Oomancy and Other Egg Magic
Eggs have a long history of being used in magical workings. These days, when we usually associate eggs with spring and fertility. However, in the past, throughout many cultures, including the ancient Greeks, the Druids, as well as many in Latin America, and South East Asia, eggs were used in both divination and healing rituals. In ancient times, people didn’t have a lot of “things”, and certainly items like cards or other divination tools would not be readily available to everyone. However, food, like eggs, apples, cabbage, etc.. were, and were often incorporated into magical workings because they were readily available to anyone.
Regardless of if they were used in healing or divinations, there are a couple of basic generally accepted practices regarding their use. These include always using fresh raw eggs, they should be room temperature, and warm water is generally (but not always) used. The egg is rolled over the body to absorb energy, and the person rolling the egg focuses on the intent at hand. This could be regarding what healing needs to be done, what blockages or energies are causing the disease/imbalance, or, from a divination perspective, the career of a future mate, or the outcome of a situation. When the work is done, the egg should always be properly disposed of away from home/sacred space. If it is buried, it should be buried deep so that animals can not dig it up and eat it. Otherwise it can be burned or flushed away.
When it comes to divination, called Oomancy (a term coined by the Greeks), there are a few ways eggs were used. Again, always fresh raw eggs in water.
The first way was (possibly) Scottish in origin. It was called the Venus Glass. It was used by young ladies wishing to learn the occupation of their future husband. This method uses only the egg white, which is separated from the yolk and then slowly poured/dripped into a glass of water. The patterns and forms made by the egg white are read much like tea leaves would be. The reader looks for familiar shapes made, like a castle (possibly a soldier), tools or animals (could represent a farmer, blacksmith, or other trade/labourer), or other shapes that may indicate a job/career. This kind of divination has also been done with wax.
Other types of divination were focused on the energy surrounding the person or situation. After rubbing the egg on the body, the first method uses only the egg whites. The reader would poke a hole in one end of the egg and pour it into the warm water to read the shapes and patterns formed. The reader would look for patterns like cobwebs that would indicate the querent being trapped in a situation or by the energies of someone else. Spokes or towers would represent obstacles or spiritual blocks, while clear/smooth shapes would show good fortune, a clear path, or other good energies.
Another method used the whole egg, cracked into a bowl. Again, the egg white patterns and shapes formed around the yolk. Bubbles and strands represent heavy energies, anxiety, or stress that were absorbed when the egg was rolled on the body. A cloudy halo around the yolk could mean the querent is being watched by someone with Ill intent or is surrounded by negative energy. Blood spots or a dark yolk could indicate a serious health blockage or a curse.   
Like many other cultures, shamans also used eggs for healing purposes. I have read books where Shamans and healers used eggs for diagnosing patients before performing psychic surgery. While the process is similar to that for divination, Shamans often use 2 eggs. The first was rolled on the body to collect the negative energies stored in the body and cracked into water to determine the state of the patients health. What needed healing or clearing, and the cause of disease or imbalance. Once the egg is in the water, the shaman would read how the egg white moves in the water in relation to the yolk, again, looking for shapes and forms that would indicate the issues. Once this was done, this first egg was disposed of properly. Then, the second egg was rolled over the problematic areas of the body that indicated imbalance or disease until it was fully collected by the egg. Sometimes the Shaman would also use smoke or “blow” the disease/imbalance into the egg, before disposing of this egg as well*.  In some healing practices, only one egg was used, and it was placed under the bed for 24 hours so that it could absorb all the negative energies, before being read and then disposed of.
Personally, I have never used eggs in healing or divination (certainly not with the cost of eggs these days), but I would be very interested in hearing your thoughts or experiences with them if you have. I may just give this one a try for myself. Have you used them for healing or divination? Or both? Did you ever, as teen/young adult try using eggs (or maybe wax) to divine your future mate’s occupation? Was it accurate? I would love to know.
*You can read more about one person’s personal experience with this method here: HTTPS://www.collectiveinbooks.com/blogs/moon-books/eggs-in-shamanic-healing/
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When it comes to psychic gifts, there are plenty one can either be born with or develop through practice and patience. Of those, there is a group of gifts that most people know, at least by name. These are The Clairs. Most people are familiar with the most popular ones like Clairvoyance, and Clairaudience, but there are more Clair gifts that are used to access glimpses of the (possible) future, communicate beyond the veil, and alert us to possibilities and opportunities we might not otherwise be aware of. There are 8 such Clari gifts.
 
Clairvoyance: Clear Seeing – The most popularly known of the Clairs. This gift presents as visions or mental images. These can occur within the mind/mind’s eye, or be seen, eyes open, as if they are happening right before one’s eyes. Remote viewing can be categorized under this heading as well.
 
Clairaudience: Clear Hearing – This is when messages are heard, either as sounds, music, or words. This can include (but is not limited to) hearing the message as if someone is speaking to you, hearing the lyrics of a song at just the right time that answers a question or provides relevant insight, or ringing, pressure, or burning of the ears.
 
Clairsentience: Clear Feeling – This is when messages or information is presented through sensations in the body. It might be felt externally, like goosebumps when a spirit is nearby, or a feeling in the body part that indicates how a spirit died or what a health issue in that part of the body. It can also be internal, like an unexplained sense of dread, or feeling like “something is coming” (good or bad).
 
 Claircognizance: Clear Knowing – This is often compared to “mother’s intuition”. It is when messages or information present themselves as abstract concepts or intuitive downloads suddenly pop into your head, that prove to have significance to the reading or mediumship work being done; either in the present or later.
 
