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ASTRAGALOMANTICA I
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Table of Contents
Introduction........................................................................................................................ 4
Section One: Dr. Green's System.........................................................................................5
Section Two: Possibilities.....................................................................................................8
Appendix: Background......................................................................................................10
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Introduction
A lot easier to perform than pronounce, an astragalomantical system is a quick and easy way
to add color and interest to your readings.
Highly visual and dynamic, the dice used in astragalomancy are very compact and can be
added easily to your readings kit. Like a pendulum, you can use the dice as the featured
oracle in a standalone reading or bring them into play when a client says, Oh, I just have
one more question.
The inspiration for this Special Report came directly from Dr. Charles Green, a professional
reader from Key West, Florida. Drawing from 40 years of experience and a thriving readings
practice, Dr. Green graciously contributed the excerpt from his forthcoming book, A Path
To Readings, which comprises Section One of this report.
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The red flags of the past create the challenges of the present.
Green = Present
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Next, have the client do three more casts which give the number influences for
each period of time.
It is now a simple matter to create the reading based upon the numbers on the
business card as previously described in this book.
Once the reading is completed, I give the business card to the client and tell
them to call me if they have any questions about the reading. This opens up
the avenue to book a future reading.
EXAMPLE READING
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doing it. Use the creativity you were given to make your life what you
want it to be.
This is just a quick easy-to-follow example. This easily gives you at least a
dozen key paragraphs to expand upon depending upon time to give either a
quick or more complete reading.
Combined with the other suggestions in this book you are well on your way to
your PATH TO READINGS.
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3 - Pleasant surprise.
4 - Disagreeable surprise.
5 - A stranger will prove a friend.
6 - Loss of property.
8 - Deserved reproach.
9 - A wedding.
10 - A christening.
11 - A death.
12 - A letter.
13 - Tears and sighs.
14 - Trouble from a secret enemy.
15 - Prosperity and happiness soon.
16 - A pleasant journey.
18 - Great profit.
Used in this way, the dice function much like a low-tech Magic 8 Ball.
1 One of the pitch books included in the Dreams, Omens & Superstitions package available from The Pro Shop.
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Presented as simply as described above, the reading will only take about three to five minutes,
making it ideal for venues where you want to provide a lot of readings in a short amount of
time. By incorporating additional elements into the presentation, however, the reading could
easily range anywhere from five minutes to a full one-hour.
One aspect of the casting process to use for additional inspiration when reading comes from
a method used in traditional astragalomancy, which is to interpret where the dice land within
a real or imagined framework. Two books which explore this idea are C. Dayton's Two
Thoughts and Fred Rosenbaum's The Sweet Psychic2.
While both Dr. Green and C. Dayton use colored dice, there's no reason you couldn't use
dice that are all the same color. One distinct advantage of using similarly-colored dice would
be that you would be able to define, on the fly, which dice represented Past, Present and
Future, which could then allow you to shape and direct the reading in a way similar to the
impromptu stacking procedure discussed in Larry Baukin's The Unholy Grail3.
2 Two Thoughts and The Sweet Psychic are both available from www.mevproshop.com.
3 Available from www.stevensmagic.com.
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Appendix: Background
The term Astragalomancy is derived from the Greek astragalos (knucklebone) and manteia
(prophesy).
Wikipedia reports that
Astragalomancy, also known as astragyromancy, is a form of divination that uses
dice specially marked with letters and numbers.
Originally, as with dice games, the 'dice' were quadruped knucklebones or other
small bones. Marked astragali of sheep and goats are common at Mediterranean
and Near Eastern archaeological sites, particularly at funeral and religious
locations. For example, marked astragali have been found near the altar of
Aphrodite Ourania in Athens, Greece, suggesting astragalomancy was performed
near the altar after about 500 BC.
Also known as cleromancy, the use of contacting the divine truth with random
castings of dice or bones is a practice that stretches back before recorded history.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art shows bone 'dice' used by the Shona people of
Africa. These are called Hakata. They have been in use for thousands of years,
and remain extant.
Being that astragalomancy is a form of sortition, numbers are scrawled into the
dice; the numbers are associated with letters, thus bearing on the questions of
the diviner. The diviner then casts the dice, resulting with a random sequence of
numbers. This sequence is to be interpreted by the diviner with regards to certain
rules, which are usually specific to his/her religion.
In Tibetan Buddhism, The Dalai Lama is reported as using the 'mo', balls of
dough in which have been placed pieces of paper with possible 'choices' written
on them, to help in making important decisions. Tibetan divination has long
featured the mo in making everyday decisions, too.
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Divination with dice involved drawing a 12" circle on cloth and then dividing it
into 12 equal portions, each numbered from 1 to 12. Dice would be rolled
thrice and if one dice stayed put on top of the other it meant that the enquirer
would be the recipient of something valuable.
European fortunetellers used an ancient method known as "The Part of
Fortune" which included dice throws on a grid representing the planets. The
result would be interpreted as the role of luck in a person's life.
In ancient occult practices, the days deemed most favourable to cast the dice
were Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.
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