Questions and answers on the principles, philosophy, and foundations of the project.
The term geomancy derives from Late Ancient Greek γεωμαντεία (geōmanteía), literally meaning ‘foresight by earth’ or ‘earth divination’, and is composed of γῆ (gē, ‘earth’, as in Gaia) and μαντεία (manteía, ‘divination’ or ‘prophecy’, from mantis ‘seer’).
“This science was very little known, even among the most learned, due to the difficulty it has in itself, the lack of experience one had in it, the lack of curiosity one brought to it, and because men are so inclined to laziness that they do not wish to take the trouble to practice it.”
Gabriel Dupréau, preface to The Geomancy of Lord Christofe de Cattan (Paris, 1558)
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Did my parents love me as a child?
After studying psychology to understand her difficult family history, a woman turns to geomancy to ask whether her parents truly loved her as a child.
Study
Figures
Puer
Puer
Fortuna Major
Fortuna Major
Puella
Puella
Cauda Draconis
Cauda Draconis
Rubeus
Rubeus
Amissio
Amissio
Lætitia
Lætitia
Carcer
Carcer
Albus
Albus
Via
Via
Acquisitio
Acquisitio
Tristitia
Tristitia
Caput Draconis
Caput Draconis
Fortuna Minor
Fortuna Minor
Conjunctio
Conjunctio
Populus
Populus
“Geomancy itself the most accurate of divinations, which divines by points of the earth, or any other surfaces, or by a fall, or any other power inscribed, does first reduce them to celestial figures, viz. to those sixteen which we above named, making judgement after an astrological manner, by the properties and observations thereof.”
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, translated by James Freake (London, 1651)
Basics
“It is easy to know that geomancy is none other than astrology…”
Christopher Cattan, The Geomancie of Maister Christopher Cattan Gentleman (London, 1591)
Rules
Benefaction
Benefaction
Besiegement
Besiegement
Combustion and Subradiation
Combustion and Subradiation
Company
Company
Divisions of the Zodiac Signs
Divisions of the Zodiac Signs
Paternity
Paternity
Perfection
Perfection
Reception
Reception
“Although the motion of the hand, establishing points by a certain number and proportion corresponding to the disposition of the mind, may seem to do nothing in the first casting of the points, yet many hidden things lie concealed beneath the multitude of points: namely, the very prediction of the soul, carried by the ethereal and elemental vehicles of the macrocosm; for under such points are hidden the twelve signs, the seven planets, the four elements, and their virtues.”
Robert Fludd, Fasciculus geomanticus (Verona [i.e. Frankfurt], 1704)
