The Heart of Things: Now Available!

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The second volume of lore in Edward Farnsworths' three part series, "Heart of Things" is much like "The Deeper Mysteries." the content is a bit less variable and more focused on astrological, zodiacal, categorical materials. It speaks at some length on dreams, spirits, the meaning of life, the dimensions, and many other subjects, usually in three or four pages apiece.

197 pages.

Stars of Destiny: Now Available!

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This is quite a good work, relatively lengthy and somewhat dense. It is purely astrological and includes the basic meaning of the twelve signs, the meaning of each celestial bodies' movements in each of the twelve houses, and the categorization of the twenty four hours of the day and what to do (or not do) in basic terms for business, travel, etc, based on the reigning planet. It gives some explanation using astrology with a few charts as well.

82 pages.

Planting, Harvesting, etc, According to the Signs of the Zodiac: Now Available!

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This short, obtusely-titled booklet is nonetheless absolutely worth reading for those interested in the topic of astrology; I don't know of another comparable work; one which suggests that surgical and medical acts should be relegated to an astrological timeline. The agricultural tips in here are a bit more mystic than in most works with similar, almanac-esque content, but are definitely fun to read.

At the end it contains a relatively mundane twelve-month zodiac and the basic traits for each sign. Notably, it does include the concept of "cusp" signs (days overlapping two signs.) For example, I am on the cusp of Capricorn and Aquarius. This has significance in some zodiacal interpretations, but is not regarded as valid by some others.

38 pages.

Ars Paulina: Now Available!

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This is one of the four (true) works comprising the Lesser Keys of Solomon (the Notoria is not of the same era.) Less well known than the Ars Goetia, it is nonetheless 1. a distinct work and 2. important to the general tradition it is part of; specifically, it is an astrological work before anything else, which fails to give the sort of detailed list of powers for each of the angels it purports to allow one to summon.

It is broken into two sections. The first details the angels of the hours and the second one the twelve signs of the zodiac. In both cases, seals are constructed and used with a complex table of practice in combination with several invocations. It's quite a good work overall albeit shorter than the Goetia it shares tradition with.

44 pages

General Update: Spring!

I figured it was about time for another update; as spring marches along I'm already requisitioning materials for my garden, so those of you who enjoy that series will get some new footage soon- along with massive improvements.

On the literary side, I am now about 75% complete editing DeLaurences' odd work "The Mystic Hindu Test Book"- this work covers astral bodies, spirits, crystal gazing, seances, and more; it's quite good after the second chapter (up to that point it is self advertizement and run on sentences.) At around 130 or so pages, it will be an important work here.

After that, I figure on completing a couple other DeLaurence works; they're all of similar length and have various eugenic-era spiritual content revolving around eastern tradition, spirits, and the like. I also have two short herbals and need to contact my illustrator for those to be completed. As promised the Theurgia Goetia will also soon be edited. I figure I can complete seven new works by the end of May at current projections.

The Astrological Physician: Now Available!

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This manuscript is honestly one of the most bizarre things I have ever come across and edited within the occult. A fusion of astrology and medicine, it proposes to diagnose and help treat ailments (often outdated ones with new names) by observing the planets so forth in their movements at the time of complaint and diagnosis. It also says it can determine whether a disease is being caused by witches or demons.

Equally at home as a quack/ folk medicine work and as one purely astrological, it's a strange but interesting fusion.

44 pages.

The Language of the Stars: Now Available!

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This particular booklet is both well made enough for a total novice of astrology to understand its content and in depth enough to cover things other than the standard "twelve signs and their overlap with other categories" material which shorter astrological works tend to cover.

Written by Burgoyne and explicitly recommended as a good astrological primer by Magnus Jensen (which, honestly, is how I found out that it existed!) it goes fairly deep into drawing up nativity charts, the meaning of and calculations of the planets, their influence into the twelve houses (and the meaning of the same) and far more.

67 pages.

Everybody's Astrology: Now Available!

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This booklet is a compact little guide to the basics of astrology both theoretical and pragmatic. Some of the content here is Magnus Jensen's own theory and opinion, the rest is fairly standard zodiacal lore.

It contains a pair of rising sign tables among other things as well as references to a half dozen other astrological works, admonishing that the world would be a far better place if astrology were more widely understood and practiced.

38 pages.

The Omnium Gatherum: Now Available!

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The Omnium Gatherum is a bizarre but interesting fortune teller. Written in the 1870s and pairing a social oracle with temperance propaganda, it is the offspring of JT Yarrington, who was an activist for this latter cause.

The social purpose is clear; get a group of people together to tell their fortunes with one another and subsequently ponder the evils of alcohol (the "grog sellers" and so forth!) It also contains a dozen testimonials from the press of its age. Indeed, the oracle can be used solo by making slips of paper for each possible answer to the questions but getting a group together really helps when your purpose is to get them talking about the evils of beer and liquor.

44 pages.

Your Future Revealed: Now Available!

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This interesting work is one among many in the oracle tradition but with two neat twists; first, the oracle is set up to answer via some of the Greek deities, and second the oracle is in Shakespearean quotation.

