Geomantic offerings
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If you have a question, I'll be happy to ask the coins using geomancy. That said, divination is like weather forecasting not a tablet of truth handed down from above, so take the advice I give you through the reading as such. The conditions that divination taps into are also in constant flux, the same as atmospheric pressure and the Moon. Be sure to ask questions to which you want to know the answer.
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Date: 2022-10-31 10:12 pm (UTC)Hello,
My question for the coins is this: What help does my mom need most from me right now?
Thank you for your time.
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Date: 2022-11-16 10:02 pm (UTC)I wonder if you would like to elaborate in the situation with your mother, if so, we can look into the way of points and reading the triplicities. I ask this because of the Judge and determine its meaning as it can fall into two directions but Colled tells me about some loss. For some reason does she need to move or lost someone close?
For the judge you drew Carchar or Carchar in latin. It translates as prison or containment. Without much context I can only but speculate but you might consider seeing if you need to provide some form of containment for her in one way or the other.
For the Right Witness, you drew Tristwch or Tristitia in latin. This is general downward movement, so there might be something that is currently giving you low spirits about the situation as loss is emphasized.
For the Left Witness you drew Llawenydd or Laetitia in latin, which is the reverse of the above, forming an interesting ternary with the judge.
In general, it doesn't seem like a favorable situation and there seems to be change from one side and stuckness from the other.
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Date: 2022-10-31 11:07 pm (UTC)cheers
KAN
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Date: 2022-11-16 10:36 pm (UTC)Please excuse my tardiness, I didn't see you wanted to start this by November, and we are already in the middle!
This is your reading:
For the Judge, you drew Bendith Fawr or the greater blessing and for the Right Witness you drew Gwyn. It seems it would be very favorable for you to start doing rune yoga. I wonder if you are yourself in a situation were you need or have already closed some import point. I also note that you drew both on your home and on your personality Carchar or prision. Does that ring any bells? We can also explore the triplicities if you care to elaborate on your situation.
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Date: 2022-11-17 04:14 am (UTC)KAN
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Date: 2022-11-18 01:37 am (UTC)Glad to hear it!
And sorry to hear about the mortage, that about explains it...
There seems to be other places you frequent according to acquisitio that bring good luck and gain.
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Date: 2022-10-31 11:19 pm (UTC)Q- Will I be laid off next year from my current employer?
Thanks,
Tamanous
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Date: 2022-11-16 11:26 pm (UTC)Thank you for your patience Tamanous!
This is the chart I did for you:
You drew Colled for the Judge and Pobl for the Right Witness and Colled again for the Left Witness. I am sorry to say the answer seems to be yes as the traditional meaning of this figure means loss and is very unfavorable and the way of points leads to Carchar on the first daughter.
I am stricken about Populus repeating 4 times. Does that mean anything to you?
I also see three Llawenydd's which means joy, on the triplicity of your outlook, situation and on your personality :-) Which seems to be a good thing if you ask me.
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Date: 2022-11-17 12:16 am (UTC)My only thought regarding populus is it's reflective of a) some things are set already in these areas or b) its indicative of the layoff being related to broader or macro situations that are likely to hit next year. Just my two cents for what it's worth.
Edit- And I'll take the joys where I can find them haha
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Date: 2022-11-17 02:58 am (UTC)RW- Puer
LW- Caput Draconis
J- Amissio
So the general judgement of losing the job seems correct, though my reading certainly inclines towards this loss leading to some beginning/new opportunity (at least as far as I can tell). Also, no Populus showed in mine which is an interesting contrast.
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Date: 2022-11-17 03:10 am (UTC)Interesting!
Yes, even though the answer is "yes", the general outlook seems very good given the triple joy! I might take the Populus as finding also your way through the help of others and Puer, might also indicate to learn from the quests and find your own individuality.
In its own way, given its position, it also indicates to me that getting in contact again with someone from your past/childhood or background in general would be good and finding circles outside home and neighborhood.
Caput Draconis in the position of co-workers and other people also tells me you might do good in finding a new job that makes you happier.
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Date: 2022-11-01 12:05 pm (UTC)Re: Geomantic offering
Date: 2022-11-24 07:17 am (UTC)Just letting you know that I wanted to take some time to do your reading carefully but that I haven't forgotten about it :-)
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Date: 2022-11-25 01:18 am (UTC)Re: Geomantic offering
Date: 2022-11-25 01:25 am (UTC)Awesome! Best wishes for the baby and the mother
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Date: 2022-11-26 01:30 pm (UTC)Re: Geomantic offering
Date: 2022-11-28 04:20 pm (UTC)I am very sorry to hear that. Sending good wishes.
