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 Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 2:37 pm
 Professor Kain
"Oh? Please do tell. I'd like to hear your experiences, Naomi."
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Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 5:30 pm
Well, I was once using a Ouija board in the field behind my house. I had written the letters and numbers with my quill, taken a coin, and began asking for spirits to show themselves.
Is anything with me right now?
Yes.
What is your name?
Pepper.
What are you?
A girl.
When were you born?
1905.
How did you die?
Murder.
Are you angry?
Yes.
Are you here to hurt me?
Yes.
I saw a flash of the face of a young girl overpowered by resentment, screaming with a wide mouth and shadowed eyes. I ripped the parchment and raced back into the house, casting both pieces into the fire and cleansing the coin in salt water. I commanded the presence of the young girl to leave me be, and I haven't heard from her since, so I think whatever I did worked. Is that anything like what you've heard, Professor Kain?
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Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2010 6:30 pm
Sounds in-tents. Like camping!
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Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2010 10:12 pm
Aludra Yvette... "Well, as scary as that sounds, I dont believe there is ghosts that would even degrade themselfs with that Muggle board game. Its just a teenage girls imagination playing tricks on them." ALudra said, tucking her notes inside of her Divination book. ...6th Year Slytherin
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Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2010 11:23 pm
Ravenclaw 5th Year~
:she finishes her notes quickly with her new quill. then rests her hand from cramp-writing position:
"Professor, I believe in the existance of such spirit boards, but refuse to have them anywhere near me. Why would I want that kind of thing in my house or room. And PLAYING such board games is just welcoming evil to have a go at you. I may sound very opinionated, but this is proven to cause disturbances."
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Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 10:21 am
I dunno Aludra... It sounds pretty real. You have a point, but you may want to keep your mind open anyways... Scary stuff. eek
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Keep Calm I am The Doctor Crew
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Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 10:51 am
 Daemon Sadi
Seventh year Slytherin studentDaemon slid into the back of the class, opening his book. He really had no idea why he had to take Divination. He had no expections.
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Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 12:44 pm
Professor Kain
"That story sounds a little hard to believe, but who knows. The stories I've heard generally had something to do with the board spontaneously glowing and disembodied screams. I also saw this documentary where this witch used a spirit board to drive her landlord mad so she could take over and she ended up dying because the spirit of the landlord's dead wife took revenge. So like I said, if you choose to use one, use it with caution.
Tomorrow, we will be starting Cartomancy/Taromancy. This is another form of Divination that I have personally experienced and still occasionally practice to this day."
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Sparrow Puppy Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 12:54 pm
Oh wow those are some scary instances. Still don't think i am going to use one any time soon.
And I can't wait for the next lesson.
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Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 2:52 pm
Daemon Sadi
Seventh year Slytherin studentDaemon cast his eyes over previous notes as he decided on tea leaves. The teacher was busy and tea leaves were safe. He drank slowly, grimancing. Hot.
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Keep Calm I am The Doctor Crew
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Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2010 6:12 pm
Aludra Yvette... Aludra stretched a bit and yawned, a little bit tired from all of the notes. "I want to use one... but I dont think the Headmaster would like use messing around with the spirits." ...6th Year Slytherin
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Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 2:00 pm
Professor Kain
"Today we are starting Tarot. First I will go into Cartomancy which is basically the same as tarot but you use a regular deck of cards.
Cartomancy is fortune-telling or divination using a deck of cards. Forms of cartomancy appeared soon after playing cards were first introduced into Europe in the 14th century. Practitioners of cartomancy are generally known as cartomancers, card readers or, simply, readers. Some practitioners have claimed that cartomancy's origins date back to ancient Egyptian times.
Cartomancy using standard playing cards was the most popular form of providing "fortune telling" card readings in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. In English-speaking countries, a standard deck of Anglo-American bridge/poker playing cards (i.e., 52-card, four suit set) can be used in the cartomancy reading; the deck is often augmented with jokers, and even with the blank card found in many packaged decks. In France, the 32-card piquet playing card deck was, and still is, most typically used in cartomancy readings, while the 52-card deck was, and still is, also used for this purpose. (For a piquet deck, start with a 52-card deck and remove all of the 2s through the 6s. This leaves all of the 7s through the 10s, the face cards, and the aces.)
In recent years, however, the popularity of Tarot readings has diminished to a certain degree the popularity of the once-common cartomancy readings using standard playing cards.
According to some, a deck that is used for cartomancy should not be used for any other purpose. Cartomancers generally feel that the deck should be treated as a tool and cared for accordingly. Some cartomancers also feel that the cards should never be touched by anyone other than their owner."
((Sorry for being a little late to post these. My fiancee and I went out for a late lunch and checked this one local shop to see if they got any light hooka hoses in))
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Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 2:01 pm
Professor Kain
"Although a standard playing card deck can be used for cartomancy, other decks are used such as tarot decks. In the view of some, including the webmaster of the Aeclectic Tarot website, any deck that is not a tarot deck (56 minor arcana with 4 suits of 14 cards and 22 major arcana) is referred to, more generally, as a cartomancy deck.
