Reference:Psychic Glossary

# Psychic Glossary

## An alphabetical list of divination methods, psychic abilities, & other terms.

* ***Aeromancy***  is interpreting the shapes of clouds.
* ***Afterlife Communication***  is when spirits show you signs or omens.
* ***Alectryomancy***  is interpreting birdcalls & the symbols seeds make when pecked at by birds.
* ***Aleuromancy***  is interpreting the baking process or baked goods. For example, interpreting the shape of bread or the batter left in a bowl.
* ***Alomancy***  is interpreting salt that is thrown in the air or a fire.
* ***Alphitomancy***  is eating Barley bread to interpret crime. Those who digested it easily were innocent; those with indigestion were guilty.
* ***Animals***  have been thought to be able to sense paranormal activity.
* ***Anomalous Cognition***  is when we know information but dont know where it came from.
* ***Apantomancy***  is interpreting encounters with animals.For example, crossing paths with a black cat will bring bad luck.
* ***Apparitions***  are a ghostly appearance.
* ***Apports***  are when a spirit makes a solid item appear.
* ***Arithmancy***  is an early form of numerology. (See numerology)
* ***Astragyromancy***  is divination by means of dice. (See Cleromancy)
* ***Astral Temples***  are structures created on

the Astral Plane which can serve as a personal sacred space to being
meeting places for members of a coven.

* ***Astral Plane***  is a higher plane of

existence, popularly believed to be where immaterial beings reside, such
 as dragons, angels, spirits, etc.

* ***Astral Projection***  is the ability to project your astral body into the physical or astral planes.
* ***Astrology***  is using the planets, stars, or zodiac to prophesize future events and character traits.
* **Augury**  is interpreting the movements of animals during thunderstorms.
* ***Auras***  are the electromagnetic field that

surrounds every living object. Auras range from a variety of colors and
have multiple layers.

* ***Aura Reading***  is the ability to see the aura of a living being.
* ***Austromancy***  is interpreting the winds especially during storms.
* ***Automatic Writing***  is channeling an outside force through you to write a message.
* ***Axiomancy***  is interpreting the positioning of an axe when thrown.
* ***Belomancy***  isinterpreting the positioning of 3 arrows; one marked with God orders it, God forbids it, and a blank one.
* ***Bibliomancy***  isinterpreting a passage or pages chosen at random from a book & creating a prophecy from those pages/passages.
* ***Botanomancy***  is scattering tree matter in high winds to seek direction.
* ***Brontoscopy***  is interpreting the sound of thunder.
* ***Bumpology***  is the study of bumps on the head. (See Phrenology)
* ***Capnomancy***  is interpreting the shapes of smoke from a fire.
* ***Cartomancy***  is interpreting playing or oracle cards,  **not**  tarot cards.
* ***Catoptromancy***  is mirror scrying, or using a mirror as a form of divination.
* ***Causimomancy***  is interpreting burns, or lack of, on objects placed in a fire.
* ***Cephalomancy***  is interpreting the burns on a head placed in a fire. (Traditionally mules or donkey heads)
* ***Ceraunoscopy***  is interpreting the sights & sounds of thunderstorms.
* ***Ceromancy***  is interpreting the shapes of hot wax when dripped into water, or gazing at a candle flame.
* ***Channeling***  is when an external entity enters the body of someone and uses them to communicate to the audience.
* ***Charlatans***  are fakes who deceive in order to obtain money/services.
* ***Chiromancy***  is interpreting the general appearance & shape of hands. (See Palmistry)
* ***Clairvoyants***  are people who are able to

perceive what other can not, like a sixth sense. The literal translation
 of Clairvoyant is see clearly.

* ***Clairaudience***  is the ability to hear what

is inaudible to others, such as sounds, spirits, entities, or perceiving
 the future through sounds.

* ***Clairsentience***  is the ability to pick up sensations & relate messages from those sensations.
* ***Clairalience***  is the ability to smell beyond the physical realms.
* ***Clairtangency***  is the ability to touch beyond the physical realms.
* ***Clairempathy***  is the ability to feel emotions beyond the physical realms.
* ***Clairgustance***  is the ability to taste beyond the physical realms.
* ***Cleromancy***  is interpreting how bones, pebbles, or dice are thrown.
* ***Clidomancy***  is interpreting the patterns of light that a key hanging from a bible make in the moonlight or sunlight.
* ***Combat Sense***  is the ability to sense your opponents next move.
* ***Coscinomancy***  is using a pendulum to

determine a perpetrator by reading a list of names out loud. The
pendulum will move when you say the perpetrators name.

