Hypothetical situation

[kyrene]

Say you had a dream in which you were instructed by the gods to build an oracle. How would you do it?

Let's assume you didn't take any funny pills and you're pretty sure that based on various other details that the dream is legit and get that question out of the way. How would one go about building an oracle in this day and age?

Come on, put on your thinking caps! :D

Comments

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

Maybe. I'm not so sure.

I do have visions (you've probably already read a few of them on yunaduelist) and if they continue and show their accuracy for about a year I'll be willing to think of myself as a seer, as opposed to how I think of myself now (as "for real" at Tarot but still a novice, sometimes getting really good readings).

But there's no way I'd ever feel comfortable doing this for strangers -- it's a gentle push at the right moment, preferably without the person ever realizing there was a vision behind it.

That's how She works. I know that He works differently.

[kyrene-myste.livejournal.com]

I've always thought of myself as a seer, but this would be broadening my scope a bit more than "show up at psychic faires in VT and do readings for friends when they need it" type of a thing.

I know of a group that does oracular rituals. That may be a good start. I could host them at my place to start and invite people whom I know and talk about it online.

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

*nods*

*furrows her brow in confusion*

Group oracular rituals?

[kyrene-myste.livejournal.com]

yup, get together as a group, make offerings to the gods, have one or more people perform divinations.

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, that makes sense. I was reading it as "circle of people doing a single divination together," which is probably possible but which is really, REALLY outside my experience.

[kyrene-myste.livejournal.com]

It's possible if each of them do a separate one on their own or some such.

The only ways I know of to do divs are tarot, Limyran Oracle, geomancy, and trance state/channeling.

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

I've gotten dowsing to work, but the times it's worked it's been exhausting in a way that's really hard to describe. I've done runecasting once or twice but never really gotten good results.

[kyrene-myste.livejournal.com]

The closest I do to rune work is the stuff I do with the Limyran Oracle, which are essentially Greek runes. They only work for certain types of questions, however.

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

That's true of all the forms I know. Sometimes it's obvious (dowsing can't tell the future very well) but sometimes it's more subtle. I've learned what questions not to bother asking my cards, and sometimes it varies by deck.

[kyrene-myste.livejournal.com]

I hear ya there.

And sometimes I get directed to put down the fucking cards and just say what They're pounding into my head. That works too.

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

That's when it gets really fun.

Do you ever experience pain when that happens -- an almost literal pounding, like you have to either say what you're seeing immediately or pass out?

[kyrene-myste.livejournal.com]

I just sorta...separate...for a while and stuff comes out of my mouth and I have no control over it. When I come to it's sorta like I had an OBE.

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

*kind of envious*

I can do that with Djala, but she prefers to be channeled or to meet me astrally, and she's not the vision-granting type anyway.

Guess it's different depending on the source.

[kyrene-myste.livejournal.com]

Apollo doesn't really give me much of a warning but he does it when I'm prepared for it in some way, at least--although that isn't always the case.

It most often happens during tarot readings and the like.

[cktraveler.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it seems to happen most often when the mind is already open and you're already doing some kind of divination. I can usually feel it coming on, but it doesn't make the actual process any easier. Maybe I just need more practice and more control.