Tarot reading is divining wisdom and guidance through a specific spread, or layout, of Tarot cards. There are 78 cards in a traditional Tarot deck that provide insight into the innermost truths of your higher self. Working with the Tarot clarifies anything clouded, whether paths to personal growth or choices around your love life or career. 

Where to begin: Try simpler, smaller spreads using only three cards. A three-card spread can have many interpretations in and of itself, such as past-present-future, mind-body-spirit, or situation-action-outcome.

Like Tarot cards, oracle cards provide an evolved awareness of what you already know deep within. Unlike Tarot cards, oracle cards have no set structure and can vary in the number of cards each deck contains. 

Where to begin: You don’t have to get complicated with it — simply pulling a single card each day is a powerful practice that imparts wisdom!

Pendulums, or ‘dowsers,’ have been around for centuries and are especially useful for answering your ‘yes or no’ questions. They’re very sensitive, so they pick up on the subtlest of vibrations and easily connect you to higher energies.

Where to begin: The key to working with a pendulum is building a relationship with it. Not every pendulum works with every person — you have to develop a connection. The more you work with it, the more it works for you!

Runes are letters in a set of related alphabets known as runic alphabets that were used throughout Northern Europe, Scandinavia, the British Isles, and Iceland from about 150 AD to 1600 AD. Each rune represents a word or a phrase signifying concepts important to the early peoples who used them, associated with the forces of nature and mind. 

Where to begin: Learning the meaning of runes is similar to learning a foreign language. This process alone will challenge you to use your mind and senses in new ways, form new pathways in your brain, and develop your intuition.

Casting stones, dice, and other charms is a form of divination that dates back thousands of years. The ancient Greeks worked with the bones of sheep and goats to divine answers in ritual. Seers in ancient India and Persia cast stones to foretell the future, and Roman scholar Pliny the Elder worked with stones to predict the outcome of battles. 

Where to begin: Here at SG, we love casting crystal dice! Rolling them is a fun and illuminating way to receive more insight and guidance in our lives.

Scrying dates back to ancient times and is practiced by many cultures, including the Mesoamericans. In scrying practices, individuals gaze into reflective surfaces to look into past lives and receive messages on present and future events. 

Where to begin: Incorporate reflective tools like scrying mirrors and spheres into your practice to open up to hidden knowledge and reveal the universe’s deepest secrets.