Geomancy Method

This page is about everything besides how to calculate the points.

Materials

There are several ways to do Geomancy. For the Earth based style, i.e. Golden Dawn, the quality of a reading usually is determined by the materials used for it. Here's the order from strongest to weakest. With the Astrological style this is not too much of an issue.

1. Earth/Soil
2. Rocks, including ceramics
3. Metal
4. Organic i.e. paper (homemade is better than mass produced)
5. Artificial Inorganic i.e. plastics i.e. dice or dominos

Squilling

Here are various methods to get the points for the figures.

• Tap on dirt or paper for dots.
• Draw 16 piles/pinches of pebbles, seeds, or grains.
• Toss coins or dice, draw cards or dominos.
• Draw 4 "runes" of the Tetragrams. Be sure to include 4 of each figure and to mark the which is the top/bottom. Do not do this unless you making a statment about the (objective) reality of the Univers, primarily on how mutualy exclusive force are in expression of areas, e.g. gain at both work and home, or with each other, e.g. both gain and loss in your life.

Earth Names

• A good invocation/prayer should include one from each world.
• We want to get down and dirt-y for geomancy.
• Prefer gross names to subtle for Earth style. E.g. although Sandalphon and Auriel are archangels of Earth, Auriel is a better choice since it is lesser.
• These are just for inciting the material for the geomancy and nothing with the evocation of the Planetary Spirit.

Method

1. Formulate your question. Find out what planet and house it pertains to.
   • Geomancy is very literal, so avoid ambiguities by doing this.
   • Expect Yes or No answers, but do not ask Yes/No questions. (Otherwise you get messy contrapositives. E.g. is that "yes I'll get sick" or "yes your body is full of positive and therefore healthy"?)
   • Full blown geomancy requires several calculations and figure manipulations, again save yourself the time.
   • Unless you only read with one figure, the rule "time question though of = time answer is given" isn't as useful.
   • One more time with feeling: Formulate your question, planet, and house prior to the reading.
2. Draw a circle if desired.
   • Use one if for an even more literal answer to the question.
   • Use one if as a practicing magician to skip the need for full banishment afterwards.
3. Draw an invoking Earth pentagram, then the sigil of the Planetary Spirit within it.
   • This should be at the top of the patch of dirt or page used for squilling.
   • If the material used is to be casted e.g. dice, rocks, then it should be drawn over the material as in a quarter of the LBRP.
   • Although drawing these figures can be done while invoking, it is best to form them before until one is familiar with the evocation. E.g. know all the names, no pausing, etc.
4. Evoke/Pray
   • This is as important as shuffling and drawing cards in a Tarot reading.
   • Better results are given if the evocation consists of two parts: Earth Element and Planetary Spirit.
   • The Earth part should consist of invoking divine energy into the material basis and to awaken its spiritual essence. Think Qabbalistic Cross.
   • Remember that "divine" is in "divination."
   • The Spirit part should be an evocation of the Spirit to use the material basis for communication. Think Evocation of Archangels from the LBRP.
5. Ask the question to the Spirit.
   • You called it, so make sure it knows WTF it's supposed to do.
6. Squill
7. Calculate and Interpret

Placement

How the figures are placed depends on the style employed, reflected their Earthy or Astrological natures. However no matter what method the Mothers go in the Cardinal houses, the Daughters in the Fixed, and the Newphews in the Mutable Houses.

Interpretation

To be done in order for a thorough reading.

Significator: if the Ascendant is Scorpio, i.e. second Mother is Red or the Dragon's Tail, the reading is crap. This stems from Medieval practice of the Scorpio/Death being very evil. Since geomancy is very literal, this cannot be dismissed as a shmaltsy and mushy "we can draw good out of a bad circumstance" or "negativity is just blockage to be freed". Evil is evil, and the best adaptation of this part of the reading without removing its gravity is that there is something more important going on than the question you are asking.

"House Figure": Look at the figure that is in the predetermined house--henceforth called the House Figure. Look this up on all those tables on geomancy. This is the answer to the question.

Iudex/Judge: The Judge is the overall statement of the reading, similar to the final card of the Celtic Cross Tarot spread.

Testis Dexterum/Right Witness: This is the current situation, first step, querent, thesis, etc. and is similar to the first card of the Celtic Cross spread.

Testis Sinistrum/Left Witness: This is the next situation, middle step, enviroment of the question, antithesis, etc. and is simliar to the second card of the Celtic Cross spread.

Motus/Motion: See if the House Figure appears in other houses, i.e. does it Move?. The houses its moves to gives the detail to the House Figure. E.g. Q: will I pass my exams? A: Fortune Major. Motion: 1st, 7th. Interpretation: you will pass your favorite class and those pertaining to balance e.g. Law, Economics, Poly. Sci., Social Justice.

Pars Fortunæ/Part of Fortune: If your question concerns money make this figure. It's easier to count the dots off (really fast) by twelves than to do that whole "add then find the remainder" garbage. It describes what happens to money and assets specifically.

Locus/Location: Look at the House Figure and see if it is Dignified (best), Exalted (potent), Fallen (impotent), or Detriment (worst). There is also Strong Triplicities, which can be confusing at first, but here's how they are figured out.

• Find out the Element of the Figure.
• Now check and see if the House the figure is in shares the same element.
• If it does see if that is a special case i.e. dignified, exalted, fall, or detriment.
• If they are then those Locations take precedent.
• If not then the attribute it has the Strong Triplicity.

Aspectus/Aspects: Tabulate the positives and negatives of the aspects from the House Figure and see how that goes. Interpretation should be quantitative here, not qualitative.

	Planets	Sextile & Trine	Square & Opposition
Good Figures	Jupiter, Sol, Venus	Very Good	Blocked Good
Neutral Figures	Mecury, Luna	Good	Evil
Evil Figures	Saturn, Mars	Blocked Evil	Very Evil

Genitor: Look at the figure in the Fourth House for a "Final Outcome".

Reconcilium/Reconciler: If at this point you still do not know the answer "marry" the House Figure and Judge for the Reconciler, i.e. the same operations to form the Nephews. This figure is invalid if you make it because you don't like the answers so far.