The Tarot deck differs somewhat from the standard deck used for cartomancy. The Tarot deck consists of twenty-one "trump" cards and a "Fool" card, these being referred to collectively by occultists as Major Arcana, and fifty-six conventional cards, called the Minor Arcana (Arcana means "hidden things"). Each Minor Arcana suit contains four court cards (usually king, queen, knight and page) along with the usual ten numbered, or pip, cards.
French suited Playing Card and Latin suited Tarot Equivalents
* Clubs = Sticks or wands (power) Fire element Salamander
* Diamonds = Coins or mirrors, aka Pentacles (health; material matters) Earth element Gnome
* Hearts = Cups (emotions) Water element Undine
* Spades = Swords (intellect; education) Air element Sylph
* Tears = Waves (aging, experience) Wood element Fae
* Hands = Groups of people (togetherness) Metal element Dwarf
The suits "Swords" and "Wands" are disputed between cartomancers."
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Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 2:03 pm
Professor Kain
"The interpretations of the meanings of different cards even within the same deck varies greatly among cartomancers. This raises doubt in the idea that there is some objective message coming directly from the cards, as might necessary for amateur cartomancers to derive use from them. While most parapsychologists would argue that the card reader's psi faculties ought to play a significant role in determining both how the cards land and how they are interpreted - making the lack of an objective standard irrelevant stricto sensu - the lack of a shared understanding of card meanings clearly hinders both verification of cartomancy's effectiveness and communication between practitioners.
Cartomancy has also been criticized for not providing a proposed physical mechanism by which cards could be used to predict one's future. Additionally, there have been no tests to date that show that cartomancy does any better than chance in either predicting the future or determining traits about individuals, despite large incentives to cartomancers who can show a successful test, such as the Randi challenge.
Divination techniques such as cartomancy are forbidden within Christianity and Judaism: - "Ye shall not... practise divination nor soothsaying." - Lev. xix. 26"
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Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 2:09 pm
Professor Kain"Tarot reading revolves around the belief that the cards can be used to gain insight into the current and possible future situations of the subject (or querent), i.e. cartomancy. Some believe they are guided by a spiritual force, such as Gaia, while others believe the cards help them tap into a collective unconscious or their own creative, brainstorming subconscious. The divinatory meanings of the cards are derived mostly from the Kabbalah of Jewish mysticism and from Medieval Alchemy.
The original purpose of tarot cards is sometimes thought to be for playing games, with the first basic rules appearing in the manuscript of Martiano da Tortona before 1425. Tarot cards would later become associated with mysticism and magic. Tarot was not known to be adopted by mystics, occultists and secret societies until the 18th and 19th centuries. The earliest known use of tarot cards for divination was in Bologna Italy, around 1750, using an set of divinatory meanings entirely different from modern divinatory tarot.[3] Modern occult tarot begins in 1781, when Antoine Court de Gébelin, a Swiss clergyman and Freemason, published Le Monde Primitif, a speculative study which included religious symbolism and its survivals in the modern world. De Gébelin first asserted that symbolism of the Tarot de Marseille represented the mysteries of Isis and Thoth. Gébelin further claimed that the name "tarot" came from the Egyptian words tar, meaning "royal", and ro, meaning "road", and that the Tarot therefore represented a "royal road" to wisdom. De Gébelin also asserted that the Gypsies, who were among the first to use cards for divination, were descendants of the Ancient Egyptians (hence their common name; though by this time it was more popularly used as a stereotype for any nomadic tribe) and had introduced the cards to Europe. De Gébelin wrote this treatise before Jean-François Champollion had deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs, or indeed before the Rosetta Stone had been discovered, and later Egyptologists found nothing in the Egyptian language to support de Gébelin's fanciful etymologies. Despite this, the identification of the Tarot cards with the Egyptian "Book of Thoth" was already firmly established in occult practice and continues in modern urban legend to the present day.
The idea of the cards as a mystical key was further developed by Eliphas Lévi and passed to the English-speaking world by The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Lévi, not Etteilla, is considered by some to be the true founder of most contemporary schools of Tarot; his 1854 Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (English title: Transcendental Magic) introduced an interpretation of the cards which related them to Hermetic Qabalah. While Lévi accepted Court de Gébelin's claims about an Egyptian origin of the deck symbols, he rejected Etteilla's innovations and his altered deck, and devised instead a system which related the Tarot, especially the Tarot de Marseille, to the Hermetic Qabalah and the four elements of alchemy.
Tarot divination became increasingly popular in the New World from 1910, with the publication of the Rider-Waite-Smith Tarotin December 1909, (designed and executed by two members of the Golden Dawn), which replaced the traditionally simple pip cards with images of symbolic scenes. This deck also further obscured the Christian allegories of the Tarot de Marseilles and of Eliphas Levi's decks by changing some attributions (for instance changing "The Pope" to "The Hierophant" and "The Popess" to "The High Priestess"). The Rider-Waite-Smith deck still remains extremely popular in the English-speaking world."
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