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Can also ask for spread reading for the following: Is a solution on the horizon, how to achieve a resolution, and how soon

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u/South_Watercress_389 — 5 days ago

Mexico vs Equador World Cup Card Pull

Sorry for the tacky photo, wanted to share this and see what you guys think

I got these cards when pulling about the game today. The 4 of spades was for if Mexico will win and 5 of spades was on the top of the deck then 5 of diamonds at the bottom. I checked because my partner wanted to know and they also wanted me to ask if equator was going to win in cause of a tie so I got the joker in red for Equador. Lol what do you guys think?

Mexico is doing a home game but it looks to me like they’re not really going to be feeling this game or struggling to play as a team, personal problems could get in the way of performance or them falling back early in the match then trying to make up for it during the later parts of the game or at certain moments.

Joker for Equador other than Mexico’s cards shows me they will most likely win which is shocking since Mexico’s been winning all their games and Equador’s matches fall behind in comparison.

u/South_Watercress_389 — 5 days ago
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Spiritual readings for what are you needing to do for yourself spiritually this upcoming month also up

u/South_Watercress_389 — 6 days ago
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Might do additional but will chose based on question after the 5

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u/South_Watercress_389 — 7 days ago

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u/South_Watercress_389 — 11 days ago

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u/South_Watercress_389 — 11 days ago
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u/South_Watercress_389 — 12 days ago
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The Starting Point

What is divination and what are the different ways people have historically predicted and used tools to gather information about the future or even present and past moments

This can be a lot so take your time going through it, pace yourself, take breaks, and I personally suggest sticking to a main interest overall and reviewing everything else for general information and detail. Find what method feels right for you or makes the most sense, don’t be afraid of sticking to what seems simple and allowing yourself to branch out later on in your practice or keeping to what is familiar.

I. What is divination, divination is an ancient practice of reading and interpreting energy along with applying meaning to what can be deciphered from whatever is being used then serving as a bridge between our world and the spiritual realm, or just a way of navigating and understanding the physical world. Throughout history, cultures worldwide have sought knowledge, guidance, and messages from research, understanding, and connecting to a higher consciousness using various divination tools.

As an ancient practice found across all early civilizations, it connected the material and supernatural realms, helping humanity find guidance and as a way to make crucial political or agricultural decisions. Because human survival depended heavily on the unpredictable rhythms of nature, societies relied on spiritual insight to prosper, making divination an essential and highly sought-after skill.

Different methods of divination ranged from the most ancient, the Sumerian people and Akkadians mapped and calculated the positions of the stars studying them and applying what they understood to their lives making the way for modern astrology to exist today, the Chinese civilizations read the patterns and cracks on animal bones and shells and later creating fundamental systems for prediction, Mesopotamian societies frequently used animal sacrifices, read the entrails to read omens in ceremonial practice, and as an offering for deity worship, Greeks and Romans interpreted the migration, flight patterns, and behaviors of birds as a source of divination, and Germanic and Nordic groups carved runes or symbols onto wood or stone and scattered them to oversee messages from them. From India to ancient Greece, palm reading was commonly used to predict one’s life and character.

Methods and Forms of Divination Practices

Oracle Bones & Turtle Shells: Originating in China (specifically the Shang Dynasty), diviners inscribed questions on bones, applied heat, and read the resulting cracks.

Astrology: Developed in Mesopotamia (Babylonia), this is one of the earliest organized systems. Priests tracked planetary movements and aligned them with earthly events.

Entrails (Extispicy): Practiced across ancient Mesopotamia and Rome, priests would divine the future and read the favor of the gods by examining the internal organs of sacrificed animals.

Augury: The Roman and Greek practice of interpreting omens, primarily by observing the flight patterns, feeding, and calls of birds.

Cleromancy (Casting Lots): Used across multiple civilizations (such as in Egypt, India, and among Celtic tribes), this involved casting sacred twigs, stones, or marked sheep knuckle-bones (astragalomancy).

Scapulimancy: Placing animal shoulder blades (scapulae) into a fire until they cracked, then interpreting the fissures.

Plastromancy: Applying heat to the turtle shell belly-plates (plastrons) to read the resulting heat cracks.

Pyromancy: Gazing into fire flames, smoke (capnomancy), or items tossed into a sacrificial fire to interpret shapes and movements.

