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Don't mind the drawing thing at all, but I also rather enjoyed the hypnotic fish, so my opinion is about as helpful as a coin toss landing on its edge.
Thank you Darryl, I really do appreciate your feedback! I'm aware that the 600% speed-up (!) makes things "a little" frenetic - as I improve, I hope I won't need to search for the lines quite so much (erasing and trying again, erasing and trying again...) and so there will be less of a need to speed things up quite so much, making for a more relaxed experience :)
As a multimedia artist and someone who likes to watch people draw while they talk, this is probably my favorite iteration of Esoteric Saturdays visually speaking! I liked the fish too but seeing more of this would be welcome.
Love this! I'm a professional oil painter so this is right up my alley. Also check out any of the books by Andrew Loomis. All are great for learning how to draw.
I love the memes in your videos, I think they’re very unique and I appreciate the length you go to to occasionally add humour to your video through them. But I also like listening to you too so I’m happy to be here 😊
Codependent origination: mind & matter being examples thereof. I never was a big philosophical "either/or" person, although of course distinctions matter. It's worth bearing in mind that to the extent that we are in a "self," we are not able to take onboard any of the infinities, and to the extent that we might be briefly merged into an infinity, our self-nature has been to an extent obviated. Bearing in mind that such experiences are not by themselves evidence of any extraordinary personal merit, as lots of people (it seems) have had them, some of them on the evidence not especially otherwise wonderful persons. Which may be why so many traditional systems emphasize ensuring your own moral cultivation alongside or before seeking transcendent experiences.
I love the drawing and your clearly very talented at it. However I found myself wanting to watch your drawing technique and listen to your talk at the same time, and hard to concentrate properly on either. I'd love to be able to learn to draw like that. It has a very classical feel to it.
Helpful feedback, and something I definitely need to address... somehow! Thank you, Mark! :) Yes! it's the classical feel (which the introduction to the book explains has been lost from much contemporary art training) which caught my eye. I'd intended to pick up a book of Michelangelo's sketches to try to copy them as training, and then I found this Charles Bargue book which was exactly what I was looking for :) I'm so glad you like it!
Another distinction can be made (one could argue it is a different art?) between spirit communication-divination. Ouija boards, pendulums (sorta), etc. But the question still arises of are you reaching out to a spirit or asking an all-mind. You’ll likely only get interference from the chosen system ;) An interesting thing to note about many grammatical divinations like iching (my preferred system) is that they often present a pattern or “self fulfilling prophecy”. You’re likely going to receive 1. What important parts of the situation to look at 2. Two or more ways to split the pattern 3. Outcomes of said splits In this way they really are a sort of art-imitates-life or omens of an all-mind. Like you said, all possibilities are present, symbolically.
I recommend the book The Practical Guide to the Development of Psychic Powers by Denning and Philips. It talks about some of the things mentioned in this video, as well as the distinction between divination and seership. It gives some exercises that you can classify as the "mental hygiene" mentioned. Also I certainly prefer the grammatical methods as I'm a very by the books kind of reader. My sister is a fantastic intuitive reader though and it's awesome seeing our skills compare.
I love your drawing, the process, and the overall invigoration that's inspiring. Thank you for sharing such insightful, helpful, and great information! 💚🙏🏻✨
I appreciate you changing it up however the fish turning was also a focal point to listen. I appreciate both! another great video. I am learning differing forms of devination, cards, ball, runes and enjoy them as interesting to co-create with.
Such a great video!!! I’m so happy to have found this channel, though I’d like to add that I LOVE the gifs and funny pics you add into the videos! We need to remove the overbearing need for complete seriousness in mysticism. I liked the drawing too… keep up the great work!
So I’m new here and excited to be here. After watching this video it reminded me of what I’m learning in Meta Human by Deepak Chopra. Who are we talking to? The mind! Or also better known as consciousness!!! I love how you and Deepak just aligned like that. Very reaffirming. Now I’m off to watch your video on quantum something.
Stephen Skinner says divination might be explained by Jung’s synchronicity theory. What are your thoughts on that? And how did that principle really work?
The philosophy of Parmenides (flourished c.500 B.C)., is very interesting, he postulates that "All is One", and there is no change in the universe. Just think, for this particular universe we all came from a piece of 'space' 100 billion times smaller than the diameter of a proton. It is my thought that there are an infinite number of these 'singularities in an eternal, infinite cosmos.
Thank you. Coming from a strongly Christian background, but always having had a interest in the Christian mystical tradition, as always sadly misunderstood by the Church as a whole as well as by neo-pagans and new-agers, I have tried to keep my now alternative esoteric practices within the western mystery tradition, but have so far been drawn to the Yi-Jing and have several books on the subject, along with enjoying Tai Chi and Qigong!
thank you for the explanation. i think i like grammatical divination. i also enjoy the new format as someone who makes videos with talking over drawing. i was mesmerized by your sketching. if i may make a small critique, i noticed you really have the lips down but the nose is the same each time. it affects how the perspective of the whole face reads. maybe practice drawing pyramids in different perspective to get an idea of how the nostrils and angle change?
if you enjoy the drawing then keep at it! chase what makes you happy. do what thou wilt! my personal opinion: i enjoyed it, it was sort of hypnotic in a pleasing way! infact i LOVED it!! keep doing it! and thank you for the content!
