what is Divination

div·i·na·tion noun/divnSHn/
divinations, plural

The practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means. (courtesy Google definitions)


First of all, there is nothing "super"natural about it. It is a perfectly NATURAL occurance.

Divination is as defined above, but the methods are widely varied from culture to culture, and user to user. Some examples are Tarot, tea leaves, Ogham sticks, runes, and endless others.

The "skill" of divination is a developed intuition. Whatever practice one uses, the meanings of certain things are not always "black and white" or contained in the little book that came with your "kit".

Developing your intuition is amazingly valuable in many aspects of life and magick, but is specifically useful to Divination.

Also, you should know the suffix "-mancy", as in cartomancy. This suffix indicates that the root word is being used as a tool of divination.

For example, "necromancy"..."necro" being corpse or death, coupled with "mancy" is understood as divination by the dead or using spirits of the dead for discovery.

Hope you learned something here.

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Yes but intuition can be very helpful in life in many aspects as well ... and in some situations more so then divination.
Intition does not just have to be developed by divination ether, you can develope it by other means.

I would be interested to know what people think 'intuition' is, in this case :)

I like this post, very informing for beginners. :)

intuition? its feeling, sensing, the gut feeling you get, context clues, and many other words i cant think of right now from tiredness and is used to depict