What form of divination do you prefer, and why?
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I like using tea leaves because there is a theroy that every one subconsoiusly knows what there future is and with tea leaves your mind uses matrixing and basicaly it is the same as taking an you ink blot test, you see something but you dont allways know what it means untill you look it up.\nI also like to think of a specific question that i want answered or what i want to look into and randomly pick up a book , a page, and a parragraph. I like using poem books, or my favorite physics book (dont ask)\nI also like using a bead on a string and ask it questions to divine.
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well! im in favour of gemini.coz im one.usually when read in news papers,theyre found to be sentimental,sincere,and soo on! so cheers! ! !
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At noon, one of my closest friends is getting married!  She is a sun-lover, so it'll be an appropriate day for her.\n\nAny other ritual/celebration depends on my significant other... if she's up for a ritual, we'll have one (indoors, unfortunately... no "comfortable" area outdoors for us to do anything "formal")... otherwise, I will just do a little meditation in my room before bed and most likely read aloud the Summer Solstice passages from DJConway's Celtic Magic.\n\nBright Blessings!
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Which one do you like better?
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Although means of telling the future were employed in Tibet, before the advent of Buddhism, they are not regarded as an alien remnant outside the Buddhist framework that it is occasionally convenient to call upon. Rather, they are used within the sphere of Buddhist concepts, functioning in accordance with Buddhist principles such as karma. There are no references to divination in the collections of sutras, but many can be found in the tantras.\n\nPurpose: By looking into someone's future, the diviner or medium can assess the particular situation and recommend how to respond or deal with it Remedial action, in the form of rituals, evokes positive forces and can result in a change in the person's fortune. Rituals will not change a person's karma, and those requesting and performing a divination are aware of this. However, they can induce latent positive potential to take precedence over that which is perceived as the cause of an impending misfortune.\n\nThe efficacy of a ritual involves the patron making offerings of food and money to the monks or adepts performing it. The merit acquired from this gift is used to trigger the forces of latent positive potential in oneself or others. Thus, one is not transferring merit and stepping outside the laws of cause and effect, but merely using merit to awaken the forces of one's own or other's good karma.\n\nIf, for example, someone's relative is ill, or his business is deteriorating, an individual may request a qualified practitioner's divination to discover what ritual would be most helpful in setting conditions right. The success of this ritual depends on the strength of one's own karma. However, if the karma or predisposition to be ill is stronger than the latent positive potential in the sick person's continuum, the effects of the disease will not be overcome and the ritual will remain unsuccessful.\n\nPerforming divination for the ill is often considered quite tedious. Khamtrul Rinpoche, a Tibetan lama, says, "If you tell a patient to take Tibetan medicine or Western medicine, and I have to conduct a divination for each question. I feel that whatever we do, it is important for us to make the decision ourselves, because there is less cause for regret afterwards. If we are unable to do that, or have tried, but still feel we need someone else's advice, the next step is to seek guidance through divination.\n\nIt is said that the invasion of Tibet by the Chinese had been predicted through various means and accordingly many rituals were performed. However, since the Tibetan people's negative karma was too strong to be countered by rituals, they remained ineffectual.\n\nDivination In Tibetan Society: Divination is very much a part of life in Tibet and continues to be so among the exiled community. Major decisions concerning everyday life such as marriage or business agreements are made only after consulting some form of divination. In most cases, people have favorite lamas who they consult. In nomadic areas where the sparse population is subject to the whims of nature, divination, signs and omens are seriously examined. They generally interpret these themselves.\n\nQualifications needed: When performing a divination, an individual is relying on the power vested in him by a particular deity. This power may have been acquired through a connection with the deity in a past life, and reinforced through retreats involving recitation of a mantra as many as one million times, identifying himself with the deity with clear concentration and the generation of divine pride. There are many ways of performing divination related to the practice of various deities. For example, there are divinations dependent on Manjushri, Tara, Vajrapani, the Five Dakinis, Palden Lhamo, Dorje Yudronma and Tsering Chenga (the Five Long Life Sisters)\n\nThe motivation for performing divination must be pure. Although anyone can acquire a relationship with a deity through inte
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Whatever you send out comes back to you.  Three is the number of the Goddess so usually it comes back threefold.  That is why Wiccans try to send out only positive energy.  Negative energy hurts yourself and those around you.  IF you want positive things to happen you must act in a positive manner.  Makes sense.  Hey if you are a beginner, I have been practicing for 8 years, if you want to chat, contact me through my profile and we can talk Wiccan stuff.