I support such an ideal came to being much like a translater I in density . More so over with your art what would happen if you made a character ? Let's say 10 skill an 3 main ones and choice of school classes.
I found your analysis and the systems presented to be interesting. I am neurodiverse, which lends itself to different sense development and often ease with the intuitive processes; I consider intuition and divination to be processes of highly developed pattern recognition. Mine is usually filtered via the grammatical method but just as often via direct apprehension of knowing part of reality. Thanks for the video.
All of reality is mental. All points in space and time are connected. When one force meets another, ripples are created that cause events that are perceived as one moves forward in time... but as with all ripples, there is a symmetry to them. Those in tune can see as they ripple *back* to your current place in spacetime as well. 😏
it's funny how much this sort of stuff leaks into general consciousness. my republican boomer dad says he goes to look at the lake when he doesn't know what to do
I think you are a great artist but found it distracted too much and couldn’t concentrate on what you were saying this time! I think I’m in a minority though looking at the other comments!
Thanks for this video. I’m a practicing intuitive and offer readings to clients. I tend not to use cards, but during readings interestingly images of certain tarot cards will be shown to me in my minds eye for a client or for myself. Do you think electronic decks on apps are equal to physical decks? Just curious. Thanks!
Yes! I find electronic decks to be just as accurate, which is why I scoff at people who say that sleeving your cards in plastic pockets somehow "blocks the energy" whatever that might mean. That's not how it works 😄
wow, i recently acquired the book of change about the I ching and willing to tap in it, so for the timing I give you 10/10, but i didn't manifest your video...or did I? (beautiful drawings, might aswell teach us how to embellish sigils becauqe mine suck aesthtically)
I'm so excited that you made this video! I enjoy your perspective because it always gets my mind spinning in new ways and leads me down new paths. Thank you for your work! Also, I enjoyed this format, but I also enjoy the other format. Kudos to you for being so good at making videos and coming up with multiple good ideas. ^_^
Im glad the rolling fishes are gone 😂 But do to the topic of the video and knowing you enjoy Lon Milo Duquette books, I will like to ask you what you think about his book “the book of ordinary oracles” so far Ive enjoy it. I kind of like the premise that you can do divination with what ever you find. Thanks for your saturday videos I like them son much😀 I get so much from them.
What ever method comes to mind at the time. Had some amazing stuff come up with the I Ching. Tarot cards were also good. This is the first time I’ve seen you. Going by the voice I had previously envisioned a fellow a bit like a cross between Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and Isreal Regardie. I like all those guys.
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I find myself using a mixture of the two divination methods you described. Even if I'm using tarot cards or geomancy, I still try to quiet my mind and let my intuition help interpret what's going on. I find the more abstract methods of divination good for communicating with spirits, while the more concrete methods are better for divining information in the physical world. I've played around with things too. Abstract forms of divination have given me the names of spirits and what they prefer for offerings. Meanwhile, they can't tell me if the store down the street will be open tonight. Meanwhile, I've struggled to use tarot cards to divine the names of spirits, but tarot cards have been able to tell me if I'll find what I'm looking for at the store. Also, geomancy has given me very good advice for all sorts of practical problems. While I don't consider the cards or dice themselves to have any special powers or intellect to them, the divination system itself does tend to have a certain personality to it. It'll have strengths and weaknesses and things it doesn't like being asked. I've even used a pendulum to talk to certain spirits, and they've warned me against using certain kinds of divination tools with certain kinds of spirits because they see certain methods of communication as "cheap party tricks that are beneath them".
In divining the future, one may be interested to note the idea of retrocausality in physics. Causality works in reverse as well as forwards. Just as the past influences the present, so does the future. And I suspect we can sense it.
As an artist my sel,f I love this new format!!! I love hearing you talk and draw at the same time because this what I do when I watch videos, so it is a nice company for me, you, drawing and talking 🤩
I like the drawing better than the gift for sure! Also if it gives u the ability to do something u love then I think that's what you should prioritize :)
as someone who has been drawing since childhood, you have the potential to shine, so keep it up with illustrating!! 🎨✏undoubtedly, you will achieve profound success in your dreams.
@@FoolishFishBooks you're very welcome!! c: also, with the topic of divination, i highly recommend looking into automatic writing and drawing. it's how i often include literature and art into my practice.
Thank you very much for another video! Thank you also for the term, "mind hygiene." This is helpful to work alongside mind discipline. This works, (for me anyways!) I feel like it's a complimentary concept and it helps to consider them a guiding team and not a struggle. I'm not trying to fight my mind, but bring it into calm stillness with maintaining good "mind hygiene!"
