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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh, I love divination systems myself. I don't think they have any predictive validity, but I think they have value in "de-rutting" your thoughts. I find they foster creativity and unjam blocks and such by putting a new way of looking at issues.

Currently I'm playing around with the 易经 (Yijing/I-Ching). (I literally just put up a photo-essay yesterday of some of my tools, and a photo-essay with two forms of divination, including the Yijing a couple of weeks before.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I think they have value in "de-rutting" your thoughts. I find they foster creativity and unjam blocks and such by putting a new way of looking at issues.

That's exactly the way I look at things like tarot as well. The cards tell you little stories that you relate to things in your own life. And it can provide new angles to look at things from and possible new insights. It's definitely not how it's portrayed in movies and Death does not literally mean death lol. I think something like astrology works in pretty much the same way.