Best form of divination

cybermancy = wikipedia "random article"?

No "don't believe in anything" option?

I do have a friend who decides things that way!!!

xp

StanM I don't believe one whit of this shit either. Poll is for entertainment purposes only.

venomancy: by poison

pretty sure that if i drink poison, i can accurately predict my own future

i've wanted to learn more abt i ching and transformations of hexagrams but never found a good source of instruction

mostly i prefer tarot

curious about stomach ventriloquism

voted rhabdomancy because water divination is so cool, especially when you visit marshy ground

I just want to know how much of the stomach ventriloquism was the stomach saying, "I'm hungry."

I often watch birds in flight and wonder what they might augur.

If you've ever used ILX random threads, you clearly believe in cybermancy! ;-)

Torn between palmistry and tarot, but, erm, I'm a former goth chick, what do you expect?

eyeliner

I sucked at applying liquid eyeliner ... I had a lot of deficiencies in the goth chick department.

ha ha.

Now, divination by patterns in one's caked on mascara, is that gothomancy?

hair dye stains in the bathroom

so knew this was an abbott poll

Was it because you were scrying in front of the mirror? Xposts

"scry" is one of my favorite verbs

xp sweat patterns from wearing black velvet in summer.

I'd forgotten about the verb but then, you know, boys don't scry.

Don't scryy-yi-yi-yi-yiiiiiii, you're not alone
Don't scryy-yi-yi-yi-yiiiiiii tonight, my baby
Don't scryy-yi-yi-yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, you'll always be loved
Don't scryy-yi-yi-yi-yiiiiiiii tonight, my baby

ha xp

he's a scry boy ... he's a coy boy ...

Do, or do not...there is no scry.

Hey Yoda, I'm parched. Scry me a river.

Voted for scrying in the end, since I possess a scrying mirror (in the "the key to joy is disobedience" Coil live box). Haven't used it yet, might give it a go because of this thread. Sorry if the world ends one of these days!

!!! jealous, from a fellow non-believer & Coil fan

I voted taromancy because I have cards and know how to use them!

oharuspicy sounds like a japanese restaurant menu item ... but I think I can hear my stomach telling me it's hungry ...

Hungry for the livers of sacrificed animals?

I think it said it wants a hot dog, so in a sense, yes.

One method of scrying using a crystal ball involves a self-induced trance. Initially, the medium serves as a focus for the attention, removing unwanted thoughts from the mind in the same way as a mantra. Once this stage is achieved, the scryer begins a free association with the perceived images suggested. The technique of deliberately looking for and declaring these initial images aloud, however trivial or irrelevant they may seem to the conscious mind, is done with the intent of deepening the trance state, wherein the scryer hears their own disassociated voice affirming what is seen within the concentrated state in a kind of feedback loop. This process culminates in the achievement of a final and desired end stage in which rich visual images and dramatic stories seem to be projected within the medium itself, or directly within the mind's eye of the scryer, like an inner movie. This overall process reputedly allows the scryer to "see" relevant events or images within the chosen medium.

trance states are pretty groovy imo

Numerology, which is pretty common if you've spent any time at all around Asian folks. I try not to travel on the 4th of the month.

geomancy: by markings in the ground, or the way earth or soil lays when thrown

shit so real u cant even comprehend

there's one that's done by reading someone's buttocks

also, tyromancy/tiromancy - interpreting the holes or mold in cheese

How does this Mormon hat business work?

Only when wearing the magic underpants.

If the Osmonds had experimented with rap, would they have written a line like "looking at peepstones in an upside-sown hat"?

http://www.i4m.com/think/jpeg/urim-thummim.jpg

“Joseph Smith would put the seer stone into a hat, and put his face in the hat, drawing it closely around his face to exclude the light; and in the darkness the spiritual light would shine. A piece of something resembling parchment would appear, and on that appeared the writing. One character at a time would appear, and under it was the interpretation in English. Brother Joseph would read off the English to Oliver Cowdery, who was his principal scribe, and when it was written down and repeated to Brother Joseph to see if it was correct, then it would disappear, and another character with the interpretation would appear. ” (David Whitmer, An Address to All Believers in Christ, Richmond, Mo.: n.p., 1887, p. 12.)

There's a scene in Big Love in which Alby looks into a hat.

fuck scrying a hat

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i ching

me too

List reads like Cocteau Twins lyrics.

Went for taromancy myself.

tarot is the most fun imo

me too

― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver)

i ching
you ching
we all ching
for i ching

I have a scary Crowley tarot set, the cards are quite large and slippery and thus difficult to handle/shuffle, they have quite an intimidating feel to them. But the artwork is incredible.

I tend to read with my scabby old Waite-Rider deck tho.

So, everyone use their favorite method and predict the result of this poll!

I looked into my scrying mirror and saw the reflection of my eye. Eye = i , so I predict that I Ching is going to win. (That'll be 80 dollars please.)

I just turned up the death card u all gonna die if u dont vote right.

j/k

http://touchstonetarot.com/images/lisaswe15.jpg

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aw never even got to vote in this!

would've been 2 for rhabdomancy but i want to call it WATERWITCHING!

Throw out your gold teeth and see how they roll
The answer they reveal: life is unreal

So sad wikipedia did not mention that one