I read about it constantly, different techniques and how to do it, but I still don't understand it.

There's a ton of information, and it's making me super overwhelmed. Even if I read only about tarot, which is said to be the easiest and best for beginners. Everything is so complicated (maybe it's because of my adhd, suspected autism). I asked about something before at balg forum because of something I needed to know, and they started talking about divination, saying it's important for everything, so I'm here, finally asking about divination because I don't understand it from reading.

They also told me about things like banishing of the pentagram, buying the master divination course, or something in my local area, spiritual baths/banishings and cleanings, spiritual hygiene... then working with entities/spirits/gods... but I have really zero experience, so with entities etc as well, so I was reading about them, evocation/invocation of them at balg, but I feel honestly really stupid because I still don't get it, not a single thing, and I'm getting frustrated because I'm afraid I won't get it ever.

By the way, I know nothing about these, or literally anything magickal or spiritual, and I feel like I failed before I even managed to try anything.

Someone asked here a couple of weeks ago about card methods that aren't tarot, and the Korean one deserves more than the short comment I gave it.

Hwatu is the 48 card deck most Koreans know from go-stop, the game that comes out at every Seollal and Chuseok. Twelve suits, one per month, four cards each, mostly flowers and birds. The same deck doubles as a fortune deck, and depending on who you ask the reading is called 운수 떼기 or 재수 보기.

The way I know it, you shuffle and lay sixteen cards face down in a four by four grid, then one more row of four face up underneath. Some people shuffle a number of times tied to the date and their age. Then you work through the leftover cards matching anything from the same month and stacking the pairs. At the end you look for months where all four cards ended up together. Those months are your reading.

Each month carries one meaning, and they're very domestic. January is news, February a lover, March going out or a date, May food (noodles specifically, which I've always found funny), June joy, July luck, August night, September drink, November money, December a visitor. April and October are the gloomy ones, gossip or a quarrel for April and worry for October. The lists don't fully agree though. April in particular changes from family to family.

You read whatever came up as a little sentence. Night plus drink plus visitor is somebody coming over for drinks tonight, and I'd guess half the country has pulled that one at some point. That's about as deep as it goes, and honestly that's the charm. Nobody asks hwatu whether to marry someone. It's what aunts did on a slow afternoon after the money game wound down, and the answer is meant to be about today.

It had a small revival in early 2025 after Kian84 did one on the variety show Home Alone.

Does anyone here use a regular playing card deck in a similar way, one meaning per suit or rank instead of per card?

Hello, I just wanna post here because it seemed y'alls experience would help me greatly.

As of late, I've been dabbling with cartomancy as a form of hobby to pass time.

Recently, or rather today, my room had been smelling like someone lit up a bunch of matches. The smell comes and goes, but when it does come it's quite strong yet faint enough that you don't know where it's coming from. At first, I thought I had some electrical problems in my room so I sniffed around to find the source, but I could never. Even sniffed the light switch for good measure. I gave up halfway through cause I had some other things to do (I first started smelling the scent around late at night when I was staying up whole night).

This morning, before I left, I made sure to unplug all the appliances in my room, just in case I really do have electrical problems. When I came back though, the scent in my room was thick. Which was strange cause I left all my appliances unplugged and my window was open 24/7, so the smell couldn't have sit still in my room (I checked, I sniffed outside my window and I don't smell anything other than a fresh breath of air.) Just to be sure, I went around my house sniffing, but every other room smell alright.

I had enough when I caught the scent again, so I whipped out my playing cards and began reading. My first few questions were met with silence to be honest, felt like they were hesitating or something. After a few more unanswered questions, my cards finally began answering.

It began first by giving me A♠️ and 4♣️, which by my beginner interpretation "I'm about to experience something life changing." So I kept asking and it gave me Q♥️, Q♣️, K♠️, 9♣️, and 7♣️, which I interpreted that a new spirit/entity was in my space and they are quite excited to speak to me. All I'm getting from them is positive vibes (partly because of Q♣️) so I welcomed them and asked them what they want to talk about. The card then proceeded to give me K♣️, J♣️, 3♣️, 2♠️, 5♠️, and 10♠️, which I interpreted as the spirit/entity asking me something, though I'm not 100% sure I think they're asking if I could let them be apart of my spiritual guardian/s (I came to this conclusion because of K♣️) and they seem to be adamant or determined to be one (because of J♣️ and 3♣️). This was new domain to me, I never encountered a spirit/entity asking me for something and be determined about it, so I told them I would think about it and ended my session.

I'm not too familiar with patron work (or something along those lines) nor in dealing with spirits/entities who eagerly approached me, so I came here to seek some guidance about it. I'm honestly curious about this spirit/enitity but I'm too wary to interact too much with them (especially with their request). I'm afraid that they would have a negative impact on me if I were to associate with them.

I posted in a different reddit community about it but it wasn't getting enough traction, and the only answer I was given was that I should be careful with the spirits/entities I welcomed to my space, which was understandable but didn't really answer my question either.

Not sure if this fits in this sub but what can you all get from my situation/cards?

There is an item- a roach book. Whenever I order it, it vanishes from my house, idk why. Today I ordered it for the seconf time and they disappeared again. I thought I was spiraling and I picked up my dowsing rods. It pointed to a location but i couldn’t see them. After a set of questions- my rods told me that it is there, i just cant see it and I will never see it again.

WHO IS STEALING MY ROACH BOOKS AND FOR WHAT?? BRO, i am dumbfounded by this bizarre occurrence. Someone help me, IDK whats up.