Many people ask what divination is and how it works, and
just as the number of times the question is asked there are just as
many answers.
Here I will explain what it is and how it works according to how I see it, know it, feel it, live it, and practice it.
Divination is first and foremost not an exact science or art with
guided procedures and instructions. If you think there is a a concise
manual to successfully teach you to become a seer, oracle, prophet, or
fortune teller; then I suggest you keep reading.
Divination is more than just foreseeing the past, present, and future.
It involves a lot of study, hard work and effort, practice; and it also
requires a lot of patience, meditation, visualization, and the ability
to expand your mind beyond the limits of ordinary thinking that goes
beyond the boundaries of logic and reasoning. One of the most difficult
things in divination is being able to do the following and at the same
time have a great sense of logic and reasoning but being able to know
when and how to separate the two from each other when needed and even at
times how to interconnect the two.
While divination is used to see past events, present events, and future
events it is also a lot more than that. It is a way of life or a part
of some ones' life; it can also be about communing and reaching the
divine, finding a sense of connectivity to the higher realms. It can be
about becoming intertwined with your self and the spiritual self. There
are many forms of divination that go beyond reading tarot cards, oracle
cards, runes, using a scrying mirror, or reading tea leaves or palms. In
fact there are hundreds of divination methods.
Intuition and understanding or having a greater perspective on life and
behavior are very important aspects of divination. Take cartomancy or
tarot reading for example. Today most tarot decks have books that
accompany them explaining different spreads and how to use them; and
what each card means, whether the card is upright or reversed. However
to fully grasp the purpose and understanding of how tarot works and and
how to reach better answers and conclusions one must not take everything
at face value. Just because the book says the card represent a
particular aspect, you have to use your own intuition and understanding
to incorporate your own interpretation or meaning into that particular
reading.
Over times as practice and use tarot or runes or whatever tool or
method of divination you use, you will gradually find your own set of
meanings and representations for each card or rune etc. And you will
also be able to more easily interpret each meaning more personally into
the reading you are giving, rather than having a generic or set answer
for each card etc. The more personally connected you become with the
reading and the Querrant (The person being read), the more aligned and
balanced you will become and feel, you also may find your intuition
becoming stronger and stronger.
Another important aspect about doing readings for other people whether
it be in person or over the internet, whichever, is your presentation
and your communication skills. Being able to effectively communicate and
come across as confident and intuitive is important for your own
benefit and for your Querrants. You have to get to know your Querrant so
you can be able to talk in a manner which suits them, and so they can
understand your reading. It's very important to make a personal
connection as said before. Try not to be overly generic and bland, you
don't want to say the same thing over and over, especially when
explaining the card or whichever because each card has a different
meaning each time it is chosen. It also depends on the reading and the
questions being asked, but the same card may be drawn more than once in a
session and if you repeat the same answer over, it may seem like your
just reading the cards meaning from a manual and being impersonal. It
also may look as if you are inexperienced and only looking for a profit
or being untruthful and misleading, and even perhaps manipulative.
I like to personally keep a record of all the readings I do whether it
be readings for other people, for myself, or for practice and in
general. I keep detailed records of everything I do from the reading
itself, for example a tarot reading, I would record the questions asked,
the cards themselves the meanings and interpretations that I got, the
conclusions I drew, the time and location, the environment whether it
was inside or outside, was there distractions or were there other people
around or was I alone etc. But keeping records is important at least in
my opinion because it will help you progress if you can learn from your
mistakes or find areas in which you can improve, no matter how good you
think you are or have become.
Everything I have stated is mostly and primarily about fortune telling
and reading, using tools such as cards and runes etc. However,
divination also includes people that are Oracles, Prophets, Seers etc.
And everything I have said above can also be applied to the aspects of
divination that don't include items and tools. For example if someone
had a vision, depending on what it was and what the circumstances are
they could either choose to share it with someone or others; or they can
chose to keep it to themselves. Visions and Prophecies can be very
complicated to explain, yet alone to understand or even comprehend even
for the seer of such. But I still find it extremely important to record
and document these aspects of divination as well. Record where you had
this vision or which ever, the time, the day, your surroundings and
environment, and everything that I have stated earlier in this article.
I won't explain the differences between the various and different
methods of divination and the tools involved, other than what I have
mentioned already. However the purpose of this was to explain what
divination is and how it works, explained by the way I see it, and this
may have answered your questions, helped you have a better
understanding, and even given you more questions, which I would hope it
does. But for now ponder the aforementioned things that you have read,
take time to reflect or contemplate, to grasp and try to understand that
divination is more than what most people see it as, and think about
some of the tips that I mentioned. I hope that if you have more
questions you ask them, or that you find what it is you seek.
