What is your preferred method of divination and why ?

[Vandheer]

Curious. I am thinking of learning about Geomancy from Skinners work on it.

I have a general lack of interest towards it. A birtchart reading showed that moon was afflicted by that time. Could be why, or I am just lazy.


Anyways what do you divinate with and why?

 

[Noth]

Tarot if I am looking for good, quick, actionable advice.

I Ching if I am looking for a more contemplative form of divination. Perhaps some won't consider this divination, but with that method I tend to get lost down rabbit holes and thought patterns until my subconscious has worked out an answer.

 

[DiLoco_DelEted]

Curious. I am thinking of learning about Geomancy from Skinners work on it.

I have a general lack of interest towards it. A birtchart reading showed that moon was afflicted by that time. Could be why, or I am just lazy.


Anyways what do you divinate with and why?

I'm looking forward to geomancy, it's required for zelators. Astrology in Theoricus, tarot in practicus, and largely horary astrology or choice after that.
Neophyte has nada.
Yet, psychic skills are expected to be aware of. At least aware of.
Druid rune meditations and tarot, occasional images seen in liquid or fire.
Even following the wind in the trees.

IChing is easy to do with a copy of 777 nearby.

 

[Vandheer]

I Ching if I am looking for a more contemplative form of divination. Perhaps some won't consider this divination, but with that method

If I Ching isn’t a method of divination Idk what is.

I'm looking forward to geomancy, it's required for zelators

So you learn Geomancy at Malkuth? Well thats pretty fitting I can say.


So Fuego what do you prefer though, leaving the requirements alone?

IChing is easy to do with a copy of 777 nearby.

Also he should have a paper named Yi King I think. Though I am unsure if I would pick him when there are more modern authors there.

 

[DiLoco_DelEted]

There is a book by Greer on Geomancy, and one by Josephine on tarot in the library. Not sure about I ching.

 

[Vandheer]

There is a book by Greer on Geomancy, and one by Josephine on tarot in the library. Not sure about I ching.

The author of circles of power? That guy seems Golden Dawn influenced to me. I am looking for something more traditional.

 

[KjEno186]

Tarot cards. At the beginning of this year I got into the John Michael Greer Book Club reading of the classic Transcendental Magic, aka The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic by Eliphas Lévi. This book was structured on existing tarot decks of the mid 19th Century. I got the Conver Ben-Dov deck initially along with Tarot the Open Reading by Yoav Ben-Dov. His lectures on YouTube are interesting. I now have three tarot decks based on TdM, a deck by Paul Huson called Dame Fortune's Wheel Tarot (hybrid TdM/Etteilla), and one called Samiramay by Vera Petruk.

Tarot works with the deeper layers of our minds, the part that is timeless and connected to the World Soul, to put just one possible name to it. However, our conscious minds have many defenses and blocks in place to maintain the Human Time-Space Illusion. Tarot (and other forms of divination) can bypass the psychic censor. It is an art form. Some knowledge is desired, but I believe people try to turn it into an exact science. Turning tarot into an intellectual exercise defeats its power, imo.

 

[DiLoco_DelEted]

I think going back to original 78 card tarot would be beneficial. Before Waite if possible.

 

[KjEno186]

book by Greer on Geomancy

I like the book. Greer describes a method of divination that can potentially be used with anything you may have at hand. Poke a stick into the dirt randomly and count the marks. Count the number beans from a handful randomly scooped from a bag. Roll some dice. You get even or odd numbers that resolve to the binary of one or two dots. Let's say for the sake of simplicity you have 4 dice of different colors. You assign each color to an element. Throw the four dice to create a "mother." Do this four times to get the four mothers. The daughters, nieces, and the rest are done up on the chart. There's only 16 figures to memorize, but as always interpretation is an art.

 

[Yazata]

Tarot. I prefer the Crowley deck because that was the first i got and used the most.
I have another deck that looks pretty with skulls and daggers but there's no symbolism at all. So the very few times I used it I looked up the corresponding cards in the book of Thoth..
I also made a couple of decks. One based on the zodiac with 24 cards (1 good and 1 evil card per sign) + the 28 mansions + the Major Arcana. Also turned an old German poem & set of woodcuts into an oracle deck (sorta)
Another deck I like is the Enochian skrying tarot. It has 2 sides. The one with the tattvas I used as a tool of communication with Arzel. The other side (with the Watchtowers) I use when I do the watchtower ritual and not for divination.
As a wicca, I made a set of runes (of course...) and used that some time when I was more witchy.
Finally, in my very early years I made a set of 4 little wooden squares. Two black ones and two white. One side had either a triangle or a line and the other side was blank. When you threw them you'd get a combination of elemental triangles.

 

[KjEno186]

I think going back to original 78 card tarot would be beneficial. Before Waite if possible.

Maybe. If someone is already familiar with RWS, I see no need to jump to another style of deck other than curiosity. Personally, I enjoy the art on tarot cards, though I have to say that collecting decks can become an expensive hobby with little or no benefit to actual divination.

 

[DiLoco_DelEted]

Someone I conversed with years ago kept an eye out for free library books on the esoteric and I agreed to do the same. We stumbled onto a tarot conversation, and some of the very first had only three pigments to use to color them with, and I believe these were woodcuts or early cards of some kind.
Three colors only may seem less radiant, but could create changes still.

 

[Jk666]

Oracle cards, the Santa Muerte deck

 

[Öwnchef]

Dreams, runes, tarot, omen, pendulum, kauri mussels (Bagua style), weather phenomena, etc. Everything preferrably karate (empty handed).