SO WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?
This divination tool seems to be mainly good for two sorts of questions. Question one is, ‘what advice do you have to give me for the day ahead?’ Question two is, ‘I’m thinking about taking a certain action—what do you have to say about it, Prophetic Coin?’ Of course, if it’s a friend or an enemy who has an idea they’re thinking about, you can ask if their endeavor will prosper or suffer.
The author of the book I got this from, Walter Gibson, said that if you’re asking the Prophetic Coin more than once about the same matter, you may want to wait until the first prophecy manifests before asking again, but there’s no reason why your questions about the same issue should not overlap. He also recommends keeping a record of your usage of this divination tool, what questions you asked, what answers you received, and what eventually manifested. ‘It may turn out to be accurate to a surprising degree!’ Gibson says encouragingly. ‘Hmm, well maybe‘ I thought, still skeptical.
When it comes to divination, I’m a big believer in the empirical method of arriving at truth. With a divination tool this simple, you really need to try it for a little while until you can determine if it will be of any use to you or not. Some divination tools we ‘click’ with immediately. Others, we just can’t connect with, no matter how much we try.
If you have the Wizardology cards or the revised, annotated edition of the Theban Alphabet cards in your possession, it might be a fun and enlightening experiment to ask the same question of both tools. Along with the empirical method of scientific inquiry, I’m a big believer in the designer’s concept of layering when it comes to divining. Different divination tools can give you different and complementary perspectives on the same issue. Sometimes, we have to see the contrast before we can see the value.
But do have fun with this divination tool, and may it bring you many years of helpful direction!
Gibson, Walter Brown. The Complete Illustrated Book of Divination. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1973, pp. 18-20.
EXERCISES:
- Consult the Prophetic Coin every morning for a week. Even better, two weeks. Just to get a sense of what the day ahead holds. Note the answer you get each day. At the end of the day, look at the answer you cast for that day, and examine the events of the day to see if anything related to your cast in the morning transpired over the course of the day. Did your morning forecast only relate to something you may’ve been thinking about, or did something related to your forecast actually transpire that day?
- Consult the Prophetic Coin about a specific issue, matter or problem which has been troubling you, and note the answer you receive. Did the answer you receive appear relevant to your issue, matter or problem? In your opinion, is this divination tool, the Prophetic Coin, better for specific questions or general forecasts? Is it equally-effective at both?
- Consult the Prophetic Coin, either as a general ‘what is just ahead?’ question, or on a specific matter of concern. Ask the same question of either the Wizardology Cards, the Theban Alphabet Cards, the Rune Cards, or the Whitetree Ogham Cards. Or all four of those other options, if you’re so inclined. Look at the answers each source gave you for the same question–did they complement one another, or did they seem to address different issues entirely? In your opinion, is the Prophetic Coin better-used in tandem with another divination tool, or is it strong-enough as a divination tool to stand alone on its own merits?
- Under what circumstances would you use this tool? Is there anyone you would recommend it to, or consult it for?