Divination

**Category:** | Psychic Powers

**Divination** is the practice of obtaining knowledge of the future, past or the unknown by supernatural means.

## Description

Divination allows a person to foresee the future, or gather insights into future events, through various rituals and tools. This practice also allows to perceive or learn about the past or a distant event in the present, and to find answers to various questions. It seems like most witches are able to perform at least some sort of divination and some are even able to perceive things directly, without the need of external support.

Significant predictions and visions of the future, especially important events. It is described as the greatest power to have, but the hardest to live with. Prophecy is a rare and unique gift of Divination, gifted people with this power are known as Prophets or Seers. Even the witches are wise connoisseurs of arcane secrets, they must require a ritualistic spell in order to obtain information from the future.

## Types of Divination

* **Amniomancy** - a method of divination by means of the membrane which sometimes envelopes the head of a baby at birth. From the inspection of it, the diviner predicts what sort of future the newborn will have. This membrane, called caul, if red-colored signifies that the child in question will have a happy life. But if the membrane's lead-colored, the infant will have misfortunes.
* **Anemoscopy** - a method of divination by means of the study of winds. This type of divination involves the observation of wind direction and strength, including the shape of dust clouds lifted by it.
* **Belomancy** - a method of divination by means of using arrows, the arrows were typically marked with occult symbols and had to have feathers for every method.
* **Bibliomancy** - a method of divination using books in divination or for advice. The method of employing sacred books (especially specific words and verses) for 'magical medicine', for removing negative entities, or for divination is widespread in many religions of the world.
* **Billets** - a method of divination where questions are written on a piece of paper by one person and answered psychically by another member of a group or class.
* **Cartomancy** a method of fortune-telling or divination using a deck of cards
	+ **Tarot** - a method of divination where the real answer comes from the Tarot reader being able to focus their consciousness beyond the physical meaning of a given card and into the life to the person they are reading. Answers are never on one level.
* **Castronomancy** is a form of Hydromancy involving looking into images on the surface of water in a glass or magical receptacle.
* **Catoptromancy** - a form of divination technique utilizing a mirror, which was turned to the moon to catch the lunar rays.
* **Dactylomancy** - a method of divination by means of finger movements upon tripods, planchettes, pendulums, ouija boards, or through the use of finger rings
* Glossolalia - a method of divination when channeling an entity from somewhere other than this reality, channelers often find themselves going into a trace-like state and speaking in a language that is unknown to them. It may be an archaic language, one from a foreign country country. In this case the channeler is referred to as a Polyglot, one who speaks in many languages.
* **Graphology** - a method of divination which is the study and analysis of handwriting especially in relation to human psychology.
* **Hydromancy** - a method of divination that goes back thousands of years and involves the use of water to bring messages.
* **Lychnomancy** - a method of divination where the divinater is concerned with the flames of three candles arranged in a triangle.
* **Map Dowsing** - a method of divination that involves the use of a pendulum, over maps to locate oil, minerals, persons, water, etc
* **Numerology** - a method of divination that is any of many systems, traditions or beliefs in a mystical or esoteric relationship between numbers and physical objects or living things.
* **Oneiromancy** a method of divination based upon dreams; it is a system of dream interpretation that uses dreams to predict the future.
* **Ouija board** - a method of divination most often a flat board marked with the letters of the alphabet, the numbers 0-9, the words "yes", "no", "hello" (occasionally), and "goodbye", along with various symbols and graphics
* **Palmistry** - the art of characterization and foretelling the future through the study of the palm.
* **Pendulum** a method of divination that is a simple way to communicate with the other side.
* **Psychic Body Scanning** - a method of divination that involves psychically scanning the body, organs; Aura & Energy centers (Chakras).
* **Runes** - a method using either stones or cards as a way to predict one's future.
* **Scrying** a method of divination and takes on many forms. Information received varies with the type of scrying one is using to get answers. Information can be objective, message given that are independent of the scryer - or subjective, determined or influenced by the scryer. Scrying can also be viewed as a form of mediumship, messages allegedly coming from another realm.
	+ **Crystal Scrying** - a method of divination that involves looking into a quartz crystal, seeing images, then giving them meaning based on archetypes familiar to the viewer.
	+ **Mirror Scrying** an evolved form of water scrying. When it became possible to build mirrors they were regarded as being like water that was fixed into one place.
* **Tasseography** - a method of divination or fortune-telling method that in western tradition interprets patterns in tea leaves. The term also refers to the reading of coffee grounds, especially in the Middle Eastern tradition.
* **Theomancy** - a method of divination that is either a seance or channeling people on the other side.

## Limitations

* Magic Negation/Magic Destruction
* All methods take time and space for the ritual.
* May require supernatural aid to correctly predict the future.
* Most methods need specific items (i.e. bibliomancy requires a book while I Ching requires many things).

## List of Users

* Gypsy
* Psychics
* Witches