When will I find true love? Will I get the job? Will things get better in the new year? From the I Ching and palm reading to tarot and astrology, humans have long used all kinds of tools to predict ...

Magic, sorcery, conjuring and divination involve various strange and ancient practices and terms that can be quite confusing. All of these things fall under the heading of the much larger — and often ...

The Liver of Piacenza, a model of a sheep's liver used in Etruscan divination and unearthed in Italy in 1877. | Shonagon, Wikimedia // CC0 1.0 (cropped) The swirling shapes made by pouring melted wax ...

Ifa concept of cosmology as basis for divination -- The use of ancestor reverance in divination -- Divination with four cowries -- Transposing four coweries into Odu -- Obi Abata -- Merindinlogun -- ...

My time with a diviner in Kenya convinces me that there is value in traditional approaches to life's problems.

In the late 1740s, Samuel Meadwell arrived in London. A “raw country fellow” from Northamptonshire, he had come to work as a distiller’s apprentice and hoped to make his fortune. When a pair of women ...

Source: Heinrich Stürzl / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons We can define divination as using a systematic approach in order to try to gain insight into a situation or problem (Peek, 1991). In the ...

It’s easy for us to look around our world populated by iPhones, AI-driven data analysis, self-driving cars, and self-flying planes, and think that we, and our contemporary technology-rich culture, are ...