A thread in occultforum.org got me thinking about divination and tarot. I use a rather unconventional tarot spread. It's fun. And, it works. I've used this spread for communion with Deity, divinition, self exploration, and artistic inspiration. I call it the chaotic spread.





Some preliminary thoughts on divination and chaos:





The process is based on a Discordian opening ritual.





Eris, as the Goddess of Chaos represent undifferentiated possibilities. This parallels the Dao De Jing and Quantum physics. In the DDJ, Lao Tzu explains how the determinate arises from the indeterminate (chaos). Quantum mechanics tells us that before a determinate event arises it exists in an undefined or quantum state (check out Schrödinger's cat ). Thus, the universe is undefined or chaotic. In a ridiculous way, it may be possible to peek into chaos or even shape chaos through communion with Eris. If anything, it's fun and can add some meaning to the otherwise random string of events we call "life." The following is my Discordian Ritual for communion with chaos: