Bibliomancy is an ancient method of divination using books. The ritual is simple, but the results can be unnervingly precise. Choose a book—any book—open it at random, point to a passage, and read the hidden message that was meant for you. Bibliomancy opens a direct line between your subconscious and the written word. Tarotsmith’s digital bibliomancy lets you perform this ritual with sacred texts, classic literature, and esoteric works pulled from the depths of world culture.
Bibliomancy With Sacred Texts and Classics
Our bibliomancy reading engine doesn’t just give you a line, it provides the surrounding text as well, so you can see your passage in its full narrative or spiritual context. Use the Holy Bible and compare seven different translations. Pull from the Qur’an, the Tao Te Ching, or the Dhammapada. Drop into Dante’s Inferno, the strange logic of Alice in Wonderland, or the haunting nightmares of Poe. Each oracle preserves the structure of real bibliomantic ritual while delivering it with digital efficiency.
Books available for bibliomancy include spiritual masterpieces like the Upanishads, Mahabharata, Ramayana, and the Book of Mormon, as well as classics like The Iliad, The Aeneid, and War and Peace. You’ll also find literary chaos magic from the Kybalion, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Aesop’s fables, Grimm’s fairy tales, Sherlock Holmes, and more. Every book becomes a portal. Every line is a spell.
Whether you’re divining with scripture, mythology, or surreal fiction, bibliomancy connects you with forces beyond the page. These oracles are tools for introspection, synchronicity, and tapping into the hidden messages waiting in the margins of the human experience. Click the link to your chosen book or just grab any random book and let the voice of the text speak back to you.
Books:
- The Holy Bible
- The Qur’an
- Mahabharata
- The Ramayana
- The Upanishads
- The Tao Te Ching translated by Aleister Crowley
- The Dhammapada
- The Book of Mormon
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- The Iliad & The Odyssey by Homer
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- The Kybalion by Three Initiates
- Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
- Aesop’s Fables
- Grimm’s Fairy Tales
- The Collective Works of Edgar Allan Poe
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Bible Divination
Use The Holy Bible for bibliomancy. This oracle gathers seven translations of your verse so you can compare them with other versions of the Bible for deeper meaning. The entire chapter is included so you can read the context of your verse.
Click the image of Christ to get your reading.
Get Your Bibliomancy Reading using the Holy Bible
Alice Bibliomancy
This oracle selects a random verse from one of Lewis Carroll’s classics: Alice’s Adevntures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Surrounding lines are included so you can read the context of your passage.
Click the illustration from Alice in Wonderland to get your reading.
Get Your Bibliomancy Reading using the Alice books
Poe Bibliomancy
This oracle selects a random verse from one of the many writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Surrounding passages are included so you can understand the context of your line.
Click the portrait of Edgar Allan Poe to get your reading.
Get Your Bibliomancy Reading with the writings of Edgar Allan Poe
