INTRODUCTION TO DIVINATION SPELLS by Arianrhod Wolfchild

[Dept of PMM Artists & things]

 

INTRODUCTION TO DIVINATION SPELLS

 

The annals of magic are replete with old country customs that lay claim to the ability to see into the future. Tales of unmarried women placing wedding cake beneath their pillows to dream of a future husband rub shoulders with rather more morbid theories for predicting who will die in the next year. Beneath the superstitions and the bloodcurdling stories can be found the skeletal frame of magical traditions. In this section you will find spells containing formulas that may seem faintly familiar, precisely because their genesis is in the origins of some well- known customs. Divination of course, is not just about foretelling the future, It is also about reading patterns that already exist in order to get a better picture of what is possible, The majority of tarot card readers, for example, are not “fortunetellers” but experienced readers of the patterns of the present, symbolized within the various permutations of the card spreads. Similarly, palm readers may have predictive abilities, but much of their wisdom relies on reading your past and present in patterns set against a system of planetary
symbolism. All of the magical recipes in this section are included within a broad interpretation of divination that goes beyond simply predicting what the future has in store. 

The spells in this section are likewise diverse and are ranged around a number of different purposes. Here you will find the means by which to find solutions to problems and to discover who is false and who is true. For the romantic soul, there are traditional spells to discover the identity of your true love, to find out if your affections are returned, and to offer clues as to the nature of a future partner. There are, of course, spells for reading the patterns of what is likely to come.

You should remember, when using any of these spells, that the future is not set in stone—it hasn’t happened yet! All that any of these spells can show, common with any self-styled fortuneteller—are the likely configurations of what is
coming. How you respond to that likelihood is what will make your future. Belief in “fate” can be stultifying—and, indeed, the opposite of magic, which is always about change and transformation. A warning: if you keep repeating the same spell in pursuit of the same problem, you will get distorted readings. If you approach these spells with respect and common sense, you will not be disappointed.