Quotes About Divination

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

The future is dark, which is the best thing the future can be, I think. It's an extraordinary declaration, asserting that the unknown need not be turned into the known through false divination or the projection of grim political or ideological narratives; it's a celebration of darkness, willing – as that "I think" indicates—to be uncertain even about its own assertion.

I don't believe in palmistry or any other form of divination, but I believe in stories that come by any means, and in capacities strangers have to be messengers and mirrors in which you see new possibilities.

It is a common understanding among many traditional African peoples that human beings do not simply die without a reason. If someone dies, someone must have killed them. If a Lele woman died in childbirth, for example, this was assumed to be because she had committed adultery. The adulterer was thus responsible for the death. Sometimes she would confess on her deathbed, otherwise the facts of the matter would have to be established through divination. It was the same if a baby died.

A belief in God and a belief in astrology cannot be reconciled.

I've spoken to people who I swear can tell the future.

Up in my business Always burning Oracles Romans gonna hate

All systems of divination, like music itself, work through patterns.

To me there's no real difference between a fortune teller or a fortune cookie and any of the organized religions. They're all equally valid or invalid, really. And equally helpful.

love will go down as the fear of divination, or the source of continuity within divinity.

The elastic powers of plantain extended beyond first aid, though. It was also a divination herb, stretching sight into the future, and was used especially at that time when the membrane between the human and supernatural worlds was at its thinnest. On Midsummer Eve in Berwickshire the flowering stems were employed by young women in a charm which would predict whether they would fall in love.

The pendulum reads energy patterns. It is able to extract information from deep inside our subconscious minds.

pendulum is not a new invention.

was used to deter and chase away evil spirits, and to determine where they came from.

Principles and Practice of Radiesthesia

Today, the pendulum is the most used item in the dowser's toolkit.

The three cards were the Moon, the Empress, and the Ace of Cups. Ambrose leaned over my shoulder to peer at the cards. "Ooh,' he said. "Very interesting." Rhonda glanced up at him. "Hush. You don't know what you're talking about.

Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

The tarot is sacred.

I can do Tarot cards and all that.

Tarot is just stories on cards.

anyway. Apollo, patron of Delphi and prophesy?

A novel should be an act of divination by entrails, not a careful record of a game of pat-ball on some vicarage lawn!

Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts.