{"id":1839,"date":"2024-10-17T20:57:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T20:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2024-10-17T20:57:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T20:57:04","slug":"fortuna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2024\/10\/17\/fortuna\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortuna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Readers who have been around a while know that I\u2019m a lady who loves her some Nigel Pennick. He\u2019s like a Claude Lecouteux to me (real Buffets readers will know what that means). Pennick always finds an unexpected angle in his research and his latest book \u201cFortuna: The Sacred &amp; Profane Faces of Luck\u201d turned out to be no exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/fortuna-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1840\" width=\"213\" height=\"320\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Did I expect discussion about the goddess Fortuna and her various aspects? Yes. Did I get that? Yes. However, did I expect this compact 144-page book to quickly roll into the long history of and connections between divination and gambling? No. Am I thrilled that it did? Hell yeah. The close relationship between divination and luck allows Pennick to explore throwing bones to rolling dice, and how that flows into sacred geometry and the dice we use for tabletop RPGs. In \u201cFortuna\u201d gamblers lucky charms evolve into protective symbols, and gentlemen\u2019s wagers become today\u2019s charity runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can\u2019t imagine someone who couldn\u2019t find something of interest in Nigel Pennick\u2019s \u201cFortuna.\u201d Goddesses, gambling, divination, and more come together spectacularly in this book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can learn more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innertraditions.com\/books\/fortuna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/24031\/9781644116470\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Get your own copy here.<\/a> (This is an affiliate link to my Bookshop, which supports independent bookstores throughout the United States. If you use this link to purchase the book, I will make a small commission at no additional cost to you.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you enjoy The Magical Buffet? Considering supporting The Magical Buffet on Patreon! For only $5 a month you\u2019ll receive monthly tarot\/oracle forecasts, classes, and behind the scenes updates! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/magicalbuffet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/magicalbuffet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goddesses, gambling, divination, and more come together in Nigel Pennick&#8217;s &#8220;Fortuna.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}