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  • Comparative Horoscopy

    • analysing planetary alignments at birth to predict fate/personality

    • Basis for modern astrology

  • Haruspicy

    • Examining the entrails of sacrificed animals for omens

    • Especially livers

  • Ornithomancy

    • Interpreting bird flight patterns and behaviors as signs of the future

  • Alectryomancy

    • Using a rooster’s pecking patterns on grain to divine answers

  • Pyro-Osteomancy

    • Burning animal bones and interpreting their cracks

  • Oneiromancy

    • Dream interpretation to predict future

    • Common in psychology and mysticism

  • Bibliomancy

    • Selecting random Bible or literary passages for guidance

  • Hydromancy

    • Water movement, colour or ripples to divine messages

  • Astragalomancy

    • Casting dice or knucklebones and interpreting patterns

  • Scyphomancy

    • Reading patterns in liquids inside a cup

  • Astrology

    • Studying celestial bodies to predict personal and world events

  • Future-Telling as a Career 

    • Palmistry 

      • Reading palm lines

    • Physiognomy

      • Predicting personalities based on facial features

    • Ceromancy

      • Dripping melted wax into water and interpreting shapes

    • Tasseography

      • Reading tea leaves or coffee grounds for fortune

    • Cartomancy

      • Using tarot or playing cards for divination

    • Fortune Teller

      • General term for someone who claims to predict future

    • Oracle

      • Person who provides prophecies through spiritual connection to deities

    • Soothsayer

      • Person who foresees the future using omens and other mystical means

    • Shaman

      • Spiritual guide or healer in indigenous and tribal cultures

    • Witch

      • Practitioner of magic (associated w/ spells/potions)

    • Clairvoyant

      • Person who claims to have the ability to perceive events

    • Ifá (Yoruba) 

      • West African System

      • based on interpreting signs from a divining chain or palm nuts

    • Jyotish (Indian Astrology)

      • Hindu Astrological System

      • predicts person fate based on celestial alignment at birth

    • I Ching (Chinese Divination)

      • Ancient Chinese system of casting hexagrams and interpreting it for guidance

      • Hexagrams: a figure composed of six stacked horizontal lines (yáo), where each line is either Yang (an unbroken, or solid line), or Yin.

    • Bazi (Chinese Four Pillars of Destiny)

      • Chinese astrological method that determines fate using birthday and time

    • Jiaobei

      • Chinese moon blocks used to receive divine answers

    • Omikuji

      • Randomized fortunes drawn at japanese shrines

    • Ouija Board

      • Used to communicate with spirits

    • Crystal Ball Gazing

      • Scrying into a crystal ball to receive visions

    • Fortune Cookies

      • a small, wedge-shaped wafer with a piece of paper inside dictating a fortune

    • Horoscopes

      • a chart in astrology which represents the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets, and other astronomical features