Tarot: Divination or prediction?

[dpa]

The mothers have a lot of experience in predictions!

When a childs born it is closer to God than any other human being can imagine. A child is born into this world with nothing but divine grace this grace is given to the mother and the father who has made the sacred commitment to bring life into this world.
A child is born with all of its chakras beating at accelerating rates after it takes its first breath, the child and its parents are one with the divine yet they may not know this divine grace is upon them.
Because mothers naturally nurture the child, feeds it, cares for it, and educates it before the father she is closer to the child and the divine. This bond of course is formed in the moment of conception for the divine gift starts from their.
but are you asking about divine predictions? knowing on a large scale like major events in the world that are predicted by prophets. I understand this would require a a sacrifice in life style that would lead the seeker to the path of spiritual truth.

I was in the middle of a training session this afternoon and a thought has come to mind regarding this topic and I would like to elaborate on this a little more.

In some Kabalistic teachings it is understood that the woman is considered to exist on a higher and more complete spiritual level than a man. The man requires an extra boost so to speak, to begin earthly existence at the same spiritual level as the woman.
Modern electrical technology offers an analogy when we refer to a male plug and a female plug. The electrical current as it runs through the house is where the female plugs are. For the male plug to possess any electricity, it must be plugged into the female. But the female is already wired; electricity is running there all the time.
We can think of the difference between male and female spirituality in this way: the female is prewired, already connected spiritually. Also to it is a clear principle throughout the Torah that whenever there was a woman prophet and a male prophet alive at the same time, the woman prophet was always on a higher level than her male counterpart. The bible also states this principle quite explicitly.

[Brownbat]

My own (unsystematic) sense of the matter is that divination involves the use of certain tools or techniques to gain insight directly from the spiritual or supersensible realm. Prediction and forecasting necessarily involve current statements about future events. Divination may, but need not, be used as a predictive tool. For example, you may use a tarot spread to get the "lay of the land" spiritually, more of a current snapshot. We also use the verb "divine" to mean ascertaining what is unknown by means other than ordinary cognition. So we may say that someone "divined" what we were thinking.

Also, my own experience with divination is that, used correctly, it possesses a depth and subtlety that other, more mundane predictive devices or techniques lack. For example, if I am offered a new job and consult the tarot, I may ask "will I succeed at it?" And the answer may be no, so I would not take the job. But if I ask "Should I take the job?" or "What will be the outcome if I take the job?", I may get a positive response, even though I will fail at the job, because that failure will teach me something I need to know. Divination is the right tool for that type of insight into the future.

Brownbat

[Mohandas]

Prediction and forecasting necessarily involve current statements about future events. Divination may, but need not, be used as a predictive tool. For example, you may use a tarot spread to get the "lay of the land" spiritually, more of a current snapshot.
Brownbat

Nicely summed up, I am in full accord.

Mohandas