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fortunetelling

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Fortunetelling: The ability to predict a person’s future. The term is often equated with divination, but there is a difference. Divination assumes that we have the ability to change and create our own futures—we can alter what may be indicated. Fortunetelling, however, implies as fixed future—fate—that cannot be improved, avoided, or changed. Although more and more people have abandoned the concept of a fixed fate—and thus use “divination” rather than “fortunetelling”—many people still use “fortunetelling” to describe all of the divinatory arts, including Tarot, Runecasting, tea leaf reading, palmistry, etc.
source: Donald Michael Kraig

Also See: Divination

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ARTICLES

2 ARTICLES ON FORTUNETELLING


1. A Brief History of the Tarot: Traces the origins of Tarot from ancient Egypt
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2. Synchronicity and Tarot: The meaning of the word "synchronicity" and how it does not explain how the Tarot works, even though many people use the term for that purpose.
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