Art And Practice Of Geomancy: Divination, Magic, and Earth Wisdom of the Renaissance - Softcover

John Michael Greer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1578634318 ISBN 13: 9781578634316

Publisher: Weiser Books, 2009

Synopsis

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.From the book: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 -- provides the context for every geomantic reading.* A complete guide to Geomancy. Includes the history, how-to, and divinatory practices.* John Michael Greer is a known expert in the fi eld of earth magic, and a dynamic speaker and lecturer.

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About the Authors

John Michael Greer is the award-winning author of more than fifty books, including The Occult Book, The Druidry Handbook, The Celtic Golden Dawn, and Circles of Power: An Introduction to Hermetic Magic. An initiate in Freemasonry, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, Greer served as the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA) for twelve years. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife Sara. Greer is also the author of eleven fantasy and science fiction novels and ten nonfiction books on peak oil and the future of industrial society, and also blogs weekly on politics, magic, and the future at www.ecosophia.net.

Lon Milo DuQuette is a bestselling author who lectures worldwide on such topics as magick, tarot, and the Western mystery traditions. He is currently the US Deputy Grand Master of Ordo Templi Orientis and is on the faculty of the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York, and the Maybe Logic Academy. His books include The Tarot Architect, The Magick of Aleister Crowley, Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot, and The Chicken Qabalah. Visit him at londuquette.com.

From the Back Cover

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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"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."

Edition details

• Publisher: Weiser Books
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1578634318
• ISBN 13: 9781578634316
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256