Have you ever lost an important object? Are you taking on a new job? Looking for buried treasure? The Art and Practice of Geomancy teaches readers how to divine the answers to life's everyday questions about health, luck, new jobs, and love, as well as those less mundane tasks such as finding buried treasure, predicting the weather, being released from prison, and identifying secret enemies. Greer delivers to readers an ancient system of divination in an easy-to-use form requiring little more than a pen and a piece of paper. Using a system of counting odd and even numbers--from a deck of cards, a roll of the dice, or even by hitting sand or dirt with a stick to generate patterns--readers learn how to cast their own geomantic chart. And for those who wish to delve further, he offers exercises for geomantic meditation and ritual magic. The Art and Practice of Geomancy will appeal to pagans, followers of the Western Mystery tradition, scholars of folk magic and divination, and anyone who wants to take their past, present, and future into their own hands.
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The Art and Practice of Geomancy teaches readers how to divine the answers to life's everyday questions about health, luck, new jobs, and love, as well as those less mundane tasks such as finding buried treasure, predicting the weather, being released from prison, and identifying secret enemies. It will appeal to pagans, followers of the Western Mystery tradition, scholars of folk magic and divination, and anyone who wants to take their past, present, and future into their own hands.
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John Michael Greer has been a student of the occult traditions and nature spirituality for more than twenty-five years. He is the author of numerous articles and more than ten books including Natural Magic, The New Encyclopedia of the Occult, The Druidry Handbook, and The Druid Magic Handbook. He is also the co-author of Learning Ritual Magic and Pagan Prayer Beads. He lives in Ashland, Oregon with his wife Sara.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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Best Source for Traditional Geomancy,
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This review is from: Art and Practice of Geomancy, The: Divination, Magic, and Earth Wisdom of the Renaissance (Paperback)
John Michael Greer, one of our leading esoteric authors, has done it again! The Art and Practice of Geomancy is definitely the best introduction to the traditional Western divinatory art of geomancy.
Literally "earth divination" this lost prophetic art has been confused with the Chinese practice of Feng Shui which concerns itself with esoteric alignment and the orientation of architecture and landscape. Geomancy, which has its roots in North Africa and the Middle East, was a popular form of divination in the European Middle Ages and Renaissance. And no wonder! It is easier to learn than traditional horary astrology and gives almost as precise answers, allowing the practitioner to make accurate predictions of the future on a whole variety of questions. Greer explains the history and philosophy of geomancy, then introduces the 16 geomantic figures, analogous to the 64 hexagrams of the I ching. Greer also explains the use of the geomantic shield and 12 houses, borrowed from traditional astrology, which are the main techniques in geomancy. Greer also delves into more advanced techniques and gives many illuminating examples. Finally, Greer also gives an account of the use of geomancy for magical and meditative practice. While earlier esoteric movements like the Golden Dawn have tried to use geomancy, their exposition was limited and often confusing. Greer has not only gone back to the original medieval and Renaissance sources, but has mastered the actual practice of geomantic prediction. As always his writing is clear and lucid, giving straightforward and easy to follow explanations even on difficult points. Anyone interested in divination and traditional Western esotericism will benefit from this excellent manual of geomantic theory and practice. Highly recommended!
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I love geomancy because it's a very versatile and simple system of divination. You can use a myriad of tools to be able to cast a geomantic chart, anything from dice, playing cards, tarot cards, stick/earth, bag of pebbles/rocks/marbles.
Tarot requires the usage of the deck which can get damaged or lost. Astrology relies on complex computer programs that may not be available in times of financial strife like the coming depression. No matter what, geomancy can be used under any circumstances with even the most meager of tools. All one has to do is have this book or commit the information to memory like in the old days. Geomancy is a very powerful and accurate system of divination, and John Greer did a wonderful job on this book not only showing geomancy, but geomantic magick as well. 10 Stars!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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The best text on geomancy I've encountered.,
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This is a pretty detailed resource on Geomancy. The only problem is that some sections lack explanation, like advanced methods for interpteting the charts, there's enough info to interpret one, but I found myself re-reading the section wondering "Am I doing this right?". I think the biggest problem area in those regards is favorable/unfavorable aspects & perfection of charts.
If you're going to use it for basic things, the text is enough to get started. I have found several readings I did were very accurate. Overall it's a must have for any student of divination. If you're into magick or the esoteric arts, then you should also pick it up. If they expand the text into a second edition, I'll pick that up too.
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active water, sample reading, moon sign, geomantic magic, shield chart, geomantic reading, geomantic chart, sixteen geomantic figures, theurgic method, first twelve figures, fourfold breath, geomantic texts, geomantic tradition, geomantic divination, following versicle, geomantic practice, two significators, divinatory meaning, paired houses, sixteen figures, spiritus mundi, house chart, outer element, house governs, inner element Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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active water, sample reading, moon sign, geomantic magic, shield chart, geomantic reading, geomantic chart, sixteen geomantic figures, theurgic method, first twelve figures, fourfold breath, geomantic texts, geomantic tradition, geomantic divination, following versicle, geomantic practice, two significators, divinatory meaning, paired houses, sixteen figures, spiritus mundi, house chart, outer element, house governs, inner element Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fortuna Major, Fortuna Minor, Cauda Draconis, Caput Draconis, Advanced Interpretive Methods, Character Type, Interpreting the House Chart, Body Type, Left Witness, Way of the Points, Geomantic Ritual Magic, Principles of Geomantic Magic, Right Witness, Passive Earth, Active Air, Active Earth, Mobile Planet, Golden Dawn, Passive Air, Stable Planet, Passive Water, Passive Other, Amissio Carcer, Interpreting the Shield Chart, Active Other Browse Sample Pages:
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