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I knew the Pythia had chewed laurel leaves, but that didn’t work either.

It can provide data from which we can make guesses about the correct courses of action, but it is not a lab-coated Pythia telling us the future.

Mr. Thies, 39, is a founder of Pythia Public Affairs, a communications firm in Brooklyn that also runs political campaigns.

The groom is a political strategist at Pythia Public, a public affairs and strategy firm in Brooklyn.

She has called the work Pythia – the name of the prophetic priestess at ancient Delphi, itself derived from the Greek word pytho, or snake, which had supposedly been slain there by Apollo.