Saturnine

Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Stones and Crystals - Magical Uses and How-To’s

Using Gemstone Power

Each stone contains energy that is unique to the type of stone.
Getting to know the properties and benefits of thousands of stones can take a lifetime - but is a rewarding and fun adventure.

How To Choose Your Crystals

Choosing a crystal for your personal use is an important process.
Each crystal (or gem) will have a kind of ‘vibration’ at their own individual frequencies.
You will discover that you are really drawn to some crystals in particular, almost like a magnet, while others will not seem special to you in any way.
Our bodies have a ‘vibration’ frequency, too.
It is best explained as the feelings you get from meeting various people.
Some will stir within you an immediate dislike for them, while others, you feel like you have known them all of your life, when it has really been only minutes.
You just know instantly that this person is a perfect friend/partner/companion for you.
Choosing your crystals is a similar thing.
There will be certain crystals that you just feel like you are ‘vibrating’ on the same frequency with them.
That is the one you should select as your own!
Here is kind of a general way to go about choosing a crystal. You will come up with your own personal way of doing it, but this will guide you in the basic process:

As you stand with all available crystals in front of you, close your eyes for a moment, and meditate briefly on the selection of the ‘special crystal’ for your use. Then, open your eyes, and choose the very first crystal that your eyes focus upon. (Some people will even see a glow, or kind of light, that seems to emanate from a certain crystal.)
Run your hand (use right or left, whichever hand you primarily use) over the crystals, touching them lightly as you go. You will find that a particular crystal will try to stick to your hand, almost like it had a tacky substance on it.
Be sure to give your intuition a voice here.... be sure that you pay attention to it when you ‘just know’ which one is the right one for you.
Pass your hand back and forth very slowly over all of the available crystals, about a half-inch or so above them. A particular crystal may be radiating a feeling of subtle warmth, and you can feel it with your hand.

Choosing Crystals for A Friend or Relative In Absentia

Often, for whatever reason, you may need to purchase a crystal for someone other than yourself.
This may sound like an impossible task, but it is definitely something that can be done.
First, do a meditation where you focus very strongly on this person, picturing them in your mind with great intensity.
Then go ahead with the same methods described above, and you will be more and more successful as you gain experience in doing this.

How To Cleanse Your Crystals and Gemstones

One of the first things you will need to do with a new crystal is to ‘cleanse it’.
Crystals and gemstones (especially quartz) can readily attract the positive or negative vibrations of its surroundings.
The stones are always ‘impressionable’, and they receive both mental and physical vibrations from people and things around them.
Because of this, we must ‘cleanse’ them, and start with a ‘clean slate’.
This is especially true of a newly-acquired crystal, which has possibly been in many places before it found you!
It is very important to cleanse the stone to clear it of any negative vibrations or impressions that it may have.
You will want only the very positive, and the purest, most natural energy to remain in the stone for your use.
Cleansing can be done in many different ways, and you may eventually come up with a particular method or ritual that you prefer. It is a personal thing, and you should use the one that seems most compatible with you. You can begin by using a basic method, such as one of the following:

Command the Stone To ‘Cleanse’ Itself
Hold your stone in the hand you normally use most (right or left), and say something like: “I command this stone to be self-cleansing” or “I am calling upon this stone to cleanse itself”. As you repeat these words, either mentally or aloud, you must visualize the negative energies falling away and dispersing, leaving only the ‘positive and naturally pure energies’ within the heart of the stone.
Use The Earth’s Magnetic Energy To ‘Cleanse’ Your Stone
Our planet is about 1/3 quartz, and very magnetic, with an energy field that is powerful indeed! Bury your stone in the earth in a flowerbed or garden. Leave it here for the time period that seems appropriate to you and your needs. This is a very effective way to cleanse the stone of all negativity within it.
Use Flowing Water For ‘Cleansing’
I would prefer to use the naturally flowing water of a stream or river. If you don’t have a natural watercourse to use, tap water can be used. Hold the stone in the flow of the water. Make sure that you have a good grip on it, or place it in a mesh bag or cheesecloth that has openings small enough to prevent the loss of the stone you are cleansing, while allowing the water to flow over it. Visualize all negativity flowing away with the water, leaving only the positive energy and ‘vibrations’ within the stone. ALWAYS allow the stone to either air dry, or place it in the sun to dry. Don’t wipe it.
Use Still Water For ‘Cleansing’
Let your stone soak in a glass jar or bowl. Leave it here for the time period that seems appropriate to you and your needs. You can add salt to the water or, better yet, use ocean water.

How To Program Your Crystals & Gemstones

All crystals and gemstones will respond to your own personal intent, or your will.
This can be expressed aloud as words, or only in thought.
You need only to express your will by wishing, and visualizing your intentions for the crystalline energy to be used in a certain way, and it will be!
None of this is difficult, and it is a matter of simply focusing on your intent for the crystal’s use, while you hold it in your hand.
When you program a particular crystal for, say, ‘healing’, it shouldn’t be used for anything but healing.
One programmed for meditation wouldn’t be used for anything but meditation.
This is because the vibrational energies used in meditation are very different than those used for healing.
Using them for the ‘wrong’ intent will dissipate the crystal’s energy that is unique to it’s original ‘programmed’ use and intent that you gave it.
Crystals can be 'programmed' by their users for the following purposes: meditation, healing, absent healing, and manifesting

Crystal Shapes

Quartz crystal points are used for healing, meditation and expanding the mind to touch the spirit world. Quartz crystals are used for protection and capturing and changing bad vibrations.
Crystal points are available in many forms:
A single crystal point is often used in healing. Pointed away, it draws energy off the body. Pointed inward, it channels energy inward.
A Generator (or Standing Point) is a powerful tool to aid focus and clarity of intention. It optimizes the stone's healing facility.
A double terminated point channels energy in two directions at once and provides a bridge between two energy points.
Pyramids amplify and then tightly focus energy through the apex.
Geodes are a variable phenomenon and, therefore, many theories exist to explain how they are created.
A geode is a sphere shaped rock which contains a hollow cavity lined with crystals. A geode which is completely filled with small compact crystal formations is called a nodule. The only difference between a geode and a nodule is that a geode has a hollow cavity, and a nodule is solid.

Wands

Wands are a popular healing tool. They are used to channel energy in reflexology and massage.
The stone should be chosen for its particular benefits and energies.
Crystal massage works at a deep level to assist in healing a variety of ailments.
Magic or Message Wands have been used since ancient times to increase the power of spells.
The pointed end of each wand directs the spell energy.
The wand is a powerful addition to have on your altar.
Wands can be wrapped in silver or copper wire with other gemstones to personalize it.
A double terminated wand channels energy in two directions at once and provides a bridge between two energy points.

Crystal and Gemstone Balls

Crystal and gemstone balls have been used for divination since at least medieval times.
They are a traditional symbol of the occult and hidden wisdom, and much more.
Some of their uses include: healing, cleansing, rituals, decoration with a purpose and crystal ball gazing
The Sphere symbolizes wholeness
The sphere as a shape is an ancient and universal symbol that represents unity, completeness, infinity - the whole universe.
Crystal spheres are often used to increase self awareness and a powerful mind.
Closely connected to the spiritual nature of our complete self, crystal spheres help to bring out integrity, clear thinking, and a better union of body, mind and spirit.
Whether used for crystal ball gazing (scrying), aura cleansing, meditation, rituals or as adornment to a room, crystal and gemstone spheres radiate special energies that are created from the earth itself
Unlike the focused energy of a wand or egg shaped crystal, a ball emits energy in all directions equally.
These make a useful tool to perceive a complete picture (of self or situations) - moving energy around and through the entire environment.

Pendulums

Pendulums have been used for centuries to find things - water, gold, oil - treasures of all kinds including answers!
Through the ages, people have used the pendulum to guide them toward correct answers to their important questions.
It is one of the oldest, and one of the simplest methods of obtaining information intuitively.
Just as radios pick up information from unseen radio waves, the pendulum is a powerful antenna that sends and receives vibrational information from energy waves emitted by people, places, thoughts and things.
Some believe that the pendulum finds the connection to the intuitive parts of the mind.
"Divining" with a pendulum is a method of connecting with a higher power in order to obtain information from a divine source.
Scientific research indicates that the pendulum responds to electromagnetic energy that radiates from everything on Earth.

Semi-Precious vs. Precious Stones

The stones used in the crafting of fine jewelry are generally divided into two classes- precious stones and semi-precious stones.
These terms are used heavily in the commercial world of jewelry when considering variety and value.
Precious Stones:
The most precious stones are the diamonds, emeralds, rubies and sapphires. The pearl is oftentimes classed with precious stones. Although strictly speaking while it is not a stone it holds an esteemed place in jewelry.
Semi-Precious Stones:
A large number of stones used in jewelry are known as semi-precious; the most important ones are as follow: amethyst, lapis-lazuli, turquoise, aquamarine, topaz, moonstone, peridot, opal, tourmaline, zircon, and alexandrite. Others of less importance although much used are: chrysoprase, jade, garnet, agate, azurite, malachite, bloodstone, coral, carnelian and many others. These stones while comparatively common and inexpensive are indispensable to the worker in jewelry. The variety of colors to be had in these stones make it possible to produce unusual designs of artistic merit and to adapt them to the personality and costume of the wearer.

Making a Crystal Grid

Crystal grids can sometimes be more powerful than using a single crystal for an intended goal.
Crystal grids are made by the placement of stones in a geometric pattern for the specific purpose of directing energy toward a goal.
The stones or crystals are then charged by your intention and energy.
A grid can be used for a simple goal like enhancing your sleep quality to something more elaborate - like World Peace!
The combinations are endless, depending only on your purpose for the grid.
Whatever your intention, the crystal grid is an effective use of crystal energy when done with your clean intention.
Tumbled, rough or even faceted stones are centered around the "Master Crystal" which acts as the primary energy force for the grid.

