Floromancy

Floriography or Anthomancy

Divination by flowers

!) Daisy oracle

2) In Victorian England, two flowers that had not yet blossomed, would be paired, and the initials of certain lovers' names would be placed on the stems. After placing the flowers in a secret place for 10 days, the diviner would then observe certain portents, such as, if any flower twined the other, it would indicate that the man and the woman whose initials were used were going to be married.

3) The first flower of spring is an oracle about the spring

- monday - good fortune
- tuesday - your greatest efforts will be rewarded
- wednesday - a marriage is coming
- thursday - be alert, be cautious, there are problems
- friday - riches and wealth
- saturday - misfortune
- sunday - exceptional luck for weeks to come

- wild flower - someone with the same initial as the flower found will be attracted to you

4) Flower oracle, the secret language of flowers

5) Pansy oracle

You need to think about your question, find a pansy and take a petal off it. Look at the stronger lines on the petal.

4 lines; hope
Center line branches out to 5; hope founded in fear
7 lines; consistent love
8 lines; fickleness (either in you or someone around you)
9; changing heart
11; disappointment in love
lines bent to the right; prosperity
lines bent to the left ; trouble ahead

6) Dandelion oracle

7) Gender reveal

If a pregnant woman went into the garden, closed her eyes and spun around, and randomly picked a flower, the color tells the gender of the child.
Light, soft, pastel colors; a girl
Strong, vibrant, dark colors; a boy

8) Pick three carnations, and put in your hair so that they are above each other. Now you see which one withers first.
If the top one withers first, the end of your life will be harder
If the middle one withers first, your early life will be harder
If the bottom one withers first, your whole life will be hard


http://wiccanmoonsong.blogspot.se/2012/10/flower-divination.html
http://druidsegg.reformed-druids.org/newsimbolc09-22.htm

Victorian language of flowers - Floriography

"How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed round the cradle, the marriage-altar, and the tomb. The Persian in the far East delights in their perfume, and writes his love in nosegays; while the Indian child of the far West claps his hands with glee as he gathers the abundant blossoms - the illuminated scriptures of the prairies. The Cupid of the ancient Hindoos tipped his arrows with flowers, and orange-flowers are a bridal crown with us, a nation of yesterday. Flowers garlanded the Grecian altar, and hung in votive wreath before the Christian shrine. All these are appropriate uses. Flowers should deck the brow of the youthful bride, for they are in themselves a lovely type of marriage. They should twine round the tomb, for their perpetually renewed beauty is a symbol of the resurrection. They should festoon the altar, for their fragrance and their beauty ascend in perpetual worship before the Most High.

Flowers have a language of their own, and it is this bright particular language that we would teach our readers. How charmingly a young gentleman can speak to a young lady, and with what eloquent silence in this delightful language. How delicately she can respond, the beautiful little flowers telling her tale in perfumed words; what a delicate story the myrtle or the rose tells! How unhappy that which basil, or yellow rose reveals, while ivy is the most faithful of all."

http://www.literarycalligraphy.com/books/usingthelof/flowergame.html

This is actually a "society game" made of flower divination, in which every person in the company chooses five flowers from a vast bouquet with as many different flowers of every color as possible, and the game leader tells him/her what the flowers say about him/her...