Overview

From the earliest stages of civilisation people have used various means of divination to communicate with the supernatural when seeking help in their public and private lives. Divination is most often practiced as a means of foretelling the future, and sometimes the past. It is one of the primary practices used by witches, wizards, medicine men, sorcerers, and shamans. These various groups of persons are often called diviners, who often belonged to special classes of priests and priestesses in past and present civilisations, and are specially trained in the practice and interpretation of their divinatory skills.

History

The Greeks had their oracle, which spoke for the gods. In the Middle Ages grain, sand or peas were tossed onto a field in order to read the patterns after the substances fell. As far back as 1000 BC. The Chinese had "I Ching," an oracle, which involved the tossing, and reading of long short yarrow sticks. Another ancient Chinese divinatory practice, which is still used, is "Feng-Shui," or geomancy, which involves the

erecting of buildings, tombs, and other physical structures by determining the currents of invisible energy coursing through the earth. Presently people also are using this principle for the arrangement of furniture in their homes.

Many divinatory methods are still used today, especially in paganism, witchcraft, voodoo and Santeria. Most Christians would probably disagree but prayer might also be considered a divinatory act. Many practitioners today do not feel signs of divination are absolute or fixed, but believe they still have free choices in their future. They believe divination helps them in making better choices. A.G.H.

Benefits

This is an advisory process, which enables the client to make a more confident decision - the important point being that it is the client's decision (but is not presented as such). Like modern corporate consultants, diviners and their oracles can advise, but the client is always able to distort or ignore their advice and do what he or she intended to do all along. Some diviners, and consultants, are well aware of this, and ensure that what they do is lend legitimacy to the decisions they perceive their clients have already made.

Hence, in ascending order of confidence in the client, the purposes of divination can be:

• To reassure the client that his or her concern is legitimate
• To clarify the client's own desires in the matter
• To give validation to the client's decision in the client's mind
• To give validation to the client's decision in the minds of others

Procedure

For thousands of years, people have used whatever was at hand to divine the future. Mankind has used knucklebones, entrails, sticks, stones and shells to divine the future. Marks drawn in the dust were consulted for portents of what was to come. Later, dice and other man-made objects were used for the same purpose. Virtually anything can be used for the purpose of divination, as long as you are consistent and believe.

Over the centuries, these divinatory arts have consistently and reliably revealed the strengths and weaknesses of individuals as clearly as if the information was written in ink on their forehead.

Love, money, fate and fortune are all revealed using these tried and true methods.

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