My friend Nash always comes up with the coolest ideas. They celebrate their own “peculiar” holidays (today is the start of the Hoodie Festival!), and created a modular, musical typewriter that allows you to craft tunes in a text editor. Needless to say, they’ve got a true knack for marrying whimsy and invention.

This talent is on full display in their latest zine: “Cosmic Brownimancy” – a how-to guide on using Little Debbie Cosmic Brownies as a divination tool. As a tarot-reading witch, I was totally transfixed by this new method for divining truth and wisdom. The zine explains how to “read” the brownie, dividing it into quadrants connoting internal and external quandaries, represented by a cadre of symbols (hollows, elks, owls, moths, mist, raccoons). There’s even a colormancy guide for reading the various candy chips.

I’ve gotta say, for a divination method built on junk food, the readings go surprisingly deep. The symbols, questions, and prompts Nash has created for brownimancy are both poetic and insightful — they make it easy for your mind to wander down paths of exploration and contemplation. It just goes to show that, just like tarot, the true magic and power of any divination tool comes from within, the tools simply acting as a mirror for you to observe your self and your psyche.