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Date: 2022-11-01 05:33 pm (UTC)I'll start to reply during the week starting tonight until all the questions submitted before Friday are answered.
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Date: 2022-11-01 10:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-11-23 03:31 am (UTC)This one was a little convoluted to interpret, but here it is:
What I found most interesting about this is that I had to re-do it two times. This to me speaks about quite a bit of undoing and confusion.
Then there is the Judge, which is suggests movement as the answer to your question. This is Ffordd, or Via. Paired with Coch, or Rubeus as the Right Witness (you) it speaks to me again of confusion. Be careful with self-deception. For the Left Witness you drew Merch, or Puella, which is the theme been asked about.
Again, tough reading, very ambivalent but overly positive in the sense that what needs to be unstuck, is you, but that the hardest to see!
Colled in situation, family and/or friends tells me that some of that might not be helping you in your spiritual life, or even opposing it, however this doesn't seem to be your immediate family or the people you live with. For the position of your habits and beliefs you drew Llosgwrn y Ddraig or Cauda Draconis, which might be speaking about you having trouble bringing things into conclusions, given the rest of the figures.
Lastly, Mab or Puer, the stereotypical masculine force means to me that the world, either the general world or some of your circles, is moving too fast or even recklessly and that isn't letting you bring this quality in you that needs to be calm, receptive and open, which can be seen in the figure Merch, the archetypal feminine, in order to open up your spiritual life. A place you frequent, other than home, is helping you towards this.
Take a close look at the Judge, the three dots in a row. Every dot means the energy of that element is active, all, in unison. And straight like an arrow. That's what you need. Basically, get your stuff together, aim and shoot until the bullet hits the mark and do not stop working until you do.
Carchar in background suggests to me that you need to get into journaling and start taking apart your psyche to heal any trauma that might not letting you move forward.
Let me know if you have any questions and I can elaborate!
Any ideas as to what that place might be? I certainly have an idea about what it might be ;-)
The Way of Points in a reading tells us about the hidden forces of the situation and it leads back to Merch on the position of other places you frequent. Which again tells me, that you really need to tune to this energy. Stop your convoluted mind for a second, put down everything that is whirling around, bring yourself to a calm and just listen. Can you hear it? What does it say?
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Date: 2022-11-24 01:37 am (UTC)2. Colled's position can be situation, what does that refer to? It probably does not refer to any people around me if we're ruling out the one I live with (and yes, she is neither a help nor a hindrance when it comes to spiritual things). I live as a recluse so there are no other current people it can be.
3. For the habits and beliefs, when you say I have trouble bringing things into conclusion, does that mean understanding, or does it mean finishing something?
4. Is it possible the figure of Mab is coming from within myself, rather than something outside? It does somewhat describe how I have handled this situation. If it is something outside myself, I'm not sure what it would be.
5. A place I frequent other than home. I guess that would have to be JMG's online circle (that is what you're thinking, right?). As I said, recluse, there's isn't anything else it could be. I have little doubt I was drawn there for a reason, but how to utilize it, or plug into that energy, has eluded me. I thought I knew what it meant, but it seemed I was wrong.
Thanks for doing this.
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Date: 2022-11-24 08:18 am (UTC)It seems you are trying to gain something and lose something at the same time while finishing something without beginning it first, allegorically speaking. If divination were to tell you things that are immediately obvious, there would be no need for it! Whatever results you get treat them as true for the sake of meditation. It won't be obvious and questioning your own judgement will be helpful, that's what blind spots are, they literally seem impossible to find which is why the answer to your questions is movement, in any direction, it doesn't matter --what you need is the perspective movement gives, not the destination. So the answer might be, that it isn't stuck, you are stuck and to get unstuck you just have to start walking instead of thinking so much.
Q1: Is she a close friend or romantic partner or just your roommate?
1) & 2) There is indeed and the interference is yourself in a considerable way. You are not being honest with you. Other than that might have you pissed a witch on a forum or something? I can't stop looking at Colled, there is somebody else because it repeats itself. It's hard to believe you are a recluse, you must be interacting with other people in some other way, you are with me right now! Work? Family you don't talk often?
Sounds like the mix between your mindset, your environment and some of your company is effectively, for practical purposes, creating a crossed-condition for yourself and a conflicted will, you might be wanting opposite things at the same time.
