If you need to know how long it will take to achieve a goal or for something to happen or come about, take a spoon and balance it on the edge of a cup.  You should already know if you are thinking in terms of minutes, days, weeks, months or years.   With a medicine dropper, drop water into the spoon, one drop at a time.  The amount of drops that it takes to tip the spoon into the cup is the amount of time it will take.

If you need an answer in a hurry grab three coins.  (They should be all the same.. like 3 pennies.. 3 dimes).  Toss them down on a flat surface.
               Three heads means YES.
               Two heads means ok but uncertain.
               One head means wait.
               No heads means NO.

~from Maat's Book of Shadows