Celtic Oracles: A New System for Spiritual Growth and Divination by Rosemarie Anderson.
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DESCRIPTION: Hardcover: 248 pages. Publisher: Harmony House; (1998). The Celtic way of life is an indigenous European belief system that honors both female and male images of the divine and holds the Earth to be sacred. This new divination system for personal development and spiritual growth based on Celtic symbols, folk wisdom, and spiritual principles will show you how to incorporate the Celtic way of knowing into your daily life. The 64 oracles are the primal forces identified by the Celts as goddesses, gods, faeries, and animal and tree spirits. Each oracle contains historical background, poetry, or verse from original Celtic sources; an interpretation for the contemporary reader; and beautiful, original black-and-white artwork, created especially for this book.
Celtic Oracles works in a similar way to the I Ching: Just throw two coins three times to discover which of the oracles is influencing your life. The oracles are interrelated, reflecting the Celtic worldview that all aspects of our lives are woven together. Inspiring a deep connection with a powerful, ancient way of knowing and living in the world, this transformative system will help you understand the often hidden forces at work in your life and guide you in making practical decisions.
CONDITION: NEW. New hardcover w/dustjacket. Harmony (1998) 248 pages. Inside the book is absolutely pristine, pages are clean, crisp, unmarked, unmutilated, tightly bound, unambiguously unread. With regard to the outside condition we start with the fact that this book was not published with a dustjacket. However so as to protect the covers, we "manufactured" a surrogate dustjacket by imaging the book's printed, decorated covers, and then printed those images, produced a full-color dustjacket printed on high-gloss photographic quality paper, enclosed in a mylar cover. It's very handsome and durable. Beneath the dustjacket the laminated covers are absolutely perfect except for very faint (virtually indiscernable) edge and corner shelfwear to the covers. The outside is otherwise unblemished except for a very few faint, tiny tan-colored age speckles (known as "foxing") to the top surface of closed page edges (visible only when book is closed, not to individual pages, only to the mass of closed page edges, sometimes referred to as the "page block"). Except for these faint, minute "age speckles" the overall condition of the book is entirely consistent with new stock from a bookstore environment wherein new books might show minor signs of shelfwear, consequence of simply being shelved and re-shelved. Satisfaction unconditionally guaranteed. In stock, ready to ship. No disappointments, no excuses. PROMPT SHIPPING! HEAVILY PADDED, DAMAGE-FREE PACKAGING! #1394d..
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An explanation of ancient Celtic forms of necromancy and divination, written for devotees of the I Ching and tarot.
Designed by psychologist Rosemarie Anderson, "Celtic Oracles" shows readers how to focus their thoughts and clarify their emotions, while teaching the history and mythology of the Celts, a tradition stretching back thousands of years. 64 line drawings. Well-written and intriguing! Highly recommended!
I really liked this. “Celtic Oracles” works a lot like the I Ching; you throw coins, and based on how many heads and tails you get, the book directs you to a specific message. Unlike the I Ching, though, the messages are all based on Celtic archetypes and symbols, like "Hag the Initiator", "The Wondrous Child", "Sacred Wells", and so on. Each message is illustrated with a pretty black-and-white drawing, and contains a lot of background about the symbol or archetype. Then it tells you what the symbol means in terms of the reading. *Celtic Oracles* has a feminist slant, just for your information. It also acknowledges both Christianity and Paganism. Coming from either point of view, anyone interested in applying Celtic archetypes to her/his life will enjoy this.
Rosemarie Anderson adds a valuable contribution to the subject of occult divination in this adaptation of the ancient Chinese I-Ching. Using two coins and 64 possible combinations, Anderson skillfully explains the divinatory possibilities of the ancient Celtic archetypes. The major contribution of her book is that it makes the classic I-Ching much more accessible to Western readers, and is a beautifully illustrated and well-written book. I bought three copies to give friends. Valuable and very interesting.
When I first got this book, it sat on a shelf for a better part of two months. Suddenly, I got an urge to actually give it a try. It has been the best decision I have ever made. From the very first time I used it, everything it predicted came true literally. At first I thought it might be coincidence, but experience was to prove me wrong. Read this book, for it will be the best investment you will ever make.
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