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The Long And Interesting History Of Fortune Telling

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The Long And Interesting History Of Fortune Telling

No Comments 28 February 2012

Fortune-telling is the practice of predicting information about a person’s life.

People from ancient times until today from all over the globe are interested in fortune telling. Whether they are on the telling or receiving end. Fortune tellers are plentiful around the world. They portray the image of a gypsy woman dressed in colorful garb and accessories. Historically, fortune tellers grew from Renaissance magic associated with gypsies.

Fortune telling dates back to early history in Egypt and China. Fortune telling played a major part of ancient medicine and religion in ancient history. In the 14th century, tarot cards originated in France, Italy, India, China and Egypt.

Different cultures, like ancient Greeks and medieval kings, practiced many different fortune telling techniques.

Some of the different forms of fortune telling are astrology and numerology. Astrology is a predictive form of fortune telling. Numerologyis is practiced using crystal balls, playing cards, dice, fire and water.

Fortune tellers use various studies to analyze characters through forms like facial, handwriting and palm reading.

Following is a brief synopsis broken down into a several centuries:

Gypsies used tarot cards for fortune telling in ancient times, although, the cards were probably first used for games. Understood wisdom reaches the reader through the tarot cards.

In the 18th century, tarot cards were associated with magic.

In the 19th century, scholars connected the use of tarot cards to philosophy and other Egyptian mysteries.

In the 20th century, tarot cards were used by various societies for fortune telling.

During the 19th and 20th centuries, fortune telling methods became popular in the western culture. Examples of well known pop culture forture telling is the Magic 8-Ball, which is a toy sold by Mattel today.

Fortune tellers spread out the tarot cards and then read each card to interpret the meaning. The fortune teller relays the message interpreted to the interested seeker.

Long ago, there were several different types of tarot cards used. The venetian tarot cards are standard tarot cards with 78 cards in a deck. The Venetian deck is broken up into two groups of cards. One group consists of 56 cards (the Major Arcana) and the other group consists of 22 trump cards (the Minor Arcana).

The Major Arcana cards are spiritual cards reflecting on the seeker’s life. The fortune teller shuffles the tarot card deck and then lays out a few of the cards (either selected at random by the seeker or dealt off the top of the shuffled deck) in a spread. The meaning of a card is modified depending on its position in the spread, whether it is upside down or not, and the meaning of card adjacent to it.

Tarot cards describe various life energies. The tarot card fortune teller processes the energy into information about the seeker’s life. The seeker then processes the information given to them as creatively as they can. The tarot card reader doesn’t know what is going on in one’s life. Only the seeker can walk away with the information given to them and use it to their benefit. Tarot cards help seekers acknowledge what is projected from the card. It allows a seeker to be conscious. The perception that the card portrays is quite similar to a reflection in the mirror for a seeker. It allows the seeker to become more perceptive at a deeper level.

Based on biblical prohibitions, some religions oppose fortune telling. Not all of us are interested in knowing what the future holds, but for those of us who are, fortune telling is a popular interest all over the world and fortune tellers are plentiful.

The Origin of Christian Psychics

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The Origin of Christian Psychics

1 Comment 05 August 2011

People have always been intrigued about the unknown. To say intrigued is, perhaps, an understatement. It would be more fitting to say that people ‘fear’ the unknown. In fact, they fear it so much that they have tried to look for ways, both scientific and supernatural, to predict and determine what can happen what will happen.

This is the reason why psychics have flourished since time immemorial. Pagans believed in the existence of oracles – magical beings who know things ordinary people do not. They believe that these psychics possess certain powers endowed to them by gods and spirits. As such, only those who serve in the temples and altars are considered to be psychics.

Even with more civilized religions such as Christianity, belief in psychics is common. Christian psychics are thought to be very reliable since they are gifted by the real God. Of course, early Christians believed that only a few are endowed with such gifts, so they revere anyone with the power to see what the normal eyes can see.

Christian psychics were very useful, indeed, in the 15th century until the 20th century. The Holy Roman Empire, the bastion of Roman Catholicism, required their services for a variety of purposes. Among their most important of their uses is the judgment of the weaknesses of the enemies of the church. During the Crusades’ campaigns, Christian psychics assessed the well-being of the Turks, as well as their chances of defeat or victory.

However, Christian psychics were most used horrifically during the Inquisition. The Inquisition was a brief period where the Church hunted heretics and witches. These people, according to church authorities then, looked and behaved normal. But at night, when everybody else is off guard, they would transform physically to terrorize an entire community by bringing about unexpected deaths and strange and deadly diseases. Of course, not everyone can recognize a witch.

This is where Christian psychics come to work. Because of their inherent mental powers given to them by God, they were able to recognize accurately who among the populace ‘worked for the devil.’

The Church and its followers had so much faith in them that they instantly killed anybody who was recognized as a witch by the Christian psychics. And, because it was physically impossible to kill with devilish powers, they burned them to death.

Eventually, they started to have courts to make things more humane and more fair — supposedly. But still, the decisions were made by the psychics. The suspected witches were made to defend themselves. Of course, because of the Christian psychics, they weren’t really believed.

In the 18th century, the witch hunts by the Church were finally considered as a big sham. The supposedly honest psychics took a hit, too, but people still looked up to them. Psychics were still consulted with things that were impossible to understand and puzzles that couldn’t be solved.

Science, however, remained sceptical of the psychics and their gifts. For them, it is a question that remains unanswered.

 


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