Guidelines to Making a Crystal Grid

Decide on your purpose for the grid. Your clear intention is a key element in empowering the stones' energy. Your intention is what you will use to charge the crystals.
Write your intention on a piece of paper (or on the back of a photo that depicts your goal).
Find a safe location to create your grid where it will not be disturbed. Cleanse this space. Some cleansing methods include burning sage, placing a crystal cluster in the room, or bowls of sea salt. Flowers, incense, music, candles can be used to add ambience to your sacred space.
Place your crystal layout in a geometric pattern
Charge the Master Crystal and place it on the layout
Relax and center yourself. Visualize your goal having already been achieved with a calm mind and positive intention.
Say a prayer of gratitude.
An important aspect of your grid is to have fun with it and be creative. You can't really make a mistake, if your heart and goals are benign.
You can make your grid on a tray or movable surface, or place it on a spot where you know it will not be disturbed.
Some people secure the stones to the surface with a non-permanent adhesive like silly putty or rubber cement to keep the stones in place.
When you are finished using the grid, you can return the stones to the earth or any natural water source, or keep them for another use later.
Be sure to cleanse the stones before using them again.

How to Make an Elixir

Crystals have an incredibly strong vibration so it is easy to transfer these vibrations to water.
Some people call these elixirs, essences or remedies either way elixirs are a type of "mineral water".
Elixirs are taken internally but they can also be applied to the skin, in the bath, or even as a room spray.
It is only limited to your imagination.
To make an elixir you will need
1. distilled or spring water
2. brandy or vodka (as a preservative)
3. a glass bowl or jar (no metal)
4. a dosage bottle with an airtight stopper (preferably a dark bottle)
5. Crystal
The Direct method
This method is used for crystals that are non-dissolvable.
Fill the glass bowl with the water and then place in the crystal, next place the bowl in the sunlight for twelve hours. Remove the crystal and pour the water into the bottle. Keep the bottle in a cool dark place. If you would like to keep the elixir for more than a week, add fifty per cent of the size of the bottle with brandy or vodka to preserve it.
The Indirect method
This method is used for crystals that are toxic, fragile or dissolvable. Fill the glass bowl with water then put the crystal in a glass jar. Put the glass jar in the water. The remainder of the instructions are as above in the direct method.

If you unsure whether a crystal is toxic or dissolvable the best choice is to use the indirect method.

Warning

Do not make conventional gemstone elixirs, gem waters, massage oils of any stone containing metal (lead, copper, etc.) Use an indirect method instead.
Polished stones are less likely to allow elixirs, etc. to leach any potentially hazardous materials. Rough stones are most likely.
In general, almost all blue and green stones, especially brightly colored ones, contain copper and are unsafe to use for conventional gem elixirs, etc.
Shiny, metallic stones should be avoided.
Don't handle stones containing arsenic, such as realgar, or mercury, such as cinnabar without protective gloves. Wash hands thoroughly with soap and water after handling them. These stones are extremely toxic.
Do not eat, drink, or smoke while handling potentially toxic stones.
Keep all potentially harmful stones (including small, bite-sized stones that aren't necessarily toxic!) out of reach of children for safety.

Crystals and the Chakras

First Chakra (Feet to base of spine)
The first chakra represents our relationship with our physical bodies and with the material world. It grounds us in physical existence. When balanced, its energy helps us to blend the physical and spiritual, and to eliminate that which is no longer needed for growth. We enjoy physical existence. When unbalanced, we may be afraid of life, feel like victims, withdraw from physical reality, or operate in our own interests only. Physical symptoms can include any difficulties with feet, legs, or lower back.
Stones associated with the first chakra: Black tourmaline, hematite, black and snowflake obsidian, smoky quartz, and tiger's eye
Any of these stones may be placed at the base of the spine or at the feet.
Second Chakra (just above the pelvic bone)
This chakra is most directly related to energy flow, as expressed in the flow of blood, and especially with the energies of sexuality and creativity. It is also deeply connected to the five physical senses. When it is unblocked people feel fully alive, energetic, spontaneous, guilt-free, and in full appreciation of their bodies. When it is unbalanced reproductive organ diseases, joint stiffness, and various blood disorders may result.
Stones associated with the second chakra: Bloodstone, carnelian, red garnet, red jasper and ruby.
Third Chakra (navel and solar plexus area)
This is the chakra of physical and material power, with an emphasis on mastery in the physical realm, especially the ability to manifest one's hopes and dreams. It relates to expressing one's unique individuality in the physical world. When it is unblocked people feel self-confident, have a clear sense of purpose, and pursue dreams which others would consider impossible. Imbalances appear as lack of self-confidence, insecurity about money or other physical things, and may also express itself in terms of being aggressive or using one's power to dominate others. Physical symptoms are usually digestive.
Stones associated with the third chakra: Aragonite, citrine, golden calcite, malachite, rhodochrosite, rutilated quartz, pyrite, tiger's eye and unakite
The Fourth Chakra (heart area)
This chakra relates to love and emotional well-being. When it is unblocked we give love unconditionally and attract to ourselves those people who give us an abundance of love. When it is blocked we feel the lack of love in our lives as keenly as those with third-chakra blockages feel a lack of material security. Heart conditions are the most common physical symptoms.
Stones associated with the fourth chakra: Aventurine, emerald, green calcite, green tourmaline, lepidolite, malachite, pink calcite, rhodochrosite, rhodonite, and rose quartz
Fifth Chakra (throat area)
This chakra governs communication and mental creativity. When it is balanced we communicate easily and effectively with others in both written and verbal form. This includes being able to constructively express anger and other emotions. When it is blocked communication is difficult to impossible, and these may be the people who say, "I'm just not creative. There can be more physical blockages associated with the fifth chakra than with any other. These can include excessive eating and drinking (good ways to keep the throat busy while preventing communication), and a range of respiratory diseases. Teeth and gum disorders fall into this category, as well.
Stones for the fifth chakra: Angelite, aquamarine, blue lace agate, blue topaz, celestite, chrysocolla and turquoise
Sixth Chakra (between eyebrows)
This is the psychic center, and, when unblocked, the source of intuition, esp., and other psychic abilities. This chakra is particularly related to the fears of cultures which wish to believe only that which they can experiences with the physical senses, and blockages abound, including fear of the imagination, of dreams, and one's "irrational" intuitions. Physical symptoms of blockage may include persistent headaches, insomnia, and anxiety.
Stones associated with the sixth chakra: Amethyst, azurite, hawk's eye, kyanite, lapis, sodalite and moss agate
Seventh Chakra (crown of the head)
The seventh chakra is our direct connection to spirit. When it is balanced we understand our relationship with the universe. We dissolve the illusion that we are separate from other humans and other forms of life. We appreciate our uniqueness and our places as parts of the whole. When it is blocked we compare ourselves to others or to internal checklists (and usually find ourselves wanting). We feel lonely, we are afraid of death.
Stones associated with the seventh chakra: Clear calcite, clear quartz, danburite and selenite

What follows is a list of some of the most common stones and crystals you can find. It is not necessary to memorize this list but it may prove helpful if kept as a resource

Agate – Strength, Protection, Confidence

Agates attract strength.
Agate is a protection from bad dreams.
It also protects from stress and energy drains. They were used to ward off storms.
The agates with banded colors were placed at the head of a sleeper to give rich and varied dreams.
Agates have been thought to be good to harden the gums.
Agate is used for stomach upsets..
The agate can't change emotions, but helps to change our level of acceptance of the emotion.
Carry an agate when you have to make an important decision.

Moss Agate

Moss agates are considered the most powerful of the agates.
It was the agate of warriors.
Helps balance emotional energy.
It helps the user to let go of anger and bitterness, so the emotions are balanced.
When used in jewelry the moss agate is believed to bring the wearer health, friends and riches.
Moss Agate strengthens in times of stress.
It is helpful in relieving sensitivities to weather and pollution.
Midwives use it to assist in successful birthing.
It is used to speed up recovery, counteract long term illnesses, and cleanse the circulatory and elimination systems.

Blue Lace Agate - Love, Healing, Power

This is a calming, uplifting stone.
The blue color strengthens the function of the throat chakra and encourages peace.
It can be used wherever there is a build up of painful or irritated energy.
Wear or carry blue lace agate for peace and happiness.
Place it in your hand when you feel the need to de-stress.
If you find yourself in stressful situations at work or home, keep some blue lace agate on your desk and simply gaze at it for relief.
In the home, surround blue lace agate stones with light blue candles to calm the atmosphere and reduce family quarrels.

Tree Agate

Place one of these large stones anywhere that you want to encourage abundance and fullness.
Enhances the health of house plants
Creates a peaceful environment
Deepens your connection to the earth
It works slowly and takes time to be effective
Use it to encourage a more centered viewpoint in life.
Healers use tree agate to align and correct anything with branches (such as blood vessels, nerves, skeletal disorders).
Place it on a point of pain for relief.

Fire Agate - Healing, Power, Protection

Fire Agate has a deep calming energy that brings security and safety.
It is a protection stone with strong grounding powers.
Fire agate links to the fire element and is used as an aid to improve sexual activity, stimulating vitality and opening the base chakra.
Hold a fire agate to inspire inner knowledge to emerge in the resolution of problems.
It also helps in overcoming addictions, and other destructive desires.
Heals the stomach, nervous, endocrine systems
Strengthens night vision
Reduces hot flashes

Eye (Botswana) Agate - Protection, Healing

Eye agate has been known to ward off the evil eye.
This is the gemstone for people who are sensitive and lonely or easily hurt.
It will help you have more self-satisfaction and protect you from hurt.
Eye Agate or Botswana Agate enhances sexual energy by giving physical stamina.

