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Bibliomancy is the fancy name for opening a book at random to get guidance on a theme or simply a guide to the quality and content of the day. In Western countries, over the centuries the Bible has been the hands-down favorite for use as a book oracle. Abraham Lincoln used to open his family Bible — the one on which Barack Obama took his oath of office — to get a message for the day or a second opinion on the meaning of a dream.

I enjoy doing bibliomancy with my old journals. One Christmas Eve, after learning that a friend had developed a serious illness and was having other major troubles in her life, I reached blindly into a shelf of more than thirty old travel journals, grabbed one without looking at the date, and opened it at random. I found myself looking at a short dream report from five years earlier. The dream was about my friend. It stated that she had “accepted purgatory for a year. This purgatory is a room in her home that opens into the same realm.” I shared this report with my friend, and we began to work with the meaning of acceptance and of purgatory. Our mutual exploration provided assurance that “this too shall pass,” and that a year in “purgatory” would result in healing and new growth, as proved to be the case.