BASICS OF DIVINATION is a beginner’s guide for each and everyone who is open toward decision-making via one or the other method of divination. The author, who practices divination since more than twenty years, first explains what divination really is, and what it is not. He also inquires why the Bible expressed itself against it, and what the reason was for this prohibition. He then more in detail explains how astrology works, as a serious science of divination, not the fake astrology of internet crooks or rose press charlatans, but the one that was considered as a science, thousands of years ago, when science and religion were not yet split apart. In this chapter, the author explains the basic tenets of astrology as a divinatory science. He then focuses on the I Ching, a thousands of years old wisdom and oracle book from China that was used notoriously by sages like Confucius, writers like Hermann Hesse, psychiatrists like Carl Jung or celebrities like John McCartney. In this chapter, the author explains the basic structure of the I Ching and the way it works for divination. The author then explains how to work with the Tarot de Marseille and the Runes or Rune Cards, divinatory techniques he himself uses on a daily basis. The article comes with a contextual bibliography.