Abalone Shell - Protection, Emotional Balance

Abalone strengthens the structure of the body and the functions of the heart chakra.
Both pearl and abalone shell hold the same divinatory meaning
Intimately connected to the sea - represents the tides of emotion
An easy flow of feelings and sensitivities to others
Connected to family and particularly motherhood
Harmony in relationships
The play and variety of colors represent change as the beauty of existence

Alexandrite - Love, Luck

Alexandrite is said to stimulate pleasure and love.
It is also used as a lucky stone.

Amazonite - Luck, Healing

Helps release worries /fears so that we may communicate from the heart and break through our boundaries.
Amazonite balances feminine and masculine energy.
It promotes kindness and practicality.
It is an excellent stone for artists and for men.
Amazonite helps balance the emotions and gives physical stamina.

Amber - Love, Healing, Protection, Power, Luck

Amber is technically not a gemstone or mineral, but a fossilized sap from prehistoric trees that has aged over the course of millions of years.
Early physicians prescribed amber for headaches, heart problems, arthritis and a variety of other ailments.
In ancient times, amber was carried by travelers for protection.
In the Far East, amber is the symbol of courage
Brings a care free, sunny disposition
Promotes good luck and success
Dissolves oppositions
Helps with stomach, spleen and kidney complaints
Reduces joint problems
Alleviates teething pain in babies

Amethyst - Power, Protection, Healing

Helps attune with the higher self, dispelling fears heightening intuition, helping to embrace your own intuitive wisdom
Traditionally worn to guard against drunkenness and to instill a sober mind.
It is used as a dream stone and to help insomnia.
Put an amethyst under your pillow to bring about pleasant dreams, or rub it across your forehead to offer relief from a headache.
Ancient Egyptians used the amethyst guard against guilty and fearful feelings.
Amethyst is a gemstone often worn by healers, as it has the power to focus energy.
Amethyst is used for problems in the blood and in breathing problems
Amethyst crystal clusters are used to keep the air and life force in the home clean and positive.
Place Amethyst clusters, points or several tumbled Amethysts in moonlight and everyone in the home will be feeling calmer.
Using an Amethyst as a meditation focus will increase the positive spiritual feelings.
Amethyst helps overcome fears and cravings.

Amentrine - Money, Power, Healing

Occurs in quartz when amethyst and citrine reside in the same crystal.
Amentrine is very helpful in getting rid of depression.
This leads to inner peace and tranquility.
Many believe that it contains the powers of amethyst and citrine in one stone, making it a very powerful money stone as well as an excellent via to higher psychic awareness and spiritual enlightenment.

Apatite - Power, Healing

Apatite is an inspirational stone.
It develops psychic abilities and spiritual attunement.
Use it to aid communication and self-expression.
Encourages extroversion
Dissolves alienation
Draw negativity from oneself
Stimulates creativity and intellect
Clears confusion
Apatite heals bones, aids absorption of calcium, helps cartilage, bones, teeth and motor skills.
Relieves arthritis, joint problems.
Overcomes hypertension

Aragonite - Power, Healing

Aragonite is a grounding stone.
It is often used to center and ground physical energies and is very useful during stressful times.
Aragonite stabilizes the base chakra, and strengthens your connection with the earth.
Warms the extremities, bringing energy through the entire body
Aids calcium absorption
Stops night twitches and muscle spasms

Angelite - Love, Healing, Power, Protection

Angelite is a stone of heightened awareness, with special focus on peace and brotherhood.
It gives protection in the environment around your body.
Promotes compassion and understanding
Helps you to speak the truth when this is difficult
Alleviates psychological pain
Enhances astrological understanding
Increases telepathy
Healers use angelite to unblock energy pathways.
It can be used for relief from throat inflammations, and to balance the thyroid.
Angelite also repairs and soothes tissues and blood vessels.
It is very useful for weight control

Aquamarine - Magic, Power, Protection, Healing

This is the stone to help you be in touch with your spiritual being.
This stone is used in deep meditations.
The aquamarine is the stone of sailors, believing it would be protection for them on water.
Folklore says the aquamarine will protect against gossip.
It is also said the aquamarine will pick up spirits.
It is an excellent stone to use for mediating.
Aquamarine is most powerful as a meditation stone, as it brings a great peace and serenity.
It will help reduce fluid retention.
It has been used to calm the nerves.
The Romans used the aquamarine for diseases of the stomach, and believed it could cure liver and throat troubles.

Aventurine - Luck, Money, Healing

You should never buy a lottery ticket without an aventurine in your left pocket.
This is the stone of opportunity.
Aventurine is known as the stone of chance or luck.
It is said to increase perception and creative insight.
It is used to aid nearsightedness.
Aventurine has a stabilizing effect on the emotions.
It is excellent for teenagers.

Azurite - Power, Healing

Azurite has a transformative quality that stimulates an increase in communication skills, intuition, creativity and inspiration.
Place azurite on the third eye chakra during meditation. It will open up your inner sight.
It is an excellent stone for students who are studying for exams. It helps open the mind and make it more receptive to retaining information.
Liver stimulant
Aids detoxification
Stimulates brain and nerve activity
Encourages growth by stimulating the activity of the thyroid gland

Bloodstone - Healing, Power, Protection

The bloodstone was used to stop bleeding especially nosebleeds.
The bloodstone has been used as an amulet to protect against the evil eye.
Bloodstone is the symbol of justice.
The bloodstone is used for circulation of all energy in the body and helps to remove energy blocks.
Bloodstone is used in the alignment of all the centers of the body.
It also aids in the circulation of blood.
It is good to have several pieces of Bloodstone in the home to increase the flow of life energy.

Green Calcite - Money, Prosperity, Healing

Calcite is a powerful amplifier and cleanser of various types of energies.
This transparent crystal can be found in a variety of colors including clear, green, pink, orange and blue.
Green Calcite draws money and prosperity to your doorstep.
Green calcite can assist in dissolving old rigid belief systems, restoring balance to your mind.
It aids any transition from a stagnant to a positive environment.
It is also used to stimulate the immune system and absorb negative energy (such as arthritis and bacterial infections).

Blue Calcite - Love, Power, Healing

Brings about stability
Calming stone
Stimulates trust in oneself
Enhances memory
Effective against laziness
Blue calcite can be used as a healing stone when worn or placed between blue or purple candles.
It is often used in purification rituals.
Stimulates metabolism
Strengthens the immune system
Stabilizes the rhythm of the heart
Lowers blood pressure
Dissolves pain

Carnelian - Power, Healing

Gives energy
Protects from bad vibrations
Guards against poverty
Helps give a sense of humor
Calms the temper
It helps the insecure person to find strength within them so they can come into their own.
It is said to increase the appetite.

Celestite - Power, Love

It offers a gentle uplifting energy that will raise one's awareness.
It is an effective stone to use in order to establish and maintain communication with the angelic realm.
This geode is ideal for placement in the bedroom, or meditation space as an environmental cleanser.
Celestite is a soft stone (both physically and metaphysically) and its vibrations radiate in all directions.
Celestite is an elevating crystal that makes one feel as though floating on a cloud.

Chalcedony - Power, Healing, Love

Considered a sacred stone by the Native American Indians, chalcedony nurtures and promotes brotherhood and good will.
Used to assist telepathy
Absorbs negative energy and dissipates it
Harmonizes mind, body, and spirit
Instills generosity
Chalcedony is a powerful cleanser, including open sores.
Mothers use it to increase lactation, and it also fosters the maternal instinct.
It increases physical energy.
Healers use it to decrease ill effects of senility and dementia as well as to heal the eyes, gallbladder, bones, spleen, blood and circulatory system.

Chrysocolla - Healing, Power, Love

Used for strengthening the body's resistance and bringing about calm feelings where there is upset.
Chrysocolla is a stone of peace, increased wisdom, and discretion.
It promotes level headedness, encouraging clarity of thought and a neutral, cool attitude during turbulence.
It can be used to decrease nervousness and irritability.
Laying it on the forehead as a 'third eye' offers spiritual benefit.
Help with infections (especially the throat area)
Used by healers to detoxify the liver, lower blood pressure
Has a cooling effect for fever reduction
Can assist in speeding up recovery from burns
Alleviates cramps

Chrysoprase - Protection, Healing

Chrysoprase helps to make conscious what was unconscious.
It strengthens the workings of insight and the higher consciousness.
Encourages hope and joy
helps clarify problems
Has been used as a cure for restlessness
Protection on sea voyages
Chrysoprase is used to speed the healing of any wound.
It should not be placed on the body, but held over the affected area.
Carry a Chrysoprase in a pocket to help heal.
Also keep a Chrysoprase close to your bed at night to speed healing.
Chrysoprase is used as a shield or protector from negative energy.

Citrine - Money, Luck, Protection, Healing

Citrine is known as the lucky "Merchants Stone".
If you are in any type of sales, just put a citrine in the cash drawer and watch what happens.
Increases self esteem
Protects from the negative energy from someone else's abuse
Opens the mind to new thoughts
Promotes clarity of thought
It is beneficial to the endocrine and digestive system - cleansing, purifying and eliminating poisons that have built up.
Citrine has the power to calm and soothe distressed conditions.
It offers help with depression, digestive problems (including constipation and diabetes).
It will give joy and love to the owner.

Red Coral - Healing, Power

Coral is a good aid for meditation or visualization.
Coral symbolizes life and blood force energy.
Dark red coral is used for heating and stimulating the bloodstream.
Pink shades restore harmony to the heart.
It is used as an aid to depression, lethargy or deficient nutrition.

