Originally published: 2005 as Simple Numerology.

A crystal-clear reference guide to the science and art of numerology--one that readers can use to profile their personalities, find their hidden talents, gain insights about their loved ones, and predict the future. Illustrated.

For those who have wanted to try their hand at fortunetelling, this comprehensive sampler of divination strategies offers a thorough introduction to a wide range of options. From more elaborate systems such as numerology, palmistry, and the I Ching to simpler dice and tea reading, you'll come to understand the history and usage of these ancient arts. Learn to read futures in a crystal ball, tarot cards, runes, or your own visage. Predict ups and downs in love, career, relationships, and finances. Find meaning in dreams, the structure of a flower, and even the placement of moles on a person's body. Expert insights, sample readings, and instructive illustrations provide practical guidance for the budding fortune-teller. This book is fun to use for yourself or with a gathering of friends. Techniques include: crystal ball reading, numerology, rune reading, using a pendulum, palmistry, tea leaf reading, and using the I Ching. Are you destined for good luck, money, and a great career? Will you find love or travel to distant lands? The answers can be found in these 20 easy-to-use predictive techniques.

Tarot Plain and Simple by Anthony Louis is the book you've been waiting for! As the title indicates, this book presents the Tarot in clear language that anyone can understand. If you've had trouble learning the Tarot, this book gives the meaning of each and every one of the 78 Tarot cards—both in simple terms and in-depth ones, both upright interpretations and those for when a card is drawn reversed. Illustrations are from the elegant and mystic Robin Wood Tarot. This book leaves nothing out! It includes an overview of the history of the Tarot and suggests why this divinatory method works from a scientific point of view. It even includes several spreads and example readings. That way you can see exactly how the Tarot works, how the cards play off of each other and how to give a reading. Turn to any page and see how you can learn meanings and interpretations. The Five of Cups shows a cloaked person with head down and three of five cups knocked over, spilling their contents. Upright the card means "mourning." But the key words and phrases give you so much more. It can also mean regret, sadness, loss of trust, an emotional letdown, betrayal in love, and much more. How can you tell which expression best fits the card? It depends upon where it falls in the spread and the cards that surround or lead up to it. This is explained in the clear but comprehensive section on Tarot card spreads, and is illustrated in the sample readings. If you have been waiting for an ideal book to help you learn the Tarot, this is it. The longer you wait, the longer it will be before you can give effective Tarot readings. Get out that Tarot deck and get this book today!

Easily the most comprehensive and detailed guide to practical and theoretical numerology on the market, Kevin Quinn Avery's The Numbers of Life stands alone as the definitive work in its field. Drawing on a long and storied career advising New York's celebrities, intelligentsia, and politicians, as well as years of professional study in the areas of astronumerology, astrology, and kabala, Avery has neatly compiled a lifetime of knowledge in this one useful volume. If you are just beginning to dip your toes into the waters of numerology or if you are a seasoned expert, Avery's wisdom is guaranteed to help as you endeavor to derive meaning from the numbers that surround you. The Numbers of Life combines practical instruction with years of collected wisdom about the nature of numerology, astrology, and the occult. Replete with charts and figures about personality, habits, and soul urge, this book will help you to deepen your own understanding of yourself and the world around you. Equipped with knowledge about the details of your future, you can prepare to meet your destiny with positivity and strength.

A multifaceted biography of a brilliant mathematician and iconoclast A mathematician unlike any other, John Horton Conway (1937–2020) possessed a rock star’s charisma, a polymath’s promiscuous curiosity, and a sly sense of humor. Conway found fame as a barefoot professor at Cambridge, where he discovered the Conway groups in mathematical symmetry and the aptly named surreal numbers. He also invented the cult classic Game of Life, a cellular automaton that demonstrates how simplicity generates complexity—and provides an analogy for mathematics and the entire universe. Moving to Princeton in 1987, Conway used ropes, dice, pennies, coat hangers, and the occasional Slinky to illustrate his winning imagination and share his nerdish delights. Genius at Play tells the story of this ambassador-at-large for the beauties and joys of mathematics, lays bare Conway’s personal and professional idiosyncrasies, and offers an intimate look into the mind of one of the twentieth century’s most endearing and original intellectuals.

