Day 6: Do you practice divination? If so, what techniques? If not, why?

This is part of a series based on Allec's 31 Days of Secular Witchcraft questionnaire.  I wrote the bulk of these entries on 10/26 while flametending.

Yes, I do practice divination.  I am slowly learning to use tarot cards.  I currently use this deck.  I typically use a 1- or 3-card spread.  I look at the cards and get an intuitive impression of the meaning, and then I look up the meanings in books and online.  I am not a natural, gifted diviner.  Nonetheless, I have found my readings to be scarily accurate, even when I have read for people I don't know.  (I did an Obama reading a few years ago that gives me chills to remember.  I wish I could find the notebook I kept.)

I'd say I read about once a month at most.  I went from this July to October without doing any readings.  Sometimes I go on a kick and read a lot in a short period of time.  I'm an admitted dabbler.  I have a passing interest in divination, but I have so many other interests that I don't give formal divination much attention.  I'm hoping that by doing short readings here and there over time that I will slowly learn to read cards without a book over the course of the next 5 or 10 years.

However, I often receive what I perceive as messages.  My life recently has had some major "coincidences" in what I am reading, who I meet, and what opportunities present themselves.  I have learned to go with that.  It may not be divination, but it is the universe/Inanna/Brigid/my deeper self revealing what I should do, and I always doubt and research and hem and haw, but the messages usually turn out to be right, so I am trying to have faith, though I am a natural skeptic.

Messages tend to come through natural phenomena, books, and songs on the radio.  I don't know if those messages are coming from inside me or outside me.  I just listen (and then I try to act.)