✎ geomancy_notes [the libarynth]

You've loaded an old revision of the document! If you save it, you will create a new version with this data.

==== Geomancy Notes ====

==== European/Renaissance Geomancy===

During the Renaissance, geomancy was classified as one of the seven "forbidden arts", along with necromancy, hydromancy, aeromancy, pyromancy, chiromancy (palmistry), and spatulamancy (scapulimancy).(([[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Hartlieb|Johannes Hartlieb]] (Munich, 1456) The Book of All Forbidden Arts;))

<blockquote>Geomancy is an Art of Divination, wherby the judgement may be rendred by lot, or destiny, to every question of everything whatsoever, but the Art hereof consisteth especially in certain points whereof certain figures are deducted according to the reason or rule of equality or inequality, likeness or unlikeness

--Henry Cornelius AGRIPPA
</blockquote>

<blockquote>"Geomancy" is derived from the Latin "geomantia," which in turn is derived from the Greek for "divination by earth." The Arabic name for geomancy, "'ilm al-raml," means "the science of the sand." In its original form, the geomantic figure was created by making lines of random numbers of dots in the sand, hence the name. Medieval European writers agreed that it was also acceptable to draw the dots on a piece of parchment or paper. In keeping with the Arabic origin of geomancy, most writers recommend making the dots from right to left, the direction in which Arabic is written. From the dots or points, the geomancer draws a series of figures which are arranged into the geomantic tableau. There are sixteen possible figures consisting of single or pairs of points. Each figure has a name, associations with the elements, planets, etc., and good or bad qualities. Interpretation depends on the meanings of the figures in particular locations in the tableau, and owes a great deal to the practice of medieval astrology. Unlike astrology, however, geomancy requires no instruments or complex calculations.

https://www.princeton.edu/~ezb/geomancy/geostep.html
</blockquote>

====Geomantic Figures====

{{http://36.media.tumblr.com/b7b63307e76a21178223297ad7e050d9/tumblr_nk4szm8PS11qbtee2o1_400.png}}{{http://38.media.tumblr.com/18866320e34595fd68f982c0e917ff69/tumblr_nk4szm8PS11qbtee2o2_400.gif}}

===Tibetan Geomancy (sa-bshad/ sa-dpyad/ sa-che)===
  * articles on this subject,[[http://tibetanaltar.blogspot.be/2011/02/tibetan-geomancy.html|Tibetan Geomancy]], [[http://tibetanaltar.blogspot.be/2011/02/tibetan-geomancy-part-two.html|part two]], [[http://tibetanaltar.blogspot.be/2011/02/tibetan-geomancy-part-three.html|[part three]],[[http://tibetanaltar.blogspot.be/2011/02/tibetan-geomancypart-four.html|part-four]]
  * Sa-che (earth observations)

===Feng Shui (風水) ===

"Feng shui is one of the Five Arts of Chinese Metaphysics, classified as physiognomy (observation of appearances through formulas and calculations). The feng shui practice discusses architecture in metaphoric terms of "invisible forces" that bind the universe, earth, and humanity together, known as qi.[...] Apart from any mystical implications, Feng Shui may be simply understood as a traditional test of architectural goodness using a collection of metaphors" [[wp>Feng_shui]]

North; **☵**, Water Energy, Winter Season, Abyss & Rapid Rivers.

=== alchemical and geomantic potential with modern technology ===

(e.g. GPS, earth observation)
    * https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/home
    * https://earthdata.nasa.gov
    * https://www.pik-potsdam.de/research/ea
    * 
=== [un]related===
  * [[planetary other]]
  * [[natural_radio]], [[ground_radio]], [[wp>Vastu_shastra]], [[wp>Feng_shui]], [[wp>Scrying]]
  * traditional geomantic/earth divination, seismography (Agrippa: divination by earth movements), pyromancy, aeromancy

===Bibliography===
  * https://www.princeton.edu/~ezb/geomancy/geobiblio.html

Please fill all the letters into the box to prove you're human. Please keep this field empty:

Edit summary

Note: By editing this page you agree to license your content under the following license: CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International