I brought forward the next dish of water, chose the toasted sesame oil, and decided to ask about the Russian war on Ukraine (er, ‘special military operation’), since that is still very much in the news. Specifically, I asked if there would be any good news for Ukraine between now and the end of August. After I poured the oil, there was a brief moment when the oil stayed in numerous coherent bubbles, but then the oil rapidly thinned-out into several large and numerous smaller bubbles floating on the surface. (See the picture of my very first attempt). I was flummoxed. Eventually, the oil settled into the picture you see above, one larger blob in the upper-left and one or two smaller blobs in the lower-right. I tried another clear glass dish, same bottle of toasted sesame oil, and got several spread-out blobs of oil circling each other warily in the dish. Okay, so there’s a good deal of distrust present, and conflict is going to continue for awhile.
Starting to re-think my initial assumption a clear dish was best, I fetched a black ceramic bowl I purchased at Starwood Festival years ago. This time, I would view it while standing, and I used almond oil instead, but again, room-temperature oil and water. This result seemed miraculous by comparison. As I watched, the little bubbles of oil coalesced until they formed a planet and a moon, several tiny stars, and a large crescent along the lower-right edge of the water. I took this to be an omen of a very good outcome for Ukraine.
It was time to try the gems-dropped-through-the-oil technique. I decided to try a clear dish of water and the extra virgin olive oil for this one, reasoning that it’s yellow-green color would show up vividly against the white tablecloth. It didn’t form one nice big blob in the middle like I expected, but there was enough of a big blob to proceed with. Taking up the bag of gems from one of my simpleomancy lessons, I selected the red bead and asked, ‘will Ukraine succeed in driving the Russians from their land?’ Dropping the red bead into the water, I noted that a clear circle of water formed above the red bead, which then immediately moved to the right of the bead. The rest of the oil was undisturbed. This looked like a disruption being moved aside at the afflicted party’s earliest convenience.
Going for broke, I decided to dump the rest of the beads into the water to see what pattern they would form. The result is the picture below. Curiously, the moonstone-colored bead promptly bounced out of the dish and landed on the floor. Moonstone is a stone of new beginnings, clairvoyance, and calming agitated nerves. It made sense the moonstone bounced out. Okay, so a new beginning is delayed, and there’s going to be hard-feelings for awhile.
Looking at the rest of the beads in the dish, I noted that the clearer beads landed at the top of the dish, whereas the darker, more emphatically-colored beads landed closer in the bottom-half of the dish, where they seemed to roughly-form the shape of a flag on a flag-pole. The watermelon tourmaline bead landed somewhere in the middle, pointing down toward the flag. Watermelon tourmaline is a heart-chakra activator, encouraging love, tenderness, friendship, and patience. It dissolves resistance to becoming whole once more. The picture the beads in the dish made looked to me like a sky full of stars over a flag fluttering in the breeze. And the watermelon tourmaline pointing down from the ‘stars’ to the flag looked like a divine blessing. It looks like matters will turn out well for Ukraine. And perhaps the war will actually end at night?
