6/29/2007 - Coin Flip
I thought I would talk about a couple forms of divination that are perhaps not widely recgonized as being true divination, and do not envolve any great ritual or magick, but are common occurances that most if not all of use have had experince with at one point or another. And yet though they might not appear to invoke any great power, they are nonetheless a means of turning to the fates for asnwers on what we should do, when feeling as if we are in a posistion of being stuck and not knowing which way to go.
I will start with the very old and quite known and popular practice of the coin flip. Who has not turned to this at one time or another to aide in an ellusisive disision when we feel as if our own powers of reason can take us no farther, and we still lack the answer or choice.
The coin flip can work in a few different ways, most commonly and most well known, is either in the deciding between two different things, or simply deciding in yes or no asnweres. Or wheather a thing should or should not be done.
After one has weighed the pros and cons of both possible choices, and find them equal with each having equal and yet different possible benefits and each having equal yet different possible disadvantages, seeming there to be no logical or rational way to decide, a coin may be flipped in which one choice is labled heads and the other choice labaled tails, and so we put our trust into the fates to guide is on the direction in which we should go on.
The coin flip can also be used as a way for one to feel less personaly responsable for a choice they are about to make, or to use it as a sign that they are doing the right thing. This can be the case if one is considering enganging in an endevaour that envolves some risk to themselves, and that might have unfavorbale outcome. One might flip a coin. To use both as a sign from the fates that they are right to do the thing which they might have some doubts about, as well, so they may feel less personaly guilty if things do not turn out well, they can take some of the burdon off thier shoulders and see it that they were following the path fate had laid out for them.
There is also another way in which the coin flip might be employed, a way in whch I am quite found of. This method, allows the subconcious to come through when the concious mind does not know what to do. It is also a way for one to communicate with and listen to thier intuition and instinct. In this way the coin flip works in reverse you might say.
That is, the set up is the same, when trying to choice between option A and option B, one choice is named heads, and the other is named tails, but after the coin is flipped, if you suddenly find yourself wishing for a particular outcome, that is you are hoping it lands tails, instead of heads or visa versa, or if after the coin is flipped, and you are dissapointed with the outcome, because you suddenly find yourself wishing that it had came out the other way, then that is the true desision you should make.
For example if the coin lands heads, but you find yourself wishing it had been tails, then you should go with tails. Becomes sometimes the concious mind can get in the way of our inutiition becasue sometimes it does overanylyze and overthink things, and makes more confussing and complex would should be simple, and the act of deciding to trust the flip of coin stills the mind, becasue you are no longer actively thinking about the problem and in quiting the concious mind in this matter it allows the subconcoious a chance to get a word in, so to speak, and so that is why when you at first thought you were stuck and did not lean one way or another, after the coin has been tossed you suddenly find yourself knowing the choice you want to take.
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