EXERCISES

  1. Print out the answer sheet on page 62 of the PDF. You’ll note it is set up for side-by-side four-part and five-part answer problems. Look over the list of questions, choose one for which you want an answer, and cast the answer, using first the four-part approach, then the five-part approach. Were the answers the same, or different? Set the answer sheet aside for some time, then return to it when a sufficient period of time has passed. Which of the answers were fulfilled? Was the end result a little of both?
  2. Print out another copy of the answer sheet on page 62 of the PDF. This time, ask a question from the mind-set of, this is about somebody else, or some past event, or maybe a combination of both.  Arrive at the answer using both the four-part and five-part arithmetic problem. Given your personal knowledge of this person or past event, how on-target were the answers? Did one of them hit and the other answer miss?
  3. Given your experience, would you use the Wheel of Pythagoras again? What are its strengths and weaknesses?
  4. EXTRA CREDIT: Compare and contrast the Wheel of Pythagoras and Napoleon’s Book of Fate. How were they similar? How did they differ? Were the answers fundamentally the same for both divination tools? Do you prefer one of these two divination tools over the other?
  5. EXTRA CREDIT TWO: Compare and contrast the Wheel of Pythagoras with the more-contemporary Oracle of KAZ. How are they the same? How do they differ? How does the age difference between the two affect the fundamental nature of both?
  6. EXTRA CREDIT THREE: Study the quartering chart for Strangehope’s, the Book of Knowledge, and Raphael’s Familiar Astrologer. Can you see why these three sources would differ in these designations regarding short-term/long-term and lucky/unlucky answers? Do you agree with any of these quarterings of answers? Do you think this division of answers into short-term/long-term, and lucky/unlucky is a helpful feature of this divination tool, or better disregarded?