Define: Haruspex

Haruspex, from an article (The Last Book Party by Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Harper's Magazine, March 2009).

There is avid speculation as to whom Rich will be writing about this year; she's seen as some kind of haruspex, and everybody is wondering whose entrails she'll be reading this time around.

Merriam-Webster:

Main Entry: ha-rus-pex
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin, from haru- (akin to chorde gut, cord) + -spex, from specere to look - more at yarn, spy
Date: 1584