Today's Stichomancy for Julia Roberts

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles:

Hath the queen thus departed? Much I fear From this dead calm will burst a storm of woes.

OEDIPUS Let the storm burst, my fixed resolve still holds, To learn my lineage, be it ne'er so low. It may be she with all a woman's pride Thinks scorn of my base parentage. But I Who rank myself as Fortune's favorite child, The giver of good gifts, shall not be shamed. She is my mother and the changing moons My brethren, and with them I wax and wane.

Oedipus Trilogy

The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James:

everything, even their expensive feelings (so that, as he never wrote, his correspondence cost him weekly pounds and pounds, and he might be in and out five times a day) there was, all the same, involved in the prospect, and by reason of its positive excess of light, a perverse melancholy, a gratuitous misery. This was at once to give it a place in an order of feelings on which I shall presently touch.

Meanwhile, for a month, he was very constant. Cissy, Mary, never re-appeared with him; he was always either alone or accompanied only by some gentleman who was lost in the blaze of his glory. There was another sense, however--and indeed there was more than

The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson:

phrases, the phrase 'for exercise' is the least comprehensible across the Straits of Dover. All goes well for a while with the pedestrians. The wet woods are full of scents in the noontide. At a certain cross, where there is a guardhouse, they make a halt, for the forester's wife is the daughter of their good host at Barbizon. And so there they are hospitably received by the comely woman, with one child in her arms and another prattling and tottering at her gown, and drink some syrup of quince in the back parlour, with a map of the forest on the wall, and some prints of love-affairs and the great Napoleon hunting. As they draw near the Quadrilateral, and hear once more the report of the big guns, they take a by-road to avoid the

The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from The Tanach:

Genesis 11: 14 And Shelah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.

Genesis 11: 15 And Shelah lived after he begot Eber four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.

Genesis 11: 16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begot Peleg.

Genesis 11: 17 And Eber lived after he begot Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begot sons and daughters.

Genesis 11: 18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begot Reu.

Genesis 11: 19 And Peleg lived after he begot Reu two hundred and nine years, and begot sons and daughters.

Genesis 11: 20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begot Serug.

Genesis 11: 21 And Reu lived after he begot Serug two hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.

Genesis 11: 22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.

Genesis 11: 23 And Serug lived after he begot Nahor two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.

Genesis 11: 24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begot Terah.

The Tanach