How Does Divination Work?

For the past few months, a few friends have been pressuring me to try my hand at making YouTube videos. I have already been uploading podcast episodes to YouTube, usually with just a static image. In addition, I have been using REAPER to edit videos for on-demand classes. So, I thought, how much extra work would YouTube videos be?

I thought my first video should be something kind of fun, something that I could keep relatively short. In the end, I decided to try answering the question, “Why does divination work?” This is not a video about convincing skeptics that divination does work. Obviously, as a professional tarot reader, I’ve got some skin in the game of assuming that divination works. I am not denying that I am biased.

So divination works. But why? And how? Through over 30 years of Tarot experience, 10 years of blogging about Tarot, 5 years of running the Arnemancy podcast, and helping to moderate the Hermetic House of Life Discord, I have met dozens—if not hundreds—of diviners. They work with tarot, runes, geomancy, and astrology, along with other systems and techniques too numerous to list.

They all know divination works.

Is it because we all live in some giant interconnected clockwork mess? Some Aristotelian chain of cause-and-effect stretching back to a prime mover? Is it because a tyrannical god manipulates us all with invisible tendrils of fate?

Well, in this video, I decided to call up my friend Tres Henry of Cosmic Plumbing and ask him about divination and why it works. Please give the video a watch, and let me know what you think.