Divination

Just by looking through your eyes He could see the future penetrating Right in through your mind See the truth and see your lies But for all his power couldn't foresee his own demise

Humans have been practicing divination for thousands of years. It’s one of the eldest habits we have. And one of the most ambiguous.

Technically it’s a kind of sympathetic magic and just as any other kind of this magic its results depend on accuracy of the “representation” of whatever’s used for divination and on abilities of the one who predicts.
So what divination is really good for is developing accuracy. Is it bad for something?

First and foremost prediction should be understood, otherwise it doesn’t work. There’s a well known story about Oedipus who solved the riddle of the Sphinx but failed to realize this riddle is prophesy.
What could happen had he realized it? Oedipus complex would never exist :) What else?

Sphinx was a symbol of abundance, power, wisdom, mysteries, riddles, truth, unity, and secrets for Egyptians but Greeks believed that sphinx caused insanity and diseases. Looks like answer. Knowledge can harm when it changes the worldview.

Sphinx could foresee the future and she didn’t use any kind of magic to do that. Let’s get back to divination which is less dramatic. The challenge of understanding totally falls upon the fortuneteller. The first problem here is “The medium is the message”. The first but not the only.

What is predicted is a chain of events even though it usually looks like one simple result. And this is the second problem – people use to think about prediction like showing some situation in future that must happen but not the possible way for the current situation to develop.

Now how it works. Just like we live event by event when event is a minimal noticeable action. So events are unique for different people but it’s not a point in this story. The point is how to link events in chain. Any event can develop in two ways: Yin and Yang. Thus future is multivariant and there’re as many as n+1 variants for the next n events (any two adjacent events have one common next step event) but they all have different probabilities. Probability of this event or another depends on the way of personal development and on karma. Usually there’re several chains of events available in any situation. Divination shows only one (the most relevant for the fortuneteller) and when you think about this chain or result and nothing else you make it come real. And this is the worst thing about divination.

But sometimes there’re situations when we need answers. We all live within Genius of Earth which is at least 95% inertial system and anything happens to us is predefined some way (well, otherwise no prediction could be possible). This predefinition can be accessed through Tarot. There’re many ways to do it. I’ll describe one enabling getting more than one answer and it’s more prophecy than divination technique.

Any system of principles can be represented in a form of a graphical scheme. This scheme in turn enables deriving set of symbols from it. Symbols are called runes. The Elder Futhark is a great example of such symbols. Tarot can be represented the same way.

If you need info Arcanum XVIII is the most right place to get it. The rune of the Arcanum XVIII looks like this.

Now take a small piece of paper and write the subject of what you want to know. Not the question but subject. For example, “Next Vice-President of the Neverland”. Fold it with the text inside. On the upper clean side of the paper draw the rune (blue color is preferred in this case). If you want to get one fast result, just close your eyes, put your left hand on the paper (folded and with the rune upwards) and watch the result. If you want the rest of the answers put the paper in your pocket (putting the rune towards or outwards you can make sense but it changes from one man to another), answers will come.

Well, you must be somewhat sensitive to use this.