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Cast In Stone
An ancient method of divination, using pebbles.
Many thousands of years ago, Mayan priests forecast or sought answers to questions by studying the fall and placement of different stones on a specially prepared piece of land.
They kept separate and apart a square of earth, smoothed out to be perfectly flat and edged with stones. Two lines were drawn across the square, creating three sections representing Past, Present and Future. 50 stones were thrown into the square, each depicting some part of life, and their placement and relationship to one another was carefully studied to provide what we would now call a ‘reading.’
This method of divination is now presented for modern day people to find their own answers to questions. The preparation is not quick, the stones must be found and each must match – in the mind of those finding them - the concept they will represent in the divination process. But once found, the divination process can begin and, because the stones are from the very earth we walk on, the reading will be honest, basic and very down to earth.
A Mayan priest, who calls himself Redwood, gave me this new way of divination. He is a very old soul from many thousands of years in our past, further back than recorded history. He lived in a time which is surrounded by mists and mysteries. In his portrait he reveals a little about himself, the different hairstyle he wears, the type of clothes he wore and now, in this book, he reveals a Mayan secret: the casting of stones.
It is Redwood’s wish, as well as mine, that you will find a closeness to nature and our earth in working with this method of divination. Certainly I found the work revealing and fascinating as I slowly and carefully made my choice of stones, as I was given the categories day by day and the descriptive pieces to go with each one. This part of the book is the only section in which the words are my own. All the others came from Redwood and are as faithful a recording of this ancient ritual as it is possible for a modern day person to transcribe and set before you.
I wish you much pleasure in finding and naming your stones and, when the collecting is done, in using them to read your life and that of friends and others who may ask for your wisdom. It will soon be realised that this is a very different way of reading, one that is exceptionally revealing and you will take great comfort in working with something that comes directly from the very earth that supports each and every one of us in life and in ‘death’.
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