Asparagus mystic offers tips for the future...
Last Updated: 4:01pm GMT 12/03/2008


A fortune-teller has claimed she can divine people's futures by using
asparagus

Jemima Packington, who likes to call herself the UK's only
"asparamancer" , has been testing out her technique at the British
Trade and Travel Fair at Birmingham's NEC.

Ms Packington, from Worcester, throws the asparagus spears onto the
floor and makes her predictions based on how they land.

She says she stumbled across her asparagus-predictin g skills a few
years ago by chance, after some stalks fell on the floor and she made
a prediction which came true.

She told BBC News: "I can't even remember what prediction I made when
I was young but my family went very quiet and it came true and the
rest is history."

She has even used her gift of asparagus foresight on actor Tony
Robinson, who played Baldrick in the comedy series Black Adder.

The asparagus he threw landed in the shape of a number four. Ms
Packington predicted he should grab an opportunity that would present
itself.

He said he felt as if a great burden had been lifted off his shoulders
after his mystical encounter.

Ms Packington was at the fair to help promote the asparagus industry
in Worcestershire, which is the largest producer of the vegetable in
the UK.

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Post edited by: ShaamAnsu, at: 2008/03/15 10:54

That's a pretty funny story -- and it just goes to show that you can use pretty much anything you like for divination!

I'm reminded of one of Lon Milo DuQuette's books: "Book Of Ordinary Oracles." He explains how to use all sorts of everyday items as divination tools.

Exactly, and that's what most people don't realize. Even a pendulum can be as simple as a needle or safety pin on a string.

My dowsing rods are copper coathangers I cut..I keep a supply.

I don't use runes...I have 15 stones I have collected over several years, ranging in coloration from white, tan, dark tan, brownish ones and gray and black. Most have lines of other things running thru them as well.

When I cast them, the white stone always falls almost in my lap (I call it my control stone)..the rest go the other way...and I read them by the way they fall...and what they tell me.