Jiǔ Tiān Xuán Nǚ, Lady of the Nine Heavens, Lady of the Mysteries: lend me the spirit and power of your sword, and the spirit and power of your gourd. I seek answers, I seek knowledge. I seek guidance on the auspices of my present Path . . .

I call upon the Taiji, the numinous Light, the Wuji, the numinous stillness of Being. I call upon the affinity of the sun and the moon, and the four faces of the holy Spirit, and who, through the five mysteries of change, produce the eight divine revelations. I seek the Spirit’s guidance. I seek the Tao. [State your inquiry for divination.]