Today's Stichomancy for Alessandra Ambrosio

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Blue Flower by Henry van Dyke:

sense of incompleteness, overshadowed existence from that night when Hermas realised that his joy could never go beyond itself.

The next morning the old man whom he had seen in the Grove of Daphne, but never since, appeared mysteriously at the door of the house, as if he had been sent for, and entered like an invited guest.

Hermas could not but make him welcome, and at first he tried to regard him with reverence and affection as the one through whom fortune had come. But it was impossible. There was a chill in the inscrutable smile of Marcion, as he called

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

Psalms 116: 13 I will lift up the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.

Psalms 116: 14 My vows will I pay unto the LORD, yea, in the presence of all His people.

Psalms 116: 15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.

Psalms 116: 16 I beseech Thee, O LORD, for I am Thy servant; I am Thy servant, the son of Thy handmaid; Thou hast loosed my bands.

Psalms 116: 17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.

Psalms 116: 18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD, yea, in the presence of all His people;

Psalms 116: 19 In the courts of the LORD'S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Hallelujah.

Psalms 117: 1 O praise the LORD, all ye nations; laud Him, all ye peoples.

Psalms 117: 2 For His mercy is great toward us; and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Hallelujah.

Psalms 118: 1 'O give thanks unto the LORD, for He is good, for His mercy endureth for ever.

Psalms 118: 2 So let Israel now say, for His mercy endureth for ever,

The Tanach

The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy:

prison walls, and almost within sight of every one; he did not then know that this was both a jailer and a spy. However, he took the note and read it on coming out of the prison.

The note was written in a bold hand, and ran as follows: Having heard that you visit the prison, and are interested in the case of a criminal prisoner, the desire of seeing you arose in me. Ask for a permission to see me. I can give you a good deal of information concerning your protegee, and also our group.--Yours gratefully, VERA DOUKHOVA."

Vera Doukhova had been a school-teacher in an out-of-the-way village of the Novgorod Government, where Nekhludoff and some

Resurrection

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 Life in the Iron-Mills by Rebecca Davis:

if any of the boys thought of him up there, and thought that he never was to go down that old cinder-road again. Never again! He had not quite understood it before; but now he did. Not for days or years, but never!--that was it.

How clear the light fell on that stall in front of the market! and how like a picture it was, the dark-green heaps of corn, and the crimson beets, and golden melons! There was another with game: how the light flickered on that pheasant's breast, with the purplish blood dripping over the brown feathers! He could see the red shining of the drops, it was so near. In one minute he could be down there. It was just a step. So easy, as it

Life in the Iron-Mills