Animal divination, a practice in shamanistic cultures, involves interpreting animal symbolism to gain insights into the future. Aten Divination Tiles are a revolutionary method of reading arcana, made from buffalo bone tiles from Etsy and painted with red acrylic paint and my blood. These tiles reveal lucid answers to questions.
Creating your own divination system can be done by collecting domino tiles, each featuring two numbers separated by a line. These numbers range from blank or zero to six. Tarot, psychic, or other divination readings must include tangible goods such as photos, audio/video, or text. You can invent your own spreads for use with your divination system or use previously created ones.
Dice divination is similar to Domino Divination but involves using regular dominos. Two domino tiles are pulled, and the numbers of each are interpreted. Reflection with scrying tools, such as crystal balls, mirrors, or water surfaces, involves gazing into these mediums to perceive psychic visions and derive meaning.
The Russian Gypsy Fortune Telling Cards, also known as The King’s Method, consists of seven stones slightly smaller than an American quarter. The best way to gather tiles is to pick large tiles to gather overnight, dropping 10-20 cards per tile and more goodies.
Various divination methods can be found around the world, with many cultures practicing the same methods under different names. The Out of Hand Tarot release presents an opportunity to reintroduce one of her favorite creations, the 78 tiles featuring Sawyer’s Path tarot cards.
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I recommend the book The Practical Guide to the Development of Psychic Powers by Denning and Philips. It talks about some of the things mentioned in this article, as well as the distinction between divination and seership. It gives some exercises that you can classify as the “mental hygiene” mentioned. Also I certainly prefer the grammatical methods as I’m a very by the books kind of reader. My sister is a fantastic intuitive reader though and it’s awesome seeing our skills compare.
Another distinction can be made (one could argue it is a different art?) between spirit communication-divination. Ouija boards, pendulums (sorta), etc. But the question still arises of are you reaching out to a spirit or asking an all-mind. You’ll likely only get interference from the chosen system 😉 An interesting thing to note about many grammatical divinations like iching (my preferred system) is that they often present a pattern or “self fulfilling prophecy”. You’re likely going to receive 1. What important parts of the situation to look at 2. Two or more ways to split the pattern 3. Outcomes of said splits In this way they really are a sort of art-imitates-life or omens of an all-mind. Like you said, all possibilities are present, symbolically.
Nice synchronicity! I just finished reading Plutarch’s essay on Socrates’ personal deity and he had some interesting insights that aligned precisely with your categories. As the high priest at Delphi at the time, it was fascinating hearing his thoughts on divination and seeing the clarity with which he was able to describe out of body experiences
I find myself using a mixture of the two divination methods you described. Even if I’m using tarot cards or geomancy, I still try to quiet my mind and let my intuition help interpret what’s going on. I find the more abstract methods of divination good for communicating with spirits, while the more concrete methods are better for divining information in the physical world. I’ve played around with things too. Abstract forms of divination have given me the names of spirits and what they prefer for offerings. Meanwhile, they can’t tell me if the store down the street will be open tonight. Meanwhile, I’ve struggled to use tarot cards to divine the names of spirits, but tarot cards have been able to tell me if I’ll find what I’m looking for at the store. Also, geomancy has given me very good advice for all sorts of practical problems. While I don’t consider the cards or dice themselves to have any special powers or intellect to them, the divination system itself does tend to have a certain personality to it. It’ll have strengths and weaknesses and things it doesn’t like being asked. I’ve even used a pendulum to talk to certain spirits, and they’ve warned me against using certain kinds of divination tools with certain kinds of spirits because they see certain methods of communication as “cheap party tricks that are beneath them”.
Thank you very much for another article! Thank you also for the term, “mind hygiene.” This is helpful to work alongside mind discipline. This works, (for me anyways!) I feel like it’s a complimentary concept and it helps to consider them a guiding team and not a struggle. I’m not trying to fight my mind, but bring it into calm stillness with maintaining good “mind hygiene!”