* ***Critomancy***  is interpreting barley cakes.
* ***Cromniomancy***  is interpreting how onions sprout.
* ***Crystal Scrying***  is interpreting the images or symbols you see when gazing into a crystal, usually a crystal ball.
* ***Cyclomancy***  is interpreting how a wheel or bottle spins; the direction it points in will hint to your answer.
* ***Dactylomancy***  is using a ring & string as a pendulum.
* ***Daphnomancy***  is interpreting the crackling of laurel branches in a fire; loud crackling is a good omen, silence was a bad omen.
* ***Daja Vu***  is the feeling that youve already experienced the current events.
* ***Demonomancy***  is summoning demons to answer questions.
* ***Dendromancy***  is interpreting the smoke from burning oak or mistletoe.
* ***Direct Voice***  is when a spirit uses a mediums ectoplasm to project voices.
* ***Dowsing***  is the practice of using a medium to pick up the subtle energies of various objects, water, metals, & living beings.
* ***Dowsing Rods***  are sticks or metal rods used as a form of dowsing.
* ***Divine Intervention***  is a spontaneous vision to guide & direct the seer.
* ***Dreams***  have always been believed to hold

importance, either for mundane or magical reasons. Dreams can be
interpreted to gain further insight on how to handle situations or to
gain spiritual knowledge.

* ***Empaths***  are people with the ability to

feel the emotions of others, and sometimes involuntarily replicate the
emotional characteristics of others.

* ***Empyromancy***  interpreting how laurel leaves burn in a fire.
* ***Energetic Healing***  is the ability to clear, repair, & balance the energy in the body by manipulating the aura. (See Reiki)
* ***Extra Sensory Perception (ESP)***  is perceiving beyond the regular senses.
* ***Exorcism***  is the practice of removing unwanted spiritual entities from a person or object.
* ***Extispicy***  is interpreting the entrails from a sacrificed animal.
* ***Faerie Whispering***  is the ability tolistening to & noticing fairies.
* ***Faith Healing***  is healing by prayer or by mental intent.
* **Feng Shui**  is a Chinese philosophy of harmonizing the energy between humans and their environment.
* ***Gastromancy***  is muttering words in deep breaths while in a trance state.
* ***Geloscopy***  is interpreting how people laugh.
* ***Genethlialogy***  is forecasting the fate of a newborn child with astrology.
* **Geomancy**  is interpreting a series of 16 numbers for divining purposes.
* ***Ghost Whisperers***  are people who can communicate with the spirit world.
* ***Graphology***  is interpreting a persons handwriting to determine their psychological structure.
* ***Gyromancy***  is performed by spinning around,

 in a circle with letters marked along its perimeter. Messages are
interpreted from the letters the person stumbles onto.

* ***Halolmancy***  (See Alomancy)
* ***Hieromancy***  is interpreting sacrificial remains or sacred objects.
* ***Hippomancy***  is interpreting the behavior of horses.
* ***Horoscopy***  is creating or interpreting astrological horoscopes.
* ***Hydromancy***  is interpreting water or the ripples of stones dropped in water.
* **Hypnosis**  is the process of mesmerizing a subject with

 an object and thus inducing a trance like state. In this state, work on
 a deeper level can be done.

* ***I Ching***  is interpreting a set of 64 line

arrangements know as hexagrams. Each hexagram contains 6 horizontal
lines, each line either solid (Yang) or with a gap in the center (Yin).

* ***Ichthyomancy***  is interpreting the entrails of fish.
* ***Intuition***  is a socially acceptable term for psychic awareness.
* ***Insight***  is being able to analyze situations on a deeper level.
* ***Life Force Energy***  is the believed to be in every living organism. In Japense its know as Ki, as Chi in Chinese, & Prana in Indian.
* ***Lampadomancy***  is interpreting the flame from a lamp or torch.
* ***Lecanomancy***  is interpreting the ripples & sound of a stone thrown in water. Alternatively, oil is sometimes used in place of a stone.
* ***Levitation***  is when objects are lifted into the air without any visible means.  *(The community doesnt believe this to be a legitimate/achievable practice.)*
* ***Libanomancy***  is interpreting the shapes & sounds of burning incense.
* ***Lithomancy***  is interpreting the patterns of stones cast over a chart or map.
* ***Lucid Dreaming***  is the ability to control or manipulate your dreams.
* ***Luck***  is having seemingly better odds with things involving chance.
* ***Lucky Charms***  are objects or symbols believed to increase luck.
* ***Margaritomancy***  is interpreting pearls.
* ***Meditation***  is an activity to relax & focus the mind.
* ***Mediums***  are people who can communicate with spirits.
* ***Metagnomy***  is the knowledge acquired with the use of a sixth sense.
* ***Meteoromancy***  (See Ceraunoscopy)
* ***Metoposcopy***  is interpreting the lines on a

 persons forehead in conjunction with astrology to predict their
personality, character, & destiny.

