Divination Dictionary

Numerology:

Divination by means of numbers and numerical “values” of letters.

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Geomancy

(Greek. , "earth divination")

A widespread system of divination either by means of designs drawn randomly on the ground with sand, pollen, or other similar powders or by detecting, through calculations and signs, the hidden forces present in the landscape.

Chinese geomancy (feng-shui, lit. , "wind and water") is an ancient system of site analysis to determine its suitability for grave, home, or temple. Diviners often used a special compass (lo-p'an) that indicated the main cosmic factors impinging upon a site. In a "lair" (a hollow), in front of a hill, or behind a body of water were the most desired locations.

Geomancy is best understood as an ancient method of harmonizing humans and their works with the terrestrial and celestial powers that might bring good or bad fortune to those who wished to build. See feng-shui

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gathering of people, usually seated around a table, to
communication with ancestral spirits and divination

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libramancy

Divination with incense

(See also: Libramancy , Body Mind and Soul)

Aeromancy: Divination through observation of phenomena in the sky. Examples include the interpretation of the appearance of comets (death of a famous person), images of clouds (interpreted similar to interpreting tea leaves), etc.

(See also: Aeromancy , Magic, Shamanism, Paganism, Wicca)

GYROMANCY - divination by whirling in a circle marked with letters and spelling out a prophecy when falling down. (NAD)

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Augury

Divination based on "signs" or omens.

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Sortilege:

Divination by means of sticks, coins, bones, dice, lots, beans, yarrow stalks, stones or any other small objects.

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Abacomancy:

A "divination" practice which interprets patterns in dust or in the funerary ashes of the recently deceased to forecast future events.

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Necromancy [from Greek nekros corpse + manteia divination]

The art of obtaining information by invoking the image or shade of the departed. The practice is dangerous to the sorcerer and baneful to the astral entity whose fading remnants are thus temporarily revivified and disturbed.

The practice was ancient and widespread among the lower orders of the Greek and Roman peoples, and is expressly condemned by an uninterrupted testimony dating from archaic times, ancient legislators and philosophers condemning it, for it is a perversion of the real communion of the genuine spiritual theurgist with his own inner god.

Modern Spiritualism is an unconscious blundering into necromancy; if the astral remains of the dead are really called up, then the normal processes of their dissolution are interfered with. If they are not called up, then they have been impersonated by still more harmful and dangerous denizens of the lower astral light.

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system of divination that uses yarrow stalks or coins Changes inscribed with hexagrams

(See also: I Ching, The Book of Chinese , Magic, Shamanism, Pagan Dictionary)

PALMISTRY - study of the lines on the palm, divination by the hand. Also known as chiromancy. (ABC)

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RADIESTHESIA: the use of a pendulum for divination work... but SEE below & PALLOMANCY.

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Fortune telling: A form of divination in which a person attempts to predict the future using paranormal powers

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We have all heard and used the expression, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." This expression is based on a very old superstition, and is one of many associated with apples. You have probably also held an apple in one hand and twisted the stem while reciting the alphabet to ascertain the initial of that "special someone" - the apple of our eye. In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, we are moved by the gracious and dignified austerity of Hester Prynne's declaration that "A is for Apple." There is a very long tradition of prediction and divination with apples. A great many of them, of course, are associated with love and relationships.

Read more here: » Apple as Symbol: Apple Divination - The Symbolism of Apples