So I’m new here and excited to be here. After perusal this article it reminded me of what I’m learning in Meta Human by Deepak Chopra. Who are we talking to? The mind! Or also better known as consciousness!!! I love how you and Deepak just aligned like that. Very reaffirming. Now I’m off to watch your article on quantum something.
I’m so excited that you made this article! I enjoy your perspective because it always gets my mind spinning in new ways and leads me down new paths. Thank you for your work! Also, I enjoyed this format, but I also enjoy the other format. Kudos to you for being so good at making articles and coming up with multiple good ideas. ^_^
I work mostly with tarot and runes, but also Lenormand, learning ogham, have dabbled in scrying with mixed results. I alternate between tarot and oracle cards because they offer different takes on the same situations. I have a particular oracle deck that really speaks to me sometimes – it’s a simple deck, just a single word on each card and a picture that describes that word in some sense. That one is far more on the intuitive side. That said, I also like tarot because you can delve more deeply into a reading. The runes… They kind of float in between for me – yes, there are specific meanings, but they tend to be broad. So applying those meanings to a given situation/person can be tricky sometimes, and takes a little more intuition, if that makes sense. Thanks so much for this! Absolutely fascinating. I like the drawing for sure, but I do enjoy the other types as well. I think the only thing that unsettles me (as someone with some sensory issues) is when the gifs/images appear and disappear again too quickly. But that may be just me. 😉
What ever method comes to mind at the time. Had some amazing stuff come up with the I Ching. Tarot cards were also good. This is the first time I’ve seen you. Going by the voice I had previously envisioned a fellow a bit like a cross between Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and Isreal Regardie. I like all those guys.
All my divinative life, instinctively, I was always trying to use both methods with the Tarot, in a healthy balance. I’m just unwilling to abandon completely the one or the other, the intuitive and the grammatical, so I just combine them. That’s why I love abstract art in Tarot, or art with intense surrealistic elements. But now that I think about it, after so many years of tarot reading (13 years) I lean more towards the grammatical method. That’s why maybe I was recently drawn to the black mirror 🖤
I found your analysis and the systems presented to be interesting. I am neurodiverse, which lends itself to different sense development and often ease with the intuitive processes; I consider intuition and divination to be processes of highly developed pattern recognition. Mine is usually filtered via the grammatical method but just as often via direct apprehension of knowing part of reality. Thanks for the article.
Major gushing ahead, lol, but I mean every bit of it: As a big fan of the meme humour, I really enjoyed perusal your work in progress as well. Honing your craft as you help us hone ours. Poetic! I go back often to your bell curve article as the most elegant and useful explanation of magical will I’ve found yet — and I figure I’ll soon come back to this one as well. These thoughtful and practical explanations of our impalpable preconscious machinations have been invaluable to me — and at least one or two of my long-suffering friends. 😄 Okay, I’m done, lol. As always, thank you FF for all you do!
Right on, man! The Heavens of Indra thing with the web of pearls that are reflected in every other pearl makes bits of me twitch unconsciously, too. I think I first picked it up in Hesse book. It may have been “The Glass Bead Game”, though I might only think so on account the idea of glass beads. Still, so darn beautiful. And memorizing the meanings of all the hexagrams of the I-Ching’s is no joke either! Jeez, I haven’t managed that one yet! Though, if I’m being honest, I haven’t really given it a good go since my early 20s and that was some time ago. I had that big, fat book that Carl Jung published on the subject. It was awesome. Wonder what became of it. Probably got all drunk and leant it to somebody. Went through a dreadful phase of doing that all the time. Oh, well. Rad article. Thank you! Oh, wait! Regarding the drawing thing! I think it could be really fun perusal you develop your skill with that pencil. A couple of months from now, we could have you banging portraits of great historical figures in and around the occult world. Could be sweet. Cheers!
Thank you. Coming from a strongly Christian background, but always having had a interest in the Christian mystical tradition, as always sadly misunderstood by the Church as a whole as well as by neo-pagans and new-agers, I have tried to keep my now alternative esoteric practices within the western mystery tradition, but have so far been drawn to the Yi-Jing and have several books on the subject, along with enjoying Tai Chi and Qigong!
