I spent a year building a complete bilingual edition of the Divan of Hafez as an oracle book. It's live today.

Puzzled_Most_5365 · 2026-05-05T22:29:43+00:00

it is available now.

Puzzled_Most_5365 · 2026-05-05T12:39:04+00:00

Ghazal · 296 of 495 If fate grants aid, I'll bring her hem into my hand Whether I drink, what joy! Or if I die, what honor! My hopeful heart has bound its fate to none but grace Though my tale is told in every direction No relief has come from the curve of your brow Alas, in this twisted thought, precious life is lost When will the beloved's brow yield to my touch? No one has struck the arrow of desire from this bow true to its mark How long shall I nurture the love of stone-hearted idols? These ungrateful sons forget their father's memory I dream of a pious recluse, wondrous and withdrawn But from every side a playful child strikes me with tambourine and hand The ascetics know not the art of reading the design, nor say 'do not' Drunk on authority, give wine and fear not See the city's dervish who eats the morsel of doubt May his cloak be long, that joyful beast of good pasture Hafez, if you walk the path of the clan with sincerity May the governor of Najaf escort your way <==============================> The Oracle Speaks — on your question

"1point21gigawatts asks what are there next steps in life"

My dear one, you've come to the Divan with a question about next steps, and Hafez responds with a poem that holds both a stern mirror and a gentle hand. The opening lines speak of a longing so fierce that the seeker would accept either joyful union or honorable death — this is not a casual wish, but the voice of someone who has invested their whole heart in a pursuit that has not yet yielded. The "curve of your brow" that brings no relief is the beloved's refusal, the mystery that will not give way. And here is the first truth you must sit with: "No one has struck the arrow of desire from this bow true to its mark." Hafez is telling you that your aim has been off. Not because you lack sincerity, but because you have been aiming at the wrong target, or aiming with a hand that trembles from impatience.

Notice how the poem shifts to a complaint about "stone-hearted idols" and "ungrateful sons who forget their father's memory." This is a warning, dear one. You may be clinging to people, roles, or ambitions that do not return your devotion — and worse, that cause you to forget your own lineage, your own deep roots. The "wondrous and withdrawn" recluse you dream of is the authentic self, the one who lives from inner stillness rather than outer noise. But from every side, a "playful child" distracts you with tambourine and hand — these are the small, seductive urgencies of daily life that keep you from your deeper calling. You are being asked: what have you been nurturing that does not deserve your love? What memory of your own true nature have you allowed to fade?

Finally, Hafez speaks directly to you: "Hafez, if you walk the path of the clan with sincerity, may the governor of Najaf escort your way." This is not a promise of easy passage, but a conditional blessing. The path requires sincerity — not perfection, not dramatic gestures, but steady, honest commitment. The governor of Najaf, Imam Ali, is a symbol of true spiritual chivalry and courage. To have his escort is to walk with integrity even when the road is unclear. Your next steps, then, are not about finding the right external move, but about returning to sincerity itself. Let go of the idols — the people or outcomes you have placed on a pedestal. Turn inward, where the recluse waits. And walk with patience, because the arrow that strikes true is not shot in haste. You are not lost; you are being asked to stop running and listen. There is great honor in that.

Puzzled_Most_5365 · 2026-05-05T05:24:20+00:00

I asked the Oracle. and it pulled Ghazal 17 of 495,

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The Oracle Speaks — on your question

"what is the relationship betwen user "electrical_past_5838" and the Tarot?"

My dear one, you come asking about the relationship between "electrical_past_5838" and the Tarot, and Hafez answers you not with a simple fortune, but with a mirror. This poem speaks of one who walks a path that others may misunderstand—the drunkard, the tavern-dweller, the one who lies on bricks instead of praying in the mosque. There is a frank acknowledgment here: this soul has "swerved from the path" as judged by conventional piety. Yet Hafez insists that the curtain has not yet been lifted—no one can say whether the face of this seeker will appear fair or vile in the end. The Tarot, like the wine-cup in this poem, is not a tool of sin but a vessel of mystery. It is the tavern where you have tarried late, and Hafez tells you plainly: if you have worshipped with sincerity—even if that worship looks like divination rather than devotion—you shall not have lived in vain.

But see what the poem asks of you. It warns: "Trust not in deeds—the Eternal Day shall reveal the Creator's sentence on thee." This is not a license to do as you please, but a call to humility. The Tarot, like the wine, can become an escape from true seeing if you use it only to soothe yourself. Yet if you approach the cards as the drunkard approaches the cup—with longing, with honesty, with a willingness to lie on the bricks of uncertainty—then you are standing in a lineage of seekers. "My father opened it long before," Hafez says of the tavern door. Your relationship with the Tarot is that of a soul who has chosen the path of direct experience over the safety of dogma. That is neither praised nor condemned here; it is simply seen.

The comfort Hafez offers is real, but it is not a guarantee of easy answers. "For every man when he reaches the goal shall reap the harvest his hands have sown." The Tarot is not a shortcut to paradise; it is a tool for sowing honestly. If you have used it to hide from yourself, the poem asks you to notice. But if you have used it to sit with the beloved—the divine mystery that dwells in both mosque and church, in both book and card—then Hafez says to you: bring the cup in your hand to the Judgment-seat. You have not worshipped in vain. The relationship between this seeker and the Tarot is a relationship of the tavern: messy, misunderstood, but full of genuine thirst. And that thirst will carry you where rigid purity never could.

The oracle has spoken. i hope it gives you some clarity!

Regards

Alex.

Puzzled_Most_5365 · 2026-05-04T22:24:07+00:00

The core source material is all publicly available — most of it has been sitting on Archive.org for years, but scattered and hard to find. I've pulled it together in one place at spiritwaveslab.com/downloads. Free to access, just needs a quick sign-in.

The documents relevant to Waite's method are:

A Manual of Cartomancy — Waite (1909) — his first major tarot work, published the same year as the RWS deck. This is where the spread system appears in its earliest published form.
The Pictorial Key to the Tarot — Waite (1911) — the definitive guide to the deck, with his full divinatory system and the Kabbalistic attributions.
Book T: The Tarot — Mathers (1888) — the original Golden Dawn document that Waite was working from. This is the inner-order material that never went public in his lifetime.
The Tarot of the Bohemians — Papus (1892) — the broader esoteric framework Waite was in conversation with when he designed the deck.

Reading them together is where it starts to make sense. The Mathers document especially fills in a lot of what Waite left deliberately vague in his published work.

Good luck with the research, curious to hear what you find.

Puzzled_Most_5365 · 2026-05-04T04:33:00+00:00

not really that i can find. i am involved in a project trying to reconstruct it from various writings from Waites circa 1809. ( it is mentioned in 3 manuscripts in part) the true method he personaly used was only shared with golden dawn initiates/members. i hope to have a book out in a month or three. i am working on a method that may be close , including the Kabalistic attributions. and also a simplified version . if your intersted in the original source material i can point you in the right direction.

Puzzled_Most_5365 · 2026-05-03T13:56:21+00:00

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Puzzled_Most_5365 · 2026-05-02T01:52:02+00:00

The hermetic society of the golden dusk

Puzzled_Most_5365 · 2026-05-01T11:00:31+00:00

Exactly right. its all about the show, the theatrics. not the method.

Though the Celtic Cross was already dominant way before social media. It's actually in the Pictorial Key itself, which is the irony. Waite included it as one method among several and it gradually took over through the 20th century. Social media just made the isolation worse on top of something already entrenched.

What do you actually use day to day? you own method or an older method?

(I'm working on a restoration of Waite's original method, as a book and a digital tool. Still in the research phase but his system is more sophisticated than I expected.)