Clairgustance: Clear Tasting – this one is a little less popular than most Clairs. It is the sensing of psychic information through taste. It could present itself as a particular taste to mean a particular situation has occurred or will occur, such as tasting blood when a fatal incident has or will happen. It could also be a taste that represents a person or memory the person the reading/medium work is being done, sent by the communicating spirit. This Clair, like a few others, is most often used during mediumship work, though that is not strictly the case.
 
Clairsalience: Clear Smell – Like Clairgustance, this Clair is most often used in mediumship work. However, it involves one’s sense of smell, rather than taste. The same applies to it though. It could be the smell of something that triggers the memory of a particular person, place, or other memory. It likely signals the presence of a familiar spirit with a message.
 
Clairempathy: Clear Emotional Feeling – This Clair also involves feelings, but unlike Clairsentience, this is felt on an emotional level. While that may sound like simple empathy, there is a distinct difference. Empathy itself is feeling the emotions of those around you, while Clairempathy is receiving psychic information or messages through your emotions. These feelings can come over a distance, through the veil (like sensing the emotions of spirits that are present or wanting to communicate), or before an event even happens, not just from the people/animals around you in the present.
 
Clairtangency: Clear Touch – This is what I would have classified as psychometry. It is the receiving of information or messages from the energies/vibrations of an object. This can include its history, the people connected to it, and even the energies of significant events it was involved in (strong emotional energies can imprint on objects).
 
Anyone can possess these gifts at birth, or achieve them through practice. There are plenty of books and websites out there to help one learn how to do this. While inherent talent may make it easier to develop such a skill, they are a skill like any other. You must use and practice them to hone and control them. One could also possess more than one of these skills at a time. While these skills are often used to aid in divination or by Mediums to bring messages across to loved ones (or help spirits cross over), they do have other uses as well. Many of them, like Clairsentience, Claircognizance, and Clairempathy would be greatly useful to healers in their practice. Whether that healing is physical, mental, or spiritual. Any one of them could be helpful in a spiritual wellness/guidance setting, such as a spiritual counsellor or a death doula. They can all provide a way to help bring comfort, understanding, and peace to the user or the one they are using them for.
 
Do you possess any of these gifts? Have you used them to help yourself or others? Have you consulted someone with these gifts for your own personal healing or spiritual journey? Would you want to learn one of them yourself? I would love to know. 

The future can seem rather uncertain, especially these days. It is constantly in flux depending on the decisions we make and the actions we take. Sometimes, to get a little clarification, we will consult some form of divination. There are many forms we can choose from, but the basics are much the same. Consider the situation we are concerned about, decide what we need/would like to know, form the question to receive the answer we are seeking, focus, and consult our chosen oracular system. Whether we choose to do the reading ourselves, or have someone else do the reading for us, the steps are pretty much the same.
 
If you are a beginner reader, or consulting a reader for the first time, it can be difficult to figure out exactly what we want to ask, or how to ask it.  Unless we are consulting a pendulum, we are often advised to refrain from asking yes or no questions. There are, of course, ways to use most any divination system to answer such simple questions, however we are going to focus other kinds of queries for this post. Generally speaking, the usual questions revolve around love, money, health, or career. More specifically, the questions usually cover things like when we will find or receive something, when something will end or heal (particularly when those areas of life are being negatively impacted), or what will the outcome of the situation be. These kinds of questions reflect the common perception that we are searching for a definitive answer to a current problem that concludes sometime in the future. We should be aware that whatever the cards (or any other divination tool) show us, it is only a possible outcome. It can reflect what will happen if we stay on our current path, or what will happen if we change that path (depending on what we are asking).   
 
However, to really utilize your divination tool, especially tarot or oracle cards, you can try a slightly different approach. Restructuring the question to reflect the energies of the situation, the possibilities rather than the outcomes, or your part in how it all plays out can change how the reading unfolds, and give us a clearer picture of what is going on. Doing this, however, can also call us out on some things, make us reflect on ourselves in way we may not want to, or open us to more than what we originally considered. So, be forewarned.  
 
For instance, if you are wanting to know the possible outcomes of a situation you could ask questions like:

• What happens if I stay on my current path?
• What do I have to change in order to change that path?
• What is the likely/possible outcome if I change “X” behaviour or decision. (Note: there are specific spreads that can show you/allow you to ask about two or more outcomes to a situation as well)

 
If you are looking to see how you are affecting the situation*, or how you can otherwise affect it you could ask:

• What am I not seeing about this situation?
• What patterns are influencing this situation?
• What learned/subconscious patterns are influencing my decisions?
• What truth(s) am I avoiding?

 
Or you can ask something like:

• What energies are surrounding this situation?
• What energies or outside forces are affecting this situation that I do not see?
• What needs to shift in order to change the situation?

 
These kinds of questions can be the main part of your reading, or asked as clarifying questions to enhance the reading you are already conducting. They are particularly good for divination systems like tarot and oracle cards, but could also be used with others like runes, playing cards, I-Ching, and others. If you are using cards, depending on the deck you use, you can get some pretty straight up (and sometimes harsh) answers. Decks like the Lantern Orace, the Dark Mirror, or Draconis Loqui can provide some harsh truths, but sometimes we need that kind of perspective to make real change. There are, of course, much gentler decks to choose from. You do what you feel is right to you in the situation.
 
So, my question is, how do you question the divine (or your higher self, however you see it)? Do you ask the same kinds of questions? Do you use ones like those provided above? Would you try them? What are your favourite questions to ask? I would love to hear about your experiences.
 
 
*You can change the words “this situation” to be more specific to your circumstances rather than just referring to it as “the situation”