by the sea wall i found a fortune cookie. it goes,  
watch your relations without other people
carefully, he reserved.
lucky #44, 10, 8, 39, 43, 66
learn chinese:  nine pieces, jiu-pian

 i look up my fortune and find nathaniel has gotten the same fortune:

"Watch your relations without other people carefully..."  What seemed an odd sentence structure is totally clear, you are to watch your relations without other people. Not your humanly relations, your relations with the spiritual that surrounds you: the angels, archangels and ascended masters that are there to guide you. They are they for you, but you must relate to them positively and carefully, as they have great power to disrupt you as well.
Your link to the spiritual world is just as strong as your link to the material world, and your especial benefactor, the mysterious "he", is reserving for you this message of spiritual strengthening.  From this spiritual strength, you have something very great to do in this physical, human world.
This bodes very positively for the direction of the cult.  Be alert and relate to other not-people carefully in the coming weeks, as they seek to guide your cult decisions.  This can be either positive or negative however, so be careful.

n.b. i gave the cookie to mister, to the dismay of the gulls, so we also share this strange fortune, as we have for some time.