Akasha - A Sanskrit term that refers to the primodial substance upon which is imprinted the events of our lives. The information imprinted on the akasha includes actions, desires, hopes, dreams, all of your life, and your reactions to it. This includes past lives -- what they were and what they are destined to be. It also includes the probable futures that you have and the destined purposes for them. The records also include the overall evolution of the person. The records are three-dimensional and can be viewed in either two or three dimensions. They can be viewed by any person that is in a meditative, psychic, or intuitional state, usually through spiritual keys such as the Third Eye Chakra and the color black through the Saturn branch of the Tree of Life.

Akashic Records - Any records that are part of the Akasha.

Astrology - The divination of the supposed influences of the stars and planets on human lives by their positions and aspects at a person's birth.

Aura - Energy field around a living thing that changes colors depending on the state of the creature, and is often linked to the creature's resonances.

Chakras - Points of physical and spiritual energy in the body. There are seven main chakras: the Root Chakra, Sexual Chakra, Solar Plexus, Heart Chakra, Throat Chakra, Third Eye, and Crown Chakra. Chakras are used in conjuction with resonances to open the akasha and perform other occult practices.

Dreams - Series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring during sleep that are usually messages from the subconscious -- they can express what is happening in the physical body before we are aware of it, balance the physiological and psychological activities in us, be an enormous source of insight and information, express human supersenses, solve problems, and reach beyond the known world. Dreams consist of symbols that the spirit uses to communicate with from the subconscious to the conscious. Interpreting these symbols helps to understand the important messages hidden in dreams.

Elements - The four fundamental substances, Fire, Earth, Air, and Water, under which the signs of the zodiac or cards in the Tarot are classified.

Enlightenment - The joining of the soul to its creator.

ESP - Extra-sensory perception. Usually a person with such perception has deeply spiritual or psychic powers.

ESPer - A person that has ESP.

Horoscope - The analysis of a person's zodiac chart.

Houses - Twelve divisions of the zodiac in astrology that represent different categories or areas of life.

Incarnation - The embodiment of a spirit.

Kabbala - A medieval and modern system of Jewish theosophy, mysticism, and thaumaturgy marked by a belief in creation from a divine force that is a oneness to all things.

Kagenie - A person or animal that a spiritualist, particularly an onmyouji, uses to receive sakanagi effects from spells, rather than receiving the spell's return themself.

Karma - A Sanskrit term that means "to balance," it is a force generated by a person's actions that determines the consequences of a soul's life and future lives. Throughout the process of reincarnation, it is the soul's duty to try to compensate and balance all of its karma to reach enlightment. Karma constantly effects us and what we do with our lives. Karma built up over our lifetimes effects us even when we don't realize it. Many instances where this happens is in love relationships, views on equality, blocking others, exchanging energy with others, and preference of your location, attitudes, choices, and ego.

Karmic wheels - A karmic wheel is a "wheel" between two people that are drawn back to each other lifetime after lifetime to learn to deal with one another, until such a time as one of the persons recognizes what is going on and chooses to take away his or her energy from the wheel effect and turn it to other uses. Sometimes this wheel happens in love relationships that have not been honest or truly loving to one another. It can also happen in business or political relationships. When one person realizes what is going on and makes the necessary changes, they are released from the wheel. The other person, however, rolls their wheel around until they can connect it with someone else in a similar situation, or until they begin to learn and change.

Kekkai - A spiritual barrier that can be put up by a spell to act as a shield.

Kindred soul - Often times mistaken as your "soul mate," your kindred soul is another soul in this life that you are connected to on spiritual levels. The energy between kindred souls is very powerful and they will help one another expand to new levels. Kindred souls are usually always opposite genders, to help balance energies, although on some rare occasions they will be the same gender. Most kindred souls will remain in their relationship for many lifetimes before changing to other kindred souls, although their roles may change from lifetime to lifetime, such as exchanging gender. Your kindred soul or spiritual energies relating to your kindred soul are accessed through your "soul seed" in the Heart Charka.

Maboroshi - A powerful kind of illusion mixed with dream, in which the spiritualist has total control over the self-made reality. Usually used to gain absolute dominion over opponents, but can be used for other spiriutal purposes.

Major Arcana - 22 of the cards in a Tarot deck, which are the original Tarot. They are the trumps of the deck and the spiritual Tarot. They represent the psychic, psychological, philosophical, and spiritual parts of our lives. They show the spiritual significance of the lessons in life, and their symbolism shows different parts of our psychological make-up. But the Major Arcana are rarely what they appear to be -- their concepts and spiritual principles often remain hidden until probed. Each card in the Major Arcana has an astrological or planetary association attributed to it.

Minor Arcana - The remaining 56 cards in a Tarot deck. There are four suits in the Minor Arcana -- the Wands (also called Rods or Staves), the Cups, the Swords, and the Pentacles (also called Disks or Coins). Each of these suits has the number cards Ace through Ten, and the symbolism on these cards express the different aspects of our lives. In addition to these cards, each suit also has four Court cards, the King, Queen, Knight, and Page (Knight, Queen, Prince, and Princess in certain Tarot decks), and they represent the personalities of the people in our lives.

Mitsu-in - Esoteric gesture of clasping the hands and drawing the two index fingers upward against each other and shutting the eyes, through which the absolute concentration needed for casting onmyoujitsu spells is achieved.

Natal chart - The horoscope of a person based on the day, year, place, and time of birth that gives in-depth information on an individual. Natal charts mark the location of all the planets in the constellations of the zodiac at the time of a person's birth, and how they influence that person's life.

Ofuda - Small cards with written encantations on them to cast onmyoujistu spells. They are often called wards.

Onmyouji - An ancient Japanese sorcerer that practices onmyoujitsu magic. They are often times called spiritualists or mediums.

Onmyoujitsu - An ancient form of Japanese magic based on the concept of Yin and Yang and is the discipline through which a person can develop the capacity to obtain and channel power from the balance forces of good and evil, darkness and light, that must exist together in order to preserve the harmony of the universe. Some of the main powers that its procedures bring about are the capacity to communicate and interact with the spiritual world and channeling protective as well as destructive enchantments.

Progression - To move forward in time to a future state. Progressing a life means going forward in time in the akashic records to view a probable future life to your present one.

Psychometry - Drawing thoughts, images, or memories from another object by touching it and reading its resonances or akashic records through ESP.

Regression - To move back in time to an earlier state. Regressing a life refers to going back in time in the akashic records to view an earlier life than your present one.

Reincarnation - The rebirth of a soul into a new body or form of life.

Resonances - Spiritual vibrations that are keys for opening akashic records and performing other occult practices.

Sakanagi - Side effects from casting a spell that eventually return to the caster. Their intensity is directly proportional to the power of the encantation, and can increase according to the type of spell that produces them and whether it has been misused, miscasted, or when they are the result of a curse. There are ways of avoiding sakanagi effects, such as sending them onto a kagenie or protecting against them with defensive guard spells.

Sanskrit - An ancient Indo-Aryan language that is the classical language of India and Hinduism, and is used to chant onmyoujitsu spells. The incantations usually always start with the root syllabel "on."

Shikifuku - Ceremonial robes used by onmyoujis to perform certain kinds of rituals.

Shikigami - A spirit that is an astral projection that every onmyouji possesses that represents his spiritual power, taking the shape of a ghosty animal whose shape and nature matches its master's personality. They will follow their master's orders, and often are used to locate spirits or to attack in spiritual matters.

Spiritual keys - Resonances or things that trigger resonances that are used as aides to viewing the akasha or performing other occult skills. Common spiritual keys are colored candles, incense, stones, songs, or anything else that brings about spiritual resonances in a soul.

Spread - Layout of Tarot cards used to answer questions and other forms of divination.

Soul mate - A soul on the other side that is a perfect spiritual balance to your own soul, and through this balance, they can subconsciously help you balance karma or spiritually challenge you.

Tarot - Any of a set of usually 78 playing cards, used for divination. Popular Tarot decks include the Rider-Waite deck, which is probably the most common and widely used, and the Aleister Crowley Thoth deck.

Telekinesis - Motion of objects with no physical contact through ESP.

Telepathy - Communication from one mind to another through ESP.

Tree of Life - A primary image in Kabbala that on one level teaches how the universe was formed, and on another level teaches how to access the different levels of the conscious mind so that we can tap the varied energies of the universe. It is made up of ten levels of the subconscious mind, each one associated with a planet and a color, and each level has a different series of energies and characteristics associated with it. We can gain information by accessing these levels in a similar fashion to gaining information from the akasha.

Twin Souls - Souls that are very similar to one another and usually the same gender. It is from twin souls that we get the saying "there is a double of us somewhere in the world." Sometimes their astrological charts are so closely aligned that they will do the same thing at the same time. They might not even be aware of the other person for many years. If one twin develops and grows, the other twin's growth is automatically enhanced.

Yin and Yang - A spiritual symbol that represents reincarnation and other occult beliefs. The Yin is the feminine passive principle in nature that is exhibited in darkness or the subconscious and combines with Yang to produce all that comes to be. Yang is the masculine active principle in nature that is exhibited in light or the conscious and combines with the Yin to produce all that comes to be. It is an unending cycle which represents an eternal growth.

Zodiac - An imaginary band in the heavens centered on the ecliptic that emcompasses all the apparent paths of all the planets and is divided into twelve constellations or signs, each taken for astrological purposes to extend 30 degrees of longitude. Often all the signs in astrology are refered to together as the zodiac.