This likely marketing strategy takes a straightforward, relatively simple oracle and transforms it into something a bit more snazzy. Thirteen questions may be answered by merely using slips of paper upon which the numbers of the gods (or their names) are placed. This system can be adapted for essentially any multiple choice query.

32 pages.

The Hindu Book of Astrology: Now Available!

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The Hindu Book of Astrology is slightly mistitled- it is indeed a Western astrological work with some Eastern fusion within its pages; that hardly detracts from the content, since texts from this era tended to do that quite often, especially with Hinduism.

It includes all the signs of the Zodiac, the cusps, the colors, gems, diseases, and so forth of each sign, within a fairly rudimentary framework, and then encourages the reader to relax and study other aspects of the occultism. The Zodiac may be seen as largely a positive one, which is more fixated on elaboration on the positive aspects than dwelling on the negative.

65 pages.

The Seaside Sybil: Now Available!

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The Seaside Sybil is a strange little work. Written in 1882 and almost entirely New York-centric in style, it proposes a rather simple oracle system; 100 possible fortunes are present, and the numbers 1 through 100 placed on slips of paper and one drawn at random to consult the oracle.

The oracle itself is what concerns, of course, the occult audience- also of interest here though is the addition of ads for quack medicine, often ads of a rather outmoded and at times hilariously bigoted nature; for example, an ad featuring a "chinaman" charicature eating a box of rat poison- the ad states "They must go!" It is not clear if the rats, or the chinaman, are the primary subject.

28 pages.

Divination, Fortune Telling, and Astrology Books for Sale

The following is a continuously edited list of texts related to fortune telling, prophecy, astrology, and prognostication, which I have edited and released. This list will be updated over time as new titles become available.

THE PHILOSOPHICAL MERLIN
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A British work from 1822 dealing with astrology and divination.

HIEROGLYPHICAL FORTUNE TELLER
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A lengthy oracle with no additional content. Circa the 1870s.

THE UNIVERSAL FORTUNE TELLER OF MRS BRIDGET (1790)
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A longer, earlier fortune teller including palmistry, astrology, card tricks, dream interpretation, and more.

THE UNIVERSAL FORTUNE TELLER (1860)
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A series of charms and astrological divination. Also Americana.

NAPOLEON'S ORACULUM
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An elaborate system of fortune telling, which also contains charms and divination-related practices which use nothing more than playing cards, dominoes, and other simple things. Pure Americana.

THE SEASIDE SYBIL
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A short oracle using slips of paper. Contains many vintage quack medicine and joke ads.

THE HINDU BOOK OF ASTROLOGY
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The twelve signs, the cusps, and various Western occult lore masquerading as Hindu.

YOUR FUTURE REVEALED BY THE GODS OF GREECE
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A simplified oracle in Shakespearean verse.

THE OMNIUM GATHERUM
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A social oracle paired with temperance era propaganda. Mostly relationship related.

EVERYBODYS ASTROLOGY
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A short astrological work mainly speaking of the signs and their meaning.

THE LANGUAGE OF THE STARS
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An excellent primer on beginner-to-intermediate astrology.

THE NEW DREAM BOOK
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An excellent, mid-length work of dream interpretation including moles and cards as used to prognosticate. Contains an early proto-oraculum.

THE TRUE FORTUNE TELLER
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A short work half plagiarized from the 1790 version. Includes prognostication by nails and a unique tree-oracle.

MYSTIC DREAM BOOK
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A lengthy list of dreams and their meanings, from a late 19th century perspective.

PLANTING, HARVESTING, ETC BY THE SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC
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A short work that subjugates crops and surgery to the movements of celestial bodies.

STARS OF DESTINY
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A work on astrology with the signs, houses, and hours as well as their various natures.

DREAMS AND PREMONITIONS
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A Theosophical work detailing how to remember dreams, some material about their meaning, and a large number of anecdotes about premonitions in dreams.

MEHMET ALIS ORIENTAL INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS
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A long, obtusely titled work of dream interpretation, phrenology, general divination, also with a full sized oracle system.

TELLING FORTUNES BY TEA LEAVES
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A comprehensive encyclopedic system of interpreting tea leaves, with a fairly large and illustrated section giving examples.

FORTUNE TELLING AND DIVINATION
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A collection of divination and fortune telling lore. Oracles, dream interpretation, tea leaf reading, and much more.

A METHOD OF CHIEROGNOMY
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A palmistry work focusing on the hands' shape and size, its mounds, and on finger and thumb types.

THE ORIGINAL NORWOOD GIPSY
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A short fortune teller with palmistry, tea leaf reading, divination by cards, lucky and unlucky days, etc.

MOTHER BUNCH'S CLOSET
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A short combination fiction story and fortune telling work re-edited from an even older work which might even predate mention of the Norwood Gypsy.

THE NATURE OF DREAMS
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A short work by Carrington categorizing dreams and speaking about how to remember them, some prognostication by dreams, and more.

PRACTICAL PSYCHOMANCY
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A short Atkinson work on crystal gazing, astral projection, and other associated topics, with anecdotes, and more.

HINTS FROM THE HORNOGRAPH
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A quasi-theosophical prophetic work using allegory and symbolism and linguistics to (correctly) predict the fall of the British Empire and rise of the United States.