship to the natal planets. Bernadette Brady (Brady's Book of Fixed Stars, Samuel Weiser, 1998) has a mission - and that mission is to draw astrologers closer to the foundations of their art, bringing the glory and magnitude of the fixed stars into every day astrology, where she firmly believes they belong. With our light-polluted skies and busy lives, it is easy to practise a form of astrology where we never actually look out at the stars or planets - and in doing so the author shows that we lose vital astrological information about our natal relationship to the heavens. This book offers rare material on the detailed interpretations of an individual's natal heliacal rising and setting stars; these stars yield insight into the nature of one's soul and spiritual path. Additionally, the author gives a comprehensive listing of the meaning of every star when combined with all the planets and nodal axis, for natal as well as predictive use. Tables are provided to help the reader find their own key stars for their time of birth allowing them to work with, and embrace, the sky using the methods that were first employed at the dawn of astrology.

In The Art of Forecasting using Solar Returns, Anthony Louis provides the reader with a solid historical background on the technique and lays out clearly how Morin, one of the greatest astrologers of all time, used it in the 17th century. He then proceeds to test this methodology rigorously with example after example - most from recent history featuring recognizable celebrities and also a few persons known to the author. Every aspect of return interpretation is raised and examined, including those promoted by the few modern-day writers on the subject. By the end of this dense and thorough book the reader is offered a methodological summary and worked example. An essential addition to even the most crowded bookshelf!

Personalized magick is the most powerful magick. The Untamed Witch empowers you to use your own instincts, intuition, and personal environment in your witchcraft. Witchcraft is not one defined, arbitrary path. Rather, it is a diversity of practices that you can curate and align with based on your lifestyle and unique gifts. Moreover, those practices are not meant to be done the same way by every witch. Someone else's love spell is how they conjure love. Why use lavender in a ritual if it isn't native to your surroundings or you simply don't like it? This guide gives you the insight and tools to undomesticate your craft from formulaic-to inspired-practice. The Untamed Witch also outlines: Tools and practices to access the subconscious How to work with the life, death, rebirth cycle How to use elemental and land witchcraft Ancestry work and communicating with spirit guides and entities With this book at your side, learn to use your instincts to rewild your magick.

The Dictionary of Dreams provides the necessary tools to interpret almost every dream object and its hidden meaning to better understand what your subconscious is telling you. Dreams can be fun and adventurous, but also frightening and distorted, and still again, they can be an endless combination of both. From spitting teeth out (a sign of aging), to creepy, crawly spiders (a sign that one feels like an outsider), dreams can mean much more to us once we learn how to decipher their hidden meanings. Whether positive or negative, The Dictionary of Dreams gives you all the tools, symbols, and their true meanings to translate our cryptic nightly images. Starting with selections from classic texts like Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, and 10,000 Dreams Interpreted by Gustavus Hindman Miller, one of the first authors to complete a thorough study of all the symbols that appear in our dream-scape, this updated edition features revisions (such as the addition of cell phones, computers, televisions, and more) of Miller's original interpretations to bring the book up to speed with our modern life. Elegantly designed and beautifully illustrated, the Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia series offers comprehensive, display-worthy references on a range of intriguing topics, including birthday astrology, techniques for harnessing the power of dreams, flower meanings, and the stories behind signs and symbols.

A deck and guidebook set to help you discover your life's work with the assistance of the inspiring gemstone guardians * Includes 44 full-color cards, each with a soul purpose archetype and a vibrationally matching crystal as well as a question for contemplative thought, divine guidance, and a positive affirmation * Includes a 128-page booklet with divination spreads and explanations of the archetypes, how their attributes relate to choices in one's life work, and how the matching gemstone amplifies certain attributes further * Provides insights and understanding to support you in your soul purpose and encourages self-empowerment to propel you into fulfilling your sacred agreements with the Divine Gemstone Guardians Cards and Your Soul Purpose presents a hands-on way to engage in discovering and deepening your soul purpose. The 44 two-sided cards have been specifically created to inspire thought from higher levels of awareness and help you answer questions like, "What is my soul purpose?" and "How can I live it more fully?" Pairing an archetypal career expression with a vibrationally matching crystal, mineral, or stone to provide insight into and recognition of your unique path, each card offers a question for contemplative thought, divine guidance messages of hope, happiness, and well-being, and a positive affirmation. The accompanying booklet explains the soul purpose archetypes, how their attributes relate to choices in one's life work, and how the matching gemstone amplifies certain attributes further. The booklet explores how to work with intention, focused attention, and the laws of manifestation to activate the courage and confidence to do your life's work and encourages self-empowerment to propel you into fulfilling your sacred agreements with the Divine. It also provides a choice of spreads for divination and explores how life challenges and lessons are not blocks but stepping-stones to help you make a lasting contribution for peace and harmony. These cards help shine light on the path to your soul purpose and reveal the gemstone guardians as your allies on the journey. You can also add these cards to angel communication sessions and tarot card readings for additional insight and direction. Pull a card a day for inspiration, or follow the divine guidance and repeat the affirmations to transform your reality and attract joy, wealth, health, protection, and happy relationships. Designed to spark your creativity, courage, and innate knowledge, the Gemstone Guardians Cards and Your Soul Purpose deck helps empower you to step forward with confidence and realize your unlimited potential.

Crystal Visions is a powerful guide book for anyone who loves crystals and has an interest in their healing vibrations. One of the wonderful things about this book is that it has color photographs of each healing stone. The physical properties and healing properties of each stone are described in clear, comprehensive language. Contained within this book as well is a convenient cross reference that associates specific body parts and diseases with the crystals that positively affect them.

