Learn about Divination
Welcome back! Today we begin exploring from my understanding, the the different types of divination. I attempted to include the most relevant ones and eventually I will be updating this page to give you a brief description of what they are, what websites I used, and how I began understanding the meanings. Some of the methods listed you may have already experienced/performed as natural abilities, while others you may need practice/stud. Who knows what you may find yourself naturally excelling in. The idea is to introduce to you as many ways as possible to enhance your awareness of the divinity all around you, because you are already divine and you are ready to connect more consciously with the higher source within you (your highest self).
Types and How to Get Started:
Natural abilities:
Clairvoyance
Clairaudience
Clairsentience
Claircognizance
Mediumship - There are actually many ways this can develop, but I will say that a general theme is that the communicating its all about impressions. I communicate best when its with family members and I invite them into my body, I do this after a meditation were the focus was stillness, that way after I asked a question out loud any movement in my limbs, visuals I experience, or words i’d hear in my mind would be part of the message.
Channeling
Aura reading
Psychometry
Dream interpretation / oneiromancy - I have mostly used my own interpretation, but when I am uncertain I would search up Karl young’s dream analysis and apply some of his meanings and methods of interpretation.
Spirit communication / shamanic practices:
Shamanic journeying (trance-based spirit communication)
Spirit communication / spirit dialogue
Totem and spirit animal work
Drumming or rhythmic trance induction
Ritual object work (flags, staffs, masks, feathers used as symbolic spirit anchors)
Possession trance / spirit incorporation (in some traditions)
Divination through altered states of consciousness
Basic types:
Pendulum
Tarot cards
Numerology
Astrology (different types across the world)
Aeromancy (divination through wind)
Tea leaf / coffee reading (tasseography) - I would entrust the oldest or most experienced person in the group or family with the task of interpretation, there may be two interpreters’ but its important for clear agreements over the identified symbols. We would typically google the symbols unless we had a personal meaning attached to one, as well as follow out own interpretation as to which part of life it affects base don’t he area of it in the cup There is this website that I would use : https://www.instructables.com/Turkish-Coffee-Fortune-Telling/.
Palmistry (chiromancy)
Foot reading (podomancy / pedomancy)
Rune reading
Candle reading (ceromancy)
Playing cards / cartomancy
Crystal divination
Bibliomancy (book-based divination)
Charm reading/collecting - This involves finding and collecting charms, assigning a meaning to them and what I do is keep them in a box where I would then scoop them to perform a reading. This developed when I’d pray for a sign and I would receive it in the form of charms I would find on my walks.
Astrology systems (important distinction):
Western / Tropical astrology
Vedic astrology (Jyotish (Vedic astrology))
Chinese astrology (Chinese astrology)
Each system operates on completely different frameworks, symbolism, and calculations, even though they all fall under “astrology.”
Next level (more advanced in my opinion):
I Ching
Scrying (mirrors, water, crystal gazing)
Automatic writing
Geomancy
Bone throwing
Ogham reading
Dice divination (cleromancy)
Smoke or fire reading
Body-based divination (overlaps with basics but often studied separately):
Palmistry
Foot reading
Face reading (physiognomy / morphoscopy)
Body marking interpretation
