In every culture there are traditional occult, magickal, and spiritual methods for performing divination, predicting the future, performing auguries, fortune telling, dreaming true, dreaming lucky, and prophesying. Some of these traditions are inherent to the individual, and include being born with a veil or caul or having the gift of second sight or the ability to foretell the future in dreams or in trance states. Others methods make use of numerical tables; dice throws; domino reading; dream books; Bibliomancy or consulting the Bible; and throwing yarrow stalks or three coins to receive an oracle from the I Ching or Yi King, the Chinese Book of Changes. Further methods of divination include dowsing; working with a pendulum; constructing horoscope charts of the astrological and astronomical positions of the planets, stars, and the Zodiac; card reading or cartomancy with playing cards, "parlor sybils," "gypsy cards," or tarot cards; reading runes; reading bones; palm reading or palmistry; tea leaf reading; and reading coffee grounds. In this section we offer tools for divination and books about fortune telling, in all its many facets.
The tarot is a form of occult and, some say, spiritual card deck. Originating in Italy in the 1400s, it was apparently devised for playing a trumping card game called Tarocchi. Since the 1700s it has been widely used for fortune telling and divination of the future, and it is also linked by many occult and hermetic Authors to a mystical system of Hebrew Kaballah or even ancient Egyptian spiritual beliefs. There are hundreds of different tarot decks in existence, with considerable variation from deck to deck. Most feature 78 cards, one of which is designated the Fool -- and in most tarot decks the remainder of the cards are divided into three portions: four suits of numbered cards (also known as lesser arcana, the pips, or the minor trumps), four suits of court cards (also called the face cards), and a series of non-suited emblematic cards that may be sequentially numbered, called the major trumps, trionfi, or major arcana. Although divination with cards seems to have originated with regular decks of playing cards, tarot cards are now the most popular cards used for fortune telling, and they are also widely used as aids to meditation, mystical development, ritual workings, and spell-craft.
Recommended books (Free download):
Lincoln Order Of Neuromancers - Apikorsus An Essay On The Diverse Practices Of Chaos Magick
Patricia Telesco - A Witchs Beverages And Brews Magick Potions Made Easy
Swetha Lodha - Your Love Life And The Tarot Cards
