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Book Of Ordinary Oracles: Use Pocket Change, Popsicle Sticks, a TV Remote, this Book, and More to Predict the Future and Answer Your Questions

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Lon Milo DuQuette's Book of Ordinary Oracles is no ordinary book on oracles! It is engaging, humorous, and a spellbinding book -- one that cuts through the routine and often superficial information frequently given in books published on this subject. Lon DuQuette gets to the heart of what divination by an oracle is and why it works. He then offers the reader his many unique ways of consulting the oracles, and, after consulting them, he most importantly reveals exactly how to use that information to answer our most personal questions. Lon's gifts to his readers are a keen sense of humor, years of experience, and his ability to make complicated and difficult information easy to understand. Lon Milo DuQuette takes the occult, hidden world of "telling fortunes" , and makes it accessible to all through ordinary, every day items. I highly recommend this book to all future soothsayers and other questing people. It will certainly occupy a prominent place among my many books on divination.

The Book of Ordinary Oracles presents masterful, original, and truly clever divination experiments which perfectly represent the true intent of oracles and so-called "fortune-telling" practices. As a practitioner and author myself in the divinatory arts, I recommend this enjoyable small book for its playful and astute delivery of large ideas. Once again, author Lon DuQuette applies his rare gift of humor and invention to a wealth of esoteric knowledge without ever diminishing its value.

Oracular practices, we learn, are built upon the lost art of questioning-one's motives, choices, expectations, etc. in matters of self-perceived consequence. "When you actually know the question" writes DuQuette, "the answer is everywhere, and you can see it in anything you observe." This book invites you to play alongside a master soothsayer, discover oracular tools in everyday objects, and learn the necessary perspectives that make divination immediately appealing and relevant to modern sensibility. Though augury has never been this much fun, despite itself the book leaves you primed with more psychic fuel than you ever bargained for.

Like all of Mr. DuQuette's books, this one gives important information on a serious subject without being solemn. His writing style is light and humorous and is a refreshing change from the boring, high minded writings on occultism that you usually see. If you are interested in a quick and dirty guide to divination, both in theory and practice, this is it. In fact, it can even ideas for making your own system. I particularly like the emphasis of getting the right question in the first place. Once you have a basic idea from this book, you can, of course go deeper into the I Ching (although his version is much more fun), tarot, fire gazing or sheep's livers (this last being too messy for me). Personal stories of working with the oracles described make the book a fun read and give you an idea of what really working with an oracle can be like, both the good and the bad. Not only should you read this book, you should use it.

Not exactly!

Mr. Duquette outlines, with his usual humorous, no-nonsense approach, just how divination works, and how we can make it work for ourselves. There are loads of ideas here, for those that like to be crafty, how to make your own divination devices, as well as how to read the oracular messages in the world around us.

The Book Of Ordinary Oracles is a great book to own. If you flip through it in a bookstore or library, I guarantee that you will decide to purchase it immediately. There are tons of books out there on this subject, however, none I have seen so far have presented the information in such a lighthearted yet effective manner.

The Book Of Ordinary Oracles may well motivate you to take up further study!

This is a fun book and the stories are enjoyable. it is also a good introduction to theis person's MAGICK.

Ultimately, I think its specific imports are meeting the author and perhaps helping one develop their own personal oracle methods.

Duquette has always been about approaching a serious subject with a sense of humor. Though books on witchcraft have been banned on religious grounds, this one broadens the horozins of the initiate of the arcane to go back to reality after years of pouring over more intimidating tomes of ritual black magic. While not typical of the author's menacing, evil style, this one goes to show he's a real person just like the rest of us, big star or not.