Today's Stichomancy for Yoko Ono

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar:

sine metu trans Rhenum in suos vicos remigraverant. His interfectis navibus eorum occupatis, prius quam ea pars Menapiorum quae citra Rhenum erat certior fieret, flumen transierunt atque omnibus eorum aedificiis occupatis reliquam partem hiemis se eorum copiis aluerunt.

His de rebus Caesar certior factus et infirmitatem Gallorum veritus, quod sunt in consiliis capiendis mobiles et novis plerumque rebus student, nihil his committendum existimavit. Est enim hoc Gallicae consuetudinis, uti et viatores etiam invitos consistere cogant et quid quisque eorum de quaque re audierit aut cognoverit quaerant et mercatores in oppidis vulgus circumsistat quibus ex regionibus veniant quas ibi res cognoverint pronuntiare cogat. His rebus atque auditionibus permoti de summis saepe

The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Tanach:

1_Chronicles 6: 11 (5:37) and Azariah begot Amariah, and Amariah begot Ahitub;

1_Chronicles 6: 12 (5:38) and Ahitub begot Zadok, and Zadok begot Shallum;

1_Chronicles 6: 13 (5:39) and Shallum begot Hilkiah, and Hilkiah begot Azariah;

1_Chronicles 6: 14 (5:40) and Azariah begot Seraiah, and Seraiah begot Jehozadak;

1_Chronicles 6: 15 (5:41) and Jehozadak went into captivity, when the LORD carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

1_Chronicles 6: 16 (6:1) The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath and Merari.

1_Chronicles 6: 17 (6:2) And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni, and Shimei.

1_Chronicles 6: 18 (6:3) And the sons of Kohath were Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.

1_Chronicles 6: 19 (6:4) The sons of Merari: Mahli, and Mushi. And these are the families of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.

1_Chronicles 6: 20 (6:5) Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son;

1_Chronicles 6: 21 (6:6) Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son.

The Tanach

The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Alcibiades I by Plato:

ALCIBIADES: Certainly, let me hear.

SOCRATES: You had better be careful, for I may very likely be as unwilling to end as I have hitherto been to begin.

ALCIBIADES: Proceed, my good man, and I will listen.

SOCRATES: I will proceed; and, although no lover likes to speak with one who has no feeling of love in him (compare Symp.), I will make an effort, and tell you what I meant: My love, Alcibiades, which I hardly like to confess, would long ago have passed away, as I flatter myself, if I saw you loving your good things, or thinking that you ought to pass life in the enjoyment of them. But I shall reveal other thoughts of yours, which you keep to yourself; whereby you will know that I have always had my eye on

The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen:

home. It was a burning day at the beginning of August, the heat had dimmed the outlines of all things and all distances with a faint mist, and people who observed the thermometer spoke of an abnormal register, of a temperature that was almost tropical. Strangely that wonderful hot day of the fifties rose up again in Clarke's imagination; the sense of dazzling all-pervading sunlight seemed to blot out the shadows and the lights of the laboratory, and he felt again the heated air beating in gusts about his face, saw the shimmer rising from the turf, and heard the myriad murmur of the summer.

"I hope the smell doesn't annoy you, Clarke; there's

The Great God Pan