[Online] Tue Oct 13th 6pm ORACLE: The Speaking Book

ORACLE: The Speaking Book
Tuesday October 13th, 6pm PST
Facilitated by Jessica Chappell
Location: Online via Zoom
Recorded for absentees: Yes
Prerequisite: None

A book remains silent until it is opened. Then a sentence appears at precisely the right moment, and words written for another time seem to speak directly to our own. But what makes a passage feel like an answer? Is it chance, projection, intuition, or a moment in which the book becomes an oracle?

In this one-off class, we will explore bibliomancy, the practice of consulting a book for guidance. We will briefly consider the history of opening sacred and literary texts by chance to receive an answer.

Through practical exercises, students will learn how to choose a book, formulate a question, locate a passage, and interpret the words they receive. We will explore how chance, projection, and intuition shape the meaning that appears.

Each participant will bring a real question into the work and conduct a complete bibliomantic consultation. Students will leave with a simple method for consulting books and interpreting the passages they receive.

No previous experience is necessary. Please bring a book that feels capable of speaking beyond its original story. Poetry, mythology, sacred texts, and literary works are especially welcome.

At 22 Teachings, Jessica leads the Book Club and creates tarot-based ritual classes that invite students to step inside the symbols so that what is read on the page becomes lived, embodied magic. Jessica has always been a seeker, and motherhood initiated her into a new octave of magic. Becoming Bisou’s mother gave her an even clearer sense of why spiritual practice matters in real life, in real time, with tiny hands tugging at the hem of ritual.

Her relationship with the unseen began in childhood, collecting crystals and reading tarot as a way to listen beneath the surface of things. In 2017, she began formal study with Naha at 22 Teachings, where her work in Hermetic Qabalah, ritual magic, and tarot became a dedicated path. She approaches the tarot as a living book of wisdom, a mirror for our human experience, and a practical tool for choosing the next right step when the soul is quietly asking for change.