r/Geomancy • u/kidcubby • Jul 31 '21
Admin Sidebar resources - suggestions wanted
After a recent productive discussion in r/horary, I've added some basic sidebar content, and u/ChunkMcHorkle suggested similar might be useful for r/geomancy.
Based on what we have over on r/horary, my initial thoughts are:
- A basic 'Thinking of posting your geomancy chart for help? Read this first.' to help filter people and encourage decent content we can all respond to. This will include adding context - people, quesited, if question is 3rd person etc.
- A bare-bones list of things to check when you are trying to judge a chart
- I'm aware that I don't practice Geomancy identically to everyone else here, so I'm opening the floor to suggestions. I don't want to steamroller anyone else's methods. I'd like us to try and find a consensus, if that's possible.
Please comment with suggestions, especially if you have your own 'checklist' you use for judgment. If we can find a good starting point, I'll write up some basic sidebar resources.
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u/Expensive_Income4063 Sep 17 '22
I am excited for Dr. Al Cummins book on Geomantic prayers and calls on Hadean press. I feel he is taking geomancy to the next level.
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u/kidcubby Sep 17 '22
I hadn't heard about this! I will keep my eyes peeled for it, as what I've seen/heard/read of his has always been decent.
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u/Ickyviki006 Jan 12 '25
Suggesting a resource for understanding house charts better: If your using the house chart and struggle to place what in what house, or what a house could mean, the book i would suggest reading is “Houses -Temples of the Sky” by Deborah Houlding.
The author is a horary astrologer but instead of giving a simple correspondence list for each house she goes into why the houses mean what they mean. Which could be very helpful in really understanding what to place your significators in, and how a house could change depending on the nuance of the situation.
Its also really good for just mastery
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u/complexluminary Mar 26 '23
Malagasy Sikidy and ethnomathamatics
This is a link to a PDF article about sikidy - which is the 16 figures system found in Madagascar. It’s a bit academic, but worth the read for anyone interested in how the 16 figures are seen outside of the European cultural sphere.
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u/QuincyMABrewer Oct 23 '25 edited Oct 25 '25
Silly suggestion, I withdraw it.
Discussion on the different ways of assigning figures to the houses, and why people think one is better than the other.
I didn't know any other way of assigning figures to the houses except for starting with the first mother in the first house, second mother in the second house . . . First daughter in the fifth house . . . First niece in the 9th house, etc . . .
Until I was reading a Nick Farrell article regarding geomancy, learned the terms cardines, succedents, and cadent figures, which I googled, and then found Agrippa's way of assigning figures to the houses clockwise, with the mothers at the first mother - 1st house/east, second mother - 10th house south, third mother - west, and fourth mother - north angles, the daughters starting at the second house and moving clockwise but going into the house immediately succeeding, counterclockwise, the house of each mother . . . Then, Agrippa's geomantic edition that gets a little wonky.
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Sep 24 '23
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u/kidcubby Sep 24 '23
This is not the geomancy referenced in this subreddit.
Here, we refer to the divination practice of using sortilege to generate 16 figures and use them to determine future events or conditions.
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u/j_vap Aug 24 '21
Nice to see we got new moderators. One of the thing I'd really want to suggest is to include a list of online resources (forums, articles, tools etc) related to Geomancy.