Hydromancy: Interpreting ripples, color, and reflections in natural bodies of water or bowls of liquid.

Geomancy: Tossing dirt, sand, or pebbles onto the ground to read the random patterns and formations.

Libanomancy: Observing the patterns and drift of incense smoke during a religious ritual.

Lecanomancy: Dropping oil into a bowl of water and reading the formations the oil created on the surface.

Osteomancy: Ancient form of divination practiced globally. Practitioners scatter or "throw" a collection of animal bones, shells, and meaningful trinkets onto a designated cloth or surface. The reading is based on the positioning, groupings, and proximity in which the items land.

Astragalomancy: Throwing marked animal knuckle-bones (usually from sheep or goats) like modern dice to receive numerical answers.

Belomancy: Tossing or drawing marked arrows from a quiver to choose a strategic path or military action.

Rhabdomancy: Using a staff, wand, or stick to look for water, minerals, or directional guidance.

Aleuromancy: Enclosing written messages inside balls of flour or dough, mixing them, and drawing one at random.

Chiromancy (Palmistry): Evaluating the lines, mounts, and shapes of a human hand to predict individual fate.

Bibliomancy: Ancient practice of divination—seeking guidance or predicting the future—by randomly opening a book and interpreting a selected passage.

Tasseography (Tea Leaves): Originating around the 17th century, it is the art of interpreting the shapes and patterns left by tea leaves in the bottom of a cup.

Cartomancy (Playing Cards): Simple playing card reading began as early as the 14th century, laying the foundation for modern card reading.

Brontoscopy: Interpreting the specific timing, direction, and sound of thunder and lightning.

Aeromancy: Predicting the future through atmospheric anomalies, wind directions, cloud formations, and comets.

Botanomancy: Burning leaves, herbs, or briars to observe how they consumed or how the smoke behaved.

I Ching (Book of Changes): Originating earlier but formalized into a classic system around 1000 BCE in China, the I Ching uses coins or yarrow stalks to build hexagrams.

Scrying (Crystal Ball & Water): Gazing into reflective surfaces (water, crystal balls, mirrors) to induce trance states and receive psychic visions.

Runes: An early medieval runic alphabet (Norse and Celtic alphabets) carved onto wood chips or stones (staves), which are drawn from a bag or cast onto the ground.

Ogham: Contemporary Pagan and intuitive practice that uses the ancient Irish Ogham alphabet as an oracle for reflection, guidance, and spiritual insight. The system consists of 20 primary letters (plus supplementary symbols) traditionally linked to trees, plants, and natural concepts.

Tarot Cards: Evolving from 15th-century playing cards, Tarot decks were heavily codified in the 18th century and adapted by esoteric societies, becoming the standard 78-card divinatory deck used today.

Lenormand: 36-card divination system originating from 19th-century Europe. Unlike Tarot, which relies heavily on intuition and complex archetypes, Lenormand uses fixed, straightforward imagery.

Kipper cards: 36-card German divination system dating back to the late 19th century. Similar to Lenormand, they are meant to be read literally rather than metaphorically.

Pendulums: Suspending a weighted object (crystal, metal, or wood) on a chain. By watching how it swings, users get "yes/no" or directional answers.

Oracle Cards: Modern, thematic, and loosely structured card decks created as an alternative to Tarot, focusing on positive affirmations and specific daily guidance.

Ouija Board: A late 19th-century invention marketed as a parlor game, designed to allegedly communicate with the spirit world by spelling out answers.

Necromancy: Summoning and communicating with the spirits of the dead to uncover hidden knowledge or future events.

Oneiromancy: Interpreting dreams, often enhanced by "incubation" where a seeker slept in a sacred temple to receive divine visions.

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II. People use divination to navigate and make complex decisions and find psychological clarity. While the methods have evolved from interpreting animal entrails to modern astrology apps, the core desire to uncover hidden meanings and seek guidance remains a constant human pursuit.

In the ancient world, divination was a formal, heavily ritualistic practice used to bridge the gap between the human and the divine. Today, divination is less about civic governance and more focused on personal empowerment, wellness, and self-discovery. Tools like Tarot are often used as therapeutic exercises or projective tools to access personal intuition and uncover subconscious thoughts. Now practices like astrology, horoscopes, or I Ching provide a framework to process life transitions, relationship dynamics, and career choices.
Rather than strict fortune-telling, many view divination as a method of finding meaning in the chaos of life. The archetypal symbolism allows inquirers to re-frame their own personal narratives and make empowered choices.

