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Divining the Future Book

Dear Reader:

If youve just picked up this book, youre wondering now if you can really divine the future. Let me assure youits for real. And you dont need to study with the masters in ancient China to learn the I Ching, nor rub shoulders with the nobility of nineteenth-century Italy in order to grab hold of the Tarotits all right here in this book.

Having grown up as the infinite idealist, I never shunned the idea of happily ever after. And divination, you should know, makes this concept just a little more achievable. From fairy tales to real-life magic, from love and romance to career success, divination is a tool that has been used since the beginning of mankind because, quite simply, it works.

The truth is, one of the richer aspects of life is in the possibilities it offers you. Once you know what lies before you, you can begin attaining your goals. And divination is always about bringing your dreams to fruition making the dark unconscious conscious. This book and divination wont fall short of your expectations. Go to it!

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THE

DIVINING THE
FUTURE BOOK

From runes to Tarot cards
and tealeaves to crystals
predict what fate has in store for you

Jenni Kosarin

Love to Donna and Paul Kosarin, who give the words resourceful and supportive higher meaning. A grateful tip of the hat as well to Randy Jones, the most incredible Tarot reader this side of the universe; to Alessandro Brandoni for his clever palm readings; to Malin Hammar, a special woman and healer whom Im privileged to call friend; and to Gisela Stramer, owner of the spiritual well-being spa of Grand Hotel Palazzo Della Fonte in Fiuggi, Italy, for her beautiful meditation techniques.

A very special thanks also to acquisitions editor Bethany Brown, who shaped and created the vision of the book and devotedly encouraged it through the entire process, and Julie Gutin, development editor at Adams, who has the talent as well as the required amount of patience to indulge an authors madcap affinities and make it all look good. Thank you all!

1. Tarot cards: From the Death card to The Fool, find out how these cards fit together and what they really mean for your destiny.
2. I Ching: Learn a fascinating ancient Chinese divination method as it was written in the Book of Changes.
3. Runes: This old Nordic alphabet is spiritual and mystical and can be used for divination as well as meditation.
4. Astrology: Find out the mysteries of your future and your potential according to your sun sign.
5. Numerology: Predict which days you should stay out of fates way and which days youll soar!
6. Feng shui: A little simple rearranging goes a long way for changing your luck in finance, health, and love.
7. Tealeaf reading: You dont have to be a gypsy to learn how to divine through tealeaves or coffee grounds.
8. Crystals: For looking into the future or for boosting your good energy, no good psychic goes without her crystals.
9. Dream interpretation: Finally understand what your strange and curious nighttime fantasies are all about.
10. Palmistry: By analyzing patterns, shapes, and marks on your hands, you can see where your future is really leading you.

You enter an old psychic shop and see a mysterious gypsy woman with jangling bracelets, hoop earrings, and a multicolor turban. Lights from the candles flicker around her, casting curious shadows. You think you see a black cat sitting beside her. You smell jasmine incense and something musty.

Suddenly, the woman speaks. Come closer! You move closer, albeit with a bit of uncertainty. Tell me. Tell me what you want to know, she whispers huskily. Madame Bovart will now tell you everything you want to know. And with a pass of a hand over her crystal ball, she begins. Can she really see into your future?

Since the beginning of time, people have always been fascinated by the idea of seeing into the future. Though it may seem far-fetched, we do it all the time. Wall Street brokers do it every day as they try to predict the movement of the market. All of us in our daily lives analyze patterns and trends that help us make predictions as to what the future holds. And thats what fortunetelling is all about. Through analyzing patterns and trends, ancient signs and symbols, were able to get a glimpse of the future. There is one big difference, though. Divination has been around a lot longer than Wall Street.

In fact, divination has existed since before recorded time. It can be traced back more than 30,000 years. Shamanism, for example, is one of the oldest practices of divination. It originated in Siberia and the Far East, and spread to North America, where it is still practiced by Native Americans. The art involves talking to spirits and interpreting the sounds and movements of animals.

Another ancient method of divination, numerology, was developed in the Mediterranean region and was shaped by Pythagoras, a Greek philosopher and mathematician (sixth century B.C .). Ancient Chinese divination, on the other hand, was derived from tradition, philosophy, and science, through the wisdom of oracular judgments of the I Ching (The Book of Changes) some 3,000 years ago. And many believe that Tarot was influenced by the mystical Hebrew teachings of the Kabbalah. (For instance, Kabbalah is based on the twenty-two paths and the Tarot consists of twenty-two Major Arcana.) Ancient Persian divination tools ranged from the use of omens to palmistry. And the Northern Europeans developed an alphabet of runes, which the Nordic people used for writing and divination as far back as 100 B.C .