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Are you kidding me? Sin(x) is awesome! I totally love sinx-ing  those sexy numbers :)\n\nI sinxed pi the other day, and it totally melted away.
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Dowsing is a form of divination, if you can make a Quija board work you can learn to dowse. But unless you believe in it, it won't work. You either have it or you don't. The unbelievers don't have it that's why they don't believe in it and can't be made to accept it.
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For me, it's meditation, because that is my time to be alone with the god and goddess and to commune with them one on one. I remember one particular meditation I performed several years ago...\n\nI had been having a very bad weekend and was feeling extremely low in spirits. I found a secluded spot surrounded by wilderness, out of sight and earshot of any kind of civilization. Sitting on a sturdy branch over a babbling brook, I closed my eyes and let myself drift into a meditative state. After a few moments, I became acutely aware of everything around me.\n\nI could see and hear everything at once! It was fantastic, like the blinders had been removed and suddenly I was one with the gods! It lasted only a split second, but in that second, the goddess allowed me to touch her mind and I knew that all was right with the world. \n\nIt faded as quickly as it had come, and I went on to complete my meditation as normal. I have never managed to reach that place again. I think that the gods knew what I was feeling that day and decided to let me know that everything was alright and remind me that they were there. \n\nOne day, after I have completed my cycle of reincarnations, I will go to that place again, this time to stay. Though I look forward to that day, I'm in no hurry to get there. I have the memory of that moment to sustain me.
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One time on a camping trip, a witch and I created a psychic link which allowed us to keep tabs on each other without needing those family band radios.\n\nPersonally, I do spiritual healing with singing bowls. I play the bowl in someone's hand, and feel the vibrations as they extend through the person, and can tell them where the vibrations are and what they're doing.\n\nI used to work with a Reiki master who could tell people many details about their lives while we were doing our energy work. Very specific things\n\nI have never heard anyone say, "I really shouldn't have trusted my gut instincts."
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Anything to do with witchcraft or devil worship (Ouija boards, tarot cards, upside down stars, etc)
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i have some close friends that are very good at using necromancy or the spell energy they get from the dead. spider was a friend for a long time and he was an adept at necromancy. i am a wizard and i use other forms of magick building, it seems to me disrespectful for me to use the energy of the dead but spider does it daily. has some amazing books on it and im not talking necronomicon. h.p. lovecrafts joke of a serious magick book.
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it is just sad when the christian has the best answer...  Esp on the topic of wicca...but here goes nothing\n\nMagic is not color coded... the world just doesnt work that way...  the subjective "goodness-or badness" of a spell is based on the intent of the practitioner.  Is it evil to do a spell to put a murderer behind bars? Is it "harm" to bring a rapist to justice?  there is no "black or white magic" magic is energy directed to achive specific goals, energy does not have a color, directed or free...it is still just energy, power, chi, quintessence,Prana etc...\n\nWicca IS a religion, not just a hobby for the "college report" answer... i hope your professor gave you a d for that tripe...\n\nI am sorry but meeting with your coven three times a month for rituals and once every other week for classes, on top of "little c" craft sessions & ritual writing sessions, and open sabbats and the semi regular drum circle is a bit more of a commitment than a hobby, like collecting stamps or scrapbooking...not to mention daily meditations, and communing with the ancestors...If you are doing it correctly it is quite a bit more engaging than buying a few trinkets to decorate some pictures of your summer vacation...\n\nWicca is NOT the "path of light" that is utter crap... wicca is a balancing act... you have to balance the light with the dark, the god with the goddess, all aspects of self need to be explored while on the path to priestess & high priestess, including the shadow self...