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III. Information and Sources

Video Essays

https://youtu.be/MuFuQXCVtnU

https://youtu.be/Jvq9m5uZkFQ

• Osteomancy

https://youtu.be/s6A6HzNGWPM

https://youtu.be/EeRQBCoLB-w

Cartomancy

https://youtu.be/y6xT\_MM46KM

https://youtu.be/QNiU8MEfkbU

https://youtu.be/fQsmbWUF5Ts

Geomancy

https://youtu.be/ShsWcRIvVG8

https://youtu.be/b\_KWn-ZVKA4

Aeromancy

https://youtu.be/zHMw-xBMnLM

Cleromancy

https://youtu.be/7pc-wGV8JHM

Astrology

https://youtu.be/6HsLdZPGTF8

https://youtu.be/AWDq6zJVX34

https://youtu.be/bVwx-CgfF0k

Articles, blogs, books, and websites

Books

Divination, Oracles & Omens By Michelle Aroney & David Zeitlyn

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/display/332332057/1747203579 (book sources)

Blogs

https://www.zoesandoval.com/blog/2018/10/29/divination

https://thepeoplesoracle.com

https://mhdivination.home.blog/1st-4th/chartomancy/

Websites

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-people-of-the-past-predicted-the-future-from-spider-divination-to-bibliomancy-180985668/

https://www.thetorah.com/article/the-practice-of-divination-in-the-ancient-near-east

https://isac.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/shared/docs/ois6.pdf

https://nonfictioness.com/folklore/traditional-methods-of-divination/

https://wiccaacademy.com/exploring-popular-divination-methods-a-beginners-guide/

u/South_Watercress_389 — 18 days ago

Free mini finance readings

Free reading goes over what’s in the way and how to get your finances in order, free readings will be done in comments section. Not longer being offered. Thank you to everyone.

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In depth donation reading also available for representing valuable skills, immediate resources and available network, what’s hurting your finances or getting in the way, long term approach and planning, you can dm me for this one.

Check out my other available donation reading that allows you to feel more involved in the reading (is below this post on my page) and feel free to request donation readings for other topics.

u/South_Watercress_389 — 26 days ago

Which cards will you be given? What hand will you be played.

Some entertainment mixed with broadening your perspective. You will have to be able to be present through the whole reading to make the choices for this reading.

Donation based

How to play

You will be given one card based on your question and based on that card you will have a set of options for what you think makes more sense to you or based on preference gradually uncovering more and more, or eventually finding the answer or direction you want.

This leaves a bit of room for you to interact more and be more involved in your own reading and help reestablish that sense of authority over your own life while understanding one of the many ways you can use divination to process what your options are and what you want.

Don’t worry about memorizing this, it’s just an introduction so you can know whether this is something that’s for you or not.

The actual interpretation of each card will be given first then the “gameplay scenerio” to add a silly or interesting twist.

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Ex: I asked my cards what do I need to do to get my life together. I got the queen of spades. Indifference to your well-being or emotional numbness to present issues. This means I need to work on operating from a clearer, more direct mindset and putting more care into the way I think, change the way I see myself and view caring for myself. There is a need to redirect your attention elsewhere while letting yourself relax and take care of what is needed that doesn’t add to your stress.

Recommended game genre: The kind of game suggested here is strategy or one of choice in deciding what happens to the character. Games that allow manipulation of the world it takes place in and characters with strong or interesting stories.

The queen of spades represents a scenerio “in-game” where the character being given a slowness debuff because of the weapon of choice not matching the character’s skillset and them not having the training necessary to use it correctly. This leads to the character needing to assess their available options to continue to journey down the path.

The cards element is air, so I choose one of the four cardinal directions. This will also determine the choice the character makes.

North

West

East - I chose east.

South

The direction I choose is east, making my next card the three of diamonds. This points to needing to concentrate my attention on one area of the problem and figure out a solution and an approach that works for me when it comes to changing the way I have been caring for myself and view self care along with what’s been getting in the way of where I wish I could be or where I would feel more fulfilled in my life. I need to focus on resolving this one area and weigh my available options that would get me to where I’m wishing to be.