Diamond - Protection, Power

It is said diamonds are good for coughs and mucus problems.
Diamonds are the symbol of innocence and constancy.
They are used today as an engagement ring.
The Diamond will increase the power of the Emerald and the Amethyst to a higher level.
Care must be used when wearing a Diamond necklace as it can block the energy flow if the wearer has negative thoughts or feelings.

Dioptase - Power, Healing, Love

Dioptase is a powerful stone to awaken love and compassion and to heal emotional distress.
Dioptase supports the emotional heart, strengthens the physical heart and awakens the spiritual heart.
Meditate with dioptase to open your inner eyes to your higher purpose.
Releases emotional patterns
Assists in understanding roles we have played as well as the roles of others in our lives
Excellent stone to emotionally assist in experiencing divorce, death, or any intense family trauma
Stimulates forgiveness and healing of emotional wounds

Emerald - Love, Healing

The emerald is the sacred stone of the goddess Venus.
It was thought to preserve love.
The emerald has long been the symbol of hope.
It is considered by many to be the stone of prophecy.
For some the emerald acts as a tranquilizer for a troubled mind.
The emerald is said to bring the wearer reason and wisdom.
The strongest time for the powers of the emerald is said to be spring.
Lucky for love, give your lover an emerald to stay faithful.
Emerald will help backaches when worn on the index finger of the left hand.
The power of the Emerald is highest at the full moon.
Some cultures thought the emerald would heal any disease of the eye.
Emerald is a stone of great harmony, wisdom and love.
Giving your lover an Emerald will bring the lover closer if the giver's motives are pure love.
The Emerald can be a bridge between 2 people.
The Emerald vibrates with love.

Fluorite - Power, Healing

Fluorite is said to absorb and neutralize negative vibrations.
It makes one more receptive to the vibrations of other stones.
Fluorite should be kept in every room of the home.
Increases concentration
Helps in decision-making
It helps to open the way for the power of other stones to be effective.
It can be used as a meditation stone to help energize the body and raise the power of concentration.
Healers use it to help with ulcers as well as the respiratory tract by stimulating cell regeneration in these areas.
It fortifies bones, improves arthritic or other joint ailments.

Garnet - Luck, Money, Love, Healing

The Garnet is known as the stone for a successful business.
It is believed that if a garnet is put under a pillow it will cure depression.
Garnets can be used to make a person popular and have self-esteem when worn as jewelry.
It helps protect one on trips.
Garnets bring constancy to friendships.
Garnets are also known for stimulating success in business.
The Garnet is usually held in the hand or placed on top of the head when searching or meditating on past lives..
The Garnet is a stone of purity and truth as well as a symbol of love and compassion.
The Garnet will help everyone's security level and spiritual awareness.
It can help increase the sex drive.

Goldstone - Power, Money

Goldstone is a man made gemstone that has been around since the European Renaissance.
Early monks working at a glass factory near Venice, Italy were practicing alchemy when molten copper accidentally tipped into a molten glass container.
This crystallized into thousands of tiny crystals and formed a melt with golden light sparkles.
Though it is not technically a gemstone, it is often referred to as one.
Red goldstone is associated with vitality and energy.

Hematite - Love, Protection, Healing

Hematite is used to improve relationships.
If you need your personal relationship to be better, carry a hematite with you always.
It has been used as an amulet against bleeding.
People wore hematite jewelry during mourning.
Hematite is good for increasing intuition.
Hematite stimulates iron absorption in the small intestine, which in turn improves oxygen supply to the body.
It can be in direct contact with the skin, but results in inflammation for some people, so test it carefully on yourself before use.

Howlite - Power, Healing

It is a super-calming stone and many people use it to relieve stress of all kinds.
It makes an excellent antidote to insomnia due to an overactive mind.
Focusing on a piece of howlite can assist in journeying outside the body and gaining insight from past lives.
Placed on the third eye, it opens memories of previous times and lifetimes.
Howlite teaches patience
Place a howlite stone in your pocket to absorb your own anger - or another's anger that is directed toward you.
It helps to overcome critical or selfish behavior.
Balances calcium levels
Strengthens teeth and bones

Iolite - Love, Power, Healing

Ancients believed that it could unlock creativity in an artist.
Iolite opens a path to your deep inner self
It is an excellent stone for shamanic journeying or to assist in recovering information from past lives.
It clears the third eye chakra.
It is a stone of vision and creative expression.
Iolite supports the healing of the eyes, stimulates memory and helps with sleep imbalances.

Jade - Love, Healing, Money, Protection

Jade is an ancient stone that has historically been used to attract love.
Jade can be used to bring money into your life.
Jade strengthens your mental faculties and assists in clear reasoning.
Jade is also a protective stone, guarding against accidents and misfortune.
Symbol of successful love
The soothing green color of jade makes it a wonderful healing stone.
It helps the body in self-healing while working through underlying, non-physical reasons for a precipitation for disease.
It is particularly helpful for kidney, heart and stomach complaints.

Jasper - Protection, Healing

A strong protection gemstone, red jasper is known to protect against hazards of the night.
Red jasper is very lucky for actors.
It is a stability gemstone.
It is a powerful protection against things that are not good for you and it eases emotional stresses, making it a wonderful gemstone to have in your home.
Jasper gives one the courage to speak out and have personal independence.
It also protects from fears in the night.
All jaspers help balance the emotional energy in the body.
All colors of Jasper will help balance the vibrations of the body.
Carry rainbow jasper and feel relaxed and secure.

Jet - Protection, Purification, Power, Healing

Jet becomes electrically charged when rubbed with wood or silk.
Jet is an excellent stone for use in magic rituals to draw and channel the elements of the earth's energies in a desired direction.
Jet protects and purifies.
Jet neutralizes negative energies.
Hold a piece of jet to clear negative vibrations.
Jet is used by healers to aid the cleansing of the liver and kidneys.

Kunzite - Love, Power, Good Luck, Healing

Wear kunzite to be blessed with good fortune.
Its soft pastel colors symbolize purity.
It can also be a sign of new life and is sometimes regarded as a symbol for pregnancy.
Kunzite is a calming, relaxation stone:
Releases tension
Promotes a peaceful disposition
Emits exceptionally tranquil vibrations
Kunzite is also used to attract love.
Gaze at or hold a kunzite to release daily stress, smooth out knotted muscles, calm nerves, anger or fear.

Kyanite - Power, Healing

The fan like clusters or blades that are formed by kyanite make it an ideal stone for restoring energy balance.
It is a very effective energy conduit that can balance most systems of the body.
It can quickly create stillness and tranquility, making it an excellent stone for meditation.

Lapis Lazuli - Love, Protection, Power, Healing

When working or meditating with Lapis Lazuli, it can bring matters more clearly to the mind.
It is one of the most powerful stones and should be used with care.
Wearing a Lapis Lazuli ring can help you to become a channel.
The ancient Egyptians used Lapis Lazuli as a symbol of Truth.
Lapis Lazuli is used with other stones when parts of the body need to be purified and cleansed and should be only used by a healer.
Lapis Lazuli has high intensity and can open many of the chakra centers.
This must be done only with love in the heart and comprehension in the mind and wisdom in soul.

Labradorite - Power

Labradorite is a power stone, allowing you to see through illusions and determine the actual form of your dreams and goals.
It is excellent for strengthening intuitions.
Stimulates imagination
Develops enthusiasm and thus, new ideas
Use to see more clearly in meditation

Malachite - Love, Money, Protection

Malachite is believed to be a strong protector of children.
It is said to protect the wearer from accidents and protects travelers.
Malachite has been used to aid success in business and protect against undesirable business associations.
It is a stone of balance in relationships.
Malachite is a stone that should not be used for physical healing.
It reaches the inner feelings of the person and reflects what is there, negative or positive.
It will always reflect how you feel, if you feel negative don't wear Malachite.
It reminds us that we have a dual nature and it is up to each person to know and rule his own person.
To help get rid of nightmares, keep a piece of Malachite in your bedroom.

Moonstone - Love, Power, Healing, Luck

Brings good fortune
Assists in foretelling the future
Enhances intuition
Promotes inspiration
Brings success in love as well as business matters
Offers protection on land and at sea
The most powerful time to use the moonstone is in a full moon.
It can reunite lovers who have quarreled.
Moonstone is also considered a good luck stone.
Moonstone is an excellent stone to use in meditation to understand oneself.
Moonstone stimulates the functioning of the pineal gland and balances internal hormone cycles with nature's rhythms.
Moonstone is a stone of inner growth and strength.

Obsidian - Healing , Protection, Divination, Peace

Obsidian was revered by ancient cultures. It was one of the major barter materials, and prized for its ability to be worked to razor-sharp edges for arrows and spears.
It has been used since prehistoric times for making tools, masks, weapons, mirrors and jewelry.
Obsidian helps to protect the very sensitive against depression.
It is the stone of the soft hearted and gentle people of the world.
Use obsidian to help block negativity of any kind.
As a black gemstone, it symbolizes self control and resilience.

Snowflake Obsidian - Power, Healing, Protection

Snowflake Obsidian is a stone of purity.
It balances mind body and spirit.
Snowflake obsidian will calm and soothe and allow you to view unhealthy patterns in your own behavior, thus opening the door to change.
Obsidian draws hidden imbalances to the surface and releases them.
The blackness of this stone enhances the ability to reach your inner self.
It is one of the earliest known stones to be used for scrying (seeing into the future).
Snowflake obsidian relieves muscle cramps, and is a detoxification stone.

Opal - Love, Healing, Power, Good Luck

Pink Opal is a stone of peace and tranquility for the aura.
It is especially noted for its energies in healing emotions.
Sleeping with pink opal helps to bring resolution of painful memories.
It is said to be the stone of love, but only to faithful lovers.
Blue Opal is a stone that will soothe erratic emotions and enhance personal courage as well as enhance your ability to communicate what is in your heart
Fire Opal brings out spontaneous action initiates new ideas and stimulates enthusiasm
Acts as a magnet to draw in money or customers to a business
Helps relieve energy deficiencies; stimulates sexual organs and the adrenal glands.

