Ok as i started this book i have to admit i was not to thrilled with its start.But as i started to progress within it i found yet again another wounderful source of information.And some new freash ideas to me.The book only covers 9 types of divination.That in my opinion could have been put in less catagorys.As i look at them as 3 types of divination,stones,trance,and omens.Sleep being under the trance catagory.In the course of my study these 3 types have always semed to be comman in all magickal systems.The most intreiging to me is the systems of runes and geomancy.And this book covers both fairly well only lacking in my opinion in the fact that the futharks arnt covered more in detail.Being as i have a stronge pull towards theses.As well i found the fact that some other comman types where not even touched upon.Such as the tarot,palm reading,tea leaves,scyrying etc.But i will admit the runes that are touched on are a wounderful freash idea that i admit have never heard of and are really wounderfuly simple anyone new to the path who wishes to learn divinations as part of there practice as well as those who have been on the path for awhile can both find a fun and easy way of reading runes.Or more acurettly casting of runes or stones.In short I have found 3 styles from these in which i chose to use for this lesson.The first is a very simple type called geomancy which use patterns of one and two dots to form a series of figures known as the mothers,daughters,left and right wittnesses and the judge to determine the answers to high detailed and or complex questions.The forms are compied by simple casting of a two sided stone called a witchs stone marked with a sun and moon on the reverse.Sun being one dot and the moon being two dots.the casting is done in four sets of four makeing up the head ,neck,body,and feet of the first mother through the fourth mother.Then its farily simple process of adding the diffrent parts of the mothers to determine the number of dots to make up the daughters.heads to heads necks to necks etc.Then this is repeated till finaly you have the judge and your answer to your question.The second I have chosen is the talking stones a simple homemade set of runes with a qurrent stone which is placed with in a circle and then the thirteen stones are cast in to the circle and read by which is closest to the querrent stone as being what will effect the question in the short term or first and the reading the rest in order of distence from the qurrent for the final answer to the question.The third style i chose is the druids wand.This to me is more of a means to tell if the time is right for a desired outcome.It works by mesureing the distence of the moon from the polar star(polarus).With a wand that is 20 and 4/5`s inches long with one end painted black and the other painted red these are done in 2/5ths inches then the wand is divided into 20 one inch sections within which is inscribed the sigils of the druids alphabet known as the coelbren of the bards which is of celtic origans.(another neat new fact i learned from reading this book)Also inclued in this book is the how toos of createing you divination tools used in these practices as well as the blessing rituals that are used before useing your new tools to divine with.These can all be altered to fit you style and path.With the exeption of the druids wand to me.If in fact these is a genuine druid method that is a age held tradition i see that changeing this one would be disrespectful of these ancient time honered tradition.But if after studing these type of divination and i find that simular styles where used by other then the celtic druids the i will retract my statement.But if this is the case it would still be more honerable to construct and follow the rites of this style tool and any other style tool of ancient design by doing them in the way of there culture of origan.Now comes the task of making my new tools and starting the task of casting with these new styles and learning there heart songs to me.My results will be posted in another entry as these will take sometime to construct and learn.