Ever looked on the clock and it says 11:11, then BAM a weird tingling up your back? Or maybe you've kept seeing the same number combination, like on license plates or receipts—or phone numbers? But what if they weren't coincidences at all and instead messages from the universe? Welcome to the hidden magical realm of angel numbers, where the line between our physical world and that enigmatic spiritual plane blur out for ownership divine guidance in interesting ways. This revolutionary book is not just another numerology guide, but a single reference to help you unlock the vast knowledge encoded in the numbers around you every day. Combining these timeless teachings with the best in contemporary research, The Game of God exposes: The surprising reason you keep seeing certain number sequences Unlocking The Hidden Messages in Numbers of Your Everyday Life Angel Numbers & Your Life Purpose — a connection few know about Simple strategies to enhance your ability to receive and interpret divine messages And actual stories of regular people who had there lives changed by Decoding their Angel Numbers But "Angel Numbers Decoded" goes beyond mere interpretation. This revolutionary work delves deep into the metaphysical realm, exploring: The Intriguing Crossroads of Quantum Physics and Angelic Communication What knowing angel numbers can do for boosting your manifestation powers. The significance of angel numbers in twin flame and soulmate relationships Higher level subject matter including Fibonacci number sequence and its metaphysical meaning Latest tools and technology for angel number tracking & analyzing your own patterns. Whether you're a skeptic anxious for some explanation or assistance, an agnostic searching to deepen your understanding of the universe and yourself, or simply someone who's always felt that there is something more than meets the eye this book can be an open door onto expanded belief systems. In an engagingly free-form writing style, often translating his visions into language that the uninitiated reader will find repetitious but incredibly clear (not a typical two-step), with mind-boggling revelations to twist even experienced numerologists around. We then follow chapter by chapter, journey after journey as you travel deeper and finally walk away with a new set of eyes that will make the world around seem so different. But beware – once you start seeing the patterns, you can't unsee them. Your perception of reality will shift, and you'll discover a new level of synchronicity in your life that you never thought possible. Are you ready to decode the secret language of the universe? To understand the divine messages that have been hiding in plain sight all along? To unlock your full potential and align with your true cosmic purpose? The universe is speaking. It's time to listen. Pick up "Angel Numbers Decoded: Numerology, Spirituality, and Awakening through the Universe's Secret Language" today and embark on the most important spiritual journey of your life. The answers you've been searching for are waiting to be discovered – in the numbers all around you. #AngelNumbers #Spirituality #Numerology #DivineGuidance #Manifestation #CosmicWisdom #SpiritualAwakening Don't let another divine message go unnoticed. Grab your copy now and start decoding the universe's secret language today!

Concise, beginner-friendly, and with nothing left undone, this practical book teaches you how to interpret a birth chart with ease. You might be intimidated by the complexity of your chart, but this book makes it simple--all you need is your date, time, and location of birth. Using a method she has perfected over forty years of teaching and counseling, Andrea Taylor guides you through the houses, planets, aspects, angles, nodes, and more. Your birth chart is who you are; no one else has the same one. This modern book shows how the elements of your chart work together to create the unique individual you are. Discover your cardinal, fixed, and mutable signs. Explore the elements, planet conjunctions, and the quadrants. All this and more is waiting inside this guide--and with no math required.

Medieval English sermons teem with examples of quantitative reasoning, ranging from the arithmetical to the numerological, and regularly engage with numerical concepts. Examining sermons written in Middle English and Latin, this book reveals that popular English-speaking audiences were encouraged to engage in a wide range of numerate operations in their daily religious practices. Medieval sermonists promoted numeracy as a way for audiences to appreciate divine truth. Their sermons educated audiences in a hybrid form of numerate practice—one that relied on individuals’ pragmatic quantitative reasoning, which, when combined with spiritual interpretations of numbers provided by the preacher, created a deep and rich sense in which number was the best way to approach the sacred mysteries of the world as well as to learn how one could best live as a Christian. Analyzing both published and previously unpublished sermons and sermon cycles, Christine Cooper-Rompato explores the use of numbers, arithmetic, and other mathematical operations to better understand how medieval laypeople used math as a means to connect with God. Spiritual Calculations enhances our understanding of medieval sermons and sheds new light on how receptive audiences were to this sophisticated rhetorical form. It will be welcomed by scholars of Middle English literature, medieval sermon studies, religious experience, and the history of mathematics.

