[Opinion] Which form of divination you have found the most useful

[azazel6672]

This is not so much a query per se rather than asking for an opinion. While I have tried horary astrology myself I am yet to study in depth other forms of divination like tarot. Wanted to ask the esteemed members of this group what your preferred modes of divination are and why. Do you prefer astrology, tarot, scrying, runes, I Ching or geomancy?

 

[ewiz]

I do lots of different things guided by whatever inspires me at that moment, but I often lean towards I Ching and Tarot. I Ching is what I would usually recommend someone learn when they are first starting out, it's very simple to do and the interpretations are very clear. With Tarot there's a little more of a learning/experience curve before you can reliably interpret your given spread, but it also allows for more complexity. I Ching is very good at telling you the current state of things, exactly what's going on right now and how that can affect your potential outcomes. Tarot is very good at telling you what might happen along the way following certain choices. These systems work well alone or in combination with one another, as do most others. It's best, imo, to choose the system you feel most drawn to and work with it constantly until you feel very comfortable with it, then continue trying more out. You may find I Ching's restrictions appealing in practice coming from a background with astrology, or you may find that you prefer something more free to interpretation like runes.

 

[mikastophiel]

I love using tarot with the Kabbalah, as the latter really opens up the former in a bunch of interesting ways. I find that tarot has a sort of conversational quality that makes it very easy to work with so long as you ask the right sort of questions, somewhat like a collaborative storytelling x psychoanalysis session, and as you develop a deeper understanding of the system itself you'll be able to interpret a reading not just on a card-by-card level but as a whole, in parts, with an eye for layout and composition, etc. Conveniently, there are a lot of good books on the matter as well (Rachel Pollack's is my personal favorite that I've read so far).

 

[RobCorvid]

Useful? Probably the pendulum because of it's ease, and portablility. My favorite that I've experimented with, and found very useful although not as portable, is geomancy.

 

[ewiz]

Useful? Probably the pendulum because of it's ease, and portablility. My favorite that I've experimented with, and found very useful although not as portable, is geomancy.

There's a fairly quick and portable method you can use to produce a geomantic figure with a drawing app on your phone. Concentrate on your question, then make 4 rows of random dots, just move from one row to the next as your intuition guides you, without counting the dots. Then once they've all been placed down, add up the dots for each row to produce either a 1 (odd) or a 2 (even), giving you your figure. Something like this would be good for a yes/no sort of reading. Not quite as fast as a pendulum, but it produces a bit more information, and we usually carry our phones even when we don't have our pendulums.