Onyx - Protection, Healing

It can help release negative emotions such as sorrow and grief.
It is used to end unhappy or bothersome relationships.
Onyx guards against negativity
Onyx jewelry is worn to defend against negativity that is directed at you.
Black stones have protective energies in the sense that black is the absence of light, and therefore, can be used to create invisibility.
Fortifies self confidence and responsibility
Sharpens your senses
Encourages a healthy egotism

Pearl

Historically symbolic of purity, innocence and faith, pearls enhance personal integrity and help clear the mind so that it can be a clean channel for wisdom and spiritual guidance.
These Moon and water ruled “gems” enhance sincerity, truth and loyalty and bring calming reflection.

Peridot - Protection, Money, Healing

The peridot was believed to be a stone of springtime by ancients who considered it a gift from Mother Nature.
In ancient times, it was said that a dream about peridot foretold impending danger.
Peridot is a stone of lightness and beauty.
Only spiritual or clear-minded persons should use peridot.
The person with too many earthly problems will not be able to understand the beauty of the Peridot.
The very spiritual can wear peridot in a necklace with the stone at the base of the throat to feel its soothing effect.
Used in a necklace, peridot is a protector against negative emotions.
Peridot has been known to have healing effect on the gall bladder and liver.

Pyrite - Power, Protection

The resemblance of pyrite to gold has made it a traditional symbol for money and good luck.
Iron Pyrite makes a wonderful energy shield, blocking out negativity from various sources.
Overcomes inertia and feelings of inadequacy
Energizes the area where you place it (such as on a desk where you work)
Helps you to see behind a facade
Use this stone to overcome lethargy and fatigue.
It increases the oxygen supply to the blood and strengthens the circulatory system.
It is beneficial for the lungs, alleviating bronchitis and asthma.

Quartz - Magic, Power, Healing, Love

Tangerine quartz is a wonderful healing stone after trauma or shock.
It is also used in past life healing and is beneficial in situations where one feels a need to make up for past damages done.
It leads one to a more positive vibration in life.
Tangerine quartz is sometimes used to enhance sexuality and creativity.
Rose quartz is known as the love stone.
It helps the user feel a strong sense of self-worth, therefore being worth love.
Rose quartz is the stone of universal love. It is also the stone of love in marriage.
It also helps as a rejuvenator to the skin.
If you need a extra boost, carry a smokey quartz gemstone with you.
It promotes personal pride and joy in living
Creativity in business, and opens the path for perception and learning
Smokey Quartz is a protection stone that cleanses and clears negative energy.
Smokey Quartz is a grounding stone that transmutes negative energies and facilitates your ability to get things done in the practical world.
It enhances organizational skills and is good to have around in the workplace or home office.
It makes you more aware of sounds including telepathic sounds.
Helps relieve depression.
Red rutilated quartz makes a powerful healing stone
Blue quartz crystal is a soothing, stress-relief stone.
Like all quartz, it can be used as a power amplifier during magic.
Blue quartz is especially fine as a peace or tranquility stone

Rhodochrosite - Love, Power, Healing

Rhodochrosite is an excellent conductor of energy.
Soothes the heart
Stimulates warm feelings of love and compassion
Benefits the creative process
Promotes intuition
Stimulates circulation and blood pressure, kidneys and reproductive organs.

Rhodonite - Love, Healing, Power

Rhodonite soothes the nervous system.
This gemstone vibrates with love.
Just holding this gemstone promotes relaxation and brings a sense of well-being.
This is a balance gemstone and is used to clear the psychic centers.
Rhodonite raises self worth and helps ward off negativity.
It has been known as a "rescue stone".

Ruby - Love, Healing

The ruby is considered to be the most powerful gem in the universe, and is associated with many astral signs.
To own a ruby is said to have contentment and peace.
Placed under a pillow the ruby may ward off bad dreams.
The ruby is also the symbol of vitality and royalty.
The Ruby is filled with love.
It also helps sexual love to be more passionate.
Persons lacking in self-love should have and mediate on the Ruby.
It also gives the courage to be best potential that a person has.
Ruby works with the flow of blood as an aid to circulation.
It aids the cleansing and removal of infection or germs in the blood.

Sapphire - Power, Love, Healing

It is said a necklace of sapphires will cure a sore throat.
The sapphire was called the "Stone of Destiny".
Sapphires contribute to mental clarity and perception.
They can promote financial rewards.
The sapphire is the symbol of heaven and joyful devotion to God.

Sardonyx

A protective stone, it is used to increase stamina, courage, energy, and creativity.
It is also a stone of virtue and promotes marital happiness and peace.
Sardonyx ensures eloquence and clarity of speech and is excellent for public speaking, lectures, and courtroom appearances.
It is helpful with relieving pain, depression, and treating infections.

Selenite - Healing, Power, Love, Protection

Selenite is named for Selene, an ancient Moon goddess.
Exchanged between lovers, it will bring about reconciliation.
It has a fine vibration that brings mental clarity, and helps you to access angelic guidance.
It dispels confusion and allows you to see the bigger picture.
Selenite instills a deep peace and can also increase your telepathic ability.
It makes a wonderful protection stone.
Place a selenite sphere at the corners of your home to create a peaceful, safe environment that will not be disturbed by outside influences.

Septarian - Healing

Septarian is also known as Dragon stone
Septarian is a healing stone beneficial to overall health and well being.
Opens psychic abilities
Gives relief for muscle spasms
Nurtures and grounds
Serpentine - Protection, Healing
Serpentine makes an exceptional meditation stone.
It helps you to find inner peace.
Nursing women used it to regulate their milk supply.
Protects against poisonous creatures such as snakes, insects, etc.
Balances mood swings
Encourages the ability to solve conflicts by peaceful means
It is an aid to kidney and stomach complaints, relaxes cramps and menstrual pain and helps women who are unable to reach orgasm due to tension.

Sodalite - Power, Healing, Luck

Sodalite brings inner peace.
Sodalite is the stone of athletics, as it stimulates endurance.
It is said sodalite will harmonize the inner being or the conscious and subconscious mind.
Sodalite promotes peace and harmony.
Sodalite is extra lucky for writers.
Sodalite is associated with the thyroid.
It is perfect in a necklace.
Wear it when you want to loose a few pounds.
It helps in communicating and will give confidence to speak more.

Sunstone - Protection, Healing, Love

Gives you extra energy when you are ill or under stress
Stimulate sexual arousal and increase sexual energy
Increases self-healing power
Promotes harmony among the organs functions
Sunstone stimulates your personal power of attraction.

Sulphur - Power, Healing

Sulphur has a negative electrical charge and is an excellent remedy to absorb negative emotions and energies.
Place it in your home or office to remove negativity of any kind.
It can assist in drawing latent psychic abilities to the surface.
It can be used to calm a rebellious or stubborn side of a personality.
It acts as a softener and assists in constructive change.
Sulphur is extremely toxic and should NOT be taken internally.
It is useful for conditions that flare up (such as fevers and infections).
Placed in bath water, it can give relief for painful swelling or joint pain.

Tiger Eye - Luck, Protection, Healing

Use the cat's eye for insight and you can be a very lucky person.
When used in jewelry the cat's eye may bring good luck and protection from the evil eye to the wearer.
It also known to bring clear thinking and insight.
Tiger's-eye has the power to focus the mind.
It will cause the mind to have feeling of oneness and feel more direct in all thoughts.
It makes one aware of one's own needs related to the needs of others.

Tiger Iron - Protection, Healing, Power

Tiger Iron is a stone of courage, strength and stamina.
With its powerful combination of the vitality of red jasper, and the balancing effects of hematite, tiger iron makes a very powerful grounding and protective stone.
Excellent for body builders or anyone who wants to build up physical strength
Reinforces health patterns
Encourages creative expression (great for musicians and actors)
Focuses your will and mental clarity

Topaz

Encourages self realization and confidence
Imparts strength to quiet wild emotions
Banishes bad dreams
Bestows charisma on its user
Topaz draws love to its wearer
Protects against envy, disease, negative magic and sudden or untimely death
Stimulates the appetite
Aids in nervous exhaustion
Activates life force and metabolism

Tourmaline - Power, Healing, Love, Money

Red Tourmaline rekindles one's passion for life!
It has the potential to open you to love on many levels.
It also stimulates courage and inspiration to protect those that you love.
Helps one overcome fears about abundance, survival or safety
Provides a connection with true abundance and aids in finding your inner courage and strength
Balance the male and female energies within yourself
Remove imbalances (and guilt) caused by conflicts and confusions
The green part feeds your life force, while the pink soothes and harmonizes
All of the tourmalines offer strong healing effects.
The watermelon variety encourages regeneration of the nerves, helps with paralysis and multiple sclerosis.
Green Tourmaline brings a joy for life.
It promotes an appreciation for the many wonders that life has to offer.
It encourages patience and openness, as well as sincere interest in fellow human beings.
It is also used to attract money and success in business.
Green tourmaline strengthens the heart and offers detoxification effects.

Turquoise - Luck, Love, Protection, Healing

Strength, protection from harm, psychic sensitivity and connection to the spirit world
The turquoise is the symbol of friendship.
It also brings peace to the home.
Turquoise takes on the characteristics of the owner.
Neutralizes over acidity
Alleviates rheumatism, gout, stomach problems, viral infections
Increases growth, muscular strength
Alleviates pain, relaxes cramps
Contains anti-inflammatory and detoxifying effects

Unakite - Power, Healing

Unakite is a stone of vision.
It is often used to balance spirituality with emotional situations.
It is an excellent meditation wand and provides grounding when this is most needed.
Place this wand anywhere that you want to create a calming gentle energy.
Unakite will lift your spirits!
Healers place unakite on the third eye to locate the source of a problem in past life healing.
This unakite wand will give the user a more confident control of any spell.

