BUT I DON’T LIKE THE SPOUSAL TRAITS I CHOSE

If the profile of your future spouse as drawn from Sibly’s Magic Tablet is distinctly unappealing, and not what you want at all, then you have some hard-thinking to do. If you don’t like the picture Sibly’s Magic Tablet, then do you want to marry? It may mean having some work to do on yourself. Some metaphysics experts say you won’t attract a spouse who is anymore loveable or desirable than you are. A book I read years ago on spousal selection, written by three scientists, states definitively that it is equals, not opposites, who attract each other, and that you can improve yourself in order to attract a better-quality partner. If you want to attract a better-quality partner, then it starts with improving you.

CONCLUSION

One of the benefits of divination is it can serve as an early-warning system, a roadway sign that you’re headed for trouble on the highway of life, so you can swerve out of the way in time. Marriage is one of those large life endeavors where an early-warning system would certainly be useful. You could use this chart several different times over the course of your life, and come up with a different set of three characteristics each time. If you get a set of characteristics you don’t like, it could be a matter of waiting a few years and trying again.  Or, there could a single trait which crops up each time. If that’s the case, this is probably a key quality you need in a partner, because it’s there to teach you something.

This is the sort of divination tool which might be fun—and beneficial—to use in a group situation. Some answers people draw may trigger laughter, confusion or outrage, to the amusement of onlookers. But if there are any present who know the inquirer well, this Magic Tablet can lead to some honest, if painful conversation and enlightenment. It can be difficult to tell someone that you can see them married to a slob, a spendthrift, a tightwad, an abuser, or a drunkard. But some painful conversation up-front could save them a lot of trouble years down the road. Some may use this tablet and declare they’re not going to get married at all. Which is of course, their choice, but a lot of people make that vow and later get married anyway. It can be interesting in such instances to recall what traits they drew, and compare how close their spouse comes to that description.

I read a speech years ago, delivered by some noteworthy coach, and one of his recommendations for living a good life is ‘make sure you marry the right person, because the person you marry will account for eighty to ninety percent of your happiness or misery in life.’ Hopefully, this Magic Tablet help in minimizing the misery and maximizing the happiness.

EXERCISES

  1. Draw three traits for your own future spouse from Sibly’s Magic Tablet and record them on one of the slips provided in the PDF. What do these traits about your future spouse tell you about the person you are now? Keep it on file and consult it again when you find ‘The One.’ How close does that person come to the traits you drew?
  2. Have someone you know well, draw three traits and record the three traits they drew. Can you see this person married to someone like that? What do the three spousal traits they drew tell you about them as people? Keep these notes on file and consult them again when this person gets married. How close does their new spouse come to the traits they drew?
  3. EXTRA CREDIT: Compare the list of traits you or the other person drew from Sibly’s Magic Tablet, to the Calendar of Lovers, which was covered in the August 2023 lesson. Given the prediction of what sort of lover you or the other person will turn out to be, according to the Calendar of Lovers, and what sort of spouse you or they will have, according to Sibly’s Magic Tablet, what conclusions can you draw about how married life will fare for either you or them?

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Zadkiel and Sibly. A Handbook of Dreams and Fortune-Telling. London, England, U.K.: Senate Studio Editions, Ltd. 1994 Reprint. Originally published by Foulsham in 1923. ISBN: 1-85958-056-4.

Minge, Dr. M. Ronald, Dr. George A. Giuliani, Dr. Thomas F. Bowman. Mating. New York: Red Lion Books, 1982. ISBN: 0-940162-01-6.

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