Mancy and Divination Arts
Eight ancient divination arts online: coffee reading, pendulum, salt, candles, dice, smoke, dominoes and shells.
Coffee Reading
The application chooses three different symbols from a catalogue of 30 and places them in an animated cup.
Pendulum
The pendulum randomly selects yes, no or maybe and represents the result through its movement.
Alomancy (salt)
Watch the salt fall into one of this application's 12 patterns.
Candle Reading
Light the animated candle and observe one of the catalogue's 14 behaviours.
Dice Mancy
Choose a roll of one, two or three six-sided dice.
Smoke Reading
Watch an animation of one of the catalogue's 17 smoke phenomena.
Dominomancy
Choose one or three different tiles from a 28-piece domino set.
Shell Casting
Cast three different shells from a catalogue of 16.
Dream Interpretation
Explore your dream with AI using what you remember and how you felt. Get a personal reading and save the account with your notes,...
Interactive palm reading
Compare your palm lines with the illustrations and explore a reading of their combination.
Bibliomancy
Open the Book of Thresholds. An original passage and its reading offer another way to view your situation.
Geomancy
Cast points, form the sixteen figures and discover the combined reading of your geomantic shield.
Tasseomancy · Tea Leaf Reading
Choose the shapes you recognize and where they appear in the cup.
Lithomancy · Stone Reading
Seven stones in a circle. Position and proximity shape the reading.
Ceromancy · Wax Shapes
A silhouette gallery to interpret the shapes that catch your attention.
Astrology Dice
A planet, a sign and a house. Three dice join in one answer for your situation.
Feng Shui for Your Space
Sketch a room, mark its entrance and explore nine zones with suggestions for your goal.
Create your personal sigil
Turn the letters of an intention into your own symbol. Change its composition, adjust the strokes and download your design.
Create your intention ritual
Choose a purpose, a few minutes and a symbolic element. Create a simple practice and pair it with a concrete action in everyday l...
Hydromancy · Reading the water
Drop three droplets and explore what their meeting ripples suggest.
Astragalomancy · Knucklebone oracle
Cast five knucklebones and discover the opportunity, challenge and next step suggested by their combination.
Ornithomancy · The flight of birds
Watch birds gather and move apart. Their flight shapes your reading.
Nephomancy · Cloud reading
Three skies, the shapes you recognise and a symbolic reading of their evolution.
Mancy is the general name for ancient divinatory arts that don't depend on cards: reading coffee grounds, casting dice, observing a candle flame, interpreting the design of spilled salt. Each technique has a suffix derived from the Greek manteia — "divination" — and a root describing the material consulted: capno- (smoke), cero- (wax), cubo- (cube), halo- (salt).
At Tarotsim we offer eight of these practices with AI interpretation. They are more sensory and less systematized methods than tarot, inherited from popular traditions.
What distinguishes mancy from tarot
Where tarot and oracles use decks or finite sets of predefined symbols, mantic arts depend on physical, transformable elements: coffee grounds form unrepeatable figures, candle wax sculpts uniquely with each burn, spilled salt never falls the same way twice. The reading is therefore more open and demands more from the consultant.
Historically, mancy was associated with village women — the "wise women", healers — while tarot developed in urban learned circles. This popular origin gives mancies a more intimate and domestic tone.
How to read these results
Mantic readings require accepting more ambiguity than cartomantic ones. The Tarotsim AI applies the most common meaning in each tradition, but the richness of these methods lies precisely in letting the consultant complete the interpretation.
Frequently asked questions
Is coffee reading a Brazilian tradition?
Not exclusively. The oldest roots are in Ottoman Turkey, Greece and the Levant. Arab and Portuguese immigrants brought the practice to Brazil in the 19th and early 20th century.
Does the pendulum really work?
It works as an instrument for reading the consultant's own unconscious: ideomotor micro-movements of the hand move the pendulum based on what was already intuited. There is no scientific basis for external "transmission".
Which mancy is easiest to begin with?
The pendulum, since it only answers yes or no. Second: dice mancy, with tabulated readings.