Final Thoughts and Discussion

Why should I cleanse my stone?
How often should I cleanse my stone?
Which stones am I drawn to? Why do I think that is?
Do all spells/rituals require stones?
When is using a stone for a spell/ritual necessary?
How will I personally benefit from using crystals and stones in my life?
Is it important to have my “own” stone?

Posted by Saturnine @ 7:24 AM :: (1) comments

Saturday, December 02, 2006

Tasseography (Reading Tea Leaves)

How to make the tea:

Use a loose tea or dried herb. A tea bag won’t work unless you cut it open. Either way, the tea has to float around in the cup while the subject is drinking it. You need to use a light colored tea cup as well so there is plenty of contrast between the leaves and the cup.

How to drink the tea:

When the tea is almost at room temperature, have your subject sip it and concentrate on a specific question. If the subject cannot think of anything in particular, just have your subject clear his mind while sipping the tea instead of focusing on something in particular. Tell your subject to leave a tiny bit of liquid and most of the tea leaves in the bottom of the cup.

How to read the tea:

Take the cup in your left hand and swirl it around clockwise three times. Cover the top of the cup with your right hand, making sure to swirl the leaves completely up and around the sides and rim of the cup. Finally, peer into the cup and look at the placement and shapes the leaves have left behind.

If you have swirled correctly, the leaves should now be clumped together in several different places on the cup’s inside, including the rim, sides and bottom. These clumps will form the symbols that you will read. You should always begin the interpretation by looking for the simplest symbols first. Several of the leaf clumps may clearly form shapes, letters or numbers.

Shapes:

Triangles = good karma

Squares = the need for caution

Circles = great success

Letters: refer to the names of friends or relatives
Numbers: indicate spans of time, like months or years.

Most of the clumps, however, will form random shapes. With a little staring and a bit of creativity, these shapes can easily be distinguished. The following is a list of those most often encountered along with their interpretations:

Acorn: financial success
Airplane: an impending journey
Anchor: an unpleasant situation
Angel: good news
Ants: many impending difficulties
Apple: prosperity, achievement
Arrow: bad news in love
Axe: possible danger or difficulty to you or a friend
Ball: desire to travel
Bell: good news
Bear: bad luck
Bird: good luck, good news
Boat: a visit from a friend
Book (open): the answer to a question
Book (closed): a question needing investigation
Bottle: possible disease
Bull: arguing with friends
Butterfly: much expected happiness
Candle: a light for the future, help from friends
Cat: deceit, a false friend
Child: a new idea
Coin: prosperity
Cross: sacrifice, reward for suffering
Daisy: a new love
Dog: a good friend
Dove: coming peace
Drum: a change
Eggs (broken): a career setback
Eggs (whole): assured career success
Envelope: good news
Eye: caution, foresight
Face: a change in friendships
Finger (raised): a warning
Finger (lowered): a need for direction
Flag: impending danger
Foot: a walk away from the past
Fountain: great happiness
Forked line: a coming decision
Fruit: fruitful hopes
Garden: a party
Globe: travel
Grapes: happiness
Gun: arguments with family
Hand: a friend’s assistance
Harp: romance
Hat: an upcoming raise on the job, an upcoming honor
House: comfort, home
Iceberg: lack of inner self
Kangaroo: a trip
Kettle: a sign of peace in the home
Kite: wishes that will come true
Ladder: success in business
Leaf: a new life
Lock: obstacles
Man: a visitor, male or female
Mask: a secret that must be kept
Mouse: theft of heart, object or idea
Mushroom: a future disturbance
Necklace (whole): admirers
Necklace (broken): danger ahead in love
Net: a trap
Oak tree: health
Oar: success in store after a period of trials
Owl: a sign of good or bad luck ahead
Oyster: love, an impending engagement
Palm tree: a trip to an upcoming tropical place
Pig: greed
Purse (open): financial gain
Purse (closed): financial loss
Question mark: questionable morals
Rabbit: bravery
Rat: a dishonest person
Raven: bad news
Ring: upcoming marriage
Rose: popularity
Shark: bankruptcy
Shell: good news
Shoe: increased energy and productivity
Snake: an enemy nearby
Spider: reward for work
Star: hope
Sword: warning of future arguments
Teapot: friends
Tower: disappointment
Tree: health
Turtle: criticism
Umbrella: protection
Vase: a secret admirer
Volcano: an impending emotional eruption
Wagon: hard times ahead
Waterfall: abundance
Wheel: business advancement through great effort
Witch: a strange occurrence
Wolf: jealousy
Yoke: need for change
Zebra: a move from one physical or emotional state to another

While this list is rather comprehensive, it is almost a given that you will encounter shapes that don’t apply. After a few readings, you will become more and more adept at assigning names to symbols, and in doing so will be able to interpret just about anything. Remember that the most important thing in reading tea leaves is your own creativity.

There are three different patterns that will tell you when something will happen:

The symbols are spread randomly around the cup
All of the symbols fall in a clear clockwise spiral within the cup
All of the symbols fall in a clear counterclockwise spiral within the cup

The symbols are spread randomly around the cup:

If the symbols are spread randomly around your cup, examine the cup clockwise to predict events by months (and up to a year) into the future. Start at the handle of the teacup; it represents the time and place of the reading. Hold the cup in your left hand, as if you were about to drink from it, and imagine a line across the bottom of the cup from the handle to the opposite side. This opposing side will indicate six months into the future. The top of the cup, or the farthest part of the cup above this line, indicates three months into the future and the part furthest to the bottom indicates nine months ahead. An easy way to visualize this is to imagine a clock placed over the cup. The handle, or nine o’clock, represents now, the top, or twelve o’clock, represents three months into the future, the opposing side, or three o’clock, represents six months into the future, and the bottom, six o’clock, represents nine months into the future. If something is located between any of these sections, assign a month to it the same way you would an hour on a clock. For example, if a symbol is halfway between twelve o’clock, or three months, and three o’clock, or six months, it will happen about four and half months into the future.

All of the symbols fall in a clear clockwise spiral within the cup:

If all of the symbols fall in a clear clockwise spiral within the cup, the symbols will appear to be moving toward you. In this case, the top of the spiral is when an instigating event will take place, and the other events are the subsequent results. Also and the significance of the event is great and it will happen very soon.
Shorthand: clockwise = something’s happening soon.

All of the symbols fall in a clear counterclockwise spiral within the cup:

If the symbols move in a clear counterclockwise spiral within the cup, the symbols are moving away from you and losing their significance.

Shorthand: counterclockwise = nothing’s happening too soon.

The importance of the symbols:

The importance of each symbol is determined by the placement of the symbols on the rim, sides and bottom of the cup.
Symbols on the rim represent things that are very important. These are the BIG, life-changing moments.
Symbols on the sides of the cup represent things that are significant, but not life changing.
Symbols on the bottom indicate things that are subject to change.
Symbols that lie in straight lines indicate a definite occurrence.
Curved or wavy lines indicate the possibility of change.
Crystal clear symbols are events that are more likely to occur than, shall we say, “stretches of interpretation.”
Check over your cup for lines, numbers, shapes or letters first, and interpret any clear symbols. Then follow the rules about lines above.
If the subject told you of any questions that he had before the reading, try to tailor your prediction to these queries.

Posted by Saturnine @ 7:30 PM :: (0) comments

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Mantic Objects – Articles used as a point of focus in a divination process

Animals and Animal Behavior: Alectryomancy, Apantomancy, Felidomancy, Hippomancy, Myomancy, Ophimancy, Ornithomancy, Theriomancy, Zoomancy

Animals and Chance Encounters: Apantomancy

Animal innards and livers: Epatoscomancy, Extispiciomancy, Hapatromancy, Hepatomancy

Arrows: Belomancy

Ashes: Tephramancy

Atmospheric Conditions: Aeromancy, Alectromancy, Nephelomancy, Selenomancy

Attire, Dress: Stolisomancy

Axe: Axinomancy

Baby Caul: Amniomancy

Barley Bread: Alphitomancy

Barley Flour: Critomancy

Beans, Bones and Other Small Objects: Cleromancy

Bible Passages: Bibliomancy

Birds: Ornithomancy

Bones: Astragyromancy, Cephalomancy, Haruspicy, Kephalonomancy, Onomancy, Scapulomancy

Books and Verses: Stichomancy

Burned Branches: Botanomancy

Burning of Objects or Sacrifices: Anthropomancy, Capnomancy, Causimonancy, Pyromancy

Cakes: Critomancy

Candles: Lapadomancy, Lynchomancy, Zoanthropy

Cards: Cartomancy, Tarot

Casting of Lots: Astragyromancy, Sortilege

Cats: Felidomancy

Chance Words and/or Remarks Overheard in a Crowd: Cledonomancy, Transatuaumancy

Circles That Revolve: Cyclomancy

Circle Trance: Aspidomancy

Clouds: Areomancy, Nephelomancy

Communication With the Dead: Necromancy, Nigromancy

Cookies and Cakes: Aleuromancy

Crystal Ball and Crystal Gazing: Crystallomancy, Scrying

Dice: Astragalomancy, Astragyromancy, Casting of Lots, Runes, Sortilege

Disease Diagnosis: Iatromancy

Dizziness From Circling: Gyromancy

Dowsing: Rhabdomancy

Dreams: Oneiromancy

Earth-based and Earth Related Naturally Found Objects: Alectromancy, Feng Shui, Geomancy, Halomancy, Nephelomancy, Tasseography, Pessomancy

