I use divination to make decisions when I’ve exhausted all other methods to decide. I’ve researched and I will have examined the pros and cons and yet I still I haven’t a clear winner. Logic is saying that either there is some piece of information I still do not know, or there is no clear best answer.

Sometimes in life, you have to take a leap of faith and decide either way. This is where I use divination as a last resort.

What is Divination?

Dictionaries will state that divination is a means of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown, by supernatural means. I could not disagree with this more.

Divination methods are a way of communicating with your unconscious mind, higher self or intuition, using an external prop or device. It’s not supernatural, far from it. It is completely natural.

Examples of Divination I use

I will show you a few methods I use and try to explain how they work.

The Heart Touch Tethod

The heart touch is the easiest and quickest method I use. Pedants will say it isn’t divination, but I group it with the other methods I use to make decisions.

This method is ideal for yes/no decisions. For instance, I have just finished a sales quotation or long email and I am about to press send. I’ve already done the spellchecking and editing and I want to know if it’s ok to send.

I stop, close my eyes and take a few deep breaths. I will silently ask myself ‘should I send this yet?’ Then I will put my hand on my heart and notice how I feel. If I fell the answer is a clear yes, I press send. If the answer is a no, I will have a definite feeling of no, I don’t send. I know that deep down, there is something I need to change. Is the tone of the email wrong? Do I need to check for spelling or grammar mistakes? Or do I need to re-check my figures?

Usually when I check the piece, there is something wrong that needs to be corrected. I unconsciously knew that the article or message was not ready to send.

The Coin Toss as Divination

The coin toss technique is another way I use divination to decide. As before, I’ve already gone through the logical decision-making process and I still don’t have an answer. This is good for binary questions either yes or no, or where there are two options.

I will assign heads to one options and tails to the other. I then toss a coin to see what the answer is. Here is the important bit. The coin toss result, itself, isn’t the answer, it is the feeling I get when the result is known.

For instance, let’s say that you have two job offers, both offer the same salary and benefits in the same field. There is nothing obvious to help you make the decision. Company A is assigned heads and company B is tails. You toss the coin and tails lands face up. That means that company B wins, but there is a definite feeling of regret, that A didn’t win.

There you have it. Company A is the real winner and deep down you knew it.

The Pendulum Method

The pendulum technique is something I learned during my Hypnotherapy Training and is a way of letting your unconscious mind communicate with you. Like the coin toss, it works with binary decisions and will help you understand what you really want.

If you don’t have a pendulum, you can make your own simple one. All you need is a piece of cotton thread and a small weight with and eye hole on it, such as a key. Thread the cotton through the eye hole, so that each end is the same length. Tie a simple knot so that the key is fixed in position in the middle of the thread. Then tie the two loose ends together.

Hold your pendulum in front of your face with the weight at eye level and think of the question. Concentrate on the pendulum and it will eventually start rotating on the horizontal plane ie. it would look like a circle if you looked at it from above. Decision A is clockwise and B anticlockwise. Slowly you will start to move the pendulum and it will pick up speed until it is rotating freely.

Whichever direction the pendulum spins is the winner because you wanted it to. Again, you’ve found your answer.

Tarot Cards

I use Tarot cards for more complex issues. If your familiar with Tarot cards, you will know that each card has a different picture. Each picture has a specific scene or characters on it. There is no writing on the card, apart from the name, eg. The Moon, to help you understand what it means. The Moon card has the moon looking down between two standing towers and raining 9 flames down. A dog and a wolf look up at the moon and a crayfish crawls out of the sea. A winding path leads from the foreground up between the towers. What does this mean?

My understanding of how Tarot works is that you look at the card with your question in mind and the archetypes in the picture will resonate with how your unconscious mind works. Something in the card will spark a conscious thought that will help you arrive at your decision. For instance, with another job conundrum, you’ve been offered promotion and you’re not sure whether to accept. It’s more money, but more responsibility.

The moon reflects – so maybe I should reflect on this job opportunity more.

The dog and the wolf? The tame and the wild. Work and play. How will this job effect my work-life balance.

The crayfish – primitive life crawls from the sea, to evolve? How will this position help me to develop?

The winding path? It leads forward to who knows where. I must keep moving forward to progress?

Divination’s Bad Press

Divination has a bad press, from both science and religion, unfairly so. Science will say you can’t read the future. I agree, but you can use external props to help you understand your innermost wisdom, in the present. Religions don’t like divination, either, because it helps you to think for yourself!

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