- Choose one matter. One, not three.
- Say it to yourself in plain words, as a question or as a wish.
- Open the book once. Read the lines slowly, then the reading under them.
The verse oracle
The Shakespeare oracle
Hold one matter in mind, then open the book. The page that answers is the one you were meant to read today.
How to consult it
The book
William Shakespeare · The Complete Works
Public domain. Text: Project Gutenberg ebook #100
Every page of this oracle
- Sonnet 29
- Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3 (Polonius)
- Julius Caesar, Act 4, Scene 3 (Brutus)
- Sonnet 116
- The Merchant of Venice, Act 4, Scene 1 (Portia)
- Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 3
- Sonnet 18
- As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1
- Measure for Measure, Act 1, Scene 4
- Sonnet 30
- Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2
- Othello, Act 2, Scene 3
- Sonnet 35
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, Scene 1 (Lysander)
- The Tempest, Act 3, Scene 2 (Caliban)
- Sonnet 60
- Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 2 (Caesar)
- King Lear, Act 5, Scene 3 (Edgar)
- Sonnet 73
- Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 2
- All’s Well That Ends Well, Act 1, Scene 1
- Sonnet 119
- The Merchant of Venice, Act 5, Scene 1 (Portia)
- Richard III, Act 5, Scene 2
- Sonnet 23
- Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 2 (Hamlet)
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, Scene 1 (Helena)
- Sonnet 25
- Henry V, Act 4, Scene 1
- Cymbeline, Act 4, Scene 3
- Sonnet 97
- King Lear, Act 5, Scene 2 (Edgar)
- The Taming of the Shrew, Act 4, Scene 3
- Sonnet 102
- The Tempest, Epilogue (Prospero)
- The Winter’s Tale, Act 5, Scene 3