Geomancy Posts
One of the things I’m most known for as an occultist and occult researcher and writer is my work on geomancy, the thousand-year-old art of divination that uses the sixteen binary figures to predict events and understand the world we live in. I’ve been studying geomancy for longer than I’ve been writing for The Digital Ambler, but geomancy plays a central part of my divinatory, spiritual, and occult practices. In addition to providing geomantic readings for my clients over on my Services page, I’ve also written a fair bit about the topic and have no inclination on stopping anytime soon, ranging from summarizing old techniques or fleshing them out from classical literature to devising new techniques and extensions of the art of geomancy, and though one could simply browse my blog using the geomancy category, it might be helpful to have an index of posts related to geomancy for ease of access. To that end, here’s just such a list of my geomancy- and divination-related blog posts that I’ve written over the years, loosely categorized by topic.
I’m sure I’ll continue writing more about geomancy, of course, but if there’s a specific topic that you don’t see addressed in the list below, feel free to contact me and ask about it! Also don’t forget that I’ve written a few ebooks on geomancy which you can get over on my Books page!
Posts on the sixteen geomantic figures (mainly from the De Geomanteia series of posts):
- (Nov. 2012) Albus
- (Nov. 2012) Coniunctio
- (Dec. 2012) Amissio
- (Dec. 2012) Puella
- (Dec. 2012) Fortuna Minor
- (Jan. 2013) Fortuna Maior
- (Jan. 2013) Caput Draconis
- (Jan. 2013) Cauda Draconis
- (Jan. 2013) Rubeus
- (Feb. 2013) Puer
- (Feb. 2013) Via
- (Feb. 2013) Populus
- (Mar. 2013) Laetitia
- (Mar. 2013) Acquisitio
- (Mar. 2013) Carcer
- (Mar. 2013) Tristitia
Posts on the geomantic figures generally:
- (Aug. 2014) Geomantic Revelations of the Tetractys
- (Aug. 2014) Geomantic Meditative Music
- (Dec. 2017) Same Figures, but Different Names and Different Traditions
- (Mar. 2018) On the Structure and Operations of the Geomantic Figures
- (Sep. 2018) On Gender in Magic, or, What to Rename Puer and Puella
- (Mar. 2019) Revisiting the Sixteen Realms of the Figures
- (Mar. 2020) Sum of their Parts: The Planetary Syntheses of the Geomantic Figures
Posts about generating geomantic figures:
- (Jul. 2017) Efficient Geomancy with Playing Cards
- (Oct. 2017) On Geomantic Cycles
- (Oct. 2017) Generating Geomantic Figures
- (Feb. 2018) On Using Apps for Generating Randomness
Posts about constructing geomantic charts:
- (Jun. 2013) Geomantic Mathematics
- (Mar. 2015) On the Meanings of the Geomantic Houses
- (Apr. 2015) On Third-Party Readings
- (Jan. 2018) On Halted Geomancy Charts
- (May 2020) On Making the House Chart from the Shield Chart
- (May 2020) How to Construct the Shield Chart of Geomancy
Posts about elemental and astrological correspondences of the figures:
- (May 2013) Elemental Rulers of the Geomantic Figures
- (Apr. 2015) On Geomantic Figures, Zodiac Signs, and Lunar Mansions
- (Jan. 2018) On Elemental Assignments of the Geomantic Figures
- (Feb. 2019) A New Model of Elemental Assignments to the Geomantic Figures
- (Dec. 2019) Another System of Elemental Affinities for the Geomantic Figures
Posts about other correspondences of the figures:
- (Nov. 2015) The Geomantic Figures, Personalities, and Myers-Briggs/Kiersey Types
- (Sep. 2017) Directions of the Geomantic Figures
- (Jul. 2018) The Physical and Subtle Human Body According to Geomancy
Posts about geomantic techniques:
- Perfection
- (Jan. 2013) On Affirmation and Fortunateness
- (Jun. 2014) More about Geomantic Perfection
- (Aug. 2015) Asking Inverse Questions with Geomantic Perfection
- Triads and Company
- (Mar. 2015) On the Geomantic Triads
- (Jul. 2015) Thoughts on Geomantic Company
- (Aug. 2015) More Thoughts on Shield Chart Company
- Interpreting the Court
- (Mar. 2015) A Brief Note on Reading Geomantic Charts
- (Nov. 2017) On the Judges of the Court of Geomancy
- Predicting Letters and Names
- (Feb. 2014) Alas, a geomantic technique for the scrap pile.
