My first true love was at twenty years old She was much older, yes I was so bold A theatre lover I became Gloria Swanson name of fame Her last performance I think it was ‘Butterflies are Free’, we were impressed A great endeavour this thing she does No mere drama was justly expressed Later on as we undressed I knew my heart was not just me I felt her closeness and accepted ‘We’.

When you hear word 'divination', chances are that certain images-- will spring to mind: dark gypsy fortune-tellers, tea-leaves, and crystal balls; a scene in a movie when Ace of Spades falls in a card game or a strange figure draws Tarot trump Death; charlatans, ouija boards, and phony swamis; or, perhaps, witch doctors and medicine men chanting around a fire. If you look a little deeper, you might see another kind of image lurking in background: dark magicians in graveyards seeking forbidden knowledge, conjuring demons and spirits of dead.

These images express attitudes - ridicule and fear - with a long history. For well over a thousand years, divination was a mortal sin and a capital crime in Western culture, a 'conversation with devil' that was banished along with old gods and wise women. Divination is a central part of pagan culture and pagan sense of a cosmos or 'living- world'. With rise of Church to political power in late antiquity, old gods of this culture became devils and living world became their work. With rise of our modern 'scientific laws' of cause and effect, devils in turn became superstitions, tales told by those considered to be marginal or uneducated such as women, lunatics, criminals, and savages. In spite of our inherited assumptions, divination is not a collection of superstitions. It is an outlawed way of knowing and speaking with a living world, a world ensouled and full of spirit.” (1)