Bibliomancy Exchange ~ NikkiB & zannamarie

[zannamarie]

Hi NikkiB,

Here's our spread:

Originally Posted by Cat*

1. Something to think about
2. Something to do
3. Something to love (or embrace)

Pick a quote by the method of your choice for each of these "spread" positions and interpret it for your partner.

Readings due: 13 April
Feedback due: 15 April

Looking forward to our exchange.

[zannamarie]

Forgot to ask if you'd like a topic for your reading.

The only book I have handy this week (I'm traveling) is Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist's Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions so I'll be doing your reading from that. It's about a woman's investigations to correct an eye problem so nothing too bizarre.


I'd like to have my reading focused on career. Thanks.

[NikkiB]

Lol nothing too bizarre at all !

Could you please focus on my finding happiness

I think I am going to use "conversations with god" that might be really interesting to do this with....

[zannamarie]

Originally Posted by NikkiB

I think I am going to use "conversations with god" that might be really interesting to do this with....

I did bibliomancy for myself one time for the Questions and Answers book that goes with Conversations With God. I opened the book to a page where he was answering a question for a woman with the exact same first name as mine and using that name in the reply. Talk about speaking directly to me!!!

[NikkiB]

Originally Posted by zannamarie

I did bibliomancy for myself one time for the Questions and Answers book that goes with Conversations With God. I opened the book to a page where he was answering a question for a woman with the exact same first name as mine and using that name in the reply. Talk about speaking directly to me!!!

Wow that is pretty impressive!!!!!! how strange then that I should pick this book out of the hundreds i have

[zannamarie]

I used the book: Fixing My Gaze: A Scientist’s Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions by Susan R. Barry

I randomly opened the book and pointed to a place then typed the sentence (or two - whatever my intuition indicated I should type) which contained those words.

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1. Something to think about with regards to finding happiness.
Young barn owls automatically change the wiring in their brains to deal with the visual-auditory mismatch. This happens whether or not the young owls are caged and fed or forced to hunt for their food.

To me this indicates you may be more adaptable to your surroundings than you realize. It may be that you feel you are stuck (which is why you don’t have happiness) when in fact you have the ability to change your point of view such that you can see the happiness right in front of you. Happiness begets more happiness so the more you find right in front of you, the more it will expand and you will be overflowing with happiness.

Happiness is something you have to feel from the inside so put your focus on what makes you happy even if it means you have to ignore the reality in front of you. When that happiness begins expanding, your reality will change to match it. Keep your faith in your ability to manifest a happy life.


2. Something to do with regards to finding happiness.
Some neurons, for example, may appear monocular if the stimulus is presented to only one eye at a time, but show a stronger or weaker response if the stimulus is presented to both eyes simultaneously.

You must work on your happy neurons.

This passage indicates to me that what really matters with regards to finding happiness isn’t what is on the outside (the stimulus), but what is on the inside (your eye neurons). In the words of that famous phrase, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Beauty is not on the outside (although many think it is), but what someone feels on the inside. This also goes for happiness. Perhaps you are looking for happiness in things that produces happiness in others when in fact it doesn’t produce happiness in you. You have to find your happiness and not what makes others happy. You may be trying to please yourself with things others have told you is pleasing rather than what you deep down think is pleasing. Have you really spend time dreaming about what you really want?


3. Something to love (or embrace) with regards to finding happiness.
To compensate, Tracy turned her head so far to the left that her nose blocked the view from her left eye.

Embrace your cock-eyed view of the world.

(I realize that last one is quite short, but my intuition says that’s all I should give you. Just do it. )

I hope you find this reading helpful. Let me know what you think.

[NikkiB]

Hi there

Thank you so much for my reading this was my first bibliomancy reading ever!!

Feedback for you below but it was stunningly accurate!!

Originally Posted by zannamarie

1. Something to think about with regards to finding happiness.
Young barn owls automatically change the wiring in their brains to deal with the visual-auditory mismatch. This happens whether or not the young owls are caged and fed or forced to hunt for their food.

