Divination
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Divination is the practice of interpreting patterns to uncover hidden answers or foretell the future. Some forms of divination include reading tarot cards, i ching, rune symbols, avian flight patterns, deciphering patterns of thrown bones, reading tea leaves, interpreting dreams, scrying, pendulum reading and dowsing.
When you use tools for divination, your energy is infused into those tools, as well as the energy of those individuals that you are divining for. While performing any kind of psychic or spirit work, the energies from the spirits or entities you are working with will be saturated into your tools and your own self. When we do any type of energy work it is imperative to regularly protect and cleanse ourselves and our tools from lower vibrational spirits and negative energies, including emotions from ourselves and others.
Dowsing Rods
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A dowsing rod, or divining rod, is a tool used to locate hidden or lost objects and/or liquids, like water or oil. It can be made, as they originally were, of a single, forked branch from any number of trees, such as willow, hazel and other such trees with a strong connection to water.
More modern rods are usually made in sets of two, one for each hand. It is popular for these styles of rods to be made out of varying materials, like metal such as steel, brass or copper. Modern dowsing rods are often decorated with designs, etchings and specialized handles. The designs are only limited to the creator's imagination and materials available. |
To use dowsing rods, hold each rod by the short ends, with the long ends pointing away from you. The rods should be held parallel to each other to begin. If you are using a forked twig, grasp each end in each hand, with the single end pointing away from you. To discover how the dowsing rods work for you, try practicing around water sources that you know exist. As you walk toward the water source, note how the rods react. For some people, the rods will rotate outward. For others, the rods will rotate inward, and may even cross each other. Some people notice a slight shaking of the rods, a tingling sensation or an energy surge. More pliable rods, such as natural wood ones, may bend toward the liquid being sought. Everyone's experience is unique to themselves.
Dowsing rods may also be used as a tool to find lost or hidden objects other than water or oil. One way is to find missing people. People are, of course, made up of about 70% water, so dowsing for people is a natural task to perform with the rods. Another way to use the rods is similar to using a pendulum, which is another divining tool. You may use the rods to ask questions. You can find out how a "yes" and a "no" will come across to you by simply practicing, as with the water dowsing, by asking questions you already know the answer to.
As with any spirit or energy work; remember to cleanse and protect yourself before and after you practice.
Pendulums
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A pendulum is a weighted chain, string or hair that is suspended in air and allowed to swing freely to patterns or chart markings to indicate an energy source and answer questions through our subconscious and intuitive mind. It is a similar tool to the dowsing rod. It can be used in the same way.
The pendulum is held with the end opposite the weighted end between the thumb and forefinger. The elbow is rested on a table, if seated. A question is asked and the pendulum swings into a pattern or to a chart marking to indicate the answer. The patterns for "yes", "no" and other answers, like the sex of an unborn child, are unique to each practitioner. The patterns usually vary from horizontal, vertical and circular swings. |
As with any divination method, be sure to thoroughly educate yourself on the subject and always protect yourself before practicing.
Your first task you need to do before you begin, is to cleanse your pendulum. You may do this by running it under cool water and/or smudging it. Then you need to find out what your personal patterns for answers are. All you need to do this is to ask a series of questions that you already know the answers to. Ask the question as you concentrate on it and see what the pendulum's swing is doing. After you've asked a few questions that you know to be true and have gotten a consistent response, then you may note that this pattern is your "yes." Ask some more questions that you know are false to find your "no" pattern.
Tarot
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The tarot is set up like building blocks of our life path and all the lessons we have to learn along the way. It is even in the specific order of evolution. All of the issues we are each working on correspond with specific lessons. The cards help us to learn these lessons faster and in a more meaningful way. It also gives us the power to take control over our own lives so we can progress the most beneficial way for us, personally. The tarot is a perfect tool to get to the core of ourselves and the trials and tribulations we face in our everyday lives.
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All of the answers we receive from a reading are answers we already know, deep down inside. The point of a reading is to pull those answers out of us, remind us of what we need to know and assure us that our thoughts and feelings are recognized. Tarot readings help us to reaffirm the direction we're heading in; to help us to see the lessons set before us by the circumstances we have chosen to experience at the time, and to show us what we may be able to do to change the way things are heading, if undesirable. If the outcome is everything we'd hoped for, then it gives us a sense of peace to know we are on the right track.
The tarot is set up into two main sections. The Major Arcana, for major life lessons and milestones and the Minor Arcana, going into more detail. The Minor Arcana is also split into sections. Earth cards are all dealing with physical, earthy, educational, worldly, material-based details. Air cards are focused more on spiritual, airy, thought, imagination and idea-based concepts. Fire cards have to do with will, drive, change, fiery, action-oriented occasions. Water cards are emotion-based, intuitive, reflective and creative states of being.
The deck is shuffled, cut and dealt out in any of several layouts or "spreads." The cards are interpreted by their series of possibly meanings according to their placement in the desired layout. The meanings and messages can change slightly according to the position they happen to fall and how they coincide with the other cards surrounding them. Many practiced readers will get glimpses of visions, words, phrases and messages to help them decipher the proper meaning to portray to their client they are reading for.
To learn more, see:
Numbers, Their Occult Powers and Mystic Virtues by W. Wynn Westcott, 1911
http://sacred-texts.com/eso/nop/index.htm
The Pictorial Key To The Tarot by Arthur Edward Waite, 1911
http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/pkt/
Also see:
Spiritual Balance - Meditations - Grounding and Centering - Cleansing - Protection - Herbs and Oils for Protection - The Grey Areas - Psychic Abilities - Identifying Your Psychic Abilities - Psychic Practice Lessons - Psychic Games - Intuition - Divination - Symbolism - Colors - The 7 Main Energy Centers - Auras - Feng Shui - Paranormal Experiences - How to Communicate with Departed Loved-ones - Psychic & Magic Etiquette - Recognizing a Charlatan - Ghosts/Spirits/Entities - Magic
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