covenrochester | Reading Bones

A Bone Casting with a Full Set. Answering a real question.

A Closer View of the same reading.

This set of Reading Bones contains 23 items.

1, QUARTZ CRYSTAL, to represent the Seeker.

2-8, BONES: a straight bone, a curved bone, a broken bone, a good tooth, a bad tooth, a talus, a claw

9-10, TWO DICE. The numbers 1-6 have different meanings.

11, AN ACORN: Beginning, progress, growth.

12, A SKULL: Ending, stagnation, delay. This could be a skull carved out of a stone.

13, A KEY: To show a solution to a problem, but could also indicate an open or closed door.

14-23: SIGNIFICATORS

14: For LOVE, DESIRE, SENSUALITY: I use a SHELL.

15: For HOME OR FAMILY: I use a ROSE QUARTZ chunk.

16: For WORK OR EFFORT: I use a chunk of dark green BLOODSTONE.

17: For HEALTH: I use an oval piece of LIGHT GREEN AGATE (not pictured . . . it was way off in the north east).

18: For a WISH/GOAL: I use a striped WISHING STONE.

19: For MONEY: I use an OLD COIN.

20: For SPIRIT or RELIGION: I use an 1-0 domino carved from a bone. Sometimes this falls upward (the Divine Eye looking at you!) and sometimes face down.

21: For TRAVEL, JOURNEY, MOVEMENT: I use a circlet of DEER ANTLER.

22: A BUTTON: face up meaning open, yes, honest, revealed, speaking. face down, meaning closed, no, deception, secret, silent.

23: A STONE HEART: to represent another person who might be involved in the question.

The only thing I did not have when I put this set together was a CLAW. I used a COYOTE TOOTH as a temporary substitute. But, today I ordered a 1.5 inch BEAR CLAW from MOSCOW HIDE AND FUR (MOSCOW, IDAHO). They are lovely and efficient people.

There is a trick to reading bones, and someone will teach it to you by word of mouth.

It is a very easy method for answering specific questions. The above reading is for such a question. The Seeker asked: "Should I seek the help of my friend XYZ?" The spirits answered (for it is through the bones that the spirits speak, as all shamans and sangomas have always agreed): XYZ is your most direct and fastest solution, but there is another woman, further off, whose assistance you should seek first. That other woman is older, and of inestimable worth to your cause. You will have to travel to meet her. Do you know who she is?" And the Seeker did.

More difficult are general questions. When a Seeker comes and has no particular question in mind. You must be able to throw the bones and tell future events. They can be general, but your statements must be events, capable of being right or wrong. "You daughter will be pregnant in six months", "you will get a speeding ticket next month," "your boss at work is leaving for another job soon," etc. are all events. "You are entering a period of financial difficulty" is not an event. Moreover, it is too general if you cannot tell the Seeker what will occasion the financial difficulty (medical costs, loss of job, car failure, and so on). You may see only the generalities in the cast of the bones, but the spirits will supply the details. If you cannot hear the spirits, then your teacher has not helped you sufficiently to rend the veil from that part of your mind.

*** Blessed be to those who serve the Great Mother and the Horned Father.

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