A thread to collect advice, tips and tutorials for working with divination techniques, interpreting them, etc. etc.
Please feel free to add your favourite posts, and then we will have this available for the common questions everybody asks.
For dreamwork, this has it’s own collection here:
Super divination tutorial thread: Pendulum, I Ching, Runes, with mentions for Sociomacy, Bibliomancy, Pyromancy, Geomancy:
Pendulum tutorial:
My personal favourite is Kinesiology, aka Muscle Testing . (I also use pendulums and cards including Tarot). I think it takes the randomness out of it by connecting you directly to your own electrical system, which is affected by your subconscious.
Like anything else, it takes practice to teach your subconscious it can talk to you through this technique. Nut get this down and you can divine standing in line at a store checkout.
Using the Book of Fate Oracle:
Divination with the use of knives aka Machaeromancy:
Here’s an old post from an ex forum member, giving details of materials used and detailing the experience from using E A’s mastering divination course:
Are you, like me, new to tarot? Want a good tip on how to choose a deck? And then if you had one, how to start using it. Click on the heading to see the thread. This is a concise and easy introduction to divination:
Here’s a twist. Lenormand.
Who’d a thought there were different systems for card divination? It turns out that tarot and oracle are not the same and here’s another one…
This Lenormand tutorial was posted eight years ago. All the links still work and it’s all good info.
@longlostredemption’s super list of keywords for the interpretation of tarot cards.
You can see she has put a lot of effort into making this list and with her permission she very kindly wants to share this here to help anyone wanting to learn to read the tarot.
Very useful and very helpful, thank you longlostredemption
And here’s an update she made for the reversed 8 of cups:
08 June 2022:
Insight on the reversed 8 of Cups. Came up with this interpretation:
To feel stable and back in homeostasis after an emotional upset regarding
lack of satisfaction and longing for change. To no longer want for
anything either because you took the steps to achieve what you desired
or have given up on that dream and came to terms with it.
How to use blind readings with a pendulum to test/improve your accuracy.
First you have to NOT KNOW what the pendulum is indicating. You will get the readings, and only afterwards find out what the analysis is, This is what makes it “blind”.
To start just cut out a bunch of pictures that are as interesting and different from each other in color, shapes, textures as you can find, from say a magazine, or several magazines.
Associate each picture with an answer. Yes or no is ok.
Put them in envelopes, one to an envelope
Mix them up so you have no idea which envelope has which answer
Select an envelope to use with your pendulum. Ask “does this envelope contain the correct answer?”
Continue until you have a reading yes/no for every envelope
Open all the envelopes and record the result
Do not stop. Repeats steps (3) through (7) two more times. Or five more times or 9 more times depending on your patient. Do it more if you are more emotional about the subject.
At the end take an average of the results.
If your results are completely random, you are not able to use a pendulum at all, it’s not reliable and cannot be trusted, you need to practice with it more or find another divination method that isn’t enabling you to lie to yourself.
