Chronata
Maybe it's the Crows themselves (they being my feathered totem messengers!)
...but something has been proding me to share this form of divination with the world...or at least the world of AT.
Technically, this is an oracle that I have devised. Although I thought it might be better in here, than in the Oracle forum...simply because it is not a deck, and the images are really secondary, to the way that it works.
I have made this particular oracle out of flat irredescent glass marbles, that I have painted with numbers and a simple image.
I call this method CROWSTONES.
And it is based on many of the old ryhmes and folklore surrounding the counting of crows (in the US) and Magpies(in Europe) to herald omens and give messages.
Many superstitions surround these black feathered fortune tellers, and I have been facinated by this since I was very small!
I originally developed this for use with children. When I would do readings for public gatherings, I often see a lot of children intertested in "fortune telling". Sometimes the tarot didn't seem appropriate, or was a little too complex.
And children love being the fortune tellers themselves! Once they know the rhyme, they can make thier own Crowstones out of virtually anything...as long as the pieces are numbered or they can remember which number goes with which piece.
I have considered making this into a deck of cards, but the stones seem so much more correct. They way they feel, the tactile aspect, and the fact that crows like to collect and hoard shiny treasures...it just makes sense!
so...take 20 objects...like stones or shells, or shiny glass marbles. Number them 1-20, or have them be different enough, that you can recall which goes with which number.
Put them in a bag, and choose 1-3 for a question...or choose 5 stones and drop them to see what kind of pattern they create.
Or alternately...devise a spread.
This is a very simplistic divination method...but with intuition, I have found that it can be very accurate...and as complex as I want it to be.
So...now that you have your stones...recall the following rhyme to determine your future, make sense of your past, or deal with the heart of the present matter....
ONE is a message
TWO is for mirth!
THREE is a marriage,
FOUR is a birth.
FIVE is for riches
SIX is a thief
SEVEN is a journey
EIGHT is a grief.
NINE is a secret
TEN is a sorrow
ELEVEN is for love,
TWELVE is for joy tomorrow.
THIRTEEN is bad luck
FOURTEEN is danger,
FIFTEEN is a change of luck
SIXTEEN is a stranger.
SEVENTEEN is for adventure
EIGHTEEN is a love that's new,
NINETEEN is fame and honor,
TWENTY is a wish that comes true!
~Of course, you can always use this method the old fashioned way, and count the crows that are cawing to you! (and if you happen to see more than twenty...than you are witness to a crow convention, and no messages are available at that time!)
Thanks for letting me share this! Happy counting!
...but something has been proding me to share this form of divination with the world...or at least the world of AT.
Technically, this is an oracle that I have devised. Although I thought it might be better in here, than in the Oracle forum...simply because it is not a deck, and the images are really secondary, to the way that it works.
I have made this particular oracle out of flat irredescent glass marbles, that I have painted with numbers and a simple image.
I call this method CROWSTONES.
And it is based on many of the old ryhmes and folklore surrounding the counting of crows (in the US) and Magpies(in Europe) to herald omens and give messages.
Many superstitions surround these black feathered fortune tellers, and I have been facinated by this since I was very small!
I originally developed this for use with children. When I would do readings for public gatherings, I often see a lot of children intertested in "fortune telling". Sometimes the tarot didn't seem appropriate, or was a little too complex.
And children love being the fortune tellers themselves! Once they know the rhyme, they can make thier own Crowstones out of virtually anything...as long as the pieces are numbered or they can remember which number goes with which piece.
I have considered making this into a deck of cards, but the stones seem so much more correct. They way they feel, the tactile aspect, and the fact that crows like to collect and hoard shiny treasures...it just makes sense!
so...take 20 objects...like stones or shells, or shiny glass marbles. Number them 1-20, or have them be different enough, that you can recall which goes with which number.
Put them in a bag, and choose 1-3 for a question...or choose 5 stones and drop them to see what kind of pattern they create.
Or alternately...devise a spread.
This is a very simplistic divination method...but with intuition, I have found that it can be very accurate...and as complex as I want it to be.
So...now that you have your stones...recall the following rhyme to determine your future, make sense of your past, or deal with the heart of the present matter....
ONE is a message
TWO is for mirth!
THREE is a marriage,
FOUR is a birth.
FIVE is for riches
SIX is a thief
SEVEN is a journey
EIGHT is a grief.
NINE is a secret
TEN is a sorrow
ELEVEN is for love,
TWELVE is for joy tomorrow.
THIRTEEN is bad luck
FOURTEEN is danger,
FIFTEEN is a change of luck
SIXTEEN is a stranger.
SEVENTEEN is for adventure
EIGHTEEN is a love that's new,
NINETEEN is fame and honor,
TWENTY is a wish that comes true!
~Of course, you can always use this method the old fashioned way, and count the crows that are cawing to you! (and if you happen to see more than twenty...than you are witness to a crow convention, and no messages are available at that time!)
Thanks for letting me share this! Happy counting!
