Divination Tips

My best advice in studying any divinatory Tool is to use the following framework.

* Acquaint yourself with the tool through a hand-on approach.  Look at all the cards, or symbols, or whatever.  Use your hands, your imagination, and your logical thought tool that is highly colourful with many pictures, talk to the character on the cards.  Keep a running dealong.  You will be surprised how much you'll learn.  Place one unite (oone card, one rune, etc.) under your pillow each night when you go to sleep.

* Take your time.  Do not expect things from yourself that you are simply not ready to produce.  Keep notes of sequences that keep popping up.

* Lose your fear of being "wrong".  The tool is never wrong, but sometimes you won't interpret the tool correctly.  For now, at the beginning, don't force yourself, and don't give up.  Take little steps and build slowly.  You will benefit.  Know that, at some point, you will be wrong.  In fact, sometimes you are supposed to be wrong.

* Remember to take a break while learning, even if it is a few weeks or so.  Sometimes we need to grow within to reach the higher aspects of the tool we are using.  That means we must be patient.  We must allow ourselves to assimilate the information so that we may use it to your advantage later.

*Keep a record, at least when you begin, of your reading.  This is vital.  It allows you to see where you were corrct in tyour interpretations, and where you were in error.

* Compile a separate notebook of your personal study.  Remember to annotate where you got that information for later use.  You may need, at some time, to teach this same materiak. and you will want to know where you got your information.  Even if you don't want to know, the student will inveitably ask you, "Where did you get this?"  Although you would like to tell them "It's a secret." since you have no clue where you dug up the information, that would be unfair.  Best to keep accurate records.

* Use as many resources as you can when studying any divinatory tool.  Books, tapes, interviews with reader, discussions with others.  The more resources you use, the broader your knowledge.

* Have divination parties with your friends.  The premise contains ten prewritten questions that everyone reads for.  At least one question should be a local (or national) unsoved crime.  One member of the group should keep track of the case until (if ever) its completion, along with what each individual claimed in his or her reading.  This type of gathering is better in person, where the divination vehicle can be laid out on a large table and all can view it.

* For the first month, don't use any resource material.  Just read from the gut.  Your work will be better for it.

Taken from the Solitary Witch

By Silver RavenWolf

Taken from the Solitary Witch

By Silver RavenWolf