Divine guidance can come in many ways like dreams, an inner voice, or signs and synchronicities showing up around us. But while these often appear to be more random and not so reliable for many people, there are other ways of getting guidance on demand. One of these ways would be to deliberately ask for guidance from the outside and then open the book at a random page or draw a tarot card. And there are many more divination tools available (like pendulum, ouija board, tea leaf readings, etc.)

The process is like asking for inner guidance. Asking and then expecting and receiving an answer, and afterward interpreting and trusting it.

Book divination

Here is an example of book divination that I wrote for the divine guidance workshop in 2017:
“As I am writing this chapter, my rheumatoid arthritis has flared up recently and I am in much pain and worried that this will go on. I go to the bookshelf and take out a random book. Love Has Forgotten No One, by Gary Renard seems like a good choice. I ask the book to show me a message which relates to my current state of mind. Then I open the book on a random page. The following quote immediately jumps at me:

‘A truly spiritual attitude would be that there isn’t any difference between having a healthy body or a sick body.’ p84
Well, that is not really helpful with my pain, but it is clearly related to the question of physical health.”

Tarot

Online tarot cards work amazingly well for me currently. The advantage over book divination for me is that I don’t stand a long time indecisively in front of my bookshelf pondering which book to pull out. I am usually stunned by the results of the tarot cards. How can this be possible? But at the fundamental level, we are consciousness and everything is connected via consciousness. So, my deepest layer of being is connected to the tarot cards on my screen.

I find it helpful to use this more on-demand type guidance of tarot cards as a jumping-off point for getting more guidance. After getting the tarot card, I can then journal about what it might mean. Or as for a dream or signs for further clarification.

Currently (Dec 2021), I am taking a follow-up class to the recent channeling class and one of our exercises was to draw a tarot card or an oracle card for someone else and then channel something (or write something using our intuition) about what that card meant. This was a good way to combine divination tools with channeling and the results were amazing.

While the guidance-on-demand aspect of divination tools is great, there can be the challenge of how to interpret what we got. The interpretation of a tarot card can be according to what is written in the accompanying booklet. Or it can have a different meaning. I think, as with signs (like numbers, pennies, feathers) and dreams, it is not necessarily always the meaning in the accepted ‘woo-dictionary’, but rather the meaning that a particular sign has for ourselves. Each one’s personal dictionary of meanings can be different. For example, for me in dreams ‘dancing’ means ‘to communicate/share about my spiritual journey’. And for me, number 5 means ‘change is ahead’, while for someone else it means ‘you are halfway there’. And the same can apply to tarot or oracle cards. Go with your personal intuition or gut feeling about the card and not necessarily with what the booklet says.

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For more information about divine guidance, you can download my workshop script (pdf) here: https://karinfinger.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/divine_guidance_workshop_script.pdf

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Author: Karin Finger

Source: https://karinfinger.wordpress.com/2021/12/16/divine-guidance-through-divination-tools/