Today's Stichomancy for Pancho Villa

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs:

an answering roar of pain and anger from the beast.

Jane Porter saw the great form disappear from the window, and then she, too, fainted, the revolver falling at her side.

But Sabor was not killed. The bullet had but inflicted a painful wound in one of the great shoulders. It was the surprise at the blinding flash and the deafening roar that had caused her hasty but temporary retreat.

In another instant she was back at the lattice, and with renewed fury was clawing at the aperture, but with lessened effect, since the wounded member was almost useless.

She saw her prey--the two women--lying senseless upon

Tarzan of the Apes

The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac:

infection in the air. It may be that the steward's present house, with some adjoining land, will be the price paid for Sibilet's spying. Nothing is ever said among us that is not immediately known at Ville- aux-Fayes. Sibilet is a relative of your enemy Gaubertin. What you have just said about the attorney-general and the others will probably be reported before you have reached the Prefecture. You don't know what the inhabitants of this district are."

"Don't I know them? I know they are the scum of the earth! Do you suppose I am going to yield to such blackguards?" cried the general. "Good heavens, I'd rather burn Les Aigues myself!"

"No need to burn it; let us adopt a line of conduct which will baffle

The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft:

around him the lurid light of that single tower room whose lofty window had served as a beacon, it took Carter long to discern the far walls and high, distant ceiling, and to realize that he was indeed not again in the boundless air outside. Randolph Carter had hoped to come into the throne-room of the Great Ones with poise and dignity, flanked and followed by impressive lines of ghouls in ceremonial order, and offering his prayer as a free and potent master among dreamers. He had known that the Great Ones themselves are not beyond a mortal's power to cope with, and had trusted to luck that the Other Gods and their crawling

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

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 Tanach:

Job 30: 18 By the great force of my disease is my garment disfigured; it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

Job 30: 19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

Job 30: 20 I cry unto Thee, and Thou dost not answer me; I stand up, and Thou lookest at me.

Job 30: 21 Thou art turned to be cruel to me; with the might of Thy hand Thou hatest me.

Job 30: 22 Thou liftest me up to the wind, Thou causest me to ride upon it; and Thou dissolvest my substance.

Job 30: 23 For I know that Thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Job 30: 24 Surely none shall put forth his hand to a ruinous heap, neither because of these things shall help come in one's calamity,

Job 30: 25 If I have not wept for him that was in trouble, and if my soul grieved not for the needy.

Job 30: 26 Yet, when I looked for good, there came evil; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Job 30: 27 Mine inwards boil, and rest not; days of affliction are come upon me.

Job 30: 28 I go mourning without the sun; I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

The Tanach