The Oracle of Geomancy [2021 edition] 9781912212330

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The Oracle of Geomancy with instruction in Astro-Geomancy

Books on the Western Esoteric Tradition by Stephen Skinner Agrippa’s Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy (edited) – Askin, Ibis Aleister Crowley’s Astrology (edited) – Spearman, Ibis, Weiser Aleister Crowley’s Four Books of Magick (edited) – Watkins Ars Notoria – (with Daniel Clark) – GHP, Llewellyn Ars Notoria: the Method – GHP, Llewellyn Clavis or Key to the Mysteries of Magic (with Daniel Clark) – GHP, Llewellyn Complete Magician’s Tables – GHP, Llewellyn Cunning Man’s Grimoire (with David Rankine) – GHP, Llewellyn Dr John Dee ‘s Spiritual Diaries: the fully revised and corrected edition of A True & Faithful Relation... with full Latin translation – GHP, Llewellyn Geomancy in Theory & Practice – GHP, Llewellyn Goetia of Dr Rudd: Liber Malorum Spirituum (with David Rankine) – GHP, Llewellyn Grimoire of Saint Cyprian: Clavis Inferni (with David Rankine) – GHP Keys to the Gateway of Magic (with David Rankine) – GHP Magical Diaries of Aleister Crowley (edited) – Spearman, Weiser Michael Psellus ‘On the Operation of Daimones’ (edited) - GHP Millennium Prophecies: Apocalypse 2000 – Carlton Nostradamus (with Francis King) – Carlton Oracle of Geomancy – Warner Destiny, Prism, GHP Practical Angel Magic of Dr. Dee (with David Rankine) – GHP Sacred Geometry – Gaia, Hamlyn, Sterling Search for Abraxas (with Nevill Drury) – Spearman, GHP Sepher Raziel: Liber Salomonis (with Don Karr) – GHP, Llewellyn Splendor Solis (with Rafal Prinke, Joscelyn Godwin & Georgiana Hedesan) Watkins Techniques of Graeco-Egyptian Magic – GHP, Llewellyn Techniques of High Magic (with Francis King) – C. W. Daniels, GHP Techniques of Solomonic Magic – GHP, Llewellyn

Terrestrial Astrology: Divination by Geomancy – Routledge Veritable Key of Solomon (with David Rankine) – GHP, Llewellyn

The Oracle of Geomancy Your Doorway into the Future

by Dr Stephen Skinner

GOLDEN HOARD PRESS 2021

Published by Golden Hoard Press PO Box 1073 Robinson Road PO Singapore 902123 www.GoldenHoard.com First published by Warner Destiny 1977 Prism Press 1977 Second Edition 2021 Copyright © 1977, 2021 Stephen Skinner www.SSkinner.com The right of Stephen Skinner to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means, without the prior written permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchased.

ISBN 978-1-91221233-0

Appendix I - Zodiacal Attributions of the Geomantic

Figures

Illustrations 1 The first page of Agrippa’ s Of Geomancy 32 2a A modern geomantic chart

49

2b A traditional Geomantic Chart

50

3a Planetary groupings of the sixteen geomantic figures 55 3b Planetary groupings of the sixteen Figures (Agrippa) 56 4 Characters formed from the geomantic figures (Magus) 58 5 Complete table of the sixteen geomantic figures 71 6

The Houses of heaven

225

7

The House numbers

8

Key departments of the twelve Houses

226 227

9 Geomantic figures and their astrological signs 234 10 Angular, Succedent and Cadent Houses

252

11 Geomantic Figures in the twelve Houses of Heaven 257 12 Zodiacal attributions 13 Complete Astro-Geomantic Figure 261

259

14 Example of Astro-Geomantic Chart 265 15 A typical Astro-Geomantic chart from Agrippa 268 16 The five categories of essential dignity 271 17 Will the proposed business partnership be a success? 297 18 Figure of geomancy made March 20, 1824 304

19 Typical Renaissance Astro-Geomantic Chart 20 Modern astro-geomantic figure

313

21 Life expectancy in the 1st House

318

22 Finance in the 2nd House 23 Loans in the 2nd House

320 321

24 Location in the 4th House 25 Illness in the 6th House

308

323 327

26 Medication in the 6th House Alternative Zodical Attributions

328 340

Element Attributions of the Geomantic Figures

343

Table of the Generation of the Geomantic Figures 354 Alternative Latin Names and their Meanings

358

Arabic, Hebrew and Malagasy names of the Figures 359

Author’s Note on the Word ‘Geomancy’ The word ‘geomancy’ covers three completely distinct subject areas. The original use of the word, was solely for divinatory geomancy, a technique which used sixteen binary figures composed of dots to foretell the future. These figures were derived from ninth century Islamic sand divination. In 1880s ‘geomancy’ was used by a missionary in China as a translation for the completely different and unrelated subject of feng shui (which concerns the interrelation of man, his buildings and tombs with ch’i/qi, which flows through his environment). Feng shui is a Chinese practice that dates back more than two thousand years to before the Chin (Qin) Dynasty, and has nothing to do with divinatory geomancy. In the last few decades of the twentieth century ‘geomancy’ was also applied to the study of megalithic alignments and ley lines in the UK and Europe, and was often used to describe the application of sacred geometry to these structures. This third usage is a recent imposition of this term on much older Islamic or Chinese practices. These three applications of the word have been applied to completely unrelated practices, which spring from completely different cultures, with no historical linkages. The sole exception to this lies on the island of Madagascar where Chinese ‘geomancy’ was mixed with the Islamic geomancy brought down to that island by Arab traders. Despite New Age attempts to link them, their only connection is the use and misuse of the term ‘geomancy.’ This book is concerned solely with the original geomancy, Islamic, African and European divinatory geomancy. See the author’s page for other works by the present author on both feng shui and sacred geometry, in which these other ‘geomancies’ are adequately explained.

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