To me this indicates you may be more adaptable to your surroundings than you realize. It may be that you feel you are stuck (which is why you don’t have happiness) when in fact you have the ability to change your point of view such that you can see the happiness right in front of you. Happiness begets more happiness so the more you find right in front of you, the more it will expand and you will be overflowing with happiness.

Happiness is something you have to feel from the inside so put your focus on what makes you happy even if it means you have to ignore the reality in front of you. When that happiness begins expanding, your reality will change to match it. Keep your faith in your ability to manifest a happy life.

This hits the nail on the head!!! I have felt very stuck for a long time and it is also very true I am very good (usually) at seeing the bright side, the positive and thinking outside the box.

However the point you make here about surroundings ring so very true. I have been very unhappy at this place for all sorts of reasons and am looking to move, I have it in my head that if I move I will be magically happy and things will all be OK. So my focus has been very much on my goals and aspirations rather than making the best of what I have. So this first paragraph sums up my situation really well and my approach to it.

I really like your observation about ignoring the reality in front of you - This is so true, my reasons to be unhappy are very real and I have been thinking I can only deal with it by changing my environmental but actually you are right, negativity breeds negativity, and therefore ego the same applies in reverse - I am actually a great believer in happiness's will increase happiness but I got stuck and bogged down in the reality which drained me totally of any positiveness I was trying to incubate. You have me here in a nutshell

Originally Posted by zannamarie

2. Something to do with regards to finding happiness.
Some neurons, for example, may appear monocular if the stimulus is presented to only one eye at a time, but show a stronger or weaker response if the stimulus is presented to both eyes simultaneously.

You must work on your happy neurons.

This passage indicates to me that what really matters with regards to finding happiness isn’t what is on the outside (the stimulus), but what is on the inside (your eye neurons). In the words of that famous phrase, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Beauty is not on the outside (although many think it is), but what someone feels on the inside. This also goes for happiness. Perhaps you are looking for happiness in things that produces happiness in others when in fact it doesn’t produce happiness in you. You have to find your happiness and not what makes others happy. You may be trying to please yourself with things others have told you is pleasing rather than what you deep down think is pleasing. Have you really spend time dreaming about what you really want?

This totally supports the first interpretation and my situation. Again we see that I need to change my attitude to my environment, I think the slant of your reading reminds me that I could change my environment and still not be happy if I don't have the right attitude.

I think I am currently thinking as I said before that i need to change my circumstances to find happiness but its really the old running away approach i guess.. I think you nailed it with my happiness has to come from my approach and attitude. It's not so much wanting what others find pleasing NOW but it certainly was in the past which ironically has lead to my current situation and current state of unhappiness so this is a lesson learnt but certainly has been a major contributor in how I got here...

What I really want is really really simple! to be with the people I love and care about, to enjoy life, the little things, tea and cake with a friend, a run with the dog and a home I am comfortable and happy in - The lottery would be nice of course but actually nowadays my needs and desires are very very simple.

Originally Posted by zannamarie

3. Something to love (or embrace) with regards to finding happiness.
To compensate, Tracy turned her head so far to the left that her nose blocked the view from her left eye.

Embrace your cock-eyed view of the world.

(I realize that last one is quite short, but my intuition says that’s all I should give you. Just do it. )

This made me laugh lol! I think this also supports your previous observations about blocking out the reality that is difficult and perhaps focusing on the reality that is nice without the shadow the negative casts over it...

Originally Posted by zannamarie

I hope you find this reading helpful. Let me know what you think.

This was a great reading thank you, really nailed what I feel is blocking me right now and was quite the kick up the bum I needed!

Thank you I really enjoyed that reading! :Love:

[NikkiB]

Just an update... I have replied to Zannamaries PM to remind me but thought I would post here so everyone knew what was going on

Apologies for this reading being late. I did a long and detailed reading, went to get a cup of tea before I added my conclusion and came back to find my cat laid across the keyboard and my screen shut down! I then couldn't find the quotes again in the book (note to self mark the pages!) so I needed to do another, finished work last night at 12 and just ran out of steam sorry.

I will get this done today

[NikkiB]

Ok second attempt - cat shut out of the room!

