Uses of Guidance Deal with misfortune, illness or death Major decisions Avoid danger Determine guilt or innocence Appointment or election Find lost objects/persons Get special knowledge
Answering Questions through Oracles Organic Oracles Mechanical Oracles Oaths Presentiments Prophecies Dreams/visions/trance Possession Divination Astrology Omens Casting Lots Ordeals
Non-Physical Extra-Sensory Divination The ways in which people seek to determine the origin of a problem and discover the appropriate answer. Non-Physical Extra-Sensory Physical Human (body actions, ordeals, etc.) Animal (examination of entrails, ordeals, etc.) Plant (botonomancy) Non-living (astrology, geomancy, etc.) Physical manipulation (rod and pendulum) Astral travel Clairvoyance Visions/dreams Inspiration Possession Presentiments