A practical guide to the fascinating art of reading hands. Cheiromancy is the art of handreading in which all aspects of a person's hand are considered in order to gain an accurate picture of their inner nature, distinct from the fortune telling of palmistry. What has come down to us as palmistry today is a rather degenerate and effete form of the ancient discipline of chiromancy. The word cheiromancy comes from the Greek chir meaning 'hand', and manteia meaning 'divination', literally meaning 'divination through the hand'.  The Hand Reveals is not merely theoretical: at various points throughout the book readers are encouraged to try and apply this knowledge at every opportunity to find confirmation of the ideas. There is a considerable amount of knowledge and information compressed into these pages, and even the most diligent student would have difficulty in digesting it in one reading. It is recommended that you refer back as often as necessary to go the material you have read, to allow your understanding of cheiromancy to grow gradually. Originally published in 1993, this edition has been revised and updated with new material.

Also known as dowsing, pendulum magic is a technique for seeing into the future, whether for information about romance, luck, reincarnation, or the psychic causes of disease. Step-by-step instructions are given for making pendulums with everything from gemstones and rings to buttons and fishing weights. The author also explains how questions should be asked as well as how the answers should be interpreted.

The author charts the rituals involved in divination, explains how to use pendulums in conjunction with tarot cards, crystals, astrology, and mediation.

Elevate your everyday life by harnessing the deep transformational powerful of crystals! This easy-to-use 52 card oracle deck makes the wisdom of crystals convenient and accessible, even when you don't have any physical stones on hand. Just pick a card, and trust your soul's intuition to unlock the clarity you're craving, whether it's about a relationship, finances, or work. Stunning photography of Mother Earth's most energy-filled crystals adorn each card, and in the guidebook, Energy Muse co-founder and Crystal Muse and CRYSTAL365 author Heather Askinosie offers instructions for different types of readings. She also describes the energetic properties of each crystal, and gives affirmations and "crystal actions" to tap into a stone's power today.

Psychochirology -- the study of personality structure by means of reading the hands -- can reveal the present psychological situation, parental characteristics and influences, inherent and acquired patterns of behaviour and capabilities, inner conflicts of all natures and their potential for integration, as well as possibilities for growth. Each finger and mount portrays a different masculine and feminine archetypal figure, and they are always in flux. Getting to know them becomes a means of self-awareness, and in a therapeutic setting can also be a diagnostic tool. The hand holds our individual myth like a personal key: how can knowledge of this key lead to our own transformation?

According to the Maya calendar, there have been four Suns. At the end of every Sun, the world has experienced a cataclysm and civilisation has collapsed. The current Sun ends on 23 December 2012 - what does that mean for us? Maya Prophecy provides a clear and accessible introduction to the Maya warnings for our future. Dr Ronald Bonewitz explores how all aspects of Maya culture provide support for the accuracy of the Maya prophecy, from the planning of Maya cities and temple systems to the Maya system of mathematics. Discover full details of the prophecy and how it will affect your life; the sophistication of Maya astronomy and the accuracy of the Maya number system. Combining evidence from other cultures as well as the Maya, this book explains exactly what has been foretold and how we can prepare for the future.

Harness Our Earth's Spiritual Energy to Heal Your Past, Transform Your Present and Shape Your Future Heal your past, transform your present and fulfil your potential by connecting with the planet's most sacred sites, guided by world-famous shamnic healer Barabara Meiklejohn-Free. Featuring breathtaking illustration by renowned spiritual artist Yuri Leitch, each card channels the energy of the featured site. This easy-to-use deck is the only one to address the three dimensions of your life (past, present and future) on every card. This Oracle contains:*53 cards capturing the energy of ancient sites all over the world* A detailed guidebook on how to question the Oracle and use it to connect with the sites* A mystical symbol plus an exercise, a ritual or a meditation on every card to help you draw power and insight from each site

'You have a sacred destiny; we all do...' From the earliest history of mankind, there are records of native people using the signs in nature to determine their destiny. Wise elders were able to move through mystic gateways into inner realms and bring back wisdom and guidance to their tribes. In this powerful oracle card deck, Denise Linn draws from her Native American heritage and experience as a gifted healer and teacher. With each card, you receive access to a different gateway, from our earthly realm to the one of Spirit. From forests to floodplains, meadows to caves, shimmering sunshine to the dark mysteries of the moon - these vibrant cards will fill your days with messages of Spirit, from the landscapes within and around us. May your inner guidance awaken, and may the wisdom of the native spirit unfold within your life!

Explore nature's bounty and the amazing possibilities of kitchen witchery. With gorgeous artwork and uplifting messages, these gilded oracle cards help you discover the wisdom and power of natural ingredients. Witches' Kitchen Oracle Cards show you how to harness the magic of Mother Nature for greater harmony and success in your life. Accompanied by a wonderful guidebook, this kit is a must-have for the modern witch.

Experience Celtic and Norse lore in a brand-new way with this gorgeous oracle featuring animals of the northern climes. Winterseer Animal Oracle shows you how to use the wisdom of long-revered creatures, from salmon and magpie to badger and bear, to deepen your divination practice. Featuring Siolo Thompson's remarkable watercolor style, these cards will bolster your readings with their stunning details, and the accompanying guidebook uses the mythology of bygone days to inspire your modern life.

Runes are an ancient Scandinavian writing system. They have been used for hundreds of years as part of magical rituals, spells and foretelling the future and are steeped in mystery and secrecy. This book contains meanings of the twenty-four Runes, providing a simple and easy to follow guide for any aspiring Rune caster. Discover how to use this ancient form of divination as a tool for your own personal and spiritual growth. Learn how to make your own Rune set, cast and lay them out. This beginner's guide also encourages you to start a Rune Journal where you can record your ideas, interpretations and castings. Let your intuition guide you as you learn to connect with the energy of the Runes.