Casting Stones

[Hamelyn]

So, Serge King's pretty interesting. The sort of huna he teaches has a lot of points in it I'd already come to conclusions about myself, and several I weren't finding anywhere else. That said, in one of his works he included a form of divination that made a lot of sense to me. I'd done similar things, but the idea is: you get some shells, or stones, or whatever... toss them out, and then translate whatever you see in the pattern. Very primal and I like that, plus I'm all for the inspiration aspect of magic. I use seven stones. The more I work with them the more I discover that they, like other things, have really unique personalities. I've started to think of stone properties as sort of a racial type of thing. Each one varies as to its strength and character, but large groups of a certain type seem to enjoy a certain task (amethyst, for example, as most of us get what it can do, or the ever-excited Quartz). What's interesting is that one in particular ends up bumbling in my hands to go towards someone in class. It doesn't feel divinatory and after a lot of thought I don't have any feelings for her. So I think that stone just likes people, which is interesting, as we don't tend to think of our divinatory things working better when other people handle them. It's caused a revolution of thought in me. Why else would we have the readee of a tarot deck shuffle the cards, for example?

Anybody else have similar discoveries while working with stone? A realization of personality, or individuality, or quirkiness, or whatever other synonym I haven't thought up because I was up too late? Let the Hamelyn know. :)