CONTEST! WIN A FREE TAROT DECK WITH YOUR PREDICTION
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This post was written by Donald Michael Kraig
on January 2, 2013 | Comments (26)
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Happy new year, everyone!
Increasingly, people at this time of year look back at predictions made by public psychics and mediums to see just how well they’ve done. Some are surprisingly accurate while others, well, let’s say they aren’t very good (are you listening, spirit of Criswell?).
One of the important skills of magicians is being able to perform divinations. Often magicians do this using the runes, Tarot, a crystal ball, or other such “assistants.” As I’ve described in Modern Magick, the ability to perform divinations is important for working magick. After all, you logically would not want to perform a magickal act when the result might be negative or even harmful to yourself or others.
I also pointed out that the success of a divination is often inversely proportional to time. This takes a bit more of an explanation.
As magicians, we realize that we can alter our futures. This means that even though we may, at any one moment, have a particular fate in our future, through the performance of magick we can prevent negative outcomes or encourage and speed-up positive fates. Therefore, our “fate” is changeable and not written in stone. It may also change over time because so many influences can come into play. That’s why a divination concerning ten years in the future is likely to be much less accurate than one for the next few months.
I’ve made a proposal to the highest authorities (my supervisor) and been authorized to hold a contest to see just how good your predictions can be. I believe that many people who are not BNPs (Big Name Psychics) are every bit as good or better than the big names at predicting future events. Here is your chance to prove me right!
The prize for this contest will be a FREE TAROT DECK OF YOUR CHOICE.
If you win the contest, you will be able to choose any Tarot deck published by Llewellyn. Of course, there are some rules…
Contest Rules
This contest will run from January 1, 2013–December 15, 2013.
1. You may only enter once. We don’t want someone to throw out 100 predictions in the hope that one, by chance, will be accurate.
2. Decision of the judge (that’s me!) will be final.
3. There are two factors that will be considered in choosing the winner of this contest:
……A) Time: A prediction made in January for an event that occurs in December will be deemed better than a prediction made on June 1 for an event that will occur on June 5. The greater the length of time between the prediction and the fulfillment of the prediction, the better.
……B) Lack of Obviousness: Something that is less likely to occur (such as space aliens landing on the White House lawn) will be deemed better than something obvious (such as the Democrats and Republicans in Congress will disagree on something resulting in nothing being done).
4. This will not be a “dead pool.” Predictions of deaths, no matter how accurate they may be, will not be accepted.
5. Closer will be considered better than farther. A prediction that space aliens will land on the White House lawn will count as a partial “hit” if they land near Topeka, Kansas, and be considered better than if they land in Moscow, Russia.
And that’s it. All entries must be made in the Reader Comments section below and be published on or before December 15. Please be patient as all comments are moderated before they appear and it may take some time before they are approved. On Monday, December 16, I will announce the winner in this blog and contact him or her in order to determine which deck they want. I will also announce those who had successful predictions but that were not as good, according to the rules above, as the winner.
Do your best and make your entry. You can also go to this LINK to see all of the decks we offer. You can think about which deck you’d like. But don’t choose yet…we going to be publishing more decks this year!
Reader Comments
on January 2nd, 2013 @ 12:16 pm
I predict between the dates of 20 and 28 of January that news of a new planet being discovered by NASA
on January 2nd, 2013 @ 1:15 pm
I predict that a discovery on a planet in our solar system this year will usher in a new space race.
on January 3rd, 2013 @ 12:04 am
I predict that a spiritual guru will rise to a position of political power in the UK in the month of October after a close call with death.
on January 4th, 2013 @ 4:10 pm
I predict that we in the occult world will see Crowley’s Aeon come to fruition before the end of the year; and though we’ve been in it for some time, I predict a vast shift in both the mundane and spiritual with this Lucifer and Venus influenced year, meaning a vast shift as we once saw in the Renaissance.
on January 4th, 2013 @ 4:20 pm
Thank you for your submission, Sara. Unfortunately, your description is so general it would be difficult to judge. There is no way to quantify a “vast shift in both the mundane and spiritual” without giving more specific and objective descriptions. Therefore, I invite you to make a more specific prediction. Good luck!
on January 5th, 2013 @ 5:52 pm
I predict Floods in May in Michigan
on January 6th, 2013 @ 1:31 pm
A water storm on the east coast north of DC, producing tornadoes, early September, probably 7-9. Something about “green” in the headlines, maybe involving “Tom” or “Tommy”.
on January 17th, 2013 @ 7:59 am
I predict that in Septemeber or October 2013, a US univeristy with publish a ground-breaking study on human sensuality that will cause a sensation in the popular press.
on February 1st, 2013 @ 10:18 pm
There will be a great discovery of something in a cave in Egypt that will rock all we know about the Ancient past. This will happen around September.
on February 4th, 2013 @ 9:14 pm
I predict that on or about October 26 (give or take a few days) a ballistic missile test by one country will be perceived as a direct threat by another country.
on February 9th, 2013 @ 8:34 pm
Sometime between August-October there will be a mass migration of whales (including but not limited to Belugas) and dolphins that is out of character and season for their species and migrations. This will be startling to fishermen and make the news as unusual. This event precedes an underwater earthquake that causes a continental shelf to slide open like the drawer of a bureau. The above ground area will sink or drop as this ‘shelf’ slides out. As this happens a land mass will rise and jut out of the ocean, it might be volcanic but it won’t be spewing red hot lava. All of this seismic activity will create tsunamis that strike an area with many small islands. I believe the quake moves from southeast to northwest while the tsunamis move from east to west. Some random words I got were: Greenland, Canada, Beluga in their icy caverns, out of season, as the crow fly.
on March 4th, 2013 @ 7:06 pm
I predict the new catholic pope will be the cardinal Marc Ouellet.
on March 4th, 2013 @ 7:06 pm
Near the Autumnal Equinox, in Iraq, an intact Sumerian Codex will be unearthed which will change the course of politics in the Middle East. This will cause the rest of the world to rethink their outlooks on the Middle East.
on March 4th, 2013 @ 7:28 pm
I predict that several islands in either or both the Maldive and Seychelle Island groups will become so flooded that there will have to be evacuations during the worst of their local Monsoon season. In addition, there will be some similar weather issues on the southern coast of the Indian Subcontinent, and also Sri Lanka. I see at least one airport being shut down, due to airfields being under water.
on March 7th, 2013 @ 2:28 pm
I predict a massive uncovery of illegal activities within the Los Angeles Policy dept. HEADS will roll. BIG TIME
on March 8th, 2013 @ 4:52 pm
I predict Roma Downey’s and Mark Burnett’s “The Bible” Miniseries when it comes out on DVD will be one of Amazon.com’s Top Selling Number 1 DVD.
on March 11th, 2013 @ 8:29 pm
I predict that on November 8th a small child 5-7 will be hit by a car in south-west Nevada coming out of a gas station lot on the I95.
on March 18th, 2013 @ 9:51 am
I predict an overt attack by Israel against Iran to destroy their nuclear capability by the end of August.
President Obama to leave power by end of year, unwillingly.
on April 6th, 2013 @ 7:35 pm
I predict that this year will be marked in history books as the start of WWIII, and will place the blame on the US for the war when it will be the fault of those who attack us. Israel will be targeted for who and what they are once more, even though Holy Covenant reigns supreme over measly human councils such as the weak UN, and will be the one to take the place of the US as the nation supporting the rest of the world by the strength of its economy and army.
Hopefully, we’re not gonna be royally screwed and this year is NOT when some apocalypse starts.
on May 9th, 2013 @ 2:32 pm
I predict that the windy city will get blown away on June 14, 2013.