Divination

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John Michael Greer has been explaining how to do numerology over on his journal. I’ve really taken to this form of divination. Something about it fascinates me. I’ve been following his instructions and using it as a form of daily divination. Previously, as a divination method, I had learned a little bit about tarot. But I had not been using it for a while. The last few days, that has changed and I’ve been doing tarot spreads, trying to get a feel for interpreting the cards. I like numerology. It is simple and easy to perform, though as a consequence, the readings for each day are also fairly simple. Tarot, on the hand, is a little trickier for me because I tend to worry whether or not I’m interpreting the cards correctly.

A few days ago, it occurred to me that I might use these two kinds of divination at the same time. Why not do the numerology reading first, then use the tarot to tease out additional information? Knowing what the day will be like because of the numerological reading might help me better interpret my tarot spread. Perhaps they can serve as a check on me reading into the daily divination what my mind wants to see, and not what the divinatory method is actually saying. I’ll probably ask JMG about this on Magic Monday, but any comments are certainly welcome here.

A third method is one that I’ve tried a few times, and might also eventually take up, again. This is Biblical stichomancy. I didn’t find a very well developed system for this, and JMG was also unaware of one. Another commenter on his journal gave the gist of his system for doing this, and I got some decent results from it. It is as simple as numerology, but can provide a much greater diversity of readings. I suspect that, like tarot, properly interpreting my results is something I struggle with. I tend to fear that I’m reading into it what I want to see, not what is actually being said. And so, perhaps, using numerology as a check on this, too, could work out.