The Art and Practice of Geomancy: Divination, Magic, and Earth Wisdom of the Renaissance
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: Divination, Magic, and Earth Wisdom of the Renaissance
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: Divination, Magic, and Earth Wisdom of the Renaissance

The Art and Practice of Geomancy: Divination, Magic, and Earth Wisdom of the Renaissance

The Art and Practice of Geomancy: Divination, Magic, and Earth Wisdom of the Renaissance

The Art and Practice of Geomancy: Divination, Magic, and Earth Wisdom of the Renaissance

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781578634316
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Publication date: 03/01/2009
Series: Art & Practice Series
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

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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"Each geomantic chart is, in a certain sense, a snapshot of one set of possibilities arising from the dance of the four elements in the anima mundi and a sense of the dance itself — even if that sense

is imperfect, as it may be, and wordless, as it must be — it provides the context for every geomantic reading."

Table of Contents

Foreword 7

Part 1 The Art of Geomancy 13

Chapter One What Is Geomancy? 15

Chapter Two The Alphabet of Geomancy 29

Chapter Three The Geomantic Figures 39

Part 2 Geomantic Divination 65

Chapter Four Casting a Geomantic Reading 67

Chapter Five Interpreting the Shield Chart 87

Chapter Six Interpreting the House Chart 101

Chapter Seven Advanced Interpretive Methods 131

Part 3 Geomantic Meditation and Magic 169

Chapter Eight Geomantic Meditation and Scrying 171

Chapter Nine Principles of Geomantic Magic 187

Chapter Ten Geomantic Ritual Magic 207

Appendix: Invocations for Geomantic Magic 231

Bibliography 245

Index 249

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