3) & 4) It means finishing things in general in this case. Does that feel accurate? Mab finishes things very fast.
5) Yes, I meant ecosophia. Q3: What did you think it meant?
Q2: What is your current spiritual practice?
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Date: 2022-11-24 05:08 pm (UTC)2. When I say my divinations don't work, I mean I ask whether or not I should do a thing, a get glowing response and the thing immediately doesn't work.
3. She is a non romantic partner I've lived with for long enough to be something like family.
4. It's true though. I'm on disability, rarely leave my apartment, have lived in a city for seven years where I know no one, shunned social media since its inception, speak to family so rarely they leave no impact, and JMG's various spots are the only places I frequent online where other people are actively talking and I don't participate much myself. Does that qualify me as a recluse? I do hope so, I try ever so hard. :)
Seriously though, the only people I've spoken to other than the one I live with all year are in situations like this, I take up their services seeking help, they do what they can and I never speak to them again. The only person I can think of who might've been pissed enough at me to try something was a long time ago, and I don't think she'd have been capable of much anyway. I don't think it refers to a person, there just isn't anyone.
What exactly does Colled mean? I know nothing about this system of divination.
5. I was thinking things never get finished, rather than finished too fast.
6. Yes, ecosophia. It kind of is the only option. Is it possible that is also creating the crossed condition and conflicted will?
7. Current spiritual practice, right now nothing. Because I don't know what to do or where to point my effort. Compulsively jumping from one pantheon to another for the last few years was just mentally tiring, I recognize that as something not to do. I lost that old anchor point and I don't know where else to go (and can not just choose another pantheon. Literally can not. I perfectly understand why, it's one of those trauma based rewirings that can only be endured for the remainder of this lifetime). I've tried banishing rituals many, many times now. I don't seem to connect well with the SoP and it's far to weak to use deity free; LBRP options require deities, the generic polytheistic one requires a patron.
It's not much now, but bear in mind I tried for years. I threw everything and the kitchen sink into it. Tried multiple directions. It was chaotic and accomplished nothing. I've become aware of the danger of self deception (perhaps too aware, at a certain point how do you know any of it is real?) so I'm trying not to restart that cycle again. Doing nothing doesn't help, but action didn't seem to either.
Apologize for long rambling comment. Thanks again.
A rambling for another rambling
Date: 2022-11-24 07:30 pm (UTC)There seems to be a lot of self-deception to me in your comment. I am going to suggest the usual, just suck it up and do 15 minutes a day of spiritual practice, every single day for a year and don't stop no matter what. If the sky falls, you sit down and do your meditation; if Godzilla bangs at your door, you tell him to shut up and finish your ritual; if you just can't handle it anymore you give yourself a pat on the back for the good work and just finish reading that divination, even if half awake and with your fingers shaking from fear; if Satan presents to you in the middle of prayer, burn him to a crisp in a smokeless-and-ashless bang leaving no trace and just keep on praying. Just think it through very well, write about it, come again for a divination if you need to and then commit to it and do your level best to finish your plan, not for it to be perfect without changing your mind even if it is telling you that everything is wrong. If you fail, you just get up and try again.
1) Fair enough! In that case, I have no idea what Colled or "loss" could mean. Colled means loss in all its forms, from losing money to losing one's heart.
One other thing that I could mention is that spirituality isn't meant to fix one's life or emotional situations or what have you, it certainly can but in fact, many times it actually makes it worse for a while! I tried pushing further about the rest of the reading and the response I got was please just tell him to keep moving, it's movement not anything else, not the right or wrong this or that or the right or wrong ritual. I felt this with some force and seems to me you have a real tangle. This sort of things doesn't happen with spiritually weak people, so you have definitely something going on but I do get the sense that you have to do a lot of undoing. It is common for your experience to happen when one is in the liminal stage between one place and the other and it is as much an initiation as it is a test.
Yes, the hidden thing here is ecosophia, as that is where the Way of Points leads. What that means is that the WoP show cases the hidden forces of a situation. I am going to leave it up to you to figure out how. Let me know what you find out ;-)
For what it is worth I have found reading JMG books and finishing them to connect me way more strongly to the egregor of ecosophia than anything else while skipping the unbalanced parts.
2) Finishing entirely depends on you, if you can't finish things then the problem is not someone's curse, not a deity but you not being able to finish things, plain and simple and it seems the crossed conditions are coming as a response to the world or lack of contact with thereof.
