Divination has always been one of the most popular and widely practiced of all the occult arts. In a world so ful of
uncertainty the idea of getting some wise guidance from a higher power, the idea of peeking into the future and gaining advanced
knowledge of wat will happen, the idea of knowing the consequences of your actions in advance so that you can choose the right
path - these are all very appealing notions indeed.
There a literally hundreds of different methods of divination, from examining the entrails of a recently slaughtered
sheep or goat, to staring into the flames of a fire. Today, with divination at least as popular as it ever has been in the
past, the most commonly used methods are astrology, tarot cards, palmistry and the Chinese yi ching.
But although more people than ever have access to some for of divination, such as newspaper horoscopes which are read
by millions, there is also a greater degree of misunderstaning around as to the nature and purpose of divination than would
have been the case inthe past.
Most people tendto think of divination as fortune-telling, as a method of predicting what will happen to someone in the
future. But actualy this is an over-simplification, and it introduces a subtle but important error into the way we think about
divination. Whether you peform reading yourself, or if you are just an interested person who maybe reads their horoscope,
you should know that in order to gain the most possible benefits from consulting a divinatory device it is important to be
aware of te nature of the information which you wil receive...
