Quotes About Divination

Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts. A big library, mused Northrop Frye in one of his many notebooks, really has the gift of tongues & vast potencies of telepathic communication.

I love having my cards read - if you go to a proper place, they wouldn't dream of telling you anything awful that is going to happen.

Well, with prophecy you got to see what happens.

but whoever exercises the art of divination, is a fool; if indeed he chance to show disagreeable things, he is rendered hateful to those to whom he may prophesy; but speaking falsely to his employers from motives of pity, he is unjust as touching the Gods.—Phœbus alone should speak in oracles to men, who fears nobody.

Cato warns people to be on their guard against every 'haruspex, augur, soothsayer and Chaldaean' (astrologer). Here we can recognise the old Roman who does not want to be hindered in his daily activities.

the augurs' task was to consult the gods by observing the sky, birds, their flight and their cries, but also lightning and thunder.

T]he route of a pilgrimage should serve its spiritual goal. Which may be simple or manifold, but which will partake of at least one of five aims: service, supplication, gratitude, divination, and atonement.

The five theological purposes of prayer, I was taught, are service, supplication, gratitude, divination, and atonement.

We hold a universe in our hands when we pick up a deck of tarot cards.

This is the tome that guides haruspication—I mean, psychiatry.)

Historically, dairy herdsmen have used the pubic hair of cattle as a divination tool to foretell the capacity of a cow to give milk on the basis of the shape of the cow's escutcheon. Perhaps amidst the next generation of tarot decks, the Dairy Cow Escutcheon Tarot will make its debut.

Pluto (the Greek god Hades) is associated with divination because it symbolizes the revelation of secret or occult knowledge.

A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.

She was an infallible prophetess, and these powers came from her ability to look into the patterns of the universe.

The six suits are Cups, Stars, Stones, Blacks, Wires, and Voids.

Algunos chamanes consideran el estrabismo como signo de que se posee un don profético.

A philosophy that does not include the possibility of soothsaying from coffee grounds and cannot explicate it cannot be a true philosophy." Such prophesying may be reprehensible, as in Judaism, but it must be recognized as possible from the connection of things.

Yellow is an excellent color for those involved with divination. Purple is favored for those who work with pure divine power (magicians) or who wish to deepen their spiritual awareness of the Goddess and God. Blue is suited for healers and those who work with their psychic awareness or for attuning with the Goddess in her oceanic aspect.

oneiromancy

Still, the best augurs are those who divine from the portents of the past. They compile phenomenal records.

this is not reading the Bible as a book. It is using the Bible as a kind of Christian Ouija board.

Jewish texts known as the Sibylline Oracles.

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

At 16 I was very interested in palmistry. The fate line on my right palm broke into two parts that ran for a quarter of an inch on parallel tracks. I used to look at it and wonder, 'What will happen?'