Types of Divination Practices

Types of Divination Practices:

• Aeromancy - divination by observing the air, sky, comets, stars

• Aiomancy - divination using artificial intelligence

• Amathomancy - divination by sand

• Anemomancy - divination by wind

• Astrology

• Astro-cartography

• Arachnomancy - divination through the analysis of behavior and appearance of spiders

• Arithmancy - giving words or phrases a numerical significance

• Augury

• Austromancy

• Batraquomancy/Batrachomancy - divination by frogs

• Bibliomancy - divining through books, including rhapsodomancy, stitchomancy, chartomancy

• Capnomancy - divining with smoke

• Carromancy - divination by melting wax

• Cartomancy - divining with modern playing cards

• Ceromancy - divining with melted wax

• Chirognomy - divination through palm and hand reading (chirology, chiromancy, and palmistry)

• Clairaudience

• Clairvoyance

• Chresmomancy - divination by the ravings of lunatics

• Colormancy - divination by colors

• Conchomancy - divination by shells

• Cryomancy - divination by ice

• Crystallomancy - scrying with a crystal ball

• Cubomancy - divination by dice

• Dowsing - finding and locating certain items in the Earth

• Geomancy - divination using the Earth, rocks and sand

• Graphology - determining person's character by their handwriting

• Halomancy - divination by salt

• Hydromancy (Pegomancy)

• I Ching

• Lecanomancy

• Lithomancy

• Meteormancy

• Molescopy

• Necromancy

• Nephomancy - divination through clouds

• Numerology/Numeromancy

• Oinomancy

• Oneiromancy - divining through dream interpretation

• Onomatomancy

• Ornithomancy - divining through bird flight paths and patterns

• Palmistry

• Pegomancy

• Pessomancy

• Physiognomy

• Podomancy

• Psychometry

• Pyromancy

• Rhapsodomancy

• Runes

• Sciomancy - divination through the color, size and shape of shadows and shade

• Scrying

• Solestry -divination

• Sortilege -divination by casting or drawing of lots

• Stitchomancy - divination by books or lines

• Taromancy - divination by tarot reading

• Tasseography/Tasseomancy - divination from sediment of tea leaves, coffee and wine

• Tyromancy - divination from cheese

• Zoomancy - Augury using the appearance and behavior of any animal

• Coffee Grounds