Geomancy for Beginners: Simple Techniques for Earth Divination PDF
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Geomancy About Richard Webster Author of over forty titles published with Llewellyn, Richard Web ster is one of New Zealand’s most prolific writers. His best selling books include Spirit Guides el Angel Guardians, Creative Visualization for Beginners, Soul Mates, Is Your Pet Psychic?, Prac tical Guide to Past-Life Memories, Astral Travel for Beginners, Miracles, and the four-book series on archangels: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel. A noted psychic, Richard is a member of the National Guild of Hypnotherapists (USA), the Association of Professional Hyp notherapists and Parapsychologists (UK), the International Reg istry of Professional Hypnotherapists (Canada), and the Psy chotherapy and Hypnotherapy Institute of New Zealand. When not touring, he resides in New Zealand with his wife and family. Geomancy For Beginner Simple Techniques for Earth Divination RICHARD WEBSTER Llewellyn Publications Woodbury, Minnesota Geomancy for Beginners: Simple Techniques for Earth Divination © 20n by Richard Webster. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or repro duced in any matter whatsoever, including Internet usage, with out written permission from Llewellyn Publications, except in the form of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. As the purchaser of this e-book, you are granted the non exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on screen. The text may not be otherwise reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, or recorded on any other storage de vice in any form or by any means. Any unauthorized usage of the text without express written per mission of the publisher is a violation of the author’s copyright and is illegal and punishable by law. First e-book edition © 2010 E-book ISBN: 9780738728216 Cover photograph © Lynne Menturweck Cover design by Adrienne Zimiga Llewellyn Publications is an imprint of Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd. Llewellyn Publications does not participate in, endorse, or have any authority or responsibility concerning private business ar rangements between our authors and the public. Any Internet references contained in this work are current at publication time, but the publisher cannot guarantee that a spe cific reference will continue or be maintained. Please refer to the publisher’s website for links to current author websites. Llewellyn Publications Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd. 2143 Wooddale Drive Woodbury, MN 55125 www.llewellyn.com Manufactured in the United States of America introduction one What Is Geomancy? two How Does It Work? three The Sixteen Symbols four Meet the Family five Astrological Geomancy six Planets and Signs seven Gerard of Cremona eight Cornelius Agrippa nine The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ten Arthurian Divination eleven Horary Geomancy twelve Napoleon’s Book of Fate conclusion notes suggested reading For Tim and Jennifer Eddington and Pathfinder Bookshop introduction When I was twenty-one, the publishing company I worked for sent me to the English county of Cornwall as a sales represen tative. I was excited, as this gave me a territory of my own and a company car. My landlady was extremely interested in psychic matters, and introduced me to a wide range of people with sim ilar interests. This was exciting for me, as up until then I’d had to keep my interest in the psychic world a secret. Back in the 1960s it was almost a guilty secret to be interested in these subjects. I had been educated at a Christian school, and then worked for a company that published a large number of Christian books. I'd found myself in trouble at school because of my interests in palmistry and hypnosis. Consequently, I’d learned not to discuss anything to do with psychic matters out side of my immediate family. Suddenly, thanks to my landlady, I met dozens of people with similar interests. One of the groups I joined studied different forms of divination using gemstones. I loved the look of the crystals and the beautiful displays they made. I also enjoyed making my own divination stones from stones I collected on a riverbank. Henry, one of the members, helped me make my first set of rune stones and taught me how to use them. At one of the meetings, Henry mentioned rune sticks and the art of geomancy. This was the first time I heard the word geomcmcy. We all asked him to bring his rune sticks to the next meeting. I was slightly disappointed when he produced four sticks, each with one line on one side and two lines on the other. However, I was immediately captivated when he demonstrated them to us. I was amazed that such a simple process could pro duce such detailed and accurate readings. We all made sets of rune sticks and enjoyed working with them, using the method described in chapter 10 of this book, Arthurian divination. I used my rune sticks regularly, and many of the clients who came to me for a palmistry reading received an Arthurian divina tion reading as well. About ten years after I first learned about geomancy, my sister gave me a copy of Stephen Skinner’s The Oracle of Geomancy as a Christmas present, and I discovered there was much more to the subject than I had imagined. I have been involved with geomancy for more than forty years, and I am still learning. The word geomancy comes from the Greek word geomanteia. Geo means “earth,” and manteia (-mancy) relates to divination. Consequently, geomancy is the art of divination from the earth. Geomancy, in a variety of forms, is one of the oldest methods of divination, and its origins are lost to time. Not surprisingly, a number of legends try to explain how and where geomancy originated. The Arabs say that Jibril (Archangel Gabriel) taught geomancy to their prophet Idris (Hermes Tris- megistus) after he saw the angel drawing a geomantic figure in a dream. When Idris asked for enlightenment, Jibril taught him the basics of geomancy. Idris passed this information on to an In dian king called Tumtum al-Hindi, who later wrote a book on the subject. This book was kept secret for many generations until it came into the possession of Khalaf al-Barbari. When Khalaf was
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