Eggs: Oomancy

Entrails: Anthropomancy, Epatoscomancy, Extispiciomancy, Hepatomancy, Hepatromancy

Excrement: Sactomancy

Eyes: Antroposomancy, Iridology, Oculomancy

Facial Features: Anthroposomancy

Feces: Copromancy, Scatomancy

Fig Leaves: Sycomancy

Fingernails: Onychomancy

Fire: Causimonancy, Pyromancy

Fire gazing: Pyromancy

Fish: Ichthyomancy

Flames and Smoke: Capnomancy, Pyromancy, Spodomancy

Flora: Botanomancy, Geomancy

Forehead: Anthroposomancy, Metopomancy

Gems and Precious Stones: Lithomancy

Goats: Kephalonomancy

Grain, Tossed: Geomancy, Sortilege

Hands: Cheiromancy, Chiromancy, Palmistry

Horses and Horses Hooves: Hippomancy

Human Shoulders: Armomancy

Incense: Empyromancy, Libanomancy

Inspirational Musings: Theomancy

Keys: Clidomancy

Laughter and Laughing: Gelomancy, Geloscopmancy, Geloscopy

Laurel Branches and Leaves: Daphnomancy

Lines on the Hand: Cheiromancy, Chiromancy, Palmistry

Mediumship and Psychic Abilities: Clairvoyance, Psychomancy

Melted Lead: Molybdomancy

Mirror Gazing: Enoptromancy, Scrying

Moles: Maculomancy, Moleomancy

Moon Phases: Selonomancy

Names: Numerology, Onomancy, Onomamancy, Onomatomancy

Naturally Occurring or Thrown Patterns: Geomancy

Numbers: Arithmancy, Gematria, Numerology

Oil: Leconomancy

Olive Oil: Onimancy

Onions: Cromniomancy

Ouija Board: Dactylomancy

Patterns of Natural Objects: Geomancy

Pearls: Margaritomancy

Pebbles: Pessomancy, Psephomancy

Pendulum: Cleidomancy, Dactyomancy, Kelidomancy, Pallomancy

Poetry and Verses: Rhapsodomancy

Poppy and Other Flower Seeds: Capnomancy

Poultry: Alectryomancy

Priests’ Breastplates: Urimancy

Psychometry: Hylomancy

Rats: Myomancy

Rose Petals and Leaves: Phyllorhodomancy

Sacred Names: Theomancy

Sacred Objects, Books and/or Things: Heiromancy, Psychometry

Salt: Halomancy

Seeds: Capnomancy

Shadows: Sciomancy

Sieves: Coscinomancy

Skulls: Cephalomancy, Phrenology

Smoke: Capnomancy, Empyromancy, Libanomancy, Pyromancy, Tephramancy

Snakes: Ophimancy

Soles of the Feet: Podomancy

Stars: Astrology, Astromancy

Straws: Sideromancy

Swiss Cheese: Tiromancy

Tea Leaves and Coffee Grounds: Tasseomancy, Tasseography

Trance: Aspidomancy, Chresmonancy

Urine: Uromancy

Voice-altered Trance: Gastromancy

Water: Cylicomancy, Hydromancy

Water Currents: Bletonomancy

Water Fountains or Geysers: Pegomancy

Wax: Ceromancy

Wells: Captromancy

Wind: Austromancy

Wine: Oinomancy

Wood: Xylomancy

Words: Transatuaumancy

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Sunday, November 19, 2006

Divination Methods

Aeromancy – Using clouds, wind direction and other objects in the sky for divination

Alectromancy – Forecasting the future through atmospheric or celestial conditions

Alectryomancy – Divination involving the behavior of animals

Aleuromancy – Divination through the messages baked inside and then found in cakes or cookies

Alphitomancy – Divination that proves guilt or innocence through the use of barley bread

Amniomancy – Method of predicting the future happiness or sadness of a person at his/her birth according to the caul that sometimes covers a newborns head

Anthropomancy – Divination using the entrails, the inner organs, specifically intestines of human sacrifices

Anthroposomancy – Divination by interpretations of a person’s face and/or body characteristics

Apantomancy – Divination interpreted by chance encounters with animals

Arithmancy – Using letters or numbers in a specific combination to divine the future of a person, event, or country

Armomancy – Divination used to predict the possibility for psychic abilities by inspecting the shoulders of the aspirant

Astragalomancy – Divination by throwing dice or dominos or other objects with sides, such as bones, to determine the future or a querant's question

Astrogyromancy - Divination by throwing dice or dominos or other objects with sides, such as bones, to determine the future or a querant’s question

Astrology – Divination using the study of the placement of the planets, moon, and stars at the time of birth or at the time of a particular event

Astromancy – An ancient divination method that involves observing stars

Austromancy – Divination by listening to the sound of the wind and interpreting the messages

Automatism – Writing, drawing, painting, or musical abilities produced without the control of the conscious mind; unconscious movement attributed to supernatural guidance

Axinomancy – Use of an axe to locate that which is hidden

Belomancy – Divination using arrows

Bibliomancy - Divination by using a sacred book (not necessarily the Bible) to forecast the future or provide answers to a querant’s question

Bletonomancy – Divination using the patterns of moving water

Botanomancy – Divination through plant life; may include the burning of plants and foretelling of future events through the ashes or smoke generated from the burning or smoldering plants or trees

Candle Prophecy – Divination by interpreting visions using the flame of a candle

Capnomancy – Divination by the patterns of smoke made by burning various objects and/or sacrifices

Cartomancy – Divination using a pack of cards to predict the future or to respond to a querant’s question

Casting of Lots – Divination by tossing dice, bones or other articles that have sides or markings

Catoptromancy – Divination by interpreting patterns or images produced by looking at a light source reflected in a shiny object, such as a mirror

Causimonancy – Another term for the prognostication form of capnomancy, divination by throwing flammable objects into a fire or onto hot coals

Cephalomancy – Divination using the study of the shape of the human skull by boiling it as a means to define character and personality traits; commonly known as phrenology

Ceraunoscopy – Predictions made from patterns in lighting

Ceromancy – Divination through interpreting the patterns made when molten wax is poured into water

Chiromancy – Divination and character analysis through studying the nails, lines and fingers of a persons hand

Chresmomancy – Divination through the interpretations of the chance encounter with a series of magic sounds, utterances or foreign words

Chresmonancy – Divination through a voice from the ethereal world, transmitted through a psychic, providing knowledge or other wisdom

Claiguscience – Tasting of a specific food by someone who is psychic without actually eating the food; may be used as a way to divine an upcoming event or incident in the querant’s life

Clairaudience – The ability to hear voices and messages from the dead, only audible to the psychic, as a means to advise the querant of cautions or to provide guidance

Clairsentient – One who receives information through the body instead of the mind

Clairvoyance – Psychic ability to become aware of something or someone without the normal perception of the senses and without any outside influences

Cledonomancy – The art of predicting, from the first few minutes of a conversation, what remarks will follow

Cleidomancy – Divination using the swinging of a pendulum to foretell the future or answer a querant’s question

Cleromancy – Divination using objects with sides that are thrown on a table, onto a cloth with specific divination markings or onto the ground in order to foretell the future

Clidomancy – Divination of the guilt or innocence of an accused by the use of a key, a holy book (typically the Bible) and the index finger of a virgin

Coffee Ground Reading – Divination by interpreting the drags of coffee in a cup

Colorology – The study of colors and/or auras

Color Telepathy – The ability to send the thought or sensations of a specific color from one person to another

Conscinomancy – Divination using a sieve and a pair of scissors to determine guilt or innocence

Critomancy – Divination by observing grain and flour in various ways to predict the future

Crystallomancy – An ancient divination practice of casting lots or sortilege, using small stones or crystals

Crystalomancy – Divination by studying a crystal ball

Crystal Predictions – Divination using natural crystal stones

Cyclomancy – Divination using a wheel or revolving circle to foretell the future

Cylicomancy – Divination through the use of a cup of water

Dactylomancy – Divination using a tripod-like tool that moves with the answer to a querant’s question around a board or a basin on which letters of the alphabet are inscribed

Dactylomancy – Divination using a suspended object, particularly a finger ring, as a pendulum above a round table to foretell the future or answer a querant’s question

Daphnomancy – Divination using the smoke of burning branches of the laurel tree to answer questions and forecast upcoming events

DejaVu – The feeling or ability to know that one has experienced a thought or incident before; often in regard to reincarnation

Direct-Voice Medium – A psychic, or channel, who becomes the vehicle through which an entity can speak, without using the psychic’s own powers of speech or moving the psychic’s mouth

Divination – The ability to forecast the future by intuitive rather than unscientific or irrational means

Dowsing – The method used to search for hidden objects, subterranean springs, sites, precious metals, lost treasure and missing people using dowsing sticks or rods

Dream Interpretations – Divination by translating visions seen during the rapid eye movement (REM) segment of sleep, the deepest dream pattern state

Empyromancy – Divination by interpreting the smoke generated by burning laurel leaves

Enoptromancy – The ancient divination method of using a shiny surface placed in water to foretell the recovery (or death) of someone

Epatoscomancy – Divination through the examination of the entrails of animals

Extispiciomancy – Ancient divination method of forecasting the future by examining the viscera of animals

Fakir – General term describing anyone with psychic or mystical qualities or a member of the Muslim mendicant (begging) orders, which is an extension of the Hindu Order of India

Felidomancy – Divination though the observation of felines, including domestic and wild cats

Feng Shui – The Chinese principle of yin and yang as applied to the land

Finger Touching – Fingers used as transmitters and receivers of psychic knowing and energy

Fortune Telling – Divination using various metaphysical methods to foretell the future or answer a querant’s question