I work mostly with tarot and runes, but also Lenormand, learning ogham, have dabbled in scrying with mixed results. I alternate between tarot and oracle cards because they offer different takes on the same situations. I have a particular oracle deck that really speaks to me sometimes - it’s a simple deck, just a single word on each card and a picture that describes that word in some sense. That one is far more on the intuitive side. That said, I also like tarot because you can delve more deeply into a reading. The runes… They kind of float in between for me - yes, there are specific meanings, but they tend to be broad. So applying those meanings to a given situation/person can be tricky sometimes, and takes a little more intuition, if that makes sense. Thanks so much for this! Absolutely fascinating. I like the drawing for sure, but I do enjoy the other types as well. I think the only thing that unsettles me (as someone with some sensory issues) is when the gifs/images appear and disappear again too quickly. But that may be just me. ;)
All my divinative life, instinctively, I was always trying to use both methods with the Tarot, in a healthy balance. I'm just unwilling to abandon completely the one or the other, the intuitive and the grammatical, so I just combine them. That's why I love abstract art in Tarot, or art with intense surrealistic elements. But now that I think about it, after so many years of tarot reading (13 years) I lean more towards the grammatical method. That's why maybe I was recently drawn to the black mirror 🖤
YOU DRAW!!!!!!!! I LOVE drawing!!!! I absolutely don't mind it!!!! I want to pursue illustration as a career. Wether it be creating my own comic books, Trading Card Games etc. You're really good!!!!
I use tarot cards semi-regularly. I think it's kind of fun and it lets me pull others into the work. Plus a deck of cards is easier to carry around than a bag of runes. I'm tempted in trying palm-reading as well.
Nice synchronicity! I just finished reading Plutarch's essay on Socrates' personal deity and he had some interesting insights that aligned precisely with your categories. As the high priest at Delphi at the time, it was fascinating hearing his thoughts on divination and seeing the clarity with which he was able to describe out of body experiences
Great video as always! Thank you! I've gotten myself a similar book on drawing and you've inspired me to give it a try once again. Thanks for that, too :D
Right on, man! The Heavens of Indra thing with the web of pearls that are reflected in every other pearl makes bits of me twitch unconsciously, too. I think I first picked it up in Hesse book. It may have been "The Glass Bead Game", though I might only think so on account the idea of glass beads. Still, so darn beautiful. And memorizing the meanings of all the hexagrams of the I-Ching's is no joke either! Jeez, I haven't managed that one yet! Though, if I'm being honest, I haven't really given it a good go since my early 20s and that was some time ago. I had that big, fat book that Carl Jung published on the subject. It was awesome. Wonder what became of it. Probably got all drunk and leant it to somebody. Went through a dreadful phase of doing that all the time. Oh, well. Rad video. Thank you! Oh, wait! Regarding the drawing thing! I think it could be really fun watching you develop your skill with that pencil. A couple of months from now, we could have you banging portraits of great historical figures in and around the occult world. Could be sweet. Cheers!
Yes! Isn't that net metaphor wonderful? Yeah, I don't think memorising the i-ching is feasible, especially sing most of the goodness is in the changing lines... That's a fat book! And thank you for you very kind encouragement with the drawing! Let's see where it takes us! 😄🙏
Major gushing ahead, lol, but I mean every bit of it: As a big fan of the meme humour, I really enjoyed watching your work in progress as well. Honing your craft as you help us hone ours. Poetic! I go back often to your bell curve video as the most elegant and useful explanation of magical will I've found yet -- and I figure I'll soon come back to this one as well. These thoughtful and practical explanations of our impalpable preconscious machinations have been invaluable to me -- and at least one or two of my long-suffering friends. 😄 Okay, I'm done, lol. As always, thank you FF for all you do!
Your kind words go straight to my heart :D Thank you so much, I'm so happy the videos have been useful for you, messages like yours really make it worthwhile!
I have a fondness for pencil and watercolor, so I didn't mind your drawing one bit. Hope you do more of it. On the divination end, I really liked your take on the two main types. I actually do both, but I base the tool on how far out I'm trying to see, whether forward or backwards. For longer spans of time, I use water. For insights closer to "current", I use the i-Ching.
Ah yes, that's a good point, I could maybe have elaborated a little bit more on what each is particularly good for, but just like you, when precise information about a present concern comes up, it's I-Ching all the way!
I've tried the drawing journey and had a modicum of success, but found it's not for me. I like painting better. On yours... I like it, pretty cool to see the progression
:D Haha! I'd definitely be interested to see the results... an intuitive tool designed by an entity that doesn't understand the concept of intuition other than on a theoretical basis... hmm!
Denis what do you think to alternate the normal saturdays with some q&a from the users? Would be nice to pickup question and answer, live or in a normal video. Cheeeeers!
I love the way you bring the nature of reality into this. Lately I've been tied up in the idea that the inherent magic in the mundane is somehow at odds with deliberate magic. This makes a lot of sense to me, thank you! :) Also, it was nice to watch you drawing and speaking.