3) I have worked with schizophrenics and one thing they taught me is that if one takes oneself too seriously and just don't start making choices among the opposites in your life and start making sense of the cognitive dissonance and double messages the we give to ourselves and receive from others and the world, it literally feels like your mind is being torn apart in half. The solution is meditation and reflection by taking your inputs and your response to those inputs apart with lots of patience.
Imagine I give you a ball of yarn that is all tangled up. Only two things (ha!) will happen if you start pulling and pushing in a disorganized way, either you make it an impossible to fix knot or you break it in pieces out of desperation. There is no other way, the third option is just that, grab one end and very slowly start pushing it in and out of the tangles until the whole thread is rectified once again.
Osho says this in his version of the Two of Swords, which he calls schizophrenia:
The person on this card brings a new twist to the old idea of "getting stuck between a rock and a hard place"! But we are in precisely this sort of situation when we get stuck in the indecisive and dualistic aspect of the mind. Should I let my arms go and fall head-first, or let my legs go and fall feet-first? Should I go here or there? Should I say yes or no? And whatever decision we make, we will always wonder if we should have decided the other way. The only way out of this dilemma is, unfortunately, to let go of both at once. You can't work your way out of this one by solving it, making lists of pros and cons, or in any way working it out with your mind. Better to follow your heart, if you can find it. If you can't find it, just jump--your heart will start beating so fast there will be no mistake about where it is!
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Date: 2022-11-25 11:23 pm (UTC)1. If Colled is loss that could be a thousand things. It could be that divine relationship that brought me to this path in the first place. If so, that could be a problem. If what I want is to repair that connection and it is lost and never coming back, then I'm working toward something that I can never have, needing cooperation from something that will not work with me. The metaphor is no longer a tangle of yarn, but a brick wall and bashing head (it does feel more like that, admittedly).
2. Okay, there may have been a miscommunication here. I have problems finishing long term projects (and working on that in the areas where I can), but a 220 page book isn't a long term project. I have read most of his non fiction, some more than once. The egregore remains a mystery to me.
3. I did jump, heart didn't activate. If that's what we're waiting for my heart to tell me where it wants to go, this is doomed to failure. That's not tangled, that's amputated, I know I did it myself. I know when, why and just how good a job I did. What grew up in its place is something different, that functions different. Having examined it, I believe this is a limit that I simply must live with. I understand this part of my psyche well enough to have worked with it with some things that needed doing, framing issues in a way that I know it will respond to, and it can be a great ally when motivated, it can be very much like that pointed arrow you mentioned. Don't know how to frame spirituality so it will work.
I can only begin to want something if I reasonably think I can have it. When that connection was open, I did and knew what I wanted (just not how to get it); when I screwed up (by leaping without looking, running in the wrong direction with the wrong people and not realizing quick enough that everything I was doing was not working) and the door closed, and stayed closed despite every effort I made, that certainty is ending. I screwed up by not noticing the obvious signs I was going in the wrong direction, and now I see no signs from the universe at all, just a loop of action I made for myself that never leads anywhere but divination tells me to keep running. Or asks me to decide what I want while telling me I can't have that.
Re: A rambling for another rambling
Date: 2022-11-26 03:01 am (UTC)In that case I apologize. I don't know you at all except with what you said and that was no current practice and no further details so I did think you weren't doing anything about but I am glad to have been proven wrong!
I'm not at all sure what to suggest, you are welcome to ask a different related question using geomancy or Tarot which I also know if you'd like.
Health concerns are very important to look at, certainly. I hope you are better now! Sorry to hear it prevented you from doing your practices.
For me, a year with the three practices would be enough to determine if it is working, and you can also ask if that set of practices is right for you, they might not. That said, if it is something that is giving you stress, I would consider leaving them and working with spirituality some other way.
As for your first sentence, not at all. Ffordd as Judge means change, not doing the same thing you've been doing and failing.
1) Colled is in a specific position as mentioned on previous comments. You are also free to ask about the deity you are concerned about the door being closed.
2) I meant his magical program books such as LRM, CGD and DMH mainly. It might be different for me, when I read his books I am for at least a few days very clearly influenced by the material in more than the intellectual way.
3) Since I don't know your situation I won't try to insist, if you say it's lost then maybe it is. In that case, there isn't much I can suggest but certainly not having any practice isn't helping either. I don't know what else to suggest besides my interpretation of the reading on my previous comments.
