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| Silver_star_dragon | Nov 4 2012, 10:59 AM Post #1 |
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Describe what Divination is, how it can be used, and your favorite method. Do you have a divination set of Ethics? Why or why not? If so, detail what it is. If not, or if yours is not original, write one. (500 words) |
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| Silver_star_dragon | Nov 4 2012, 11:36 AM Post #2 |
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Divination is the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means. There are many forms of this that can be used, one site I looked up had a A-Z list with every letter filled in. I will list here the few that actually mean something to me or are well known but if you would like a whole list please click HERE ![]() So when I was younger my older brothers convinced me that using the Ouija board was a fun experience....needless to say they were horribly wrong, but I will explain that more soon, right now I want to give you an idea of what the Ouija board is a board printed with letters, numbers, and other signs, to which a planchette points, in answer to questions from people at a seance. Now on to my story, So one night my brother brings out the Ouija board and says lets play with this thing, I heard it moves on its own. Well I am extremely reluctant and they call me names as usual but at the time I didn't realize I was sensitive so I didn't understand why I was so reluctant to touch it. Eventually I got tired of being made fun of so I gave in, worst choice of my existence. I sat down and proceeded to follow orders, don't make it move just put energy into it, think of a question and we each ask one question. Well my brother ask, " Is there anyone here tonight" and the thing moves to yes so we all start giggling and yelling stop moving it, then my other brother ask, "What is your name" it says its name which unfortunately I have forgotten thank the gods, Well then it comes time for my question...."what do you want", Y-O-U it spells out and I let go and run out of the room yelling at the boys for lying, well right after I let go the cabinet doors fly open and the sink turns on and a few things go flying so my brothers yell at me to get in here and say good bye well I do and finally it all stops. Needless to say I have never touched one since. Another form of Divination is the Tarot cards The tarot has four suits. Each of these suits has pip cards numbering from ace to ten and four face cards for a total of 14 cards. They are used to see what was, what is and what will be. There are many different spreads in the form of tarot but beginners are more apt to ask a question and draw a card and see what the meaning is and how it relates to them. I myself have had quite a few tarot card readings and all have been spot on and have come true. I want to learn how to use them eventually but seem to never get a chance to get a deck or when I do have money I forget. Hopefully one day I can do a reading and someone come back and say, "everything you said came true". The Last one I will list is Runes Runes are an ancient Germanic alphabet, used for writing, divination and magick. They were used throughout northern Europe, Scandinavia, the British Isles, and Iceland from about 100 B.C.E. to 1600 C.E. Runic inscriptions of great age have even been found in North America, supporting stories that the Vikings arrived in the Americas long before Columbus.Tacitus, in Chapter X of his Germania, describes a form of divination used by Germanic tribes: "To divination and casting of lots, they pay attention beyond any other people. Their method of casting lots is a simple one: they cut a branch from a fruit-bearing tree and divide it into small pieces which they mark with certain distinctive signs and scatter at random onto a white cloth. Then, the priest of the community if the lots are consulted publicly, or the father of the family if it is done privately, after invoking the gods and with eyes raised to heaven, picks up three pieces, one at a time, and interprets them according to the signs previously marked upon them." Runes are an oracle from which one seeks advice. They work best if you detail your current circumstances and then ask a specific question. Rune readings are sometimes obscure. They hint toward answers, but you have to figure out the details. This is when the rune casters intuition becomes paramount. Some times the Runes "sing" to me, and their meaning becomes instantly clear. Runic divination or "rune casting" is not "fortunetelling" in the sense that one actually sees the future. Instead, runes give one a means of analyzing the path that one is on and a likely outcome. The future is not fixed. It changes with everything one does. If one does not like the prediction, one can always change paths. Since ancient times, runes have been used for divination and magic, in addition to writing. The word "rune" actually means mystery, secret or whisper. Each rune has esoteric meanings and properties associated with it, beyond its mundane meaning and phonetic value. Each translates into a word or a phrase signifying concepts important to the early peoples who used them, representing the forces of nature and mind. Each rune has a story attached to it, a relationship to a Norse God. Odin, the Norse High God of the Aesir, hung from the world tree, Yggdrasil, impaled on his own spear, for nine days and nights in order to gain the knowledge of runes. When the runes appeared below him, he reached down and took them up, and the runic knowledge gave him power . He later passed on this knowledge to the Vanir goddess Freya. She, in turn, taught him the magic of seidr. Heimdall, the god who guarded the Rainbow Bridge, taught the runes to mankind. Runic alphabets first appeared among German tribes in central and eastern Europe. Some runes symbols are likely to have been acquired from other alphabets, such as the Greek, Etruscan, and the Early Roman. The runes were made of straight lines to make the characters suitable for cutting into wood or stone. The earliest runic inscriptions on stone are dated to the late 3rd century AD, although it is probable that runic alphabets had been in use for some centuries before. The Old Germanic Runic alphabet or "Elder Futhark" contains 24 runes. The first six runes of the alphabet spell out the word "FUTHARK". As the runes spread northwards into Scandinavia, some rune symbols were dropped and the alphabet was reduced to only 16 runes. Between 400 and 600 AD, three Germanic tribes, the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes, invaded Britain. They brought the runes with them. The forms of several of the runes changed, notably the runes for A/O, C/K, H, J, S, and Ng. Also, changes in the language led to nine runes being added to the alphabet to compensate for the extra sounds, and several runes were given different corresponding letters. This alphabet, expanded to 33 symbols, has become known as the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc. The rune names themselves have been passed down relatively intact. Although no manuscript exists listing the names of the older, Germanic runes, the Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian rune poems agree to such an extent that their common origin can be deduced. Here you can see number of Runic Scripts. Edited by Silver_star_dragon, Nov 4 2012, 12:23 PM.
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The tarot has four suits. Each of these suits has pip cards numbering from ace to ten and four face cards for a total of 14 cards. They are used to see what was, what is and what will be. There are many different spreads in the form of tarot but beginners are more apt to ask a question and draw a card and see what the meaning is and how it relates to them. I myself have had quite a few tarot card readings and all have been spot on and have come true. I want to learn how to use them eventually but seem to never get a chance to get a deck or when I do have money I forget. Hopefully one day I can do a reading and someone come back and say, "everything you said came true".
Runes are an ancient Germanic alphabet, used for writing, divination and magick. They were used throughout northern Europe, Scandinavia, the British Isles, and Iceland from about 100 B.C.E. to 1600 C.E. Runic inscriptions of great age have even been found in North America, supporting stories that the Vikings arrived in the Americas long before Columbus.
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