While there are many ways to practice divination, basically it comes down to two possibilities. Either it’s impetrative where we are asking for the information or it’s oblative where the information presents itself to us. We all experience the oblative variety constantly. The question is whether or not we pick up on the message and how able we are to interpret it.
I often divine from observing birds. That method is called augury or taking the auspices. I will divine from almost anything that catches my attention but I don’t try to turn every experience into a divination. You could make yourself crazy that way. As Shirley Jackson says:
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
With divination the question quickly becomes which is the reality and which is the dream because they tend to be one and the same. This is not cause and effect but something unexplainable. I might call it accessing the Tao.
Ba Zi and Feng Shui are divination methods. Casting the coins for Yi Jing or analyzing Flying Stars are too. Qi Men Dun Jia and Zi Wei Dou Shu are also forms of divination.
No matter what method you like or want to employ, divination is a very personal matter. I can help you with your divinations, or when it comes to Ba Zi and Yi Jing, I can help you learn to do then yourself.
