Psychometry

Psychic readers sometimes use Psychometry to tune in to the energy patterns that we leave on everyday items. Metal objects are considered best for this such as, rings, watches, bracelets or other jewellery. The connection is usually stronger if the person in question has worn the item for a considerable length of time. Some practitioners are especially good with cloth or clothing, again worn by the person in question. Psychometry is also a method that some Psychics use to help the police with finding or connecting with missing people. An object or even a photograph is given to the reader to help them connect with that person alive or dead.

Whenever people handle an object they are putting down information about themselves on the object. Our bodies give off magnetic energy fields similar to that of a magnetic recording on an audio tape. If many people have handled the item, it can be quite confusing as the reader can be sent mixed messages from all those people. It could contain information about family history if the object has been passed down the family. The Psychic tunes in and plays back the information, just like the tape machine. These images and messages appear in the unconscious mind of the Psychic reader who then brings them to the fore. Imagine for a moment you were going to a party and were to place a tape recorder next to you while you have your conversations with all the different guests. If you write down what you heard and compared it to the tape when you got home, you would find there were so many things that you did not hear. When you ‘tune in’ to a conversation, this is similar to what a Psychic does with all these messages. Psychometry is also a very useful way to start a reading to get some basic details, and start tuning in. Many psychic readers begin with Psychometry.

Tarot

Many psychic readers use Tarot to tune in to their spirit guides. A pack of Tarot cards are usually numbering seventy-eight, were used from the mid fifteenth century in many parts of Europe, originally to play games such as the Italian Tarocchini and French Tarot. Tarot cards have been used by occultists and psychics since the late 18th century to now for divination and readings of spiritual pathways. There are four suits the same as the suits of conventional playing cards. Each of these suits runs from ace to ten, there are also the four face cards totalling fourteen cards. The difference between Tarot cards and regular playing cards is the 22 cards known as ‘Major Arcana’ from the card numbered 0 ‘The Fool’ to card number 21 ‘The World’.

Playing cards were first used in Europe around the 14th century. The Tarot swords, cups, pentacles and wands are still used on Spanish and Portuguese traditional playing cards. The first known Tarot cards were used from around 1440 in Northern Italy because the additional 22 cards that make up the Major Arcana were introduced, and became "Trump cards". Divination using playing cards is recorded as early as 1540 in a book called The Oracles of Francesco Marcolino da Forli, although the cards themselves were not thought to have meaning. From the 1700s Tarot cards were being used for divination as they are today.

Early versions of Tarot decks were quite different. On some packs there were sixteen picture cards with images of Greek Gods, soon after astronomical images followed and pictures of various Heros and poets appeared. Three sets of cards were made for the Visconti family in the 15th century. The first one was called the Cary-Yale Tarot by an unknown painter known to the family; they can still be seen today in the Cary collection at the rare book Library in Yale University. Tarot cards were hand painted and afforded by only the upper classes up until the invention of the printing press in 1843. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Tarot cards started to be used by psychic readers and mystics. It is thought that the word ‘Tarot’ comes from the Egyptian words ‘Tar’ meaning Royal and ‘Ro’ meaning road. This meant that the word ‘Tarot’ means ‘Royal Road’ of wisdom. The Gypsies were the first to use Tarot cards for divination and fortune telling as they were descendants of the ancient Egyptian nomads. The Rider-Waite Tarot has been the most popular and famous Tarot deck although nowadays there are more than 150 decks to choose from.

Numerology (How to work out your own numbers)

Numerology is based on the relationship between numbers objects and living things. A person’s birth chart of four numbers, the first three are used from the questioners first (or given) name and the last one is the birth date.

The numbers for a name are found by using the following chart: -

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

A B C D E F G H I

J K L M N O P Q R

S T U V W X Y Z

The birth year number is reduced to a single digit by doing the following: - Let’s use the year 1965. 1+9+6+5=21, then 2+1=3 so the number reduces to 3 for the year number. When the calculation comes out to a double figure, it is referred to as a “Master Number”. The birth date number or “Destiny Number” is calculated by January being number 1, February number 2 and so on. The double digit months reduce to single digits October 1+0=1, November 1+1=2 and December 1+2=3. Write down you birth day and reduce and double digits in the same way as before unless the numbers are 11, 22 etc. Now add the year, month and day (single digits you now have) together and reduce it to a single number in the same way you did before. Remember, don’t reduce double figures (master numbers) like 11, 22, 33 etc. The single digit you are left with is your “Destiny Number” also known as “Life Number”

Use the following link to check what your life path number means. (don’t forget to come back to this page) http://numerologist.com/numerology/life-path.html Now you need to work out your star sign as numerology combines with Astrology also. Use the following chart.

ARI=1 or TAU=2 or GEM=3 or CAN=4 or LEO=5 or VIR=6 or LIB=7 or SCO=8 or SAG=9 or CAP=10 or AQU=11 or PIS=12 Your “Destiny Number “added to your “Sign Number” is you “Destiny Direction Number”. Finally add them together leaving a single number (unless they are master numbers in doubles like 11 or 22). Use the following link to check what your destiny direction number means, this describes your character. http://numerologist.com/numerology/expression.html

I-Ching

I-Ching also known as "the book of changes" originates from China dating back to the Han Dynasty 50 BC to AD 10, but it became more popular in the west since the 1960s. Ancient Chinese fortune tellers and soothsayers used I-Ching to predict the outcome of battles and political manoeuvres of their Emperors. I-Ching is said to be used for more than three thousand years but put down in text several hundred years later. The translation of the words I-Ching means "Changes."

The layout of the Changes is a set of 64 six-line diagrams known as "hexagrams" and each one symbolizes a completely different situation, and each of a hexagram's six lines symbolizes a different stage or aspect of that situation, evolving forward in time and upward in society from the bottom of the hexagram to the top.

The symbolism is based on seeing solid lines as strong and active and broken lines as weak. The meanings of all the hexagrams are derived from this simple symbolism. Each hexagram can be analyzed into an upper group of 3 lines and a lower group of 3 lines. These are called the upper and lower "trigrams”, and there are 8 different trigrams and each of them has a specific symbolic meaning based on its arrangement of solid and broken lines. To make a divination, the diviner randomly sorted 50 small plant stalks to pick a hexagram and put an emphasis on one or more of its lines.

I-Ching is still very popular with psychics and mystics today for predicting the outcome to ones actions.

Fortune telling

This is the generic term we use for divination using a wide range of tools and instruments.

Pendulum reading, reading tea leaves in the bottom of a cup known as tasseography, Tarot card reading, and the reading of stones or gems is called 'cartomancy', Crystal ball reading, palmistry (the reading of hands). Tarot cards, crystal balls, palmistry and the reading of tea leaves were, and still are used by Gypsies, along with the term "Fortune Telling".

The Chinese adopt a different approach using suan ming (face calculating) and also Palm reading is done in a similar way to the west. The Chinese also use Chi-Chi sticks which are numbered chopsticks in a tumbler. They are then shaken until one falls out and is then read against a list with corresponding number.