The psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas considers that chance events open us up or liberate an area in us. Bollas’ thinking combines a sense of danger and moment. In divination practices we similarly expose ourselves to the experience of surprise and danger. We liberate an area “like a key in a lock” (Bollas, 1992). In the past few years, inspired by my psychosocial research into traditional African art, I have been developing a participatory installation work called The Divination Palace. In this installation, participants engage in an Africanistic ritual that involves fabric banners and scarves printed with 16 different designs. The process is supported by a music that is both immersive and unitive as it moves between a use of airiness and rhythm. In this conference session I will introduce participants to working aspects of The Divination Palace and present images from traditional African art in combination with Bollas's thinking, object relations theory and Deleuze. Finally, there will be a discussion about how divination and related praxis produce moments of profound change and insight.