* ***Mirror Scrying***  is interpreting the images and symbols seen when gazing into a mirror or polished surface.
* ***Moleosophy***  is interpreting bodily marks. (Moles, birthmarks, blemishes)
* ***Molybdomancy***  is interpreting the sounds and shapes of molten metal poured into water.
* ***Myomancy***  is interpreting the behavior of mice.
* ***Mystics***  are those who practice & believe in the occult.
* ***Nature Spirits***  are entities believe to be representations of the 4 elements.
* ***Near Death Experiences (NDE)***  are out-of-body experiences that occur when people come close to death or are revived.
* ***Necromancy***  is communing with the spirits of the dead.
* ***Numerology***  is interpretations derived from numbers, dates, & the number value of the letters in the alphabet.
* ***Oculomancy***  is scrying with the subjects eyes.
* ***Oenomancy***  is interpreting the patterns of spilled wine.
* ***Omphalomancy***  is interpreting the knots in the umbilical cord and infants navel to determine the number of children a mother will have.
* ***Oneiromancy***  is interpreting dreams to prophesize the future.
* ***Onomancy***  is interpreting a persons name.
* ***Onychomancy***  is interpreting the symbols on an oiled fingernail.
* ***Ovomancy***  is interpreting the shapes of a broken egg white in water.
* ***Ophiomancy***  is interpreting the behavior of snakes.
* ***Oracles***  are people or methods that divine the future.
* **Ornithomancy**  is interpreting the behavior of birds.
* ***Ouija Boards***  are a medium for spirits to

use to communicate with the physical realm. They are a board with the
alphabet on it and when a group of people touches a planchette, it moves
 to create a word or sentence.

* ***Out of Body Experiences (***   ***OBE)***  are when you feel as if your spirit has left your physical body.
* ***Palmistry***  is interpreting the lines, ridges, bumps, and structure of the subjects hands.
* ***Parapsychology***  is the field of study for extra sensory phenomena.
* ***Past Life Regression***  is the process of discovering your experiences in a past life through meditation, or hypnosis.
* ***Pegomancy***  is scrying with natural bodies of water.
* ***Pendulums***  are objects on a string or chain that are dangled between the thumb and forefinger to achieve a yes/no answer.
* ***Phrenology***  is interpreting the bumps or shapes on the head to determine character, personality traits, & possible crime.
* ***Phyllorhodomancy***  is interpreting the sound made from clapping a rose between your hands.
* ***Physiognomy***  is interpreting facial features.
* ***Precognition***  is having knowledge or awareness of the future.
* ***Psychics***  are people who can perceive the world using a sixth sense.
* ***Psychic Healing***  is the ability to sense an illness and treat while in a trance.
* ***Psychic Mediums***  are person with the ability to relay communication with guides, angels, & spirits.
* ***Psychography***  (See Automatic Writing)
* ***Psychometry***  is the ability to sense information by touch.
* ***Pyromancy***  is interpreting the shapes of a candle flame.
* ***Quarant***  is the person or client receiving a reading.
* ***Radiesthesia***  (See Dowsing)
* ***Reiki***  is a spiritual healing technique. (See Energetic Healing)
* ***Regression***  (See Past Life Regression)
* ***Remote Viewing***  is the ability to sense and possibly view other locations.
* ***RetroCognition***  is the ability to sense past events or emotions by touching an object connected with the past.
* ***Rhabdomancy***  (See Dowsing Rods)
* ***Rhapsodomancy***  (See Bibliomancy)
* **Sciomancy**  is communicating with spirits during a sance or channeling.
* ***Scrying***  is interpreting the symbols and images you perceive while looking at a reflective surface during a trance like state.
* ***Sand Scrying***  is interpreting the symbols created from holding a stick lightly to a surface coated with sand.
* ***Sideromancy***  is interpreting how a piece of straw reacts when put on a very hot surface.
* ***Sortilege***  is the medieval term for sorcery or a diviner.
* ***Spodomancy***  is interpreting the ashes of a sacrificial fire.
* ***Star Sign***  (See Sun Signs)
* ***Stichomancy***  (See Bibliomancy)
* ***Stolisomancy***  is interpreting how people dress.
* ***Sun Signs***  are the position of the Sun in the Zodiac at the time of your birth.
* ***Sycomancy***  is interpreting how fig leaves/paper react when soaked or burnt after messages are written on them.
* ***Tarot***  is interpreting a spread of cards to describe the quarant, situation, or future.
* ***Tasseography***  is interpreting the shapes and symbols tealeaves or coffee grinds make once the beverage has been consumed.
* ***Tephramancy***  (See Spodomancy)
* ***Tiromancy***  is interpreting the curds during the cheese making process.
* ***Zylomancy***  is interpreting burnt wood or fallen trees.

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