Kitchen Witch's Guide to Divination: Finding, Crafting and Using Fortune-Telling Tools from Around Your Home

by Patricia J. Telesco

Wouldn't all of us like an occasional peek into the future-to see if that blind date's going to flop or fly, to make the right decision about an important career change, to choose the right school for our children? Unfortunately, today's world is such that the only thing on which we can depend is change. But the good news is that we can learn to awaken and empower our natural divinatory abilities and get a better perspective on life's perplexities. The Kitchen Witch's Guide to Divination shows you how. It explains what divination is, how it works, and how to choose or design divination systems successfully. Once you have a clear understanding of this concept, you'll examine some home-based, handy divination methods that are simple to learn and utilize, whether you're in the kitchen, backyard, office...or even on the road.

Genres: Paganism

224 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2004

About the author

Patricia "Trish" Telesco is a professional author with more than 50 metaphysical titles on the market.

Trish considers herself a kitchen witch whose love of folkore (and a bit of Strega) flavor every spell and ritual. Her strongest beliefs lie in following personal vision, being tolerant of other traditions, making life an act of worship, and being the magic!

Trish travels minimally twice per month to give lectures and workshops around the country. She has appeared on several television segments and maintains a strong, visible presence in the public through journals like Circle Network News, and on the internet.

Her current pet projects include supporting pagan land funds and coordinating spiritually oriented tours to Europe.

Telesco began her Wiccan education and initiation on her own, but later received initiation into the Strega tradition of Italy. She is a trustee for the Universal Federation of Pagans, a member of the Authors Guild, a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism and a professional member of the Wiccan-Pagan Press Alliance.

In March 2012 her husband, Paul Telesco, was diagnosed with a tumor on his brain stem. Since that time, Telesco has been focused on raising awareness and fund-raising

Reviews

[Amber · Rating 5 out of 5]

5/5 offered budget friendly and interesting crafts, told the WHY behind the practice and involved multiple cultures. Lots of interesting methods and charts.

[Andee Marley · Rating 3 out of 5]

How to read coffee, tea leaves, cards, M&Ms, runes, flour, oil, candles, wax, bread, towels, glass and crystals in your daily divination. and much more..(!)

[Hali Davidson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm not particularly into divination myself, but it was enjoyable to read over all the different methods used historically and globally and how modern-day divination could be in comparison.

[Carla · Rating 5 out of 5]

Divination tools come in many forms: Tarot and oracle cards, Runes, dominoes, M&M's, beans, and many more. Check out this book to see what you can use to "read the future".

[Kathy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Originally I thought this book was about doing divination using food. I was partially right. Telesco has devised many interesting ways to learn and do divination with anything in your house- scrying via your laptop or computer, coupon tarot (do people still use coupons?), pendulums made out of rings or paper clips, scenes from a movies or descriptions from the back of dvds.

This book is very easy to understand and can be used by a beginner or someone who had been doing tarot for years. I like that she includes the history of divination from all over the world and not just one area. The exercises are simple and if the reader like crafts than it will be fun making a scrying mirror or divination board. This book also includes typical types of divination like tarot, pendulums, dowsing rods, scrying, tea-leaves, geomancy, and bibliomancy.
The Kitchen Witch's Guide to Divination is a quirky book. Telesco believes that anything can be used to do divination. Even if the reader doesn't believe in tarot at least it is an entertaining read.