From a deepnet blog that i wholeheartedly agree with:

Let's talk a bit about divination
Tue, 05/08/2012

Before I go into I Ching, I want to discuss some misconceptions about divination and psychics in general. I will go into more depth with this later, but for right now:



Psychic - someone who claims to be able to use their spiritual senses in some way.

Diviner - someone who may or may not be psychic but knows how to read different methods of life path trajectory illuminations. These include tarot cards, runes, astrology, numerology, etc.



There is a huge misconception about divination in that it tells the future. No. Nothing tells the future because the future doesn’t exist yet, homie. A decision you make 3 seconds from now could alter your entire trajectory. Trajectories are paths that we are likely to take. Divination illuminates these pathways. If you call a diviner and they read your tarot cards and tell you that your financial situation isn’t going to get better for several months, but if you just hold on and persevere that you will either get another job or a promotion eventually, they are telling you your most highlighted trajectory. But if you hang up the phone and decide FUCK THAT just right in the goddamn ear and decide to do something different, you could change your whole trajectory by taking the last $10 you’ve got and heading out to the casino - something you never do - and hitting the jackpot and quitting the job you would eventually get paid in, thus rendering the previous divination invalid because the situation no longer applies. “Well, but they are a psychic and didn’t they see it coming that I’d hit the jackpot and tell my boss to get bent?” Uh, no, because you hadn’t even had the thought of going to the casino until after you got off the phone with them and decided to switch it up.



So you see, we can be shown how things have the potential to turn out, if we stay on that path. But no one, probably not even yourself, can predict what will ultimately happen with you. We are the creators of our own world.