Codes hidden for 3,000 years unveil the origin of the fifteen Songs of Ascents. Mysterious marks in medieval manuscripts disclose the lost temple song. Rabbinic traditions reveal the place of the ark of the covenant. And the secret message of the Book of Psalms is laid bare. Question: What do you get when you cross a period-performance Director of Music with a specialist on the Psalms? Answer: The ultimate book on the Psalms in Temple worship. In this book, I wear both my hats to show how these Psalms were sung in ancient Israel. Want to know more? It’s all here in the largest book ever written on the Songs of Ascents, with 27 pictures, 14 tables, and 29 musical examples. REVIEWS David Mitchell’s Songs of Ascents is a fresh direction in the study of the Psalms. The Psalms of Ascents, he argues, were composed not only for Solomon’s Temple but actually for its dedication; yet they represent also a coherent collection, with shared themes and a progression of thought. Drawing on his musical knowledge, he also shows how they may have been sung, here adapting and developing the theories of Suzanne Haïk-Vantoura about the meaning of the Masoretic cantillation signs. John Barton, FBA, Oriel & Lang Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture, Oriel College, Oxford The Songs of Ascents establishes a long-overdue link between the worlds of Biblical Studies and Near Eastern Archaeomusicology. Mitchell addresses the issue with great competence and meticulousness. He has combined researches on both church and synagogue musical traditions, and depicts a credible picture of how the psalms would have been sung in ancient Jerusalem. Richard Dumbrill, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeomusicology, University of London David Mitchell takes just one collection of fifteen psalms to recreate a scholarly and engaging account which brings together, in an original but careful way, the disciplines of the Hebrew language, psalmody, and music. For anyone interested in how the psalms functioned as ancient Temple Songs, and how this might apply to our appreciation of them in synagogues and churches today, this book is an absolute gem. Susan Gillingham, Professor of the Hebrew Bible, Worcester College, Oxford Since the publication of Suzanne Haȉk-Vantoura’s La musique de la Bible révélée in 1976 the quest to identify a musical interpretation of the Masoretic cantillation marks in the poetic biblical books has acquired some impetus. David Mitchell, combining musical expertise and biblical scholarship, has made in this monograph a significant contribution to this on-going quest. He identifies a persuasive chain of tradition which could support the view that the cantillations are a genuine representation of a musical tradition known to the Masoretes, but subsequently lost. Building on Haȉk-Vantoura’s work, and using as a test case the Gregorian tonus peregrinus for Psalm 114 (whose melody is echoed in both Sephardic and Ashkenazi melodies for the same Psalm), he provides a musical understanding of the cantillations which transfers into explicit musical directions (which he reproduces) for each of the Psalms of Ascents. This study deserves to be taken very seriously indeed. Dr Alastair Hunter, Glasgow University. Society of Old Testament Studies Book Review 2016 David Mitchell’s book contains a broad range of explorations of these fifteen psalms, which betrays engagement with many pertinent questions about the Psalms, worship in the Jerusalem Temples, and ancient music. Mitchell’s reading is thorough and eclectic, his thinking is imaginative and novel, and his writing engaging and thought-provoking….This is an enjoyable book for a musician and Psalms scholar. Dr Megan Daffern, Chaplain, Jesus College, Oxford. Expository Times Book Review 2017 This study, in a unique combination of psalter exegesis, historical localization, and music-historical observations, reveals the thesis that Psalms 120-134 were redacted between 975 and 959 BC for the consecration of Solomon’s Temple on 15 Ethanim (Tishri) 959 BC, and that one of each of these 15 psalms was sung during the Succoth festival on the 15 steps of the Temple of Jerusalem. The author proposes that the poets of these psalms were David (for Ps. 122, 124, 131, and 133), Solomon (for Psalm 127), and, by virtue of its Aramaic coloring, Jeduthun and the Merarite Levites (Ps. 120, 121, 123, 125, 126, 130, and 132). In these attributions, and in the reconstruction of the original chant, Mitchell draws on the masoretic cantillation, on rabbinic and early Christian sources on psalmody, on ancient oriental representations of musicians and instruments, and also on gematria. Professor Markus Witte, Lehrstuhl für Exegese und Literaturgeschichte des Alten Testaments, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin. Zeitschrift für die alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft Book Review, June 2017