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Magical Divination uses magical tools like Tarot cards and Tarot spreads, Runes and Rune Scripts, and Scrying by gazing into a pool of water, candle flame, or crystal ball to gain revelatory and prophetic visions. All of these magical divination tools are useful for obtaining information or insights about people, circumstances and happenings; as well as, for answering questions about the past, present, and future. To the magician, the oracular Tarot arcana are archetypal expressions that encompass all aspects of being from the minutest particles and cells of the body to the most distant galaxies and their largest stars; from DNA spirals to emotional moods; from survival needs to vast spiritual aspirations. The symbolism and meditative meanings of the Tarot Arcana are a way to intuit and interpret the outworkings of the One Mind, the Greek "Logos". Since the Arcana transcend the normal boundaries of relative time and space, deciphering their mysteries empowers the magician with the ability to transmute, change, restore, revitalize, and transform. Another magical divination tool for that the magician uses is knowledge encoded in the Astrological Zodiac. The Zodiac, which is comprised of the twelve Astrological Signs and their corresponding planets, stars, and constellations, finds outward expression through Astrology.
The magician astrologer
synthesizes how the planets and stars at the time of birth on the Earth
imprinted the physical body, mind, emotions, psyche, and soul with patterns and
potentials that affect every area of life in progressive cycles of growth and
evolution.
The truism "As Above So Below" is as apropos today as it was in the times of Hermes and the ancient Egyptian magicians. Since magicians sometimes work with breath, vitality, and the alchemical Doctrine of Correspondences, they also sometimes use the astrological Zodiac as a magical tool for divination before performing magical rituals. For more information about Astrology and the Zodiac please see the Astrological Astrology Planets Zodiac Articles Magic is enchantment, spellcasting, bewitchment, and using the will to alter reality. Everything is interconnected and magic practitioners use consecrated magical tools to focus and send forth energies from within themselves, from the deities, or from natural power places to influence and to shape desired outcomes and to pattern events. A straw broomstick called a Besom is used before casting a circle to sweep away negative energies. It is also used in ceremonies such as handfastings, as well as, for sympathetic magic rituals, like showing the crops how high to grow by straddling the broomstick and jumping up and down. A circle is a protective space that surrounds magical rituals and ceremonies. Sabbat celebrations (where the holiday myths are ritualized through dancing, singing, drama, revelry, and feasting) are held within the sacred circle. An altar is a raised flat surface, preferably outdoors, typically a table, a tree stump, or a large level stone that is used during the casting of spells and rituals.
The arrangement of magical
tools on the altar varies from sole practitioner to sole practitioner and from
coven to coven but usually includes: candles, incense, salt, a pentacle, a
chalice, a bell, an athame, and some representation of the goddess and god...Continue
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