Divination
Divination is the practice of reading a randomised draw as if it carried meaning. This section covers four systems in full — every card, stave and hexagram, not the handful everyone quotes — and treats each as a structure with rules rather than a list to memorise.
What we do differently here
Four runes have no reversed reading at all
Their shapes are symmetrical, so turning them over changes nothing. Of the 24 in the Elder Futhark, 17 can be reversed and the rest cannot — a fact that changes how a spread is read, and one most sites quietly ignore.
The minor arcana is a system, not 56 separate cards
Four suits, ten numbers and four courts. Once the grid is visible, a card you have never seen becomes readable from its position in it — which is why we lay out all 78 rather than the famous dozen.
The I Ching hexagrams are built, not listed
Sixty-four combinations of eight trigrams, each with a nuclear, opposite and inverse relative. Those relations are computed here, so you can see how one hexagram sits against the others instead of reading it in isolation.
One palmistry claim has actually been tested
Most have not been tested at all. We say which is which on the page rather than in small print, because the difference between untested and disproven is the only thing worth knowing here.