Arcana.

A 45 mm sphere of polished tiger's eye from South Africa, amber and root-brown, with a band of gold light that slides across it as it turns in the hand.

$127.00

A hand-blown, double-walled glass sphere from a Bohemian workshop, silvered inside in the old mercury-glass way.

$54.00

A hand-cast bronze medallion with an old compass-rose device, finished with a trace of rowan ash, the traveler's tree of folklore: for roads that fork strangely.

$34.00

A palm-sized dome of Madagascar labradorite, gray-green at rest until the light catches it and a sheet of electric blue and gold sweeps across, like the northern lights under your

$22.00

A charcoal linen journal with a sewn binding, ribbon marker and 160 lightly lined, fountain-pen-friendly pages, for keeping faithful record of every card drawn and every answer.

$14.00

Three cast brass coins in the old square-holed pattern, a drawstring pouch and a plain-spoken translation of the I Ching: six throws to build a hexagram, one line at a time.

$27.00

A wide, shallow bone china cup in soft ivory, with a faint key of symbols fired into the glaze, for reading the leaves the old kitchen-table way.

$38.00

A square of heavy cotton, hand-dyed in fermented indigo and stitched with a pale circle and four compass marks: the quiet ground for bones, runes, shells or charms.

$36.00

A round birch board, twenty centimeters across, printed in warm gold with arcs of Yes, No and Maybe, a full alphabet and the numbers zero to nine, made for the pendulum's swing.

$21.00

A faceted point of Brazilian amethyst on a fine brass-plated chain, banded lilac to violet, for quick yes-or-no questions and for confirming a tarot or oracle spread.

$19.00

A hand-riveted pasteboard volvelle, 18 centimeters across, that turns a name into numbers and reduces them, by old custom, to the single digit said to carry its character.

$54.00

Forty-four gilt-edged cards, each a single gouache image and a single word, drawn one at a time for a gentler, more open kind of reading than tarot's fixed spreads.

$25.00

Seventy-eight woodblock-bright cards in the true Marseille pattern, redrawn by hand from a nineteenth-century block set.

$32.00

A hollow root of glass made by a single strike of lightning in dune sand, gathered in the American Southwest: petrified lightning, rough outside and smooth as poured wax within.

$64.00

A blue morpho, farm-raised in Costa Rica, its wings spread five inches behind UV-filtered glass: a blue made of light rather than pigment, and the soul's old emblem, held mid-fligh

$54.00

Six old keys, no two alike, on a plain iron ring: iron and brass, mostly English and American, mid-1800s to early 1900s, each with the soft darkness of a century of pockets.

$18.00

One amethyst geode from southern Brazil, split into matched halves, ground flat and felted at the base, toothed with violet crystal inside and heavy enough to hold a full shelf of

$76.00

A resin cast of a raven's skull, taken from a real specimen mold and true to the millimeter, every suture and the fine texture of the bill in matte, faintly aged ivory.

$46.00

A bismuth crystal grown, not carved, into stairstep, hollow-square terraces, its oxide skin shifting through blue, gold and violet like oil on a puddle.

$22.00

Twelve glassed compartments in a dark-stained wooden drawer, each holding one small wonder such as mica, sea glass or amethyst, labeled by hand in fading copperplate: a very small

$96.00

A glossy, root-beer-brown fossil shark tooth from Morocco's ancient seabed, likely ten to twenty million years old, every serration still intact.

$14.00

A six-inch brass sun, earth and moon on a turned wooden base: turn the small side crank and the little heavens move, geared true to the ratio of time.

$120.00

A trilobite curled in dark Moroccan stone, some 390 million years old, its compound eyes still legible under a loupe.

$38.00

Coarse sea salt darkened with activated charcoal and hearth ash, for the old folk custom of drawing a dark line across a threshold.

$13.00