Hand scale.
Cards, coins, runes and objects arranged or moved by hand.
Follow what is held, cast, arranged or marked by hand. This scale groups manipulated objects and tools; body awareness, dreams and perception remain in Human scale.
Pendulum ↗
Motion made visible.
03 / Hand scaleDice ↗
A small study of uncertainty.
04 / Hand scaleCoins ↗
Two faces. Many sequences.
05 / Hand scaleTea & coffee grounds ↗
Traces and interpretations.
06 / Hand scaleRunes ↗
Signs with a history.
07 / Hand scaleCards ↗
Images in conversation.
17 / Hand scaleI Ching / Yijing ↗
Three coins, six lines and a changing figure.
18 / Hand scaleCrystal gazing ↗
Light, reflections and an attentive gaze.
19 / Hand scaleCandle gazing ↗
A flame as a point of attention.
21 / Hand scaleAutomatic writing ↗
Let words arrive before editing.
22 / Hand scaleAutomatic painting & drawing ↗
Gesture before a planned image.
25 / Hand scaleRadiesthesia / dowsing ↗
An instrument, a response and an interpretation.
Psychometry ↗
A practice in which impressions about an object or its associations are recorded while holding or observing it.
Hand scale / Reflective surfaces, fire & formsCatoptromancy / mirror gazing ↗
Contemplating or interpreting images seen in a reflective surface, including a dark mirror.
Matter / Reflective surfaces, fire & formsHydromancy ↗
Symbolic or divinatory interpretation of water, its surface, reflections or movement.
Hand scale / Reflective surfaces, fire & formsLecanomancy ↗
A reading made with a basin, commonly involving water and sometimes floating substances such as oil.
Matter / Reflective surfaces, fire & formsPyromancy ↗
Symbolic interpretation of fire, including the appearance or movement of a flame.
Matter / Reflective surfaces, fire & formsCeromancy ↗
Symbolic interpretation of wax shapes, including cooled forms and candle remnants.
Hand scale / Reflective surfaces, fire & formsLithomancy ↗
Readings made with stones or gems through selection, arrangement, casting or reflected light.
Matter / Reflective surfaces, fire & formsSand readings / psammomancy ↗
Symbolic interpretation of patterns in sand, scattered grains or marks made on a granular surface.
Matter / Reflective surfaces, fire & formsInkblot & incidental-image readings ↗
Symbolic responses to incidental marks, stains or ambiguous images, recorded as personal interpretations.
Hand scale / Lots, texts, names & numbersGeomancy ↗
A family of divinatory systems using generated figures, often formed from odd and even groups of marks.
Hand scale / Lots, texts, names & numbersBibliomancy & stichomancy ↗
Selecting text from a book, passage, line or verse and reading it as a symbolic response.
Hand scale / Lots, texts, names & numbersNumerology / arithmancy ↗
Systems that assign symbolic significance to numbers and numerical relationships.
Hand scale / Lots, texts, names & numbersGematria & isopsephy ↗
Letter-number interpretation within particular writing systems, including Hebrew and Greek traditions.
Hand scale / Lots, texts, names & numbersOnomancy ↗
Symbolic readings of names, their letters, sounds or assigned numerical correspondences.
Hand scale / Lots, texts, names & numbersKledonomancy ↗
Reading chance words, overheard phrases or incidental speech as symbolic prompts.
Hand scale / Lots, texts, names & numbersCleromancy / casting lots ↗
An umbrella family of readings in which lots, tokens or randomized outcomes are assigned meanings.
Hand scale / Lots, texts, names & numbersBelomancy ↗
A historical name for divination involving arrows, their markings, selection or movement.
Hand scale / Lots, texts, names & numbersIfa, diloggun & named casting systems ↗
Distinct named divinatory traditions whose signs, texts, materials and practitioners belong to particular communities.
Human scale / Body, gesture & creative attentionGraphology ↗
Interpretive systems that assign personal or symbolic meanings to features of handwriting.
Human scale / Body, gesture & creative attentionHand and body movement journals ↗
Structured records of movement and bodily awareness, used for reflection or comparison over time.
Human scale / Body, gesture & creative attentionAutomatic music & improvisation ↗
Spontaneous sound-making recorded before detailed editing or symbolic interpretation.
Matter / Landscape, weather & animal signsScapulimancy & plastromancy ↗
Historical oracle readings of shoulder blades and turtle plastrons, often involving cracks and inscriptions.
Matter / Landscape, weather & animal signsExtispicy / hepatoscopy ↗
Historical readings of internal organs, with hepatoscopy specifically concerning the liver.
Hand scale / Branches of arts already presentTarot, Lenormand, Sibilla & playing-card systems ↗
Different card-reading families whose decks, layouts and interpretive conventions should be identified separately.
Hand scale / Branches of arts already presentAstragalomancy ↗
A reading using astragali, knucklebones or their shaped equivalents as lots.
Hand scale / Branches of arts already presentRhabdomancy & rod methods ↗
Readings or searches made with rods or wands whose movement is interpreted by the practitioner.
Hand scale / Branches of arts already presentTasseography variants ↗
Related cup-reading practices interpreting patterns of tea leaves, coffee grounds or other specified sediment.