Finally stopping, you straighten it out before you. Stretching out your right arm, you reach down the spirit and yourself, you reach down and spin the little booklet around on the table before you, and learning your wrist hang loose, you point downward with your way. back up of your way. back to the other. fingers back out of the way. small chart of jumbled numbers to see what you & # 39; ve chosen.
===> History of the Tablets
The "Tablets of Fate" are an oracle first produced as chap-books in the late 17th century. Chap-books ___ ___ 0 They are sold in shops and stalls in the city markets, and then bought and resold by peddlers to the villages and hamlets of Europe.
These peddlers would carry small cheap goods they could buy and resell from their packages as they traveled. They chap-men, buyers and sellers of cheapened goods. Here, the booklets that sold acquainted the name chap- books.
Wither they are a true oracle, or just a parlor game, their history is as old as playing cards.
===> Methodology
A tablet is created, consisting of 16 numbers jumbled in an odd arrangement in roughly equal areas of the page. Then can be in a square (Tablet of Venus), a circle (Tablet of the Moon), or a diamond shape (Tablet of Jupiter) so long as the area that encloses each number is roughly equal on the page. The "Tablets of Fate" call for 32 responses, 16 numbers with both an upright and a reversed meaning. Responses is prepared covering a range of possible answers.
You would seek your answer by placing the chart with the "tablet" in front of you and turning it randomly to set it & # 39; s direction, upright or reversed. Then you 'd use your finger, a small stick, or a pencil held in your hand to randomly pick your answer.
===> Known Tablets of Fate
The following Tablets can be found in some sources under different names.
If you receive a favorable answer in the tablet of the Sphinx, you would go next on the tablet.
Tablet of the Moon == The Moon guards the Home; use it ask about issues relating home, relatives, and friends.
Tablet of Mercury (The Magnetic Horseshoe) == Mercury is Lord of the Crossroads; use this tablet for issues concerning journeys and travels.
Tablet of Venus (Cupid & # 39; s Scroll) == Venus is the goddess of Love, use it for issues of the heart.
Tablet of Mars (The Symbolic Swastika) == use this table when your questions concerns Work, Business, or Money.
** (The Lucky Bell) == Used for issues relating a Letter (or in modern terms an email)
Tablet of the Sun (Spell of the Rising Sun) == Used when the issue concerns Time.
** (The Seal of Solomon) == Issues concerning a Large Building (Temple, Office Building, Hospital, etc.) or someone connected to such a place.
Tablet of Jupiter (= The Scales of Fate) == Used when your issues concern Justice, worries, doubts, or problems with the Law.
===> Modern Printings of the Oracle
"The Complete Fortune Teller" by Diana Hawthorne (Blue Ribbon Books, Inc., New York, 1940), and in English printing of The same book "Laurie & # 39; s Complete Fortune Teller" by Diana Hawthorn (W and G Foyle, Ltd, London, 1946). A copy of the English edition was recently put up for sale on E-bay and still showing up in the search engines. These are clearly out of print at this time.
A more modern version can be found in (2) books: "Little Giant Encyclopedia of Lucky Numbers" by The Diagram Group (Sterling Publishing 2001) and "Little Giant Encyclopedia of Fortune Telling" by The Diagram Group (Sterling Publishing 1999). Sadly, two of the "Tablets of Fate" were dropped from the recent Sterling Publishing printings.
You can also find a web page calculator with all of the "Tablets" from the 1940 edition with a little bit of searching.
