Space Time Magick
i never really got the point of divination (tarot cards) –such as in many modern magick books it will say ‘now divine the possible results of the working before said working’ or whtvr. didn’t seem useful to me.
at some other point i delved into the utter loopiness of space/time magick w this book, which gave me vibrant insight into divination as time/space magick. On the flip, suddenly divination (which I *had* come to accept as a useful self-reflection tool if nothing else) was much more viable and exciting.
Since delving into space-time magick a bit, I now see divination as a manifestation tool. Since we are deciding what divination symbols mean on-the-fly as we interpret them, we are essentially programming a measure of our upcoming experiences and perceptions of the world.
I’ve always had this irksome relationship with linear time– such as always knowing ‘what time it is’ no matter how many clocks I removed… or the reprogramming of ‘yucky feeling’ times like mornings which had become associated with productivity and blending into the status quo -getting up for school, as a child growing up this meant putting away freeform creativity for order and matching up to the group. Anyway, while time has its uses, I think that consensus linear time is developing into something a bit more free. Delving into space-time magick has been very fun and useful with regard to these issues.
Space Time Divination as adapted from the book mentioned above:
I developed a very freeform technique where i do a tarot layout (usually 8 points and maybe a significator or 2 in the center). i appropriate each card as I go along: “…ok, so the high priestess is about [aspect of current situation], and this card represents the conflict that occurred yesterday” etc.
What I’m divining is the possible pasts/futures for the topic, so the cards are sort of vying for attention and actualization yet are each interrelated/supportive of one another.
Since I don’t know what 7 of wands or whtvr ‘means’ these cards I tend to let stand as the stuff between the stronger points (archetypes, etc), letting their meaning be sort of inversely defined by these greater cards and each other (i might look up in the little tarot definitions book, but usually find that my own mind already has such use for them that redefining could only be wasted effort).
Once I’ve gone around and entangled with each card the board sort of breaks up into sections, with groups of cards. I break these down, arranging each card in little mini dramas/battles to show which aspect ‘wins out’, and I place the triumphant card on top of the other(s) and continue around the board like that. Sometimes I end up with a couple of piles where there are relationships between the piles/cards, and sometimes one card resolves all of them (one pile). i like to end with a sort of recapping narrative (albeit in a personal shorthand symbolism type of language).
In this way I become more aware of various aspects of my self currently active or in conflict, and have more of a conscious hand in determining which ones I welcome into my experience and which ones I choose to tune away from.
[the rest sort of morphed internal so it will go in next post]