- (Dec. 2018) An Origin for the Letter Rules of Western Geomancy
- Miscellaneous Techniques
- (Dec. 2012) On the Way of the Point
- (Feb. 2013) On Geomantically Calculating Time
- (Apr. 2013) Finding Lost Objects with Geomancy
- (Feb. 2014) Elemental Transformations and the Geomantic Figures
- (Mar. 2014) Geomantically Forecasting the Weather
- (Mar. 2015) Elements in the Geomantic Shield Chart
- (Feb. 2017) On Aspects in Geomantic Interpretation
- (Dec. 2017) On the Geomantic Parts of Fortune and Spirit
- (Aug. 2018) Distilling Secondary Figures from a Geomantic Chart
- (May 2019) Geomantic Shields versus Geomantic Tetractyes
Posts about geomantic emblems:
- (Dec. 2011) Geomantic Superfigures
- (Mar. 2013) Geomantic Superfigures (Emblems) Revisited
- (Mar. 2013) The Geomantic Emblems and their Rulerships
- (Mar. 2013) Understanding and Employing the Geomantic Emblems
- (Dec. 2019) The Chaplet of Eight Dragons, or, the Rosary of the Geomancers of Allahabad
- (Feb. 2020) A Follow-up on the Chaplet of the Eight Dragons
Posts about geomantic magic:
- (Oct. 2011) Geomantic Gesticulation
- (Apr. 2013) On Geomantic Magic
- (Oct. 2017) Arranging the Planets as the Geomantic Figures
- (Aug. 2018) On the Elemental and Geomantic Epodes
- (Aug. 2018) On Geomantic Energy Centers, and the Via Elementorum Exercise
- (Sep. 2018) More on Geomantic Epodes and Intonations
- (Feb. 2019) On Geomantic Figure Magic Squares
- (Apr. 2020) The Geomancer’s Cross: The Framework Behind the Ritual
- (Apr. 2020) The Geomancer’s Cross: The Motions and the Prayer
Posts about geomantic spirituality:
- (Mar. 2015) The Spiritual Origin of Geomancy
- (Dec. 2017) On Geomantic Holy Days
- (Jan. 2019) On Geomantic Holy Days, Redux
- (Jan. 2019) On Geomancy and Light
- (Feb. 2019) Brilliant Call of Light
- (Jul. 2019) The Attainment of Adam
Posts about geomantic resources:
- (Jul. 2012) A Critique of a Summary of Geomancy
- (Aug. 2012) An Overview of Geomantic Literature
- (Sep. 2012) Review: Les P. Cross, “Astrogem Geomantic Divination”
- (Dec. 2012) Review: Richard Webster, “Geomancy For Beginners”
- (Sep. 2018) Digitized Traditional and Renaissance Geomancy Resource List
- (May 2020) Geomancy in the Reign of the Lady of Crowns
Other miscellaneous geomantic posts:
- (Jun. 2013) Negative Messages, Outcomes, and Perspectives
- (Oct. 2013) Timeframes Within Timeframes
- (Apr. 2015) On Geomancy as Actually Being Earthy
- (Apr. 2015) On Confusing Geomantic Charts and Geomantic Competency
- (Aug. 2015) Geomancy and Quintessence
- (Feb. 2016) On Geomantic Education
- (Sep. 2018) On the One True Geomancy (or Astrology, Alchemy, Etc.)
- (Apr. 2019) The Two Sons of `Iyān: Obscure Chants and Proto-Geomantic Divination
- (Apr. 2019) The Two Sons of `Iyān: Bird-Based Origins and Other Ideas for Geomancy
Other posts about divination generally:
- (Dec. 2011) A Theory of Divination: Intuition and Technique
- (Feb. 2012) Divination and Magic
- (Mar. 2013) Divination-Related Disorders
- (Mar. 2013) Divination as Intel
- (May 2013) Divination and the Limits of Possibility
- (Feb. 2016) Divination Methods and Programming Languages
- (Apr. 2018) Diviner’s Syndromes: Prometheus, Tithonos, Teireisias
- (May 2018) On Divining versus Counseling
- (Nov. 2019) On Mistakes in Divination
- (Feb. 2020) Musings after a Marathon Month of Mancy