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On "Tools Are Crutches" and "Always Trust Your Intuition"

These two ideas have been floating around a lot, coming up especially in the wake of the recent Lenormand discussions, and I wanted to address them together because they're really two parts of the same misunderstanding about how divination actually works (process that is - I don't claim to know, or care really, how it actually works).

Tools are not crutches.

A crutch is something you use because you can't do the thing without it, and the implication is that you should be able to, so leaning on it is a kind of failure. That framing doesn't hold up here. Tools make certain things possible that would otherwise take far longer, require far more effort, or simply not happen in a useful or reliable way. A skilled carpenter doesn't apologize for using a router. A surgeon doesn't apologize for instruments. The tool isn't a substitute for skill; it's what allows skill to operate at its full range.

The same applies to a card system, a spread, a chart, a pendulum, some bones, whatever your preferred method is. These aren't training wheels you're supposed to graduate out of; they're structures that let you access and organize information in ways that free-floating intuition often can't manage on its own, at least not quickly, not consistently, and not in a form that's actually accurate and free from all the little biases and filters we use in our daily observations of life.

Intuition matters, but it has to be grounded in what the tools are showing you.

This is where the second idea runs into trouble. "Always trust your intuition" sounds wise, but in practice it can become a way to ignore the reading entirely and just say whatever came to mind first. That's not intuition working with the system. That's intuition instead of the system, and those are very different things. Divination vs. Channelling or Psychic Readings. Most people haven't developed the skills to do the latter accurately.

Your gut is a real source of information. When something lights up for you in a reading, that matters. But the question worth asking is: where in what you're seeing does this feeling live? What card, what position, what combination is your intuition responding to? Is this a real intuition or just a hope or fear? If you can't answer these accurately, you're not reading intuitively. You're just making things up.

Real intuitive reading is a conversation between what's laid out in front of you and what you're picking up. The cards don't lie there passively while you do all the work, and your intuition doesn't override what the cards are saying. They work together. When they seem to conflict, that tension is often the most interesting part of the reading, and worth sitting with rather than defaulting to one or the other.

Here's a concrete example of what that actually looks like. If your intuition is saying "family is involved here," that doesn't replace the Devil card. It explains how it's manifesting. If you feel like someone is lying, but the relevant indicator doesn't appear in the cast, you've got extra information, not a different reading. It sits alongside what the tools are showing, filling in the gaps, adding texture. It doesn't replace the meaning; it specifies it.

Where this goes sideways.

I see this pattern a lot with newer readers, and I want to be fair here because I think it usually comes from a genuine place. People want to see what they're hoping for, or sometimes they gravitate toward the scary interpretation because it feels significant, feels like proof they're picking up on something real. Both of those pulls are understandable. But if you're getting a strong intuitive hit that "he really does love me," and the spread is showing fights, deception, and harm, the intuition isn't wrong to notice the love. It's just incomplete without the context the tools are providing. Those things can both be true at the same time. He might genuinely feel something, and also be in no condition to act on it in any healthy way. That's not a contradiction. That's the reading, and the intuition helped fill in a piece of it rather than replacing the rest.

The same goes for the other direction. Getting a strong sense that the spirits are furious with you and the situation is dire, when the rest of the reading is providing a lot of nuanced commentary that doesn't support that interpretation, is worth pausing on. Maybe there is something angry in the picture, but the broader reading might be telling you how to address it, what the debt is, where to start. That matters too.

Trust your intuition, yes, but walk it through some logic before you run with it. It should expand and specify what the tools are saying, not replace it. When those two things are actually working together, that's when readings get genuinely useful.

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Most resources treat that as a list. Four separate folk beliefs, vaguely related, filed under "rosemary correspondences." You memorize it, or you don't, and either way you don't really understand why.

That's the problem r/materiamagica is trying to solve.

The sub is built around a simple but underused idea: every magical ingredient has a Virtue, a single underlying power that explains everything it does. Rosemary's is Remembrance. Once you see that, the list stops being a list and starts being a logical system. It sharpens memory. It holds the identity of a space against intrusion. It anchors oaths in time. It carries grief across the boundary of death. Same power, different contexts.

There are many ways to pet a cat. Here's a simpler version of that idea: if you have a headache, you can take ibuprofen, drink a glass of water, put a cold cloth on your forehead, or sleep. All of them can work. But they work through completely different mechanisms. Ibuprofen reduces inflammation. Water fixes dehydration. Cold constricts blood vessels. Sleep resets your nervous system. Knowing how each one works tells you which one to reach for.

Materia magica works the same way. Multiple ingredients can protect a home. But salt does it through Extraction, drawing out and purging what doesn't belong. Rosemary does it through Remembrance, holding the identity of the space against what contradicts it. These aren't the same working in different wrappers. They're different tools that happen to overlap in one area of their range.

Understanding Virtues means you stop swapping ingredients randomly and start choosing intentionally. It also means you start noticing things: convergences across traditions, physical signatures that point toward function, the places where Roman herbalists and Appalachian root workers landed on identical conclusions from completely different directions.

That's what we're here to dig into. Come share what you know.

Most resources treat that as a list. Four separate folk beliefs, vaguely related, filed under "rosemary correspondences." You memorize it, or you don't, and either way you don't really understand why.

That's the problem r/materiamagica is trying to solve.

The sub is built around a simple but underused idea: every magical ingredient has a Virtue, a single underlying power that explains everything it does. Rosemary's is Remembrance. Once you see that, the list stops being a list and starts being a logical system. It sharpens memory. It holds the identity of a space against intrusion. It anchors oaths in time. It carries grief across the boundary of death. Same power, different contexts.

There are many ways to pet a cat. Here's a simpler version of that idea: if you have a headache, you can take ibuprofen, drink a glass of water, put a cold cloth on your forehead, or sleep. All of them can work. But they work through completely different mechanisms. Ibuprofen reduces inflammation. Water fixes dehydration. Cold constricts blood vessels. Sleep resets your nervous system. Knowing how each one works tells you which one to reach for.

Materia magica works the same way. Multiple ingredients can protect a home. But salt does it through Extraction, drawing out and purging what doesn't belong. Rosemary does it through Remembrance, holding the identity of the space against what contradicts it. These aren't the same working in different wrappers. They're different tools that happen to overlap in one area of their range.

Understanding Virtues means you stop swapping ingredients randomly and start choosing intentionally. It also means you start noticing things: convergences across traditions, physical signatures that point toward function, the places where Roman herbalists and Appalachian root workers landed on identical conclusions from completely different directions.

That's what we're here to dig into. Come share what you know.

Most resources treat that as a list. Four separate folk beliefs, vaguely related, filed under "rosemary correspondences." You memorize it, or you don't, and either way you don't really understand why.

That's the problem r/materiamagica is trying to solve.

The sub is built around a simple but underused idea: every magical ingredient has a Virtue, a single underlying power that explains everything it does. Rosemary's is Remembrance. Once you see that, the list stops being a list and starts being a logical system. It sharpens memory. It holds the identity of a space against intrusion. It anchors oaths in time. It carries grief across the boundary of death. Same power, different contexts.

There are many ways to pet a cat. Here's a simpler version of that idea: if you have a headache, you can take ibuprofen, drink a glass of water, put a cold cloth on your forehead, or sleep. All of them can work. But they work through completely different mechanisms. Ibuprofen reduces inflammation. Water fixes dehydration. Cold constricts blood vessels. Sleep resets your nervous system. Knowing how each one works tells you which one to reach for.

Materia magica works the same way. Multiple ingredients can protect a home. But salt does it through Extraction, drawing out and purging what doesn't belong. Rosemary does it through Remembrance, holding the identity of the space against what contradicts it. These aren't the same working in different wrappers. They're different tools that happen to overlap in one area of their range.

Understanding Virtues means you stop swapping ingredients randomly and start choosing intentionally. It also means you start noticing things: convergences across traditions, physical signatures that point toward function, the places where Roman herbalists and Appalachian root workers landed on identical conclusions from completely different directions.

That's what we're here to dig into. Come share what you know.

Most resources treat that as a list. Four separate folk beliefs, vaguely related, filed under "rosemary correspondences." You memorize it, or you don't, and either way you don't really understand why.

That's the problem r/materiamagica is trying to solve.

The sub is built around a simple but underused idea: every magical ingredient has a Virtue, a single underlying power that explains everything it does. Rosemary's is Remembrance. Once you see that, the list stops being a list and starts being a logical system. It sharpens memory. It holds the identity of a space against intrusion. It anchors oaths in time. It carries grief across the boundary of death. Same power, different contexts.

There are many ways to pet a cat. Here's a simpler version of that idea: if you have a headache, you can take ibuprofen, drink a glass of water, put a cold cloth on your forehead, or sleep. All of them can work. But they work through completely different mechanisms. Ibuprofen reduces inflammation. Water fixes dehydration. Cold constricts blood vessels. Sleep resets your nervous system. Knowing how each one works tells you which one to reach for.

Materia magica works the same way. Multiple ingredients can protect a home. But salt does it through Extraction, drawing out and purging what doesn't belong. Rosemary does it through Remembrance, holding the identity of the space against what contradicts it. These aren't the same working in different wrappers. They're different tools that happen to overlap in one area of their range.

Understanding Virtues means you stop swapping ingredients randomly and start choosing intentionally. It also means you start noticing things: convergences across traditions, physical signatures that point toward function, the places where Roman herbalists and Appalachian root workers landed on identical conclusions from completely different directions.

That's what we're here to dig into. Come share what you know.

Most resources treat that as a list. Four separate folk beliefs, vaguely related, filed under "rosemary correspondences." You memorize it, or you don't, and either way you don't really understand why.

That's the problem r/materiamagica is trying to solve.

The sub is built around a simple but underused idea: every magical ingredient has a Virtue, a single underlying power that explains everything it does. Rosemary's is Remembrance. Once you see that, the list stops being a list and starts being a logical system. It sharpens memory. It holds the identity of a space against intrusion. It anchors oaths in time. It carries grief across the boundary of death. Same power, different contexts.

There are many ways to pet a cat. Here's a simpler version of that idea: if you have a headache, you can take ibuprofen, drink a glass of water, put a cold cloth on your forehead, or sleep. All of them can work. But they work through completely different mechanisms. Ibuprofen reduces inflammation. Water fixes dehydration. Cold constricts blood vessels. Sleep resets your nervous system. Knowing how each one works tells you which one to reach for.

Materia magica works the same way. Multiple ingredients can protect a home. But salt does it through Extraction, drawing out and purging what doesn't belong. Rosemary does it through Remembrance, holding the identity of the space against what contradicts it. These aren't the same working in different wrappers. They're different tools that happen to overlap in one area of their range.

Understanding Virtues means you stop swapping ingredients randomly and start choosing intentionally. It also means you start noticing things: convergences across traditions, physical signatures that point toward function, the places where Roman herbalists and Appalachian root workers landed on identical conclusions from completely different directions.

That's what we're here to dig into. Come share what you know.

Most resources treat that as a list. Four separate folk beliefs, vaguely related, filed under "rosemary correspondences." You memorize it, or you don't, and either way you don't really understand why.

That's the problem r/materiamagica is trying to solve.

The sub is built around a simple but underused idea: every magical ingredient has a Virtue, a single underlying power that explains everything it does. Rosemary's is Remembrance. Once you see that, the list stops being a list and starts being a logical system. It sharpens memory. It holds the identity of a space against intrusion. It anchors oaths in time. It carries grief across the boundary of death. Same power, different contexts.

There are many ways to pet a cat. Here's a simpler version of that idea: if you have a headache, you can take ibuprofen, drink a glass of water, put a cold cloth on your forehead, or sleep. All of them can work. But they work through completely different mechanisms. Ibuprofen reduces inflammation. Water fixes dehydration. Cold constricts blood vessels. Sleep resets your nervous system. Knowing how each one works tells you which one to reach for.

Materia magica works the same way. Multiple ingredients can protect a home. But salt does it through Extraction, drawing out and purging what doesn't belong. Rosemary does it through Remembrance, holding the identity of the space against what contradicts it. These aren't the same working in different wrappers. They're different tools that happen to overlap in one area of their range.

Understanding Virtues means you stop swapping ingredients randomly and start choosing intentionally. It also means you start noticing things: convergences across traditions, physical signatures that point toward function, the places where Roman herbalists and Appalachian root workers landed on identical conclusions from completely different directions.

That's what we're here to dig into. Come share what you know.

The mods kindly granted me permission to share this here.

Geofancy is a free geomancy workspace I've been building since 2022. It generates the shield and the twelve houses from the four Mothers, runs perfection and the Way of Points, and presents structured reference material alongside the chart. It's meant to reduce bookkeeping friction and support study not to replace careful human interpretation.

🔗 Geofancy Beta

A bit of background

I first heard of geomancy in 2022 and was immediately taken with it. Polyphanes / Sam Block's writing was what helped me find good sources and serious material to work through, and John Michael Greer's The Art and Practice of Geomancy was the book I learned the modern revival of the system from, it shaped how I came to the art and how I first structured the engine. I owe both of them a real debt.

Around the same time I'd just started my first job as a software engineer full-stack, Microsoft stack, and I wanted to build the geomancy tool I wished existed and through building a tool I could start to understand geomancy from first principles. I started with a WinForms desktop app in C#: shield generation, house projection, perfections, no AI involved (it didn't really meaningfully exist for coding yet). Years of slow evolution later, that engine grew up into the web app you see now.

What it does

^(Seeks to go well above and beyond Georatio!)

• Full chart generation from the four Mothers to get the Daughters, Nieces, Witnesses, Judge, Reconciler, twelve-house projection, both shield and traditional house chart views.
• Perfections analysis that's the deepest I've personally found in a any geomancy tool: occupation, conjunction, translation, mutation, aspect (treated as a perfecting mode in its own right when significators move into the configuration as per Greers rule of significators and forming aspects), and Company of Houses with all four subtypes (Simple, DemiSimple, Compound, Capitular). Aspects are tracked with Dexter / Sinister direction, and the connections are weighted into a calculated favorable / unfavorable / net score with the full paper trail visible (calculated by translating Greers tables).
• Way of Points/Via Puncti surfaced seriously rather than skipped or half, implemented as it is in many digital tools. get a deep understanding on how each of the Via Puncti/Way of Points are formed and how they can inform your frame of interpretation, learn how to distinguish the way of fire/air/water/earth systematically.
• Court positions with per-position interpretive notes.
• Structured reference panels for figures, houses, and court positions written for use while you're at the chart, not just for study at rest.
• Dedicated mobile and desktop UIs so the workspace actually fits the device, phones get a chart-first layout with thumb-sized Mother input cells (4. Genitor, 3. Fratres, 2. Lucrum, 1. Vita).
• Shareable chart links (?seed=…) and JSON export for archiving readings, sending them to a study group, or comparing notes with a teacher.
• Light and dark themes.
• No account, no login, no chart database. The randomization stays with your hands; the app does not cast for you.

About the corpus and lineage

I want to be straightforward about this because it matters in our community.

The engine and the original interpretive scaffolding were structured around Greer's approach, which is the modern English-language framework I learned the art through. The mechanical doctrine, the four classical perfecting modes, the use of aspects, Company of Houses, the broad shape of the Way of Points, is from the shared traditional record that Greer himself works from.

The on-screen reference text in the app today, however, is my own writing. I have rewritten every figure, house, and court description (beyond short one word descriptors) from my own practice, my own reading notes, and publicly available sources (Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Cattan, Heydon, Fludd, Hartmann, and material in the public domain), expanding well past where I started. None of Greer's prose, definitions, or wording is reproduced in the app, the corpus is my own, and is licensed for non-commercial reuse so other practitioners can quote from it freely. I deliberately didn't want to ride on copyrighted text I don't own; rewriting it forced me to deepen the material, my understanding of geomancy and own what I was presenting.

So: doctrinal lineage acknowledged, copyrighted prose not reproduced, and the educational reference text in the app is something you can read and quote without worrying about the IP underneath.

How AI was used (and where it categorically wasn't)

• At runtime, when you cast: there is no AI involved at all. Chart construction, perfection detection, scoring, Way of Points, court placement; every one of these runs as deterministic code paths I wrote and own. No LLM is reading your chart, summarizing your figures, or generating a verdict per session. The same four Mothers will always produce exactly the same chart and analysis.
• The interpretive reference text described above is written from my own practice and from public sources. It is not generated per-reading by an AI, its a complex directory and API working together with my own engine.
• In development, I have used AI-assisted coding tools (like cursor) to speed up UI work and engineering plumbing for the modern web client. The geomancy engine itself predates that era and was written by hand; later refactors and the web rewrite were assisted but human-reviewed.

All the Technical Design and UI/UX Design decision, Process Flows, Data Object Model Schemas, Calculation formulas, and API structures were curated and intentionally developed by hand and logically constructed by myself and my own knowledge of engineering solutions in C# .NET and web architecture.

If the distinction matters to anyone reading: no part of your reading or user experience, sees a server database, let alone touches an AI.

Free, and intended to stay that way

Geofancy is free to use. There's no paywall, no premium tier, no upsell, no ads, and no subscription. I intend to keep the core experience free indefinitely. If anything monetized ever appears in the future, it will be optional and will not gate the chart engine, perfections, Way of Points, or the existing reference material.

On software, "canned" interpretation, and what this tool actually is

I want to say this plainly because it matters more than any feature list:

Geofancy's on-screen text is reference material; vocabulary, structure, and prompts are to think with your own interpretation. Software cannot read a chart for you. It cannot weigh your situation, your timing, your relationship to the question, the figure's resonances in your life, or anything else that requires a human mind in contact with a real moment. Whatever any digital tool prints; mine included, however thorough: is not a substitute for your own discernment, study, mentorship, or reading from a qualified practitioner.

Use Geofancy like a sharp knife and a careful checklist, if anything; developing this app was for myself to learn about geomancy on a deep systematic level. That I could break it down in a user friendly way to help improve and build my own interpretation of the charts and help develop a deeper correspondent relationship with the figures and the placement mentally. I sincerely hope that Geofancy's additional features for analysis provide a deeper more interconnected understanding of geomancy for the benefit of every practitioner and the preservation of the art.

What I'd value feedback on

• Tone and accuracy of the reference corpus if a figure description, house affinity, court placement, or perfection commentary lands wrong, please tell me.
• Any bugs or issues Report issues with the app performance or chart output, it has been tested pretty rigorously, but there might be a couple of edge cases.

🔗 App: Geofancy Beta 🔗 Source / issues: Geofancy Github

Thanks for reading, and thanks to the mods for letting me share this. Looking forward to feedback from users who actually know the art.

— u/ProtagonistThomas

This post was removed, both in mod queue and directly on the sub:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Divination/comments/1t1grxg/i_asked_about_the_first_week_of_may_what_to/

However, it STILL shows in the mod queue as needing review, and I can't make it go away.

Specifically, it says "Last revised by deleted account 1m ago" which is wrong. My account is fully active. I think somehow the Wiki for r/materiamagica is still connected to a former mod / inactive account?

https://preview.redd.it/wrms1ekt8syg1.jpg?width=359&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=97c5943a547dfe4cf362d0b0951280eb0edf8f2d

I recently took over an abandoned sub, which used to be about a MUD game, but is now a metaphysical sub, r/materiamagica. I've started revamping it for its new topic and have been getting downvotes from previous members, report abuse (just 1, but..)

I know this is just sour grapes (they had 10 months to address the silence after the mods announced they were abandoning the sub), but is there anything I can do to remove previous members (of course they can just join right back up if they want, but...) and/or erase their downvotes?

I don't think so on either, but just wanted to check. Any other advice for how to handle these few people? I can't see who exactly is downvoting, of course, or who is abusing the report (which I can no longer find anyway).

Divination stood as a vital intellectual and spiritual practice in both ancient China and ancient Greece, yet the two civilizations built their mantic traditions on entirely different epistemological foundations and worldviews. 

Three Epistemological Presuppositions of Chinese Divination

Auspicious & Inauspicious TimingThe auspicious or inauspicious nature of specific times for specific activities lies at the heart of Chinese divination and ritual practice. Choosing auspicious dates permeated every level of life, from state sacrifices, warfare, and royal marriages to private weddings, construction, travel, and medical treatment.

 Systematic Thinking & CosmologyAnother aspect of Chinese mantic thinking was the possibility that a sage "reader" could perceive pervasive connections and systematic correspondences between aspects of a cosmos in constant change.Such notions of cosmic unity underline cleromantic techniques such as Yi divination, in which the random manipulation of milfoil (yarrow) stalks revealed the underlying patterns of yin and yang manifest at the time and place of the procedure.

 These cosmological ideas include the interactive unity of heaven, earth, and humanity; a universe constituted by qi; an understanding of transformations in yin-yang and the Five Elements; and the dynamic resonance between heaven, humanity, and the cosmos. It was through these concepts of cosmic unity that divination methods like the I Ching gained their foundation: the random casting of yarrow stalks brought to light the latent yin-yang patterns active in that exact moment and location.

Numbers, Calculation, & ContingencySeveral divinatory techniques “read” or manipulated numerical “texts.” The association of divinatory formulas with numerical sequences can be traced back to the oracle bone inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty. This category includes the Rishu (Day Books), the sexagenary cycle of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, astrological boards, and physiognomy.

 

Three Epistemological Presuppositions of Greek Divination 

Omniscient GodsGreek texts explicitly affirmed the existence of gods who knew the future and could be persuaded to share that knowledge with humans. The gods were assumed to be well-disposed toward humanity, revealing their will through divination, alongside ideas of ultimate ethical justice and retribution.Only two major exceptions emerged: Epicurus, who held that the gods were remote from human concerns, and Xenophanes, one of the first critics of all-powerful, anthropomorphic, accessible deities.

 SemiosisGods communicated knowledge of the future to humans through signs. Even within more naturalistic worldviews, cosmic patterns operated independently of direct divine will, and the decoding of signs revealed the workings of an impersonal natural order.A central question persisted: how could human interpreters consistently and correctly judge the relevance and meaning of signs that is, how could a signifier reliably point to its signified?

Fate or Necessity (Moira / Ananke)The inference that the future is knowable implied that it was predetermined. Beginning with the Homeric poems, Greek assumptions about the future consistently combined a sense of the future as “given” or “preordained” with extraordinary concern for the implications and potential contradictions of a future shaped by fate or one’s allotted share (moira).

 

Core Differences Between China and Greece

The determinist tendency in Greek notions of fate may arise from the Greek tendency to focus on the logical implications and preconditions of the notions of the future and of fate. By contrast, Chinese debates about fate were pragmatic, and assumed a flexible future that was constrained but not rigidly determined.

Greek thought tended to investigate the logical implications and presuppositions of the concepts of future and fate, leading toward a deterministic outlook.Chinese discussions of fate, by contrast, were pragmatic: they assumed a flexible future, one that was constrained, yet not mechanically or rigidly fixed.

(Note: This contrast forms one of the book’s most productive analytical frameworks.“Flexible ming” vs. rigid fate , this directly shapes the different functions of divination in the two civilizations:

Chinese divination functioned more like a navigation system, seeking the optimal path forward.

Greek divination acted more like a next-episode preview, revealing what could not be changed.

This aligns perfectly with the pragmatism of the Xici (“Appended Statements”) in the I Ching, which emphasizes pursuing good fortune and avoiding calamity.)

 

 In short, Chinese divination centered on cosmic resonance and flexible timing to guide human choices, while Greek divination rested upon divine omniscience and the fixed order of fate. This fundamental divide shaped not only their methods of interpretation but also how each civilization understood time, free will, and the boundaries of human agency.

I just recently got modship of a sub that had been abandoned by the previous mods in favor of discord. They didn't respond to me or admins, so the reddit accounts are abandoned too. It was silent for 10 months, and had less than 20 members and less than 20 posts.

So I've started creating preliminary posts and such, and the sub is still restricted while i do all that back end work.

My problem: Some members of the former sub / topic are super cheesed, and are reporting posts, downvoting, whining about how it should have gone to one of them (who had nothing to say in 10 months of silence), etc.

Is there anything i can do about this?

Just to be clear. I don't think so, but it's annoying and I'm wondering. I'm sure it will be less of a problem once i open it up.

Not sure this is the right place, but going ahead in case.

I cannot find anything on the origin(s) of spelling in -ck (as in stock, sick, luck, tack, neck, etc). All my searched result in links to specific words, or generic etymologies. I am familiar with historical linguistics.

English being who she is... not having much luck. Can anyone provide a resource or three? Or does anyone know?

I don't quite get how these all went together, and how it's still a word in common (?) usage.

Are there any other words like this? Unbegivenst?

Feel free to advertise your services, apps, and products here.

• only once per monthly thread please
• don't post separate ads for each of your products / services / apps
• all comments must be about divination in some way

The people have spoken!

App ads are now banned, due to abuse - specifically, everyone and their dog advertising their app.

However! Per multiple suggestions, there will be a monthly post for app ads, for anyone who does want to advertise. Also, particularly uncommon and unique apps can be advertised as a regular post - if you suspect yours is uncommon, reach out to the mods first.

Also - as you know, we DO allow physical products (books, decks, etc) to be advertised. There's been some minor abuse there. I just want to reiterate - no more than once a month, please. If the sub is flooded with product ads, we'll have to limit that too. Please include more than "Here's my deck!" - these low effort posts will be removed as spam. If you want to share your deck, please tell us about it: why did you create it, what is it about, how did you do it, give us a small reading as a sample, etc. You don't have to do all of those, but give us a little (and you know, that's MUCH better for getting engagement and views).

Note: you CAN include a link to your etsy / app / website in your user flair.