Time rocked on, and when Ernie pulled up at 6632 Covey Road to deliver a pizza, he didn't know what he was in for. It was his first week on the delivery job, which he had taken due to a knee injury, and he had never visited or even heard of the Lucky Mojo Curio Company before. Walking up the long driveway, he overheard cat yronwode talking to Owl, a woman who was working on product photography for the company's web site development, as they discussed the need for "fresh blood" in the store. "You never know. The guy we need could end up walking through the door," Owl said. Placing the pizza on the shop's candle-dressing station, Ernie said, "Oh! A metaphysical shop!" And cat said, "How would you like to quit delivering pizza and come work for us?" 

That was in 2006, and Ernie has been at Lucky Mojo ever since.  Although he originally began in the lab, making products, he quickly went into management, taking on a web site development job, heading up the book department, and administering the company's weekly Facebook Fridays! giveaway program. Eventually, while retaining the Facebook Fridays! position, he moved over to  Missionary Independent Spiritualist Church, where he became the chief candle reader. While he was saddened by the recent burning of "The World's Smallest Church," he hasn't let that slow him down. Back at work full time for Lucky Mojo in web site development, he has spent many hours with nagasiva to give the Divination section of the Lucky Mojo online catalogue a major makeover! 

Although most people think only of games when they see a regular deck of playing cards, the truth is that anyone can, with a little practice, use these cards for divination. In some ways their employment for this purpose is more impressive to a client than the use of pictorial Tarot or Cartomancy cards, because there are no pictures to give the reader a hint as to what the cards foretell. Of course these cards can also be used for playing any number of games -- and some people consider decks that have been used in fortune telling to be especially lucky for games of chance. 

 

 

 

The ancient art of Palm or Hand Reading is one of the oldest forms of fortune telling. Here are some items that can help you acquire the knowledge and skill needed to practice this form of divination.

 

 

 

 

Phrenology is a discipline primarily focused on measurements of the human skull, based on the concept that the brain is the organ of the mind, and that certain brain areas have localized, specific functions or modules. The distinguishing feature of phrenology is the idea that the sizes of brain areas were meaningful and could be inferred by examining the skull of an individual. Following the materialist notions of mental functions originating in the brain, phrenologists believed that human conduct could best be understood in neurological rather than philosophical or religious terms. Developed by German physician Franz Joseph Gall in 1796, the discipline was very popular in the 19th century, especially from about 1810 until 1840. The principal British centre for phrenology was Edinburgh, where the Edinburgh Phrenological Society was established in 1820. Phrenological thinking was influential in 19th-century psychiatry and modern neuroscience. Gall's assumption that character, thoughts, and emotions are located in the brain is considered an important historical advance toward neuropsychology.

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Bone Divination

Bone reading is done using both ancient and modern methods. Learn to predict future events by means of Scottish speal bones, American pyromantic furculomancy, Yoruban obi, Shona hakata, Mongolian shagai, British fortune telling dice, the Gypsy domino oracle, the Persian standing bone oracle, Alabama 'Possum bones, Virginia Chicken bones, Zulu-style sangoma bone reading, and more.

 

Read Also: Throwing the Bones: How to Foretell the Future with Bones, Shells, and Nuts by catherine yronwode

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Scrying Stones