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6 Methods Of Divination (Weirder Than Cards)

Bibliomancy anyone?

Ever since card decks have been around, people have put them to use for more than just a casual game of bridge or poker.

Tarot decks and regular playing cards are used for divination all over the world.

Decks are shuffled, then laid out for a potential look into the future – or at the very least, a look at how the person the cards are being read for feels about the future.

Instead of flipping a coin, turn a card.

Do you find the concept of consulting a card deck for life advice difficult to accept?

Card decks are ancient, but the idea of foretelling the future happens to be older. This means that there are much, much stranger ways of attempting to see into the future.

Cartomancy (or card reading) isn’t the only way to foretell the future, or view situations at a glance.

Here are 6 methods of divination (weirder than cards)

1: Aeromancy

Aeromancy is the ancient art of divination through observing nature. Simply, by looking at the arrangement of clouds and other phenomenon in the same way people would observe tea leaves to form a picture.

I’m not sure what the heck it tells you, other than the weather.

If you look up and see a storm coming, consider taking a raincheck for the bridge game.

2: Aruspicina

Aruspicina is the art of divination through reading entrails.

Yup, that’s entrails. The internal, bloody bits that live inside the animal.

I assume that it’s done in the same way as reading tea leaves, it’s just a lot creepier.

What should be your next move for that big promotion at work? Well, I don’t know, let’s consult the entrails.

Nobody says that.

Nobody.

3: Hieromancy

Hieromancy seems to be the art of reading only sacrificial entrails.

For this method, instead of selecting your entrails at the supermarket, you’re supposed to dig them out yourself. Sacrifices aren’t really big in modern society, so we can skip this altogether.

This sounds like a terrible idea. I think we should go back to consulting the card deck.

4: Bibliomancy

Bibliomancy uses (and breaks down) the text found in books for messages about the future.

Choose a book – any book – and open it up at a random page. Read a random line, and that’s your inspirational message.

Sometimes, this one is great for random insight. (At least there are no entrails involved here, right?)

5: Bumpology

Bumpology is the art of reading bumps. Not just any bumps, but bumps that are found on the human body.

Apparently, these bumps can be read like tea leaves, cards, or constellations.

This method is closer to cold reading. Of course, someone who works with their hands will have the bumps to show it.

But on the other hand, touching someone’s bumps makes fortune-telling-by-entrails seem less disgusting.

6: Oneiromancy

Oneiromancy is the art of divining via dreams.

Historically, a lot of importance has been placed on what dreams have to tell us.

Realistically, dreams are more introspective than anything else.

We’ve all had that dream where we’re supposed to show up for a meeting (or write an exam), and we’re unprepared or naked. The dream usually also has zero impact on the future – it shows uncertainty, if anything.


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One response to “6 Methods Of Divination (Weirder Than Cards)”

  1. Babs

    Cute article.