Great video! We have been having a ‘learn to draw’ resurgence in our house as well, I love it! Is that a clutch pencil? Those are my favorite too! I think your sketches are wonderful and will be a great addition to your video work! Lastly, I see that hard cover of Dune up there on the shelf, my favorite fiction book of all time, and I have that same copy! LOL. Ok, sorry for the absolutely random comments, love your work, please keep the videos coming! :-)
Ah, That's brilliant, @The Eclectic Rose. I'm finding it a decidedly relaxing activity! And yes! Dune is a terrific book, I'm considering swapping in this edition for the Folio Society edition which is so nice and without all the typos... Either way, I'm very excited for the 2nd movie at the end of the year!
@@FoolishFishBooks Thanks! Mate could you please one day make video about what tangible results you got with magick? Like getting what you want etc (I ommit personal developement as this is hard to quasntify)? My autistic brain just blocks me from believing it, and a word from someone as experienced as you might help me get past it
Well done on the drawing, id be interested in you doing some automatic ones or of subject/tecnique relevant to the discussion topic(s) in future videos!
Davina- The only form I can advise as it is different for everyone, is oil divination. Using a stainless steal bowl and fill with part oil and water, heat the bowl.
I picked up on drawing too , as it was something i used to enjoy in my childhood , but i never took it further . Cool of you to share your progress with us! your sketchbook looks great!
Thank you @Selene! I'm very excited for your own adventures in drawing, it's so enjoyable! Do you have a specific course or are you just drawing what feels good?
@@FoolishFishBooks I just Google for some techniques on how to get better at a specific thing I want to draw 😅. Drawing goes well with my meditation practice and it helps after dealing with stressful people at work.
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Don't mind the drawing thing at all, but I also rather enjoyed the hypnotic fish, so my opinion is about as helpful as a coin toss landing on its edge.
Thank you Darryl, I really do appreciate your feedback!
I'm aware that the 600% speed-up (!) makes things "a little" frenetic - as I improve, I hope I won't need to search for the lines quite so much (erasing and trying again, erasing and trying again...) and so there will be less of a need to speed things up quite so much, making for a more relaxed experience :)
As a multimedia artist and someone who likes to watch people draw while they talk, this is probably my favorite iteration of Esoteric Saturdays visually speaking! I liked the fish too but seeing more of this would be welcome.
Oh that's so nice, @Norea! I'm so glad! :D My best wishes to you!
Your sketches look fantastic. I love to see you following your passions here.
You're very kind, Kyle! 😄🙏 I hope to get better at it fast!
Love this! I'm a professional oil painter so this is right up my alley. Also check out any of the books by Andrew Loomis. All are great for learning how to draw.
Ah! Yes! That early- to mid- 20th century look 😄 very nice!
I love the memes in your videos, I think they’re very unique and I appreciate the length you go to to occasionally add humour to your video through them. But I also like listening to you too so I’m happy to be here 😊
Codependent origination: mind & matter being examples thereof. I never was a big philosophical "either/or" person, although of course distinctions matter. It's worth bearing in mind that to the extent that we are in a "self," we are not able to take onboard any of the infinities, and to the extent that we might be briefly merged into an infinity, our self-nature has been to an extent obviated. Bearing in mind that such experiences are not by themselves evidence of any extraordinary personal merit, as lots of people (it seems) have had them, some of them on the evidence not especially otherwise wonderful persons. Which may be why so many traditional systems emphasize ensuring your own moral cultivation alongside or before seeking transcendent experiences.
I love the drawing and your clearly very talented at it. However I found myself wanting to watch your drawing technique and listen to your talk at the same time, and hard to concentrate properly on either. I'd love to be able to learn to draw like that. It has a very classical feel to it.
Helpful feedback, and something I definitely need to address... somehow! Thank you, Mark! :)
Yes! it's the classical feel (which the introduction to the book explains has been lost from much contemporary art training) which caught my eye. I'd intended to pick up a book of Michelangelo's sketches to try to copy them as training, and then I found this Charles Bargue book which was exactly what I was looking for :) I'm so glad you like it!
Even though I love your drawings, they are fantastic, I really appreciate the mesmerising fish 🐠
Another distinction can be made (one could argue it is a different art?) between spirit communication-divination. Ouija boards, pendulums (sorta), etc. But the question still arises of are you reaching out to a spirit or asking an all-mind. You’ll likely only get interference from the chosen system ;)
An interesting thing to note about many grammatical divinations like iching (my preferred system) is that they often present a pattern or “self fulfilling prophecy”. You’re likely going to receive
1. What important parts of the situation to look at
2. Two or more ways to split the pattern
3. Outcomes of said splits
In this way they really are a sort of art-imitates-life or omens of an all-mind. Like you said, all possibilities are present, symbolically.
I recommend the book The Practical Guide to the Development of Psychic Powers by Denning and Philips. It talks about some of the things mentioned in this video, as well as the distinction between divination and seership. It gives some exercises that you can classify as the "mental hygiene" mentioned. Also I certainly prefer the grammatical methods as I'm a very by the books kind of reader. My sister is a fantastic intuitive reader though and it's awesome seeing our skills compare.
Yes! Great recommendation! 😄🙏
Thank you for the recommendation.
Another book, for my list! Thanks! ❤️🔥
I love your drawing, the process, and the overall invigoration that's inspiring. Thank you for sharing such insightful, helpful, and great information! 💚🙏🏻✨
I'm so glad you like it! Thank you for the kind words! 😄🙏
I think it's great that your taking an interest in drawing it's very therapeutic and it's another way to let your creativity unfold!
I absolutely agree! It's definitely time for me to get some of the technical skills down. Exciting stuff!
@@FoolishFishBooks Have fun! You can draw amazing things!
I would like to say that I personally love the gifs and jokes you make in the background of your videos when you talk 🤌👍👌🙏🥹
Also this drawing thing is rather nice 😌
drawing + esotericism, two of my favourite things... absolutely love this format
I appreciate you changing it up however the fish turning was also a focal point to listen. I appreciate both! another great video. I am learning differing forms of devination, cards, ball, runes and enjoy them as interesting to co-create with.
Such a great video!!! I’m so happy to have found this channel, though I’d like to add that I LOVE the gifs and funny pics you add into the videos! We need to remove the overbearing need for complete seriousness in mysticism.
I liked the drawing too… keep up the great work!
Yi 8x8=64... Divine=Divide=Digitiize (Decide)🤔 Interleave Yi&TaroT for Shade&Colour et Voilà!
So I’m new here and excited to be here. After watching this video it reminded me of what I’m learning in Meta Human by Deepak Chopra. Who are we talking to? The mind! Or also better known as consciousness!!! I love how you and Deepak just aligned like that. Very reaffirming. Now I’m off to watch your video on quantum something.
Freemasonry is an astounding collection of symbols. Also rearrange Shakespeare's name.
Stephen Skinner says divination might be explained by Jung’s synchronicity theory. What are your thoughts on that? And how did that principle really work?
The philosophy of Parmenides (flourished c.500 B.C)., is very interesting, he postulates that "All is One", and there is no change in the universe. Just think, for this particular universe we all came from a piece of 'space' 100 billion times smaller than the diameter of a proton. It is my thought that there are an infinite number of these 'singularities in an eternal, infinite cosmos.
Thank you. Coming from a strongly Christian background, but always having had a interest in the Christian mystical tradition, as always sadly misunderstood by the Church as a whole as well as by neo-pagans and new-agers, I have tried to keep my now alternative esoteric practices within the western mystery tradition, but have so far been drawn to the Yi-Jing and have several books on the subject, along with enjoying Tai Chi and Qigong!
thank you for the explanation. i think i like grammatical divination. i also enjoy the new format as someone who makes videos with talking over drawing. i was mesmerized by your sketching. if i may make a small critique, i noticed you really have the lips down but the nose is the same each time. it affects how the perspective of the whole face reads. maybe practice drawing pyramids in different perspective to get an idea of how the nostrils and angle change?
if you enjoy the drawing then keep at it! chase what makes you happy. do what thou wilt!
my personal opinion:
i enjoyed it, it was sort of hypnotic in a pleasing way!
infact i LOVED it!!
keep doing it! and thank you for the content!
I support such an ideal came to being much like a translater I in density .
More so over with your art what would happen if you made a character ? Let's say 10 skill an 3 main ones and choice of school classes.
I found your analysis and the systems presented to be interesting. I am neurodiverse, which lends itself to different sense development and often ease with the intuitive processes; I consider intuition and divination to be processes of highly developed pattern recognition. Mine is usually filtered via the grammatical method but just as often via direct apprehension of knowing part of reality. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for sharing. What is the source of this talk? Can you recommend a book on this topic which goes in depth? Thanks
I love the drawing but miss the hilarios memes. ... they made it more funny🤪
All of reality is mental. All points in space and time are connected. When one force meets another, ripples are created that cause events that are perceived as one moves forward in time... but as with all ripples, there is a symmetry to them. Those in tune can see as they ripple *back* to your current place in spacetime as well. 😏
it's funny how much this sort of stuff leaks into general consciousness. my republican boomer dad says he goes to look at the lake when he doesn't know what to do
A good way to practice and improve drawing is to aactually learn natural geometry ⭐
I teach myself the zodiac as a tool. To teach means i check signs and daylie experiance. Its a part in an astromagickal system.
I think you are a great artist but found it distracted too much and couldn’t concentrate on what you were saying this time! I think I’m in a minority though looking at the other comments!
Great video FF. Thank you! From Pa America
Horary Astrology is the best form of divination I have found so far!
Cooler if you show images of books that relate to your topic instead . More on brand imo
I like the drawing thing. It adds a nice aesthetic. I use both methods. TY for the video.
I've enjoyed the spinny fishy bois, but you do what you think is best
Thanks for this video. I’m a practicing intuitive and offer readings to clients. I tend not to use cards, but during readings interestingly images of certain tarot cards will be shown to me in my minds eye for a client or for myself.
Do you think electronic decks on apps are equal to physical decks? Just curious. Thanks!