This card means that the character was able to find better weapons to add to her arsenal and making her way to defeat the boss with one particular weapon of choice. She decided to keep the other two for souvenirs so they add some weight but instead of causing a slowness debuff in this case, they make her stronger and able to use the weapons with more ease. The character is able to move on.

The three of diamonds points to there being another path of options or more to be unraveled, option 1, option 2, and option 3.

The character is left with a few options for how they will approach the boss for the final battle.

The decision was option 1 in what is revealed by the 10 of swords. Facing the problem head-on by moving away from seeing caring for myself as too difficult or as it attributing to the other areas of discontent in my life. The refusal to continue solving a problem with a problem in order to help myself and focusing on consistently working at making these changes easier for myself.

The character chose to create a strategy for how to defeat the boss, they face the boss that towers over them making them question if they really should’ve. They swiftly avoid the attacks from the boss go behind them and attack their ankles to make them fall down. This works but ultimately the boss ends up falling on top of them crushing them in their attempt to win. Game over.

Might like games that involve a decent amount of adrenaline, includes big challenges, or scary exaggerated monsters, could also like ones that have some kind of twist or big problem that is presented and needs to be resolved.

u/South_Watercress_389 — 28 days ago

Which cards will you be given? What hand will you be played.

Some entertainment mixed with broadening your perspective. You will have to be able to be present through the whole reading to make the choices for this reading.

Donation based

How to play

You will be given one card based on your question and based on that card you will have a set of options for what you think makes more sense to you or based on preference gradually uncovering more and more, or eventually finding the answer or direction you want.

This leaves a bit of room for you to interact more and be more involved in your own reading and help reestablish that sense of authority over your own life while understanding one of the many ways you can use divination to process what your options are and what you want.

Don’t worry about memorizing this, it’s just an introduction so you can know whether this is something that’s for you or not.

The actual interpretation of each card will be given first then the “gameplay scenerio” to add a silly or interesting twist.

_______

Ex: I asked my cards what do I need to do to get my life together. I got the queen of spades. Indifference to your well-being or emotional numbness to present issues. This means I need to work on operating from a clearer, more direct mindset and putting more care into the way I think, change the way I see myself and view caring for myself. There is a need to redirect your attention elsewhere while letting yourself relax and take care of what is needed that doesn’t add to your stress.

Recommended game genre: The kind of game suggested here is strategy or one of choice in deciding what happens to the character. Games that allow manipulation of the world it takes place in and characters with strong or interesting stories.

The queen of spades represents a scenerio “in-game” where the character being given a slowness debuff because of the weapon of choice not matching the character’s skillset and them not having the training necessary to use it correctly. This leads to the character needing to assess their available options to continue to journey down the path.

The cards element is air, so I choose one of the four cardinal directions. This will also determine the choice the character makes.

North

West

East - I chose east.

South

The direction I choose is east, making my next card the three of diamonds. This points to needing to concentrate my attention on one area of the problem and figure out a solution and an approach that works for me when it comes to changing the way I have been caring for myself and view self care along with what’s been getting in the way of where I wish I could be or where I would feel more fulfilled in my life. I need to focus on resolving this one area and weigh my available options that would get me to where I’m wishing to be.

This card means that the character was able to find better weapons to add to her arsenal and making her way to defeat the boss with one particular weapon of choice. She decided to keep the other two for souvenirs so they add some weight but instead of causing a slowness debuff in this case, they make her stronger and able to use the weapons with more ease. The character is able to move on.

The three of diamonds points to there being another path of options or more to be unraveled, option 1, option 2, and option 3.

The character is left with a few options for how they will approach the boss for the final battle.

The decision was option 1 in what is revealed by the 10 of swords. Facing the problem head-on by moving away from seeing caring for myself as too difficult or as it attributing to the other areas of discontent in my life. The refusal to continue solving a problem with a problem in order to help myself and focusing on consistently working at making these changes easier for myself.

The character chose to create a strategy for how to defeat the boss, they face the boss that towers over them making them question if they really should’ve. They swiftly avoid the attacks from the boss go behind them and attack their ankles to make them fall down. This works but ultimately the boss ends up falling on top of them crushing them in their attempt to win. Game over.

Might like games that involve a decent amount of adrenaline, includes big challenges, or scary exaggerated monsters, could also like ones that have some kind of twist or big problem that is presented and needs to be resolved.

u/South_Watercress_389 — 28 days ago