I am using the complete conversations of God and just picking a page and seeing what my eye is drawn to.

Just so you know the message from the first cat deleted reading was very positive, its message was that you have everything you need, its just a question of applying it, that you are very creative. The thing you had to remember was that you have a choice - you can Chose to do or have what you want - this is not the same as wanting it, if you want it, want becomes the thing that manifests, if you chose it will be yours. So this was very much about applying your wisdom, using your skills and creativity and having the ability to make a choice about what you want...

Ok now to the second reading! I am as you requested using a focus of your career:


1. Something to think about

HEB's see the circle. Humans do not
HEB's respond to what is do, humans ignore it
HEB's tell the truth. Humans do not
HEB's tell the truth, always. Humans too often lie, to themselves as well as others
HEB's say one thing, and do what they say. Humans say one thing and do another.

HEB = Higher evolved being

This makes me wonder, do you have plans but don't actually put them into action? Do you have intentions to do something but end up doing something else. I think this quote is indicating that you need to me more true to yourself and what it is that you want to do, that it may be that you get side tracked or diverted away from your higher aspirations. This feels as if it marks you as a very spiritual person but that life can get in the way or what you want or where you should be going. The message here seems very simple, if you want to do it don't just think about it and then do something else - make it happen and make it part of your reality, be true to yourself and what it is you need to do.

This card is perfectly supported by the last card in the draw and it's point about wanting and choosing. So I see a need for focus and intention to do exactly as you need and intend to do.

2. Something to do

This is what was meant earlier by all that talk about raising the energy of life to include all seven chakra centers.
When your choices and decisions come from a place larger than the limited locale you have described. it is impossible for women to control you, and you would never seek to control them.

Again I think this talk of control comes from the external pressures that divert your intentions as we saw in the first card. I have a vision of a boat being bobbed off course by a blustery sea. It seems to indicate that you raise your energy and act as a HEB - again my feeling is that you are meant to evolve and grow yourself personally - Being very determined and mindful of what you want to achieve and although this will affect your career it will also touch on every avenue of your life.

Bringing up your chakra energy will make you stronger, more positive, more grounded and put you in a place where you can see clearly and achieve everything in a state of balance.

3. Something to love (or embrace)

WOW this is the part that came up in your previous reading!!!

You are a creative being - made in the image and likeness of God. You may have whatever you choose. But you may not have anything you want, in fact, you'll never get anything you want if you want it badly enough.

I loved this quote. I couldn't find it at all when I was trying to recreate your first spread - how obliging for it to come up again!

This seems so very linked to the first quote, the intention is there, the desire is there but perhaps there is a lack of true belief. By choosing we absolutely believe and have faith it will come to pass, that it is - not that it will be (maybe, perhaps, I hope). In wanting it is still out of reach, our faith is not so great we are sure it will be ours and it seems this is part of the difference with a HEB - They just do, respond in a state of faith.

Everything about this reading suggests you are empowered, you CAN do whatever it is you aspire to but it seems to be very much on how you are using (consciously or not) the law of attraction and also your own physical and mental commitment to making things happen despite any external distractions or difficulties. The key here seems to be that if you say you are going to do it then do it and BELIEVE that it is yours and has manifest.


I am sorry again that this reading is so late - it seems to have bought up the same message as it did before despite two of the quotes being different they have lead me down the same path as the previous reading. I hope this makes sense to you and is helpful....

Nikki x

[zannamarie]

Originally Posted by NikkiB

Ok second attempt - cat shut out of the room!

I am using the complete conversations of God and just picking a page and seeing what my eye is drawn to.

Just so you know the message from the first cat deleted reading was very positive, its message was that you have everything you need, its just a question of applying it, that you are very creative. The thing you had to remember was that you have a choice - you can Chose to do or have what you want - this is not the same as wanting it, if you want it, want becomes the thing that manifests, if you chose it will be yours. So this was very much about applying your wisdom, using your skills and creativity and having the ability to make a choice about what you want...

My problem of the past few years has been deciding what I want. Until recently I’ve more or less believed “my gift”/career was predestined and I just needed to figure out what it was rather than choosing what I’d like to do and believing in myself and doing it.