\n\nthe wiccan rede is not LAW it is simply a guideline to strive for...how & the heck are you gonna "harm none" you gotta eat to survive...if you want to take it out of the mundane context and apply it only to will working (magic) then when spell work is performed it has a ripple effect, what is "good" for you  may bring inadvertant harm to another...so if wiccans follwed the rede as law they would all be either ascetics living off of dirt, or frozen in place unable to do anything... for fear of causing harm\n\nThe Wiccan religion in an initiatory mystery religion founded by Gerald B. Gardner in the early 1950's. It incorporates elements of Masonic Ritual, British/Irish folklore. It is a religion that follows and Wheel of the year Wiccans gather together for 8 sabbats, as well as working during the lunar cycles (esbats) There are 4 levels of initiations in traditional Gardnarian Wicca 1-3rd degree then the sublime or elder level. it is said it takes a witch to make a witch however, Since the mid 1970's there has been a movement of ecclectic DIY wiccans, who have had no formal training beyond what they could glean from books. There are many groups out there that offer training, also many books & websites where you can get more basic information on the subject. some are \nhttp://beaufort.bravepages.com/...\nhttp://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/gbos/ind...\nhttp://www.sacred-texts.com/pag/index.ht...\nhttp://www.wicca.com/celtic/wicca/faq.htm
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Of the two I prefer delphi\n\n///
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As far as I've studied the Bible clearly is against various forms of Divination!\n\nWherever its been mentioned in the Bible, it always has a negative connotation! Only the prophets of Old were allowed this by God!\nDIVINATION IN THE BIBLE \nThe Hebrews coming from Egypt -- a land teeming with diviners -- and dwelling in a country surrounded by superstitious tribes, would have their inborn desire for foreknowledge intensified by the spirit of the times and their environments; but God forbade them repeatedly to have anything to do with charmers, wizards, diviners, necromancers, etc., all of whom were abomination in His sight (Deut., xviii, 10, 11). The ideal was in Balaam's day when "there is no soothsaying in Jacob, nor divination in Israel" (Numbers 23:23), and to preserve this, the soul that went aside after diviner God declared He would destroy (Lev., xx, 6) and the man or woman in whom there was a divining spirit was to be stoned to death (Lev., xx, 27). \n\nAll the various forms of divination, regardless of the name by which they are called, stand in sharp contrast with, and open defiance of, the Holy Bible. God through Moses sternly and repeatedly warned Israel not to take up these divination practices of the other nations, saying: “There should not be found in you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, anyone who employs divination, a practicer of magic or anyone who looks for omens or a sorcerer, or one who binds others with a spell or anyone who consults a spirit medium or a professional foreteller of events or anyone who inquires of the dead. For everybody doing these things is something detestable to God, and on account of these detestable things your God is driving them away from before you.” (De 18:9-12; Le 19:26, 31) Even if their prophetic signs and portents came true, practicers of divination were not exempted from condemnation. (De 13:1-5; Jer 23:32; Zec 10:2) The Bible’s extreme hostility toward diviners is shown in its decree that all such were to be put to death without fail.—Ex 22:18; Le 20:27.\n\nThe only mention in the Christian Greek Scriptures of demonic predicting of the future is the instance in which the apostle Paul, in the city of Philippi, freed “a certain servant girl with a spirit, a demon of divination.” She had furnished her masters with much gain “by practicing the art of prediction.” Manifesting the fact that such practice is truly demonic and diametrically opposed to God, the masters of the girl from whom the demon was cast out caused Paul much trouble in Philippi, bringing Paul and his companion Silas before the magistrates, who gave the command to beat them and then threw them into jail.—Ac 16:12, 16-24.
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hmm but they all relate to people who practise different forms of Magick for example necromany deals only with manipultion of the energies of the dead, vodoo, shamanism , alchemy and druidism,  are actually systems of belief , fortune teller tells someone fortune usually are full of crap a diviiner predicts their own future , and astrolger reads planetray signs , a witch or warlock is used to refer to someone who practises wicca/pagan beliefs, an illusionist  or conjurer is an entertainer no reall magick here I could go on but don't have the time although there are many titles when it comes to apractise as diverse and varied as magick there must be terms to differentaite , I sure if you look into christainity you can come up with just as many different names describing members who have different practises with in that system
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tarot cards are a real tool for those who know how to use them. there is ALOT involved in the study of tarot... but i am not certain it's something you can study and learn... i think it is more of an intuitive thing powered by unseen entities.