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Astrology is an ancient system of divination that uses the positions of the planets, stars and moon. The celestial body exerts forces and exhibits personalities that influence people and events.

These influences can be predicted by using mapping position of the sky at certain positions. The history of Astrology began some fifty thousand years ago where the Magnon read the patterns of the sky and marked the seasons by using dead people’s bones.

The Zodiac is also used in astrology and is a band of twelve constellations through which the sun, the moon, the stars, and planets appear to journey. The band is ecliptic, meaning in the form of an oval, and in the middle of it is the plane of the Earth’s orbit around the sun.

The name Zodiac means “circus of animals”

Astrology was used to forecast auspicious times for matters in the sense of state and war, as well as predicting disasters and other happenings.

While astrology withered away in the West, it continued to flourish in the East and Islamic World, but has now made a come back into the western world. https://spiritmatters.forumotion.net/astrology-f8/


Aztec Astrology has 20-day signs. The signs can be used to describe human nature and natural events. https://spiritmatters.forumotion.net/astrology-f8/aztec-astrology-t980.htm#4663


Aura is an energy field or it could also be called our life force. https://spiritmatters.forumotion.net/auras-f37/

Aeromancy Interpreting the shapes of clouds. There are signs in the air and sky much closer than the astrological zodiac.

Alectryomancy A form of divination using the sounds of bird calls or the pecking of seeds in relation to touching or manipulating letters of the alphabet.

Aleuromancy Answers and messages baked in a dough then chosen at random with a question in mind. Fortune Cookies. Can also be the interpretation of shapes in flour spread or dropped on a tray or on the bakers floor. Another form similar to tea cup reading was from ‘reading’ the signs left in the mixing bowl. (Aleuron meaning Flour + Mancy meaning divination)

Alomancy Casting salt into the air and read the patterns as it falls to the floor. Can also be salt cast into a fire.

Alphitomancy A specially prepared loaf of Barley bread was given to a person suspected of a crime. The innocent would digest it easily the guilty would have indigestion.

Apantomancy Taking meaning from chance encounters with animals. Saying you will be lucky when a black cat crosses your path. Aztec mystics took the flight of an eagle carrying a snake to be a good omen

Astral Projection The out-of-body experiences achieved via lucid dreaming, deep meditation or astral travel techniques. https://spiritmatters.forumotion.net/f47-astral-projection

Augury Ancient Roman prophecy from watching the movement of birds and other animals during thunder and lightning.

Aura Reading This is the ability for a psychic to see in and around a subjects Aura. We all have an electromagnetic energy field around us. Some see this energy field as colors some psychics will feel the energy.

Automatic Writing is sometimes done in a trance or psychic state but sometimes with the writer’s awareness but the message is not from the writer’s mind. https://spiritmatters.forumotion.net/f17-automatic-and-guided-writing

Absent Healing Spiritual Healing where the healer is in a different place to the patient.

Akashic records Part of the earth’s energy field that permanently stores information on every thought and action since the beginning of time.

Altered state of consciousness Mental process different to the normal states of consciousness of waking and sleeping. Includes trance, hypnosis and meditative states.

Amulet Lucky or Sacred object, worn for protection.

Angel Spiritual being who acts as intermediary between people and god, also a protective force.

Animism The belief that everything not just human beings possess a soul.

Animal totem A Spirit Guide who appears in the form of an animal.

Apparition A vision of a ghostly figure or scene.

Apport Physical object that appears from nowhere, often during a séance.

Ascended Masters Enlightened Spiritual beings that lived on earth through many life times, gaining great wisdom, once this is achieved can ascend for ever into the divine realms.

Astral body A double of a person’s body usually regarded as the source of consciousness, able to travel independently and appears in spirit form.

Astral plane Dimension through which an astral body can travel, which may be populated with souls that have passed over. It can also resemble our physical world.