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This page describes the practice. There is deliberately no automated reading for it — see the notes below.
Background
The Sortes Astrampsychi was a popular Greco-Roman fortune-telling guide ascribed to Astrampsychus, said to be a Persian magus or an Egyptian sage. Unlike other sortes it did not use dice.
How it works
The questioner chose a prewritten question with a number, spoke a number from one to ten, and the sum led through tables to one of ten possible replies.
At a glance
- Also called
- Oracles of Astrampsychus
- Traditions
- Greco-Roman, Greco-Egyptian
- Regions
- Ancient Mediterranean
- You need
- A question, Your choices
- Price
- Free