Hello, my name is Dr. Alexander Cummins. I'm a professional diviner and consultant sorcerer as well as an academically trained historian of magic. My preferred method of divination I use professionally and personally is European Renaissance geomancy. In fact, I love it so much I've been teaching an online course on it for some years now. I still love describing the sixteen figure-answers of this particular divination system as if they were pubs and taking students on a pubcrawl-pathworking through them, familiarizing them with some of the events, situations, feelings, and spirits that haunt those establishments.
In geomancy, two figures are sextile when there is one house between them. This aspect is favorable. The square aspect in astrology takes place when two planets are at a 90-degree angle to each other. In geomancy, two figures are square when there are two houses between them. This aspect is unfavorable. The basis of geomancy is the 16 geomantic figures, composed of 4 rows of either one or two points.Thus geomancy is similar to the Chinese divinatory system of the I Ching with its 64 hexagrams as well as Ifa divination with its 256 odu or parts, as each of these is a a binary system based on the powers of 2. Terrestrial Astrology, Stephen Skinner, Routledge and Kegan Paul 1980. Geomancy, Franz Hartmann, Ibis Press 2004, first edition 1889. The Complete Book of Astrological Geomancy, Priscilla Schwei and Ralph Pestka, Llewellyn 1990. Self-Initiation into the Golden Dawn Tradition, Chic Cicero & Sandra Tabatha Cicero, Llewellyn 2012. Start your review of Terrestrial Astrology: Divination by Geomancy. Les rated it it was amazing Jul 12, 2012. Bryan rated it liked it Feb 05, 2013. Samantha McGuire (Mirror Bridge Books) rated it it was amazing Apr 09, 2014.
Moreover, I love introducing people to a system of divination they either didn't know anything about or had preconceptions around, that proves its elegance and ease-of-use to them through study and application.
As such, I thought it might make sense to answer a few very basic questions about what geomancy is and isn't, and how I do it, for folks unsure of what I'm even banging on about.
It's a system of sortilege essentially. You can throw dice, flip coins, toss sticks or any other method you choose to determine odd or even results. The answers, called figures, are made up of four lines of single or double dots. To make one of these figures you generate a set of four odd or even results. Arrange them top to bottom. That's basically it. Everything else proceeds from there.
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