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| | 2 | = Introduction to Divination = |
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| | 4 | === Divine === |
| | 5 | To make a guess, a prophecy, or a clever conjecture. |
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| | 7 | === Divination === |
| | 8 | Divination is the act or practice of trying to foretell the future or explore the unknown by occult means. It is any of the various methods of foretelling the future by means of oracles, omens, or signs. These methods include dream interpretation, astrology, investigations of the parts of the body (e.g. palmistry, phrenology), the interpretation of the tea leaves and of the cries of birds, the study of animal entrails and so on. Divination is a practice found in almost all societies. |
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| | 10 | === Tarot === |
| | 11 | Pack of cards used mainly for fortune telling. These cards bear pictures of certain traditional figures. |
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| | 13 | === Palmistry === |
| | 14 | Palmistry is another popular, yet accurate way of divining. It was common during the medieval times and is known to have existed when Greece and Rome were at their height. Palmistry involves the use of the hand. Palmistry is the pretended art of telling a person's character or fortune by the lines and marks of the palm of the person's hand. The hand was considered to reflect its owner. As with other types of Divination, there is a fixed set of meanings to learn, like the learning of what the lines on the hand means. In studying Palmistry, there is a need for carefully applied intuition. Although your hand gives an outline of your life, it is only a tentative outline, therefore it is not yet a final pronouncement. You will have the final decision in what will happen to your own life. You make the choices for yourself. Palmistry is just predicting the things that may happen in the future. |
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| | 16 | === Omen === |
| | 17 | A thing or happening supposed to foretell a future event, either good or bad. Death Omens include the crying of a bird (augurey), or the great black dog or the grim. |
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| | 19 | === Crystal Gazing === |
| | 20 | Crystal Gazing is the practice of gazing into a ball (crystal ball) of rock crystal or, commonly, glass and professing to see certain images, especially of future events. |
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