Tradition 06 of 33
Divination and oracles
Tarot, cartomancy, numerology, palmistry, scrying, geomancy, runes, and other divinatory systems.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 1,796
- Earliest
- 100 CE
- to 2026
- Read free
- 36%
- 652 with public full text
- With covers
- 65%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match1,572
- Metadata match155
- Query match64
- Source classification (retained through merging)5
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- Divination501
- Hindu astrology146
- India146
- Tarot139
- Palmistry126
- Hindu astronomy120
- History114
- Numerology111
- Geomancy106
- Astrology95
- Social Sciences90
- Runes87
- Magic81
- Art80
- Arts and Humanities78
- fortune-telling77
- Literature73
- Philosophy70
- Wahrsagen60
- Archeology56
- Miscellanea52
- Early works to 180051
- Occultism50
- Physiognomy50
Top languages
- English787 · 44%
- German188 · 10%
- Sanskrit147 · 8%
- French136 · 8%
- Latin99 · 6%
Notable authors
All authors- Marcus Tullius Cicero21 in this tradition23 books
- Nigel Pennick13 in this tradition17 books
- Giambattista della Porta11 in this tradition41 books
- Ralph Blum10 in this tradition11 books
- Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology. Manuscript. Ivanow 13110 books
- Edred Thorsson10 books
- Nīlakaṇṭha8 books
- Rachel Pollack8 books
- Cassandra Eason7 in this tradition13 books
- 鏡, リュウジ7 in this tradition13 books
- Gaṇeśadaivajña7 in this tradition11 books
- Bento Serrano7 books
1,796 books
Ancient astronomy and celestial divination
Noel Swerdlow, Noel M Swerdlow
1999
Divination and Oracles
Carmen Blacker, Michael Loewe
1981
Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages
Charles Burnett
1996
Mediators of the divine
Robert M Berchman
1998
Central European geomancy
Josef Heinsch, Nigel Pennick, Prudence Jones, Michael Behrend
1976
Earthstars
C.E. Street
1990
Geomancie
Robert Jaulin
1966
Geomancy
Nigel Pennick
1973
Islamic geomancy and a thirteenth-century divinatory device
Emilie Savage-Smith
1980
M.A. Malik's new horizons in palmistry
M. A. Malik
1999
Many things on numerology
Juno Jordan
1981
Numerology
Anne Christie
2016
Pictorial Key to the Tarot
Arthur Edward Waite
1971
Psychic Magic
Raymond Ouellette
1974
Rune Might
Edred Thorsson
2018
Runes and their Origin
Erik Moltke
1981
Symbols of numerology
Julia Seton Sears
1984
The Art and Practice of Geomancy
John Michael Greer
2009
The Mystical Arts
Lauren D. Peden
1995
The art and science of hand reading
Ellen Goldberg
2016
The complete book of astrological geomancy
Priscilla Schwei
1990
The magical language of runes
P. M. H. Atwater
1986
The nine doors of Midgard
Edred Thorsson
1991
The riddle of the runes
Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur
1932