I am surrounded by omens. They disturb me.
They oppress me. Why am I afflicted with omens?
Why am I restless and full of vague fears?
What is the cause of this?
Who is calling out to me?
~Song Composed By Sixteenth Century Maori Woman
Throughout time, people have sought omens and oracles to learn what the future holds for them. Today we have newspaper astrology columns and psychic phone lines. In the past, we might have gone to Delphi or had a haruspice read the entrails of a bird. There is little difference.
Anything can be an oracle, if we declare it so. We could receive messages from songs on the radio or the twitterings of sparrows at the feeder. For omens are only intuitions, information we are not yet consciously aware of but that we have perceived and catalogued. And these omens do not, in fact, predict the future. They draw attention to patterns in the present that, if unchanged, will lead to a likely future event. Continual inebriation is likely to lead to marital difficulties, car accidents, cirrhosis. Enrollment in a degree program is likely to lead to learning and greater opportunity. Seek oracles and omens, but know that any pattern can be changed, and with it, the future as well.
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