Geomancy
A system of divination that employs the scattering of pebbles, grains of sand, or seeds on the earth and then the interpretation of their shape and position.
Geomancy
From the ge ('earth') and manteia ('divination'). Originally an Arabic technique which depended upon interpreting figures derived from making marks in the sand or earth, it is by the Element of Earth, ...
Geomancy, however in the 19th century began to be applied to the Chinese practice of feng shui, which literally means "wind and water".
Mid-Atlantic Geomancy
Cosmic Dozens: Twelve-Fold Designs of Society and Art by Michael S. Schneider
Henry Cornelius Agrippa, His Fourth BOOK of Occult Philosophy: of Geomancy
Roberti: Mystical Meaning in Sacred Western Architecture ...
Geomancy
A form of divination using earth signs for prediction of future events as well as reading of past events.
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GEOMANCY is the study of figures on the ground and the influence of the Earth's "currents".
GRAPHOLOGY is the analysis of character through handwriting.
Geomancy
Literally meaning "Earth Divination", it is a method of that involves using a series of random marks on paper (or more appropriately, a tray of consecrated Earth) to generate sixteen Geomantic Characters (each of which will be one of ...
Of Geomancy, Hydromancy, Aeromancy, and Pyromancy, Four Divinations of Elements.
Chap. 58.
Of the Reviving of the Dead, and of Sleeping or Hibernating (wanting victuals) Many Years together.
161:CXVI GEOMANCY.--"A forecast of the future by means of dots made in the sand.
Astrological Geomancy Divination Tool
How to write the Hebrew Alphabet (.pdf file)
Edward Kelly Biography ...
The form of divination that this particular author used was geomancy. More than that, it was probably a bit like foxmancy. Foxmancy is a practice of divination used in Africa. You put little bits of food in circles traced in sand or dirt.
Faivre's six characteristics describe well what we may call the cosmological domain to which many currents of Western esotericism do belong, incorporating as it does such disciplines as practical alchemy, astrology, geomancy, ...
Silvester's Experimentarius was a verse translation of a work on astrological geomancy (a means of prediction by which a number of points were dashed down at random, and then joined together by lines, ...
Hartman, are tractates of Rosicrucian Allegory which will well repay, not only perusal, but deep study; while the elucidation of the whole set of Medieval Divinatory Sciences, Astrology, Geomancy, etc, ...
Geomancy, palmistry, the use of the tarot, etc., all these things are well enough for those who want to tread the byways of nature and to gather knowledge of her obscurer workings.
The second section of Technica Historia is in seven parts which deal with Prophecy, Geomancy, Memory, the art of casting Nativities, Physiognomy, hand reading and the science of the Pyramid.
Divination was widely practiced and authors discuss geomancy, hydromancy, pyromancy, and chiromancy. Divination was considered ignorant and inadvisable rather than evil.
Evidence in myth and folklore of the divination (geomancy) and manipulation of subtle energies in nature (Telluric currents), which are later personified as serpents, dragons, nymphs, faeries, elves, goblins, and the like ...
 See also: Magic, World, Spirit, Occult, Ritual
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