Mental Mediumship does not use tools. Does your medium use divination tools? If so they are not doing mediumship. Read below.

Table of Contents

• Mental Mediumship Is Direct Communication
• Mental Mediumship as a direct channel
• Divination as a tool-based interpretation 
• How psychic practices and tools intersect
• Summary of Mental Mediumship

Mental Mediumship Is Direct Communication

Mediumship is defined by direct communication with spirits, a process that is distinct from divination, which uses tools to gain insights. While both practices are considered psychic arts and can be used by the same person, their fundamental mechanics and purpose are different. 

Mental Mediumship as a direct channel

• Source of information: Mediumship relies on receiving information directly from spirits in the “spirit world,” such as deceased loved ones or spirit guides. The medium acts as a channel or intermediary, using their own body and senses to communicate with these entities.
• Personal senses: Instead of using external objects, mediums use their “clair” senses—like clear seeing (clairvoyance), clear hearing (clairaudience), and clear feeling (clairsentience)—to perceive messages from spirits.
• Healing intent: The primary purpose of evidential mediumship is to offer comfort and closure to the bereaved by providing proof that a loved one continues to exist in spirit. 

Divination as a tool-based interpretation

• Source of information: Divination uses tools like tarot cards, runes, pendulums, or astrology charts to gain insights, which are then interpreted by the practitioner. The insight is drawn from the energy surrounding the client or the universe itself, not from a specific spirit.
• Tool-based interpretation: The practitioner shuffles or casts a tool, such as tarot cards, to reveal patterns and symbols. Their intuitive abilities are then used to interpret what the symbols mean for the client.
• Focus on guidance: The purpose of divination is to help someone understand their past, present, and potential future by tapping into archetypal or cosmic energy. It is less focused on communicating with a specific spirit. 

How psychic practices and tools intersect

While pure mediumship does not use divination tools, a practitioner may have abilities in both areas and choose to use tools to supplement a reading. For example: 

• A medium may use tarot cards to provide a broader context to the messages they are receiving directly from a spirit.
• A practitioner with general psychic abilities might use divination tools to focus their intuitive gifts or provide structure to a reading. 

Summary of Mental Mediumship

In short, the defining feature of mediumship is direct, tool-free communication with spirits, whereas divination relies on interpreting symbols and energies through the use of specific tools.