Paganism and fortune telling is what I am and do. I am currently studying Astrology, Parapsychology, Palmistry, Tarot and more. I am a Pagan. It's a religion that dates back from the beginning of mankind. After Christianity, is was given the name "witchcraft". The religion really had no name before, it was simply what all people were brought up to believe. Natives believe in spirits and gods, associated with Earth, Sun and Moon. Pagans see all living things, including the goddesses-gods as having a cyclical pattern, they follow the cycles of the seasons of the year. Christians adapted the religions, adopting many of the rituals and customs. "Yule" became Christmas, "Oester" became Easter and so on. It all became a part of Christian belief and tradition. Christians also adapted "Father, Son, Holy Ghost" from the Triple Goddess, "Mother, Maiden and Crone". Below is more complete defintions of the Pagan religion.

Fortune-Telling , practice of predicting the future through psychic means, such as the interpretation of signs or communication with supernatural forces. Many people use astrology as a method of fortune-telling. Other methods include palmistry , the practice of interpreting the lines in hands; cartomancy, the prediction of the future using special cards such as tarot cards; and necromancy, in which people predict the future through communication with the spirits of dead people. Some methods of fortune-telling involve clairvoyance, the ability to perceive events or objects beyond the range of the senses. Although fortune-telling has little support in science, it remains popular in many countries, including the United States. People have practiced various forms of fortune-telling for thousands of years. It became a widespread practice in many ancient societies, particularly among rulers, who often sought advice from fortune-tellers. In ancient China, for example, emperors had court astrologers and special diviners, who predicted the future using a set of sticks called the I Ching. In ancient Rome, special priests called augurs predicted the future by interpreting certain signs in nature. The ancient Greeks consulted oracles, who supposedly learned of future events by speaking directly with the gods.

Divination , practice of attempting to acquire hidden knowledge and insight into events past, present, and future through the direct or indirect contact of human intelligence with the supernatural. The practice was closely allied with religion among pagan, Hebrew, and early Christian peoples.

Occultism, belief in the efficacy of various practices including astrology , alchemy , divination , and magic regarded as being based on hidden knowledge about the universe and its mysterious forces. Occult knowledge characteristically depends upon the notion of correspondences, or postulated relationships that unite all things stars, planets, gemstones, colors, or even parts of the human body and life events to one another and to invisible realities as well. Those who subscribe to this view believe that they can use occult knowledge to effect healing or to predict the future, for example. Occultism may also include a belief in beings, such as angels , deities, or spirits, who can be contacted by those who possess the appropriate knowledge. Occult knowledge is believed to be obtained through initiation by those who already have it, or through the study of the texts in which it is expounded.

Paganism , beliefs and practices associated with the worship of nature. Paganism may take many forms, including pantheism (belief that the whole of reality is divine), polytheism (belief in many gods), and animism (belief that natural features of the world are invested with divine power). Historically, the adherents of the three major monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) have applied the term to the indigenous religions they encountered in the course of their expansion.

Modern Witchcraft In the second half of the 20th century, a self-conscious revival of pre-Christian paganism occurred in the United States and Europe. The foundation of this revival was witchcraft, or wicca (said to be an early Anglo-Saxon word for witchcraft). Wicca is interpreted simply as the nature and fertility religion of pre-Christian Europe and is based on books such as Charles Leland Aradia: The Gospel of the Witches (1899), Margaret Murray The Witch-Cult in Western Europe (1921), and Robert Graves The White Goddess (1948). Although they are now considered unreliable by scholars, such books gave inspiration to some people seeking spiritual alternatives. The writings of Englishman Gerald Gardner, who in his book Witchcraft Today (1954) claimed that he was a witch initiated by a surviving coven, imparted much of the alleged lore and rituals of English witches. Although his claims have been questioned, covens of modern witches sprang up under Gardners inspiration and spread to the United States in the 1960s. This form of witchcraft with its feeling for nature, its colorful rituals, its love of fantasy, and its challenge of conventional religion and society harmonized well with the countercultural mood of the 1960s and grew rapidly during that decade. Modern witchcraft continued to prosper during the subsequent decades. Many followers of the ecological and feminist movements found in wicca a religion with congenial themes. Wiccans emphasized the sacred meaning of nature and its cycles and the coequal role of gods and goddesses and of priests and priestesses. Some wiccan groups, called Dianic (after the goddess Diana ), include only women and worship the goddess exclusively. Closely related neopagan religions have also appeared in revivals of ancient Egyptian, Celtic, Greek, and Nordic religions. Wicca perceives itself as a modern religion based on the broad themes of ancient pre-Christian paganism, although it is not drawn directly from paganism for example, wicca eschews some features of the old paganism, such as animal sacrifice . Increasingly, wicca draws from many pagan traditions, with the result that the distinctions between witchcraft, occultism, neopaganism, and various strands thereof have become blurred. Modern witchcraft is entirely different from Satanism or the diabolical witchcraft imagined by the persecutors of past centuries. Major wiccan themes include love of nature, equality of male and female, appreciation of the ceremonial, a sense of wonder and belief in magic, and appreciation of the symbolism and psychological realities behind the gods and goddesses of antiquity.

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