Yes! I find electronic decks to be just as accurate, which is why I scoff at people who say that sleeving your cards in plastic pockets somehow "blocks the energy" whatever that might mean. That's not how it works 😄
Love the gifs!, always funny always spot on😂
wow, i recently acquired the book of change about the I ching and willing to tap in it, so for the timing I give you 10/10, but i didn't manifest your video...or did I? (beautiful drawings, might aswell teach us how to embellish sigils becauqe mine suck aesthtically)
The I-Ching is incredible! Fascinating times ahead!
I'm so excited that you made this video! I enjoy your perspective because it always gets my mind spinning in new ways and leads me down new paths. Thank you for your work! Also, I enjoyed this format, but I also enjoy the other format. Kudos to you for being so good at making videos and coming up with multiple good ideas. ^_^
Ah! You're incredibly kind, @bulkeh! Thank you so much! I'm delighted the format works out not too badly :D
Im glad the rolling fishes are gone 😂
But do to the topic of the video and knowing you enjoy Lon Milo Duquette books, I will like to ask you what you think about his book “the book of ordinary oracles” so far Ive enjoy it. I kind of like the premise that you can do divination with what ever you find.
Thanks for your saturday videos I like them son much😀 I get so much from them.
I think Lon's Book of Ordinary Oracles is wonderful! :D
What ever method comes to mind at the time. Had some amazing stuff come up with the I Ching. Tarot cards were also good.
This is the first time I’ve seen you. Going by the voice I had previously envisioned a fellow a bit like a cross between Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, and Isreal Regardie. I like all those guys.
Ah! I've been showing my face every Friday with the occult News videos for a couple of years now 😄🙏
Epic video!!! ❤
How would you categorize channeling or auto typing/speaking/drawing? I consider it divination but maybe there's another term for it.
I'd use the word "channelling" for this? Maybe :D It's certainly in the same ballpark!
Just received my copy of Lioness - the Song of Inanna what a beautiful little book!. How do I get access to Foolish Fish Discord (or is that for L3 and above?)
If you're a Patreon member, the method is written out in the description here and on any of my more recent videos.
You need to add your Discord credentials to the right spot in Patreon (in your settings), and you'll see the server pop up automatically in Discord with all the other servers you follow (can take a few minutes to update)
Audiomancy using music for divination
This is a late comment but I do prefer the rotating fish
I love this format, I found it hard to watch the fish 🙈
My scrying mirror is big as my wall. It's custom made & easy. Black paint on glass.
That's incredibly cool! :D
I find myself using a mixture of the two divination methods you described. Even if I'm using tarot cards or geomancy, I still try to quiet my mind and let my intuition help interpret what's going on. I find the more abstract methods of divination good for communicating with spirits, while the more concrete methods are better for divining information in the physical world.
I've played around with things too. Abstract forms of divination have given me the names of spirits and what they prefer for offerings. Meanwhile, they can't tell me if the store down the street will be open tonight. Meanwhile, I've struggled to use tarot cards to divine the names of spirits, but tarot cards have been able to tell me if I'll find what I'm looking for at the store. Also, geomancy has given me very good advice for all sorts of practical problems.
While I don't consider the cards or dice themselves to have any special powers or intellect to them, the divination system itself does tend to have a certain personality to it. It'll have strengths and weaknesses and things it doesn't like being asked. I've even used a pendulum to talk to certain spirits, and they've warned me against using certain kinds of divination tools with certain kinds of spirits because they see certain methods of communication as "cheap party tricks that are beneath them".
Ha! Very useful bits of experience there, thank you so much for sharing!
I'd appreciate if u continued to do ur drawn while discussing ur ideas.
It works and I bet improves both for u.
Thank you so much, I appreciate your encouragement 😄 very best wishes to you!
Are there 51 or 52 rules to drawing the face?, gotta get that book on drawing, brilliant stuff.
Charles Bargue. Fantastic stuff! I don't know about the rules but that sounds like fun! 😄
In divining the future, one may be interested to note the idea of retrocausality in physics. Causality works in reverse as well as forwards. Just as the past influences the present, so does the future. And I suspect we can sense it.
Yes! A very important point! 😄❤️
Thank you, once again. Although a year late, I am of the opinion the algorythms will like it anyways.
Much appreciated good sir! 😄🙏
As an artist my sel,f I love this new format!!! I love hearing you talk and draw at the same time because this what I do when I watch videos, so it is a nice company for me, you, drawing and talking 🤩
Oh fantastic! 😄 Thank you for sharing, that's great to know!
I enjoyed this. I've learned a lot from you. You're such a nice guy.
That's awesome, @Mindful Maximalism! Thank you for your kind words! 😄🙏
I like the drawing better than the gift for sure! Also if it gives u the ability to do something u love then I think that's what you should prioritize :)
Thank you so much, @Vasudeva! 😄🙏
I love this ❤️ thank you 😊😊
the drawing is cool
Thank you for the video !
your drawing is fantastic, I prefer seeing you draw over the hypnotic fish
Thank you so much! 😄🙏
My preferred method of divination by far is geomancy.
Got to love a bit of Geomancy ;)
I like the format. I appreciate your consistency.
