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I feel different methods are better for different queries. Nowadays, I usually use tarot because it's best for most of the queries I get, even though it's my latest divination method. Let me give examples that I do commonly. The most common queries are love queries, so let's start with those as an example.
>Tarot:
If the querent wants to know how a relationship is going, I pull cards to outline forces in the relationship.
>Scrying:
If the querent wants to meet someone new, I give them a choice for cards to make improvements or for me to scry their next opportunity. Why the scry? Well, some readers are good enough with cards to describe attributes and situations with them, but I might stare at a meeting spread and make no sense of it, or I could do a quick scry and give a description of the person and how they meet, more accurately than I could with tarot, with a small fraction of the effort.
>Runes:
Conceptual readings? Runes. I started with runes and used to use them for all queries, but it's really hard to get specific information from them, and reading between them is an art that requires something other than just knowledge of the runes. But, there is no denying that runes are extremely good for outlining major forces influencing a situation. Think of them as being more similar to the Major Arcana, in that they represent broad concepts.
>Bibliomancy:
Just need a theme on which to grab? Bibliomancy. I started by using “Human, All Too Human” by Nietzsche, as I know the text well, and I can derive some insight from the combination of the aphorism drawn, the sentence on which my finger fell, and the relative position of the aphorism in the text. Later I branched off to using my entire eBook collection, so I can feasibly get some interesting things going with bibliomancy, but I still prefer it merely for themese and small tidbits of insight that might be more helpful for the querent's consideration than for my interpretation.
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