Lux Esoterica (Nifiluz)

A Yoruba 'Opon Ifá' (divination board)—the sacred space where the Babalawo mediates between the human world and the wisdom of Orunmila through the casting of palm nuts. The Sacredness of the Lot: An Introduction to Cleromancy In the modern mind, the "Throw of the Dice" is often synonymous with random chance or gambling. However, in the ancient and esoteric view, there is no such thing as an accident. Cleromancy , the art of divination by the casting of lots, assumes that the physical outcome of a toss is the direct manifestation of a higher, divine order. It is the practice of surrendering the individual ego to the "Hand of God" or the Universal Law , allowing the physical world to become a temporary mouth-piece for the unseen. Esoterically, cleromancy is the Alchemy of Synchronicity . It operates on the belief that at any given moment, the entire universe is compressed into a single point. By casting stones, bones, seeds, or dice, the diviner "s...

Before the Tarot, before the I Ching was known outside China, before astrology developed its current elaborate system — human beings looked down at the earth beneath their feet and read it. They watched the patterns in thrown sand, in the marks left by sticks in soil, in the distribution of pebbles — and from these patterns, they sought wisdom about the questions that have always driven oracular practice: What is happening beneath the surface? What is coming? What should I do? Geomancy (from the Greek geo , earth, and manteia , divination) is the art of divination through the interpretation of patterns formed on or in the earth — or, more broadly, through the interpretation of specific dot and line patterns generated through various random processes. It is one of the oldest and most cross-culturally widespread of all divination systems, practiced across medieval Europe, the Islamic world, Sub-Saharan Africa, and pre-modern China in forms that share remarkable structural similarities ...