Convocation was the act of using magical energy for obtaining information or observation through arcane or nonstandard means. Seeing future events falls under this.
- astrology
- reading auguries - interpreting or divining omens and signs
- cartomancy - divination using cards
- perciperation and anteperciperation - viewing past or future events through memories or "future memories"
- scrying - observing events at another location through a magical object