4) That mindset effectively locks you out of attaining anything you aren't already close to getting if you aren't careful and we've already touched upon Coch and self deceptions above. I might be reading you wrong.
Sorry this hasn't been that helpful! English is a second language to me so that might have to do with it.
Re: A rambling for another rambling
Date: 2022-11-26 03:52 am (UTC)Perhaps I will take you up on a reading on the deity in question. If I haven't tried your patience too much. :) Whenever your next round is.
1. It has felt gone, and other people have said it was gone. They talk as though it were something very different from what I remember picking up on, so maybe they don't know what they're talking about. Or maybe it was self deception on my part. The initial contact happened, beyond that I've questioned it so much now I'm not sure anymore.
2. That mindset, like all of them, has its good points and bad. It was chosen because its benefits were sorely needed, its downsides have to be endured. It only locks me into things that can be achieved under my own effort alone, not requiring the assistance or approval of anyone else. It is dealing with others, their intentions and honesty (or lack thereof) where the extra caution is needed.
Again, I apologize. You haven't done anything wrong. I will think more on this, particularly ecosophia and what being there is supposed to be leading me to.
Re: A rambling for another rambling
Date: 2022-11-28 04:52 pm (UTC)1) I've been thinking for a while now to ask the people that come here to include some background in their queries, since my goal is more to help that to prove divination is right. It might take away some of the charm of hearing something in your life being repeated by the coins but I think it is more helpful to give meaning guidance.
I am also relatively new to geomancy, I do mostly tarot and I am getting the hang that Geomancy is super clearcut and doesn't elaborate on things you didn't asked about, whereas the Tarot many times even replies back with another question!
He he, it is not so much about my patience at all but about the message being heard. The next one will be posted today.
1) I am sorry to say that I feel inclined towards the latter of people not just knowing what they say. I am not an expert either but I see a lot of diviners not being able to tap into the reading and rather scramble with canned definitions to sound serious.
Regarding the deity in question. Deities are trascendental and timeless beings that know you better than you do so already knew what was going to happen after contact. Unless you were deliberately nasty or the deity being particularly picky, I wouldn't worry too much about it. But we can explore this further.
2) I like this, and I also like how our thread reflects the nature of your reading. Now, let's look for a third option that allows for the balance among the binaries we can find as themes and look for the third option that opposes the two (or flows between the two) and resolve it.
"It only locks me into things that can be achieved under my own effort alone, not requiring the assistance or approval of anyone else. It is dealing with others, their intentions and honesty (or lack thereof) where the extra caution is needed." - I would meditate and journal on the meaning and the reasons for you to have said that.
If I have to be bluntly honest, I would say, not from the reading but from myself, that you have to work towards weeding out what benefits you from the ecosophian community and what doesn't.
But I’ve had other things to take care of
Date: 2022-11-02 09:28 pm (UTC)PLK
Re: But I’ve had other things to take care of
Date: 2022-11-29 07:23 am (UTC)I'm sorry. I didn't see this question on my notebook. Wondering if you still want me to cast a chart for this.
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Date: 2022-12-03 12:53 pm (UTC)Re: But I’ve had other things to take care of
Date: 2022-12-03 09:27 pm (UTC)I had been studying Sankhya yoga. I was so close to having a guru… All I had to do was ask. With retirement at the end of 2019 I thought I would be able to spend more time on my spirituality. Ha, that didn’t happen. Well, anyway, spring of ‘21 I was diagnosed with cancer. Therapy is over and I have my energy back and I’m gardening again. I have one of my boat oars in growing herbals and vegetables. Should I stay focused on that, or should I pick up study/devotions/Kriya? I hear the master’s voice saying “Your spiritual life is NOT your earth life. Your earth life IS your spiritual life”
Re: But I’ve had other things to take care of
Date: 2022-12-21 02:48 am (UTC)I am so very glad to hear about your recovery!
If I may massage your question a little bit. I can ask "what is the most important thing that PLK needs to know about his spiritually earthly life?"
Sounds goods? Or do you want me to narrow it down to specifically ask about the outcome of your Kriya Yoga practice?
Re: But I’ve had other things to take care of
Date: 2022-12-23 11:59 pm (UTC)Punky
Re: But I’ve had other things to take care of
Date: 2022-12-28 02:45 am (UTC)Ok. I will post a comment on the latest geomancy post and sign as yourself. I'll reply to it there. Here is a link:
https://open-space.dreamwidth.org/14643.html
Many thanks!