FARGO — Aeromancy, from the Greek words for “air” and “divination,” refers to the now mostly lost art of telling the future by means of interpreting atmospheric conditions. Apparently, by “reading” weather conditions such as cloud formations, wind currents, and other observable meteorological elements, the aeromancer would attempt to predict if you would become rich, if you would marry and have many children, or if the crops would be successful.
Aeromancy is thought to have been used by priests in the Babylonian era and was one of the seven “forbidden arts” of Renaissance magic. Contemporary science is much better able to explain how the weather works, and we can even forecast it out with at least some accuracy and usefulness. Despite these advances, some people still entertain mysterious metaphysical weather connections in the face of empirical, testable science, using certain kinds of weather to predict the future as well as predicting weather using things unrelated to meteorology such as sliced onions and full moons.
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