EXERCISES:
- Print out the Tablet of the Sphinx, plus one to three other Tablets you’d like to try, and their answer tables. Use them by yourself, doing your own spinning of the tablet and pointing. What was your result? Did you find it awkward using it by yourself? Note your answers. Check your notes later. Were the answers you received in response to your questions accurate?
- If the Tablet of the Sphinx denies you permission to ask the other Tablets any questions, defy it and do so anyway. Were you successful, or did your pointer keep missing the tablet? If you got an answer, did it make any sense in terms of your question? Did you get a sense the Tablets just didn’t want to answer your questions right now or were they perfectly happy to do so? In your opinion, is this rule about consulting the Tablet of the Sphinx first and not going any further if it tells you no, valid or not?
- Try to get a group of two or more people together to use the Tablets of Fate. What was the result? Did the presence of others affect the answers you received for your questions? Note the answers everyone received and check back with each other, either a few weeks or a month later, and compare notes. Did anybody’s answers pan out? Did anybody receive helpful information from this oracle? Having used the Tablets of Fate both alone and in a group, did you find you have a preference for one or the other? Did the presence or absence of others seem to make a difference in the answers you received?
- This is extra credit: using the templates I’ve provided, devise a Tablet of Fate yourself. Some ideas: a Tablet of Ceres, a Tablet of Athena, a Tablet of Juno, a Tablet of Vesta, a Tablet of Phobos and Deimos, a Tablet of Ganymede, a Tablet of Hecate, a Tablet of Hephaestus, a Tablet of Persephone, a Tablet of Merlin, a Tablet of Chthulhu, or some other figure from mythology or the solar system not mentioned here. What questions would your tablet answer?