auspices vs direction

auspices

noun
  • Protection or patronage. 

direction

noun
  • The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc. 

  • Guidance, instruction. 

  • A general trend for future action. 

  • A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north), rotational (e.g. clockwise), or with respect to an object or location (e.g. toward Boston). 

How often have the words auspices and direction occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )