Number 3: Symbolomancy
Normally, divination methods in this category would be called cartomancy, and indeed, the majority of these are card decks. Some few of the card decks are downloadable PDFs I’ve created, and some you need to purchase for yourself. I’ve gone with the term Symbolomancy for this category of divination tools, because sometimes this can include stones, tiles, pottery shards, or wooden sticks with symbols engraved on them. But all of these are symbol sets. A series of pictures, pictograms, symbols, or glyphs, which each have a distinct meaning. This category of divination methods demands study, memorization, and practice.
The various symbols all have a distinct meaning which needs learning, but in time, the student may come to realize additional meanings for each symbol, based on the situation and their own experience. There are various patterns of arranging the symbols, called lay-outs or spreads, and these need learning and memorization, because each position in a lay-out or spread has a distinct meaning, which helps the diviner put that particular symbol in its proper context. Taken all together, the drawn or dealt symbols in a reading tell a story, and the divination student needs to learn how to tie all the various symbols in a reading into a coherent picture, or story, for the inquirer consulting them.
This is the category of divination methods where intuition or psychic ability starts to be an asset. Hopefully, Simpleomancy and Chartomancy will have helped the divination student start to develop and hone these abilities. These are divination methods where the inquirer is reliant-on the diviner’s knowledge and experience of the symbol-set they’re using, as well as their intuition, in order to render a clear message and answer to the inquirer’s question. With these methods the inquirer themselves may be able to intuit dimensions to the answer, of which the diviner is unaware.
SYMBOLOMANCY
- Introduction to Symbolomancy
2. Card Game Divination
3. Wizardology Cards Divination
4. African Bone Divination
5. Geomancy Card Divination
6. Rune Divination
7. Ogham Divination
8. Theban Alphabet Divination
9. Color Card Divination
10. Napoleon’s Book of Fate Symbol Deck
11. Piquet Deck Divination
12. Piquet II: Euchre Deck Divination
13. Kipper Card Divination
14. LeNormand Divination
15. Sibilla Card Divination
16. Playing Card Divination
17. Hooper’s Deck (The Eighteenth Century Cards)
18. I Ching
19. I Ching Part Two
20. Tarot
21. Morgan’s Tarot
22. Mah Jongg Divination
23. Wood Card Divination
24. Adinkra Symbol Divination
25. Celtic Triad Divination
I just found this recent and organizer post and fell in love with this blog again! Thank you for this library of divination!
Thank you! As you’ve probably noticed, I’m a bit tardy with some things, but I eventually discern where I’ve overlooked something and try to rectify the situation.
I totally understand. Meantime, we always have the search bar to dig deeper.
Could you please consider transform the above list into clickable links and/or add subcategories to the main index of your website? It would make it even easier to navigate trought the contents.
Thanks for your amazing work. I enjoy it a lot.
I’m impressed with your explanations of the cards. Thank you for your addition to the spirits
You’re quite welcome, and thank you! I don’t claim to be the world’s foremost expert on divination, but I think I understand enough about a lot of divination methods and tools to make them more understandable and therefore more usable for others. And I enjoy doing it.