I have a fondness for pencil and watercolor, so I didn’t mind your drawing one bit. Hope you do more of it. On the divination end, I really liked your take on the two main types. I actually do both, but I base the tool on how far out I’m trying to see, whether forward or backwards. For longer spans of time, I use water. For insights closer to “current”, I use the i-Ching.
Im glad the rolling fishes are gone 😂 But do to the topic of the article and knowing you enjoy Lon Milo Duquette books, I will like to ask you what you think about his book “the book of ordinary oracles” so far Ive enjoy it. I kind of like the premise that you can do divination with what ever you find. Thanks for your saturday articles I like them son much😀 I get so much from them.
Codependent origination: mind & matter being examples thereof. I never was a big philosophical “either/or” person, although of course distinctions matter. It’s worth bearing in mind that to the extent that we are in a “self,” we are not able to take onboard any of the infinities, and to the extent that we might be briefly merged into an infinity, our self-nature has been to an extent obviated. Bearing in mind that such experiences are not by themselves evidence of any extraordinary personal merit, as lots of people (it seems) have had them, some of them on the evidence not especially otherwise wonderful persons. Which may be why so many traditional systems emphasize ensuring your own moral cultivation alongside or before seeking transcendent experiences.
All of reality is mental. All points in space and time are connected. When one force meets another, ripples are created that cause events that are perceived as one moves forward in time… but as with all ripples, there is a symmetry to them. Those in tune can see as they ripple back to your current place in spacetime as well. 😏
The philosophy of Parmenides (flourished c.500 B.C)., is very interesting, he postulates that “All is One”, and there is no change in the universe. Just think, for this particular universe we all came from a piece of ‘space’ 100 billion times smaller than the diameter of a proton. It is my thought that there are an infinite number of these ‘singularities in an eternal, infinite cosmos.
thank you for the explanation. i think i like grammatical divination. i also enjoy the new format as someone who makes articles with talking over drawing. i was mesmerized by your sketching. if i may make a small critique, i noticed you really have the lips down but the nose is the same each time. it affects how the perspective of the whole face reads. maybe practice drawing pyramids in different perspective to get an idea of how the nostrils and angle change?
Great article! We have been having a ‘learn to draw’ resurgence in our house as well, I love it! Is that a clutch pencil? Those are my favorite too! I think your sketches are wonderful and will be a great addition to your article work! Lastly, I see that hard cover of Dune up there on the shelf, my favorite fiction book of all time, and I have that same copy! LOL. Ok, sorry for the absolutely random comments, love your work, please keep the articles coming! 🙂
Thanks for this article. I’m a practicing intuitive and offer readings to clients. I tend not to use cards, but during readings interestingly images of certain tarot cards will be shown to me in my minds eye for a client or for myself. Do you think electronic decks on apps are equal to physical decks? Just curious. Thanks!
Recently moved from R/W/S Tarot, to Thoth…. Um, wow. But at any rate, I do both. I didn’t trust my intuition at all until I noticed synchronization through Kabbalah. Once my gut and brain lined up there was a relaxing of my spirit, and the real dope hit. I love Tarot. I love mirror scrying. Great article.
What do you make of astrology? It seems to eschew one of the principles you’ve outlined: you can know the exact arrangements of the planets going forward and backward in time almost indefinitely – it’s like an open deck. Is it the fact that the motions of the planets are so far beyond our control that it must be reality – the gods, God, etc. – who is answering? Is it then the case that randomness, insofar as it applies to more human-scale divination methods, is a tool mainly to erase the effect of our own will upon the outcome, so that reality can answer? Would appreciate your thoughts on this.
I’m just rough designing. tree and fruit of life international model with the rules of Trinity because of the European and American zodiac signs It’s a semi-monster zodiac. just like solomon (Which summons the devil to use That is Satan’s way, not God ) Because Ophiuchus canceled befor 3000 years therefore must be completed fore the judgment day arrives