Originally Posted by NikkiB

Ok now to the second reading! I am as you requested using a focus of your career:


1. Something to think about

HEB's see the circle. Humans do not
HEB's respond to what is do, humans ignore it
HEB's tell the truth. Humans do not
HEB's tell the truth, always. Humans too often lie, to themselves as well as others
HEB's say one thing, and do what they say. Humans say one thing and do another.

HEB = Higher evolved being

This makes me wonder, do you have plans but don't actually put them into action? Do you have intentions to do something but end up doing something else. I think this quote is indicating that you need to me more true to yourself and what it is that you want to do, that it may be that you get side tracked or diverted away from your higher aspirations. This feels as if it marks you as a very spiritual person but that life can get in the way or what you want or where you should be going. The message here seems very simple, if you want to do it don't just think about it and then do something else - make it happen and make it part of your reality, be true to yourself and what it is you need to do.

This card is perfectly supported by the last card in the draw and it's point about wanting and choosing. So I see a need for focus and intention to do exactly as you need and intend to do.

I have intentions but let others’ needs take higher priority. I’ve come to the point where I recognized that. I have begun putting more emphasis on my work so it doesn’t sit on the back burner until I have “free” time for it and then limp along taking forever to complete projects.

Originally Posted by NikkiB

2. Something to do

This is what was meant earlier by all that talk about raising the energy of life to include all seven chakra centers.
When your choices and decisions come from a place larger than the limited locale you have described. it is impossible for women to control you, and you would never seek to control them.

Again I think this talk of control comes from the external pressures that divert your intentions as we saw in the first card. I have a vision of a boat being bobbed off course by a blustery sea. It seems to indicate that you raise your energy and act as a HEB - again my feeling is that you are meant to evolve and grow yourself personally - Being very determined and mindful of what you want to achieve and although this will affect your career it will also touch on every avenue of your life.

Bringing up your chakra energy will make you stronger, more positive, more grounded and put you in a place where you can see clearly and achieve everything in a state of balance.

This means I need to put me and my interests first and not feel guilty about doing so, even when family members are involved. I’ve also begun doing more of this and more will be upcoming.

Originally Posted by NikkiB

3. Something to love (or embrace)

WOW this is the part that came up in your previous reading!!!

You are a creative being - made in the image and likeness of God. You may have whatever you choose. But you may not have anything you want, in fact, you'll never get anything you want if you want it badly enough.

I loved this quote. I couldn't find it at all when I was trying to recreate your first spread - how obliging for it to come up again!

I guess the cat wasn’t able to wipe out everything.

Originally Posted by NikkiB

This seems so very linked to the first quote, the intention is there, the desire is there but perhaps there is a lack of true belief. By choosing we absolutely believe and have faith it will come to pass, that it is - not that it will be (maybe, perhaps, I hope). In wanting it is still out of reach, our faith is not so great we are sure it will be ours and it seems this is part of the difference with a HEB - They just do, respond in a state of faith.

I actually mentioned belief in my response above (before I read this part of the reading) so that’s definitely true. I don’t recall even seeing the link between choosing and believing, but it makes sense and gives me a new way to view this. Thanks!

Originally Posted by NikkiB

Everything about this reading suggests you are empowered, you CAN do whatever it is you aspire to but it seems to be very much on how you are using (consciously or not) the law of attraction and also your own physical and mental commitment to making things happen despite any external distractions or difficulties. The key here seems to be that if you say you are going to do it then do it and BELIEVE that it is yours and has manifest.

I’ve had some very interesting law of attraction things manifest this past week which really underline asking and letting the Universe take care of my requests. Things were happening because I was expecting them to happen and not wishing they might. That’s a very powerful concept. I was also doing more of ‘putting my needs firsts’ and it felt good.

Originally Posted by NikkiB

I am sorry again that this reading is so late - it seems to have bought up the same message as it did before despite two of the quotes being different they have lead me down the same path as the previous reading. I hope this makes sense to you and is helpful....

Nikki x

Very helpful. Thanks.