So glad you enjoy it, @Ancin47! Thank you for the kind words!
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I'm gonna miss the memes.
as someone who has been drawing since childhood, you have the potential to shine, so keep it up with illustrating!! 🎨✏undoubtedly, you will achieve profound success in your dreams.
Thank you, sevda, you're very kind! Hoping this new format will give me plenty of opportunity to progress!
@@FoolishFishBooks you're very welcome!! c: also, with the topic of divination, i highly recommend looking into automatic writing and drawing. it's how i often include literature and art into my practice.
@@-sevda Ah! The Spare method! Fantastic 😄
drawing is cool, can we make it occult inspired? maybe attempting drawings of archetypes?
That's the long-term goal, but gotta git gud first 😄 I invite you to follow the journey from point zero right here 😄 (hopefully won't be too long 😜
@@FoolishFishBooks Honestly, that's fair. I can wait. Haha! You are so awesome FF, take care!!
Thank you!
I love scrying of many kinds.
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Thank you very much for another video! Thank you also for the term, "mind hygiene." This is helpful to work alongside mind discipline. This works, (for me anyways!) I feel like it's a complimentary concept and it helps to consider them a guiding team and not a struggle. I'm not trying to fight my mind, but bring it into calm stillness with maintaining good "mind hygiene!"
Personally,
I appreciate the meme humor always
and your eloquent collaborative artistry
in ALL forms.
I work mostly with tarot and runes, but also Lenormand, learning ogham, have dabbled in scrying with mixed results. I alternate between tarot and oracle cards because they offer different takes on the same situations. I have a particular oracle deck that really speaks to me sometimes - it’s a simple deck, just a single word on each card and a picture that describes that word in some sense. That one is far more on the intuitive side. That said, I also like tarot because you can delve more deeply into a reading. The runes… They kind of float in between for me - yes, there are specific meanings, but they tend to be broad. So applying those meanings to a given situation/person can be tricky sometimes, and takes a little more intuition, if that makes sense. Thanks so much for this! Absolutely fascinating. I like the drawing for sure, but I do enjoy the other types as well. I think the only thing that unsettles me (as someone with some sensory issues) is when the gifs/images appear and disappear again too quickly. But that may be just me. ;)
This was such a helpful video! I'm currently learning about geomancy and charm casting. My current preferred method of divination is lenormand.
All my divinative life, instinctively, I was always trying to use both methods with the Tarot, in a healthy balance. I'm just unwilling to abandon completely the one or the other, the intuitive and the grammatical, so I just combine them.
That's why I love abstract art in Tarot, or art with intense surrealistic elements. But now that I think about it, after so many years of tarot reading (13 years) I lean more towards the grammatical method. That's why maybe I was recently drawn to the black mirror 🖤
I would literally watch you drawing for hours. Beauty, art, and magick. What a combination!
YOU DRAW!!!!!!!! I LOVE drawing!!!! I absolutely don't mind it!!!! I want to pursue illustration as a career. Wether it be creating my own comic books, Trading Card Games etc. You're really good!!!!
Ah! Thank you, Dylan! You're very kind! I wish you all the very best of success in your own illustration career!
I use tarot cards semi-regularly. I think it's kind of fun and it lets me pull others into the work. Plus a deck of cards is easier to carry around than a bag of runes. I'm tempted in trying palm-reading as well.
Nice synchronicity! I just finished reading Plutarch's essay on Socrates' personal deity and he had some interesting insights that aligned precisely with your categories. As the high priest at Delphi at the time, it was fascinating hearing his thoughts on divination and seeing the clarity with which he was able to describe out of body experiences
Love the drawings! Keep it up!
Thank you @Christian! 😄🙏
My servant or is still lose without a Fail-Safe
Hm. Did you ignore all the (many, clear) warnings?
What does God think about all of these things? Does not the Bible speak against these things?
The question is how much God IN FACT has to do with what's written in the Bible...
I'm not religious but I would argue all of it.
Great video as always! Thank you! I've gotten myself a similar book on drawing and you've inspired me to give it a try once again. Thanks for that, too :D
Fantastic! I hope you have as much fun with it as I'm having! 😄🙏
Right on, man! The Heavens of Indra thing with the web of pearls that are reflected in every other pearl makes bits of me twitch unconsciously, too. I think I first picked it up in Hesse book. It may have been "The Glass Bead Game", though I might only think so on account the idea of glass beads. Still, so darn beautiful.
And memorizing the meanings of all the hexagrams of the I-Ching's is no joke either! Jeez, I haven't managed that one yet! Though, if I'm being honest, I haven't really given it a good go since my early 20s and that was some time ago. I had that big, fat book that Carl Jung published on the subject. It was awesome. Wonder what became of it. Probably got all drunk and leant it to somebody. Went through a dreadful phase of doing that all the time. Oh, well. Rad video. Thank you!
Oh, wait! Regarding the drawing thing! I think it could be really fun watching you develop your skill with that pencil. A couple of months from now, we could have you banging portraits of great historical figures in and around the occult world. Could be sweet.
