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The style of astragalomancy using numerical trigrams was widespread, and evidence of such is found in Turkish, Tibetan, Sanskrit, and Sogdian divination texts [20] from the sixth century through to the 10th century. One particular text is called the Divination of Maheśvara, found on the silk road frontier of Dunhuang. [21]
An ancient symbol of a unicursal five-pointed star circumscribed by a circle with many meanings, including but not limited to, the five wounds of Christ and the five elements (earth, fire, water, air, and soul). In Satanism, it is flipped upside-down. See also: Sigil of Baphomet. Rose Cross: Rosicrucianism / Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Based upon the mathematics involved in generating the charts, the Judge figure must always have an even number of points. For this reason, all the figures that can appear as Judges (i.e. have an even number of points) are also termed impartial figures; they represent objective states of the world observable equally by any party.
Here, they assign the figures from the shield chart to the houses in the house chart; the order used differs between different circles of occultists. While European geomancers still used the shield chart to generate the figures and provide most answers, they augmented geomancy with astrological techniques in the house chart. Based upon the ...
"To divination and casting of lots, they pay attention beyond any other people. Their method of casting lots is a simple one: they cut a branch from a fruit-bearing tree and divide it into small pieces which they mark with certain distinctive signs and scatter at random onto a white cloth.
Nine of Cups: Near completion of the suit, the nine of a given suit typically represents a near completion of the symbolism (as with the Suit of Cups and Suit of Pentacles), or an overwhelm by the symbolism (as with the Suit of Swords and Suit of Wands). In the Rider-Waite Tarot; a well fed, self-satisfied individual sits with nine cups behind.
biorhythmic divination: by biorhythms; bletonism/bletonomancy / ˈ b l ɛ t ən ɪ z əm /: by water current (named for Monsieur Bleton, a French bletonist) bolomancy / ˈ b ɒ l oʊ m æ n s i / → see belomancy (Greek bolē, ' arrow ' + manteía, ' prophecy ') bone-throwing: the tossing of pieces of bone or wood practiced by various cultures ...
Greek divination is the divination practiced by ancient Greek culture as it is known from ancient Greek literature, supplemented by epigraphic and pictorial evidence. Divination is a traditional set of methods of consulting divinity to obtain prophecies (theopropia) about specific circumstances defined beforehand.