Putting a question, reading an answer

This section covers the methods by which a question is posed to something beyond the questioner and an answer is read from a structured set of signs: geomancy and its sixteen figures, ogham, the tarot spread, the Lenormand and ordinary playing-card packs, the Maya day count, the enneagram as a typology, and the interpretation of dreams.

What these methods share is not a claim about how they work but a common shape: a fixed vocabulary of symbols, a procedure for selecting some of them by a means the practitioner does not fully control, and an interpretive tradition for reading the result.