It’s universal. We human beings look for ways to know we’re taking the right course in life.  Like bewildered travelers in a foreign land, we study the byways of our lives, hoping to spot a reliable signpost.  It’s just this impulse to seek direction that has led to the creation of systems and methods designed expressly for the purpose of generating signs.   The common word for it is divination, and history tells us it’s existed on our planet since time out of mind.  With cowrie shells, the flight patterns of birds, weather phenomena, numbers, rows of dots, the names…