Deliverance Ireland

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"Fortune-telling is the practice of predicting information about a person's life. The scope of fortune-telling is in principle identical with the practice of divination. The difference is that divination is the term used for predictions considered part of a religious ritual, invoking deities or spirits, while the term fortune-telling implies a less serious or formal setting, even one of popular culture, where belief in occult workings behind the prediction is less prominent than the concept of suggestion, spiritual or practical advisory or affirmation.

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Historically, fortune-telling grows out of folkloristic reception of Renaissance magic, specifically associated with Romani people. During the 19th and 20th century, methods of divination from non-Western cultures, such as the I Ching, were also adopted as methods of fortune-telling in western popular culture.

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There is opposition to fortune-telling in Christianity, Islam and Judaism based on scriptural prohibitions against divination. This sometimes causes discord in the Jewish community due to their views on mysticism.

Terms for one who sees into the future include fortune-teller, crystal-gazer, spaewife, seer, soothsayer, sibyl, clairvoyant, and prophet; related terms which might include this among other abilities are oracle, augur, and visionary.

 

Common methods used for fortune telling in Europe and the Americas include astromancy, horary astrology, pendulum reading, spirit board reading, tasseography (reading tea leaves in a cup), cartomancy (fortune telling with cards), tarot reading, crystallomancy (reading of a crystal sphere), and chiromancy (palmistry, reading of the palms). The last three have traditional associations in the popular mind with the Roma and Sinti people (often called "gypsies").

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Another form of fortune-telling, sometimes called "reading" or "spiritual consultation", does not rely on specific devices or methods, but rather the practitioner gives the client advice and predictions which are said to have come from spirits or in visions.

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• Alectromancy: by observation of a rooster pecking at grain

• Astrology: by the movements of celestial bodies.

• Astromancy: by the stars.

• Augury: by the flight of birds.

• Bazi or four pillars: by hour, day, month, and year of birth.

• Bibliomancy: by books; frequently, but not always, religious texts.

• Cartomancy: by playing cards, tarot cards, or oracle cards.

• Ceromancy: by patterns in melting or dripping wax.

• Cheiromancy: by the shape of the hands and lines in the palms.

• Chronomancy: by determination of lucky and unlucky days.

• Clairvoyance: by spiritual vision or inner sight.

• Cleromancy: by casting of lots, or casting bones or stones.

• Cold reading: by using visual and aural clues.

• Crystallomancy: by crystal ball also called scrying.

• Extispicy: by the entrails of animals.

• Face reading: by means of variations in face and head shape.

• Feng shui: by earthen harmony.

• Gastromancy: by stomach-based ventriloquism (historically).

• Geomancy: by markings in the ground, sand, earth, or soil.

• Haruspicy: by the livers of sacrificed animals.

• Horary astrology: the astrology of the time the question was asked.

• Hydromancy: by water.

• I Ching divination: by yarrow stalks or coins and the I Ching.

• Kau cim by means of numbered bamboo sticks shaken from a tube.

• Lithomancy: by stones or gems.

• Necromancy: by the dead, or by spirits or souls of the dead.

• Numerology: by numbers.

• Oneiromancy: by dreams.

• Onomancy: by names.

• Palmistry: by lines and mounds on the hand.

• Parrot astrology: by parakeets picking up fortune cards

• Paper fortune teller: origami used in fortune-telling games

• Pendulum reading: by the movements of a suspended object.

• Pyromancy: by gazing into fire.

• Rhabdomancy: divination by rods.

• Runecasting or Runic divination: by runes.

• Scrying: by looking at or into reflective objects.

• Spirit board: by planchette or talking board.

• Taromancy: by a form of cartomancy using tarot cards.

• Tasseography or tasseomancy: by tea leaves or coffee grounds.

 

Western fortune-tellers typically attempt predictions on matters such as future romantic, financial, and childbearing prospects. Many fortune-tellers will also give "character readings". These may use numerology, graphology, palmistry (if the subject is present), and astrology.

In contemporary Western culture, it appears that women consult fortune-tellers more than men. Some women have maintained long relationships with their personal readers. Telephone consultations with psychics (at very high rates) grew in popularity through the 1990s but they have not replaced traditional methods.

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Traditional fortune-tellers vary in methodology, generally using techniques long established in their cultures and thus meeting the cultural expectations of their clientele.

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In the United States and Canada, among clients of European ancestry, palmistry is popular and, as with astrology and tarot card reading, advice is generally given about specific problems besetting the client.

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Non-religious spiritual guidance may also be offered. An American clairvoyant by the name of Catherine Adams has written, "My philosophy is to teach and practice spiritual freedom, which means you have your own spiritual guidance, which I can help you get in touch with.”

In the African American community, where many people practice a form of folk magic called hoodoo or rootworking, a fortune telling session or "reading" for a client may be followed by practical guidance in spell-casting and Christian prayer, through a process called "magical coaching".

In addition to sharing and explaining their visions, fortune-tellers can also act like counselors by discussing and offering advice about their clients’ problems. They want their clients to exercise their own willpower."

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To sum the above up 'Fortune Telling' is demonic.  The person who does the telling is open to demonic attack and if they hear voices or see visions it is ALWAYS demons.  What they tell you will be truths and lies,  and that's only if the person has the capability of fortune telling.  Unfortunately and fortunately for you, only about 50% have this ability.

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