An in-depth guide to the history, theory, and practice of the divinatory art of geomancy. Here is a complete guide to the lost art of geomancy - one of the major divination systems that are part of the Western magical tradition.Geomancy is simple, quick, and direct - anyone can get answers to any question in a matter of moments by learning how to read the patterns revealed by the 16 symbolic figures formed of single and double points. During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, geomancy was used by everyone from popes to peasants because it provided practical, useful results.Often mistaken for feng shui or ley lines, or hidden within poorly explained tables and charts, geomancy has become something of a lost art - until now. Earth Divination, Earth Magic provides a fascinating look into the history, theory, and practice of geomancy, including a thorough set of instructions for both casting and interpreting a chart for yourself, or a friend. John Michael Greer  is the award-winning author of more than fifty books, including T he New Encyclopedia of the Occult, The Druidry Handbook, The Celtic Golden Dawn  and C ircles of Power: An Introduction to Hermetic Magic.  An initiate in Freemasonry, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Martinist Order, and three Druid traditions, Greer served as the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA) for twelve years. He is also the author of seventeen fantasy and science fiction novels and ten nonfiction books on peak oil and the future of industrial society. He lives in Rhode Island and blogs weekly on politics, magic, and the future at www.ecosophia.net. Earth Divination, Earth Magic A Practical Guide to Geomancy By John Michael Greer Aeon Books Ltd Copyright © 2019 John Michael Greer All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-912807-07-9 Contents ABOUT THE AUTHOR, PART I: EARTH DIVINATION, CHAPTER ONE The forgotten oracle, CHAPTER TWO The figures, CHAPTER THREE Casting the chart, CHAPTER FOUR Reading the chart, PART II: EARTH MAGIC, CHAPTER FIVE Geomancy and magic, CHAPTER SIX Consecrating instruments, CHAPTER SEVEN Meditation and scrying, CHAPTER EIGHT Sigils and talismans, APPENDIX A medieval handbook of geomancy, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX, BLANK CHARTS, CHAPTER 1 The forgotten oracle Geomancy is a traditional Western way of divination based on intuitive contact with the subtle energies of the Earth. Nowadays, it's probably the least well-known of the major methods of divination belonging to the Western world's magical traditions; it's no misstatement, in fact, to call it the forgotten oracle of the West. Even using the word "geomancy" in modern times risks a good deal of confusion. This term, which is derived from the Greek words ge, "earth," and manteia, "prophecy" or "divination," has come to be used in recent years for a flurry of different and mostly unrelated topics — from feng shui and related systems of spatial design, through ancient traditions of omen interpretation and prophetic lore based on earthquakes and other geological events, to speculations involving ley lines, megaliths, and hidden patterns embedded in the landscape. Each of these has something to do with the Earth, and something (although not always much) to do with divination; none of them have anything significant in common with the subject of this book. From the high Middle Ages until the end of the Renaissance, by contrast, the word geomancy (and its equivalents in other Western languages) meant one thing only: a specific method of divination using a series of sixteen figures formed of points, and the philosophy and practice centered on that method — a philosophy and practice based on a deeply magical understanding of the flow of elemental energies through the living body of the Earth. This same meaning of the word remained standard within the secret or semi-secret magical orders that carried on the traditions of Western occultism during the heyday of scientific rationalism, and it is the meaning that will be used here. This is not to dismiss the other traditions and teachings just mentioned; some of them deserve careful study on their own. The point that needs to be made here is simply that they have nothing to do with the kind of geomancy we will be discussing, and should not be confused with it. A glimpse of geomancy So what is geomancy? The best way to learn that is to see the method in action on a first-hand basis. As a first step in that direction, pick up a pen or pencil and a piece of paper. Think about a situation you are facing, one that is likely to have either a favorable or an unfavorable outcome, and then clear your mind and make a line of dots or dashes at random on the paper. Don't count the number of marks while making them. Do the same thing three more times, so that you have four lines of marks on the paper, like the ones below: [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Now count the marks in each line separately. If the first line h