Gastromancy – Divination during which a psychic transmits a baritone voice that is unlike the voice of the psychic

Gelomancy – Divination though the interpretation of sounds other than those typically spoken, particularly laughter

Gematria – Divination trough translating words or sentences of literature and holy books, into number values

Geomancy – Divination by interpreting the patterns and shapes of objects or events found in nature

Gnosis – The general term for seeking to know

Graphology – Interpretation of personal characteristics though the study of handwriting, used by psychics as a key to personality

Guide – A highly evolved spiritual source of energy that is said to protect and inform, often providing prognostication to those who know how to listen

Gyromancy – Divination by moving in a circle until dizziness occurs

Halomancy – Divination by interpreting the formation of the crystals when salt is poured to the ground

Haruspicy – Divination through the use of the cracks that appear in the shoulder blade of a roasted sheep

Heiromancy – Divination through the use of scared articles and by observing sacrifices

Hepatomancy – Divination through observance and interpretation of the surfaces and cavities of animal livers

Hermetica – A controversial series of metaphysical writings and dialogues based on the unity of all things

Hippomancy – Divination involving the behavior of horses

Hydromancy – Divination by staring at water and interpreting what is seen in it

Iatromancy – The art of diagnosing illness physically

I Ching – Chinese system of divination in which one tosses or selects objects that supply information for questions on business, personal, or psychological concerns, with answers provided by the Book of Changes

Ichthyomancy – Divination by observing fish in and out of water and by examining the internal organs of fish

Indian Medicine Bundle – Sacred objects believed to have the power to make the wearer clairvoyant

Iridology – Observance of the iris of the eye to discern personal characteristics or health aspects of the querant

Kabbalah – The Hebrew system of medieval mysticism, magic and religion

Karma – Actions followed by consequences according to Hinduism, Buddhism, New Age thinking, metaphysics, and the Theosophy movement

Kelidomancy – Divination using suspended objects in order to foretell the future and/or respond to a querant’s question

Kephalonomancy – Ancient divination method of pouring lighted carbon on a baked goats head to determine guilt or innocence

Kirlian Photography – The art of photographing the auras of living or inanimate objects

Lampadomancy – Divination through the observation of flames from a candle or torch

Laws of Metaphysics – The principles of psychic and mystical sciences that are known to occur time and again

Laying On of Hands – A method of psychic healing

Leconomancy – Divination by the sound or movement made when an object is thrown into water; sometimes the water is covered with a film or oil

Levitation – The lifting of an object or person into the air and holding it there without visible physical means

Libanomancy – Divination through observing and interpreting the smoke rising from incense

Life Reading – Divination of future accomplishments and reverses and/or interpretation of past-life experiences; may also be used to divine a child’s future

Lithomancy – Divination by tossing colored stones, particularly crystals or gems, or other objects to foretell the future or interpret omens; may also refer to scrying with jewels or crystals

Lynchomancy – Divination using the wick of a burning candle or lantern to interpret an omen or foretell the future

Maculomancy – Divination by the shape, placement and size of birthmarks on the human body

Manticart – To ask a question either silently or verbally and to immediately use a system of in a manner that reveals the hidden answer

Mantic Objects – Articles used as a point of focus in a divination process

Margaritomancy – Divination of guilt or innocence using pearls

Meditation – A state of higher awareness, typically achieved through a quiet period of concentration

Medium – One who translates spiritual information from the ethereal realm to others on the earthly plane

Metaphysics – The study of that which is accepted as real without visible evidence of existence

Metopomancy – Divination and character analysis by studying the lines on a person’s forehead

Ming Sticks – Divination through the random selection of a numbered stick

Mirror Prophesy – Divination using a mirror to foretell the future or interpret omens and events

Moleomancy – Divination by the shape, placement, and size of moles on the human body

Molybdomancy – Divination by interpreting that hisses and patterns made by dropping molten lead into water

Myomancy – Divination by observing the behavior of rats or mice

Mystic – One who professes to know and be capable of delivering metaphysical knowledge in a new or innovative way

Mythology – Study and interpretations of myths, the cultural phenomena that are symbolic of and often describe and explain the origins of the cosmos

Natal Horoscope – A chart used for divination purposes, indicating the placement of the planets, moon, and stars at the time of birth or a particular event

Necromancy – Divination by beckoning and contacting the spirits of the dead to interpret omens and forecast future events

Nephelomancy – Divination using the patterns seen in cloud formations

Nigromancy – An ancient method of communicating with the dead to interpret omens and provide information on future events

Numerology – A divination system that uses the assignment of a number value to a letter in the alphabet

Occultism – The synthesis of science, mysticism, philosophy, psychology, and religion; used to indicate that which is of a spiritual, hidden, mystical, traditional, or secret nature

Oculomancy – Observance of the eye to discern the health aspects of a querant

Oinomancy – Divination and omen interpretation through studying and evaluating the color, consistency and taste of wine

Omens – Unusual activities, occurrences, or events used to prognosticate the future

Oneiromancy – Divination by interpreting visions experienced during the deepest state of sleep

Onimancy – Divination using olive oil

Onomancy – Divination by the meaning of a person’s name; sometimes called onomomancy or onomatomancy

Onychomancy – Divination by the study of the finger nails

Oomancy – Divination through the interpretation of the pattern made when an egg white is mixed with water or wine

Ophimancy – Divination by observing the behavior of snakes

Ornithomancy – Divination by the observance of flying birds or through bird’s songs

Ouija Boards – Trade marked products sold as toys but actually used in a form of dowsing

Out-of-Body Experience – To spiritually leave one’s physical body for a metaphysical experience

Palmistry – Divination by studying the shape and size of the hand, along with analysis of the lines, mounts, skin color and finger length

Pendulum Predictions – Divination using an object suspended from a string in order to interpret omens and/or foretell the future

Pessomancy – Divination through the use of pebbles poured onto the ground

Phrenology – Divination of physical, mental and spiritual characteristics through the interpretation of lumps on the head

Phyllomancy – Divination by studying the shape, patterns, veins and colors of leaves

Phyllorhodomancy – Divination by slapping a rose petal between the hands

Physiognomy – Divination of the future and analysis of one’s character by studying the face

Podomancy – Analyzing character or prognosticating the future through the study of lines on the feet

Prana – Sanskrit for “life force”

Precognition – Divination through the interpretation of an internal feeling

Predictions – Psychically obtained information prognosticating the future

Premonitions – A forewarning regarding future events

Psephomancy – Divination by selecting a random small stone from a pile

PSI – The 23^rd letter of the Greek alphabet selected at random to represent the X factor, an unknown quantity that cannot be explained

Psychic – One who has the ability to sense something without prior knowledge or the use of reason

Psychic Healer – One who is able to heal the sick using unorthodox methods and therapies that employ psychic principles

Psychic Surgery – A healing technique practiced in the Philippines and Brazil in which the psychic surgeon uses no instruments but claims to make incisions in the body

Psychometry – Prognostication through the use of objects or articles belonging to someone who is not present and unknown to the psychic

Psychotherapeutic Chiromancy – Psychic character analysis made by studying the nails, lines and fingers of the hand

Pyromancy – Divination by analyzing the flames of combustible objects

Radiesthesia – Divination using the vibrations from an object, article or site to locate that object, article or site

Rhabdomancy – Divination for water or precious gems and metals using rods or wands

Rhapsodomancy – The use of literature or a sacred book to forecast the future or answer a querant’s questions

Scapulomancy – Divination by interpreting the cracks in the shoulder bone of an animal, typically a sheep

Scatomancy – Divination by interpreting the patterns in one’s own feces

Sciomancy – Divination by the size and shape of a shadow

Scrying – Divination by meditation with staring at or interpreting the play of light on a shiny object or surface

Séance – A serious meeting of individuals interested in psychic occurrences at which a psychic calls forth spiritual energies

Selenomancy – Divination by studying the celestial conditions, especially the phases of the moon

Sideromancy – Divination by interpretation of the twisting and smoldering of pieces of straw placed on a red hot surface

Sortilege Systems – Any prognostication methods that employ objects with sides that are cast or drawn

Spiritualism – The belief that spirits of the dead can communicate with the living

Spodomancy – Divination by fire

Spotomancy – Divination through the casting of spot cards and sortes to foretell the future

Stichomancy – Divination through the reading of random selections of passages or verses from books

Stilisomancy – Divination according to the way a person dresses

Sycomancy – Divination by the rate at which fig leaves dry

Synastry – In astrology, a technique of comparing horoscopes

Synchronicity – Term created by Dr. Carl G. Jung in 1930 to denote two separate and dissimilar events that occur at the very same instant and are in fact related

Tables of Fate – Various sortilege methods used as parlor games to divine the future

Table Tipping – A technique used to communicate with spirits by which a table would be tipped, turned, or lifted

Tarot – Seventy eight specifically marked cards used for divination

Tassogrophy – Divination of the future or answering a querant’s question through a ritual practice of telepathically reading tea leaves

Telepathy – The direct experience of another person’s mental condition or state of being; ability to perceive and receive information through a means other than the traditional senses

Tephramancy – Divination from the ashes of combustible objects

Theomancy – Ancient Hebrew belief of divination by studying the mysteries of the universe

Theriomancy – Divination by studying the behavior of animals

Tirimancy – Divination by examining and interpreting the holes or mold on cheese

Transatuaumancy – Divination through chance remarks overheard in a crowd

Urimancy – Divination of yes and no answers through the use of lots to be cast, which were kept in a priest’s breastplate

Uromancy – Divination using wine

Xylomancy – Divination using the arrangement of dried sticks

Zener Cards – Cards developed to test the powers of ESP

Zoanthropy – Divination by observing and interpreting the flames of three lighted candles placed in a triangular position

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