Unfogging the Future
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Unfogging the Future
by Cassandra Vablatsky
Fortunetelling techniques
palmistry
bird entrails
reading tea leaves
playing cards
crystal ball
fire omens
astrology
Tea leaf reading
cross – “trials and suffering”
club – “an attack”
sun – “great happiness”
acorn – “windfall, unexpected gold”
falcon – “a deadly enemy”
skull – “danger in your path”
the Grim – “death”
Astrology
The study of Astrology requires a careful study of star charts relating to the date of a person’s birth. The students in Trelawney’s Divination classes have to create complicated charts and determine which planets were where and how that all affects their lives.
Centaur Divination
Firenze’s (and the rest of the Centaurs) practice Mundane, or political astrology. This is much older and concerns countries, regions, and the world in general. This is the astrology that Nostradamus used in his predictions. It has little to do with individual personalities, except when they rule (govern) countiries or affect the world (like You-know-who, and maybe Harry). But the statements about the world is between conflicts and Voldemort will return and the rest and even the famous “Mars is bright tonight” are all attributable to Mundane astrology. Firenze, burning mallow root and the rest is supporting mundane predictions with various forms of scrying. It’s similar to what the Ancient Greeks and Romans did. (And possibly the Chaldeans—the original astrologers—but we don’t know that much about their exact practices.)