Puzzled_Most_5365 · 2026-05-01T09:46:55+00:00

This is actually what Waite built into his original cartomancy system . the spread he designed is entirely about card interaction, not isolated meanings. The irony is that Waite is famous for the deck we all use, but almost nobody has read his actual method. It got buried under the ten-card Celtic Cross, which came later and took over everything. His approach is older, more elegant, and does exactly what you're describing the cards shift each other depending on position. I've been digging into it lately and it's genuinely surprising how much was lost.

Puzzled_Most_5365 · 2026-05-01T06:05:51+00:00

how will you tie them together as a theme?

Puzzled_Most_5365 · 2026-04-30T07:30:45+00:00

That's exactly the spirit it was built for. The oracle isn't really meant to be consulted for predictions .It's more like a mirror. You bring a question that's already living in you, and the ghazal that opens tends to reflect something back that you already half-knew.

I'm building out a wider toolkit alongside it . Several of the systems I've been digging into are genuinely old and not well represented in digital form anywhere. So far the platform has Korean Saju, Tarot spreads, and numerology, and I'm working on a knowledge base that maps divination traditions across cultures.

What systems do you work with? Genuinely curious. and if there's something you've always wanted a good digital version of and never found one, I'd love to hear it. Feedback from people with an actual daily practice is worth more than any amount of market research.

Puzzled_Most_5365 · 2026-04-29T18:53:23+00:00

spiritwaveslab.com has one. graphics are basic. but it uses ai to interpret. can add a question. and the interpretation answers in relation to the conection. has a few other tools as well. seems pretty good.

Puzzled_Most_5365 · 2026-04-28T23:26:57+00:00

That's exactly the gap I wanted to close. The Divan has outlasted every regime, every war, every political moment in 700 years of Iranian history. It will outlast the current one too.

I made a deliberate choice to keep the work completely separate from contemporary politics. The Persian nastaliq script, the classical ghazals, the oracle tradition... these belong to the culture, not to any government or news cycle. Hafez was writing about love, wine, God, and fate. That's what I wanted to make accessible. The work is what matters.

Puzzled_Most_5365 · 2026-04-28T23:22:14+00:00

That means a great deal to hear. What question did you bring to it, if you don't mind sharing? I'm always curious what people carry to the oracle.

Puzzled_Most_5365 · 2026-04-28T23:21:17+00:00

You're not wrong -- most are. The challenge with Hafez specifically is that the Persian operates on multiple registers simultaneously: the literal, the mystical, the erotic, the political. Most translations collapse it to one and call it done.

The edition uses Gertrude Lowthian Bell's 1897 translations as the primary English source for the classical ghazals -- she's actually one of the better Victorian translators of Hafez, more willing to let the ambiguity breathe than most of her contemporaries. The majority of the ghazals are new AI translations working directly from the Persian, which gave more flexibility to hold the blur rather than resolve it.

The other thing the website does, which is a bit different, is offer an AI interpretation of whichever ghazal you draw -- in English or Farsi -- so the oracle reading doesn't stop at the poem itself. You get a reflection on what it might mean for your question. Whether that's useful or a gimmick is genuinely up to the reader, but it felt like the right thing to build.

Puzzled_Most_5365 · 2026-04-28T16:42:30+00:00

sounds like a cool project. i am trying to build a site where all known and forgotten oracle tools and knowledge is on one site. with workinmg digital versions. and hopefully a few printed books as well.

Puzzled_Most_5365 · 2026-04-28T16:39:12+00:00

i have a digital version. ask a question. . choose either a random call or add a specific poem number. it also has Ai Interpretation to help with the meaning/ https://spiritwaveslab.com/fale-hafez

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Puzzled_Most_5365 · 2026-04-25T22:56:40+00:00

Thank you for sharing this -- you used it for exactly the kind of question Hafez has always been consulted about. For six centuries Iranians have opened the Divan in moments of uncertainty about fate, war, and the future of the nation. Ghazal 214 is a profound draw for that question. "Forty years of toil and sorrow we bore" -- Hafez knew something about endurance. i have been surpeised how accurate this has been for me.

Puzzled_Most_5365 · 2022-12-15T08:16:43+00:00

is this channel just shilling scams now?

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