One of the things I have been puzzling over his been the use of the Moon’s Nodes in Geomancy. In modern Geomancy Cauda Draconis is seen as being an ending while Caput Draconis is seen as a beginning. Cauda is always seen as bad, while Caput is always positive. In Ancient Astrology, which was the […]
Rubeus is the devil of traditional Geomancy, but that might be due to ancient fear of sexuality and what we now call the libido. Elemental structure: Air new/awakening fire, water and earth elements full/waning Element: Air Mobile and Exiting Judge: biased/impossible Day or Night: Night Mansions of the Moon When a symbol covers more than […]
Robert Fludd was an important 16th Century Rosicrucian and magician. This article shows his theory of geomancy divination which was based on a neo-platonic idea of Plato’s Chariot, which I mentioned in my book Helios Unbound. Robert Fludd considered divination was communication between part of a human soul which was responsible for conscious thought […]
Populus – community Elemental structure: Full power elements waning Element: Water Stable: Entering and Exiting Judge: Impartial Day or Night: Day Mansions of the Moon When a symbol covers more than one mansion it potentially covers all of them and the goal is to see them as a synthesis. The symbol might potentially bring them […]
Poor Carcer has a bad press among geomancers due to its association with “prisons” and constriction. The older books are no better because they associate carcer with Saturn (which was often an astrological malefic). But actually, like many of the negative associations we get from traditional astrology (and geomancy) these are simplistic and might blind […]