Today's Stichomancy for Donald Trump

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare:

Fair fall the wit that can so well defend her! 472 For on the grass she lies as she were slain Till his breath breatheth life in her again.

He wrings her nose, he strikes her on the cheeks, He bends her fingers, holds her pulses hard, 476 He chafes her lips; a thousand ways he seeks To mend the hurt that his unkindness marr'd: He kisses her; and she, by her good will, Will never rise, so he will kiss her still. 480

The night of sorrow now is turn'd to day: Her two blue windows faintly she up-heaveth,

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

Job 10: 20 Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

Job 10: 21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

Job 10: 22 A land of thick darkness, as darkness itself; a land of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

Job 11: 1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said:

Job 11: 2 Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be accounted right?

Job 11: 3 Thy boastings have made men hold their peace, and thou hast mocked, with none to make thee ashamed;

Job 11: 4 And thou hast said: 'My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in Thine eyes.'

Job 11: 5 But oh that God would speak, and open His lips against thee;

Job 11: 6 And that He would tell thee the secrets of wisdom, that sound wisdom is manifold! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.

Job 11: 7 Canst thou find out the deep things of God? Canst thou attain unto the purpose of the Almighty?

Job 11: 8 It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than the nether-world; what canst thou know?

The Tanach

The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche:

be fond of beholding them--all their spirit is in this wish.

They represent themselves, they invent themselves; in their neighbourhood I like to look upon life--it cureth of melancholy.

Therefore am I forbearing to the vain, because they are the physicians of my melancholy, and keep me attached to man as to a drama.

And further, who conceiveth the full depth of the modesty of the vain man! I am favourable to him, and sympathetic on account of his modesty.

From you would he learn his belief in himself; he feedeth upon your glances, he eateth praise out of your hands.

Your lies doth he even believe when you lie favourably about him: for in its depths sigheth his heart: "What am _I_?"

Thus Spake Zarathustra

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 Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln:

seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.

Second Inaugural Address