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I love connecting with people through divination and offer divination services for groups and individuals using practices of rune casting (divination using runes), scrying (divination using reflective surfaces), capnomancy (divination using smoke), bibliomancy (divination using books), encromancy (divination using ink) and cartomancy (divination using cards—for instance, tarot readings.)
Divination is an ancient craft of sacred gaming that enables us to converse directly with the unhuman around us, develop relations of trust, respect, and reciprocity as well as collaborate and be guided by tangible and intangible unhuman beings. These unhuman beings are commonly understood as ‘spirits,’ ‘goddesses and gods,’ ‘angels’ or ‘energies’ but which are actually at the same time very materially embodied in trees, rocks, rivers, hills, seas, birds, animals and so on…
Using divination to play together, we create previously unfathomable openings to develop personal relationships with unhuman beings in ways that are simultaneously magickal and practical. In this process, we also receive from these beings, concrete guidance for our day-to-day experiences and blocks.
WHAT I OFFER
Looking to get introspective and connect deeper with a group of friends? Or working together as part of an activist group but feeling completely drained? Committed to a common political vision but experiencing feelings of overwhelm, exhaustion and burnout against incessant assault and violence onto your beings and communities? Unsure how to process shared grief together without trauma dumping? Collectively haunted by hopelessness and a lingering feeling that things might never change? Yearning to figure priorities and next steps as a group? Seeking guidance for collaborations, manifesting change or discovering meaning together? Struggling with power dynamics, interpersonal conflicts, collective loss or post-traumatic experience in your group? Or just looking to organise a fun gathering or party with a mystical gaming element?
Divination is a powerful worldbuilding process that enables us to co-create and manifest openings for new worlds in collaboration with not just fellow human beings but also in play with the unhuman beings who are part of our communities. In order to embody an unsettling politics that really challenges the contemporary status quo of categories and hierarchies of caste and race and colonial devaluation of more-than-human knowledges, it is important that we become accountable to both the racialised bodies of humans as well as unhuman beings who still hold timespace for our communities to exist on this Earth. Worlds of unsettling politics where caste, race, ableism, empire and patriarchy are dismantled cannot manifest without realising that we are constantly co-creating as part of more-than-human societies. So we need to open ourselves to channels of conversation in order to connect with and receive guidance from unhuman beings.
With group divination, I initiate sacred gaming for your group to connect with each other and with the unhuman beings around us in order to receive clear, precise, and practical guidance for your situation both as a group and as unique individuals who are part of the group. In this way, we may expand, deepen and bring nuance to the canvas of our unsettling politics together in the best experimental way—through responseable play.
Experiencing creative block? A personal upheaval? Fearful of uncertainty? Feeling like you lack purpose? Struggling with power dynamics in personal or professional relationships? Dealing with grief, loss, or trauma? Coming to terms with old familial patterns? Overwhelmed, anxious, worried about the state of the world and its oppressive politics? Feeling stuck or powerless? Unsure why you are here? Connect with unhuman beings/matterspirit guides around you through an individual divination where we hold a non-judgmental and safe space for you and your energies and help you develop powerful and nurturing relations of reciprocity with beings beyond the limitedness of human communities.
As Indigenous peoples have always maintained, we live in more-than-human societies. Developing intentional and respectful relations with unhuman beings by conversing with them directly and through particular divination practices has helped me make sense of challenging personal experiences like depression, mania, assault, physical and sexual trauma, love, loneliness, hopelessness, heartbreak, social and financial precarity, loss, death and other mysteries of our lives that are manipulated by oppressive settler magick of patriarchy, caste, transphobia, ableism, white supremacy and colonialism. Developing mindful and loving relations with unhuman beings through divination is also helping me learn how to live a materially creative life in collaboration with more-than-human Earth-rooted spirituality or magick.
I would like to share these learnings with you by playing sacred games of divination together while holding spacetime for you and your energies. My divination services help see you through tough times (or fun times:-)) by enabling you to cultivate responseable relations with the unhuman matterspirit. I work with you to restore your faith in Earthy practical magick and the reality of the unhuman, so that you may begin your own journey of relating in love with the oft-ignored and mistreated unhuman beings, conjure unsettling politics within your human communities, and live the magickal life of wonder, abundance, gratitude and peace that you deserve.
TESTIMONIALS
diane daayan invests immense energy in reading the cards and interpreting them for you. It is evident that she channels energies that I could feel but not focus enough to channel and I appreciate her efforts in doing that! The session was therapeutic and led to much-needed catharsis. I experience the wisdom in the session more and more as I go through my days. Thank you for your work, diane daayan! 🙂 ❤️
– GOW, LAW PERSON/ARTIST/ACADEMIC
The runes in our group divination told me exactly what I needed to hear and remember – be mindful of my emotional boundaries and energies but awaken myself fully to inner resources, my playfulness, my curiosity. The runes and the reading shed light on opening up my ways of doing and being, leaning into new ways of mediating was important to think on. Since, I’ve nurtured my walking meditation practice. Afterwards, I felt filled with feelings of togetherness, playfulness and calm, as well as a strong sense that something deep had shifted.
– MADDIE, ARTIST & THERAPIST