Adding a few more pieces to the bone reading set
Bone Reading Set being assembled. This is a set I assembled for a project. I talked about how I prepped the new bones for use here. I have added several more pieces to this set so I thought [...]
Paxton Gate, Portland Oregon
Last week I was in Portland Oregon and my wonderful hosts took me to an amazing store called Paxton Gate. Inside was a wonderful array of taxidermy, cabinets of bones, books, and jewelry. Here are some pictures. I apologize for [...]
Size Matters, but so do other things
Carved bone penises When looking at something that you are thinking of purchasing for your bone set several characteristics should get considered. I have a metal box that holds bones, shells and curios that didn't make it into [...]
Prepping new bones for use
I had to get a new bone set for a project I am working on so I decided to photograph the process I use to clean and prepare them for use and share it here. I start by rinsing them [...]
What represents you?
One of the most useful pieces in my set is the piece I use to represent the person I am reading for, whether I am reading for myself or someone else. I think that this piece is the reason I [...]
Bacula
I have two bacula in my bone set. A baculum is the penis bone found in some mammals. One is a raccoon baculum. When I bought it, it was described to me as representing the qualities of a good man [...]
Wild Casting Divination Set
Back in January of this year, I saw this set on Etsy (you can see it towards the bottom of the page). I wrote to the shop owner and inquired about it but I didn't purchase it at that time. Over [...]
What gifts do you bring?
What gifts do you bring? Many, if not most people visit a diviner because they have an issue or problem that they need advice on. You do the reading pointing out this and that - how they got there, what's [...]
The Evolution of My Reading Cloth
While some traditional bone reading styles call for reading on the earth, this is not practical for me. My postage stamp yard is concrete and grass with no bare areas to read. I went through several reading surfaces before I [...]
Old Sh*t!
I first came across coprolite, a.k.a fossilized poop, at a bone reading workshop in Santa Monica at the charming Madame Parmita's Parlour of Wonders.Various bones and curios were being passed around to illustrate the types of things you could [...]