Cheers!
Yes! Isn't that net metaphor wonderful? Yeah, I don't think memorising the i-ching is feasible, especially sing most of the goodness is in the changing lines... That's a fat book!
And thank you for you very kind encouragement with the drawing! Let's see where it takes us! 😄🙏
Major gushing ahead, lol, but I mean every bit of it:
As a big fan of the meme humour, I really enjoyed watching your work in progress as well. Honing your craft as you help us hone ours. Poetic!
I go back often to your bell curve video as the most elegant and useful explanation of magical will I've found yet -- and I figure I'll soon come back to this one as well. These thoughtful and practical explanations of our impalpable preconscious machinations have been invaluable to me -- and at least one or two of my long-suffering friends. 😄
Okay, I'm done, lol. As always, thank you FF for all you do!
Your kind words go straight to my heart :D Thank you so much, I'm so happy the videos have been useful for you, messages like yours really make it worthwhile!
I have a fondness for pencil and watercolor, so I didn't mind your drawing one bit. Hope you do more of it.
On the divination end, I really liked your take on the two main types. I actually do both, but I base the tool on how far out I'm trying to see, whether forward or backwards. For longer spans of time, I use water. For insights closer to "current", I use the i-Ching.
Ah yes, that's a good point, I could maybe have elaborated a little bit more on what each is particularly good for, but just like you, when precise information about a present concern comes up, it's I-Ching all the way!
I've tried the drawing journey and had a modicum of success, but found it's not for me. I like painting better. On yours... I like it, pretty cool to see the progression
Thank you Charl! I'm excited to see what kinds of results consistent practice will yield 🙏🤞
Always happy to see your face. Love your videos. (I clicked the like button).
Thank you so much, Beth! I'm so glad you're enjoying the content!
Fantastic! The best Oracle deck hasn’t been created. Maybe I’ll ask ChatGPT to design one.
:D Haha! I'd definitely be interested to see the results... an intuitive tool designed by an entity that doesn't understand the concept of intuition other than on a theoretical basis... hmm!
Denis what do you think to alternate the normal saturdays with some q&a from the users? Would be nice to pickup question and answer, live or in a normal video. Cheeeeers!
Hehe! I have to admit that watching Q&A-style videos bores me to tears... Thanks in any case for the thought ;)
I love the way you bring the nature of reality into this. Lately I've been tied up in the idea that the inherent magic in the mundane is somehow at odds with deliberate magic. This makes a lot of sense to me, thank you! :) Also, it was nice to watch you drawing and speaking.
😄🙏 I'm so glad you enjoyed this! ❤️
Great video! We have been having a ‘learn to draw’ resurgence in our house as well, I love it! Is that a clutch pencil? Those are my favorite too! I think your sketches are wonderful and will be a great addition to your video work! Lastly, I see that hard cover of Dune up there on the shelf, my favorite fiction book of all time, and I have that same copy! LOL. Ok, sorry for the absolutely random comments, love your work, please keep the videos coming! :-)
Ah, That's brilliant, @The Eclectic Rose. I'm finding it a decidedly relaxing activity! And yes! Dune is a terrific book, I'm considering swapping in this edition for the Folio Society edition which is so nice and without all the typos... Either way, I'm very excited for the 2nd movie at the end of the year!
@@FoolishFishBooks Me too! Finally a good Dune movie series! (But I honestly enjoyed the others as well, even with the wacky weirding modules! Lol)
Do you think online iching or tarot works?
Absolutely. Yes!
@@FoolishFishBooks Thanks! Mate could you please one day make video about what tangible results you got with magick? Like getting what you want etc (I ommit personal developement as this is hard to quasntify)? My autistic brain just blocks me from believing it, and a word from someone as experienced as you might help me get past it
Looks like you've had some experience drawing. I do a good bit of it myself.
I used to enjoy drawing as a teenager, but I never did enough of it to get good. Hoping to change that :D
Hi Denis, I enjoyed the "drawing thing" very much! Have a lovely weekend!
Phew! :D Ah! I'm delighted it's ok :D
Well done on the drawing, id be interested in you doing some automatic ones or of subject/tecnique relevant to the discussion topic(s) in future videos!
Great topic! I've covered automatic writing in the past, but automatic drawing could be fun! The A.O. Spare method 😄
Davina- The only form I can advise as it is different for everyone, is oil divination.
Using a stainless steal bowl and fill with part oil and water, heat the bowl.
Yep! this is a really nice method that falls in the first category :)
I am now into noses. All these wonderful angles.
And this drawing thing is so peaceful.
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I picked up on drawing too , as it was something i used to enjoy in my childhood , but i never took it further . Cool of you to share your progress with us! your sketchbook looks great!
Thank you @Selene! I'm very excited for your own adventures in drawing, it's so enjoyable! Do you have a specific course or are you just drawing what feels good?
@@FoolishFishBooks I just Google for some techniques on how to get better at a specific thing I want to draw 😅.
Drawing goes well with my meditation practice and it helps after dealing with stressful people at work.