| People have performed divination with sticks for | | | | Chien Tung, or Chinese Oracle. This is usually a |
| hundreds, if not thousands, of years. There are | | | | collection of bamboo twigs, or sticks, and have |
| Icelandic accounts of casting costing lots with sticks | | | | numbers carved into them. By shaking the container |
| during the time of Erik the Red. Likewise, the Chinese | | | | until a stick pops free, the reader acquires a single |
| have and ancient tradition. In divination with sticks, runes | | | | stick which can be interpreted by a reader into its |
| may or may not be carved upon them. Some schools | | | | relevance to the question. Some versions contain sixty |
| of thought hold that doing so, however, increases the | | | | bamboo sticks, while others contain seventy-eight. |
| potency of the forces at work. Another form of | | | | Most Chien Tung sets are beautifully artistic, and each |
| divination with sticks is the well known divining rod. | | | | set is accompanied by a chart or booklet of prophetic |
| The divining rod, or dowsing rod, is a form of divination | | | | fortunes to match the numbered sticks. Experienced |
| with sticks, usually forked, and is commonly used to | | | | readers quickly align themselves with the powers |
| find underground water sources, although it could be | | | | unleashed in Chien Tung, and are thereby better able |
| applied in many other ways. This forked branch is | | | | to interpret the reading. |
| usually cut from a hazel tree, and carefully cured by | | | | In cases of divination with sticks where runes are |
| the person who intends to use it. Frequent and | | | | carved onto the items, each rune is consulted on a |
| sustained contact with the person who will use this | | | | chart, and the reading is provided to the querent. Great |
| device is absolutely required for it to work properly. | | | | care must be taken with runes. Psychic energies have |
| There psychic energies must be aligned so that the | | | | been infused into these marks, and they are sensitive |
| wood is able to sense the presence of water of | | | | to outside interference when being used. Make your |
| whatever is being sought with it. | | | | casting in a quiet environment where you and the |
| Another way of divination with sticks, it the Chinese | | | | querent are able to concentrate without interruption. |