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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:17 pm
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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:30 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 6:57 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 12:40 pm
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I apparently have some minor precog abilities, but mine seems to be of the comforting "this was going to happen" sort. I don't get any warning on horrible things, but I get flashes of the future that usually match up (the one that didn't involved you, Wing, the Tea Shop we were in in WA, and you showing the item your father had made; in my precog flash in college, it was in a case when you showed it to us).
You've seen me cast runes, so you know how that is, but I don't consider that so much ability as interpretation.
What we know of the old Norse had non-psychodrama divination as a normal event - one went under the cloak, waited, and emerged when one had been answered. This isn't the same as the flashes of past or future, though; more of a willed event.
I wish I could be more help. What little examples we have of this ability in stories are almost always tragic, so I have to admit I'm grateful my ability is so minor and comforting.
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 5:55 pm
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Sometimes I have dreams. Minor things, echoes of scenes yet to happen, and I don't have any way to differentiate the ones that are predictive from the ones that aren't so it's not very useful and mostly manifests in very strong deja vu. (And usually as soon as I realize it's happening I say, "holy crap, I dreamed this," which is never included in the dream-version.) It was easier to track when I actually made some attempt at recording my dreams. A friend of mine has dreams too, but hers are more apt or useful or timely than mine ever are, and she knows when they're significant or not.
I do better at recording tarot readings, but despite having been practicing it for about eight years now I don't feel like I'm very good at it. Sometimes I get really good readings and then forget about them until months later when I dig them up and go, "Oh. Well, that would have helped."
I don't really know what my tradition has to say about tool-less foreknowledge. There are several forms of tool-based divination, and I suppose the gods may reveal what They wish to individuals, but that's not really the same.
I always find it interesting that a lot of the time, those who most hunger for second sight or physical manifestation of spiritual phenomena have no idea what it would actually be like to bear that ability or audience.
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:40 am
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My precog abilities are nil. However, I have the nifty ability of knowing and understanding the present. Whilst not as interesting, it is helpful. Simpy by watching I uncovered a secret homosexual relationhip ninja .
Hell, even my dreams and divination help me do this. I pretty much cannot do divination for others, especially cold readings. I either end up telling them what they aleready know, expand on the present situation a bit or find out stuff they don't want me to know.
My dreams do the same. I love how pragmatic my subconscious is, there is no difficult symbolism it's 'this is what is happening, this is how you feel, don't deny it, shut the ******** up and sort it out'. Thus, I also know when dreams are coming from outside sources, because they never make such good sense. Such things are also helpful when you aren't sure how you feel about something, or you don't grasp a situation fully.
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