Sigils, Ciphers and Scripts by Jackson Mark

Author:Jackson, Mark [Jackson, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2013-09-15T16:00:00+00:00

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THE WORD ‘GEOMANTIC’ is an amalgamation of the Latin words ‘geo’, meaning ‘earth’, and ‘mantia’, meaning ‘divination’. Geomancy is a system of divination that uses the random generation of points in a dot system to divine the hidden meanings from the earth. It is often associated with the oriental art of Feng Shui and is also referred to as the western I-Ching. It is a very archaic divination practice, heavily influenced by astrology, which makes it possible for geomantic figures to be assigned to a letter of the alphabet, particularly the letters of the Enochian alphabet.

The system came to Europe from the Middle East, where it was called Khatt al-rami, ‘cutting the sand’. It uses the random generation of marks or dots to create a four line figure, one line for each of the elements, with the divinatory meaning of the figure depending upon the number and arrangement of the dots.

Geomantic figures

The 16 Geomantic figures are an abstract binary system of four lines of dots, with either one or two dots in each line. A line containing a single dot is considered negative while a line with two dots signifies positive. The four lines are called the head, neck, body and feet, and they are each assigned an element; head – fire, neck – air, body – water and feet – earth.

The most common technique used to produce a geomantic figure lets a diviner create a series of holes or dots or points in the earth, or more properly a box containing sacred or blessed earth, in a line from left to right, until there are four individual lines of randomly created dots. The dots in each line are counted. If they total an even number they are a represented by two dots and if the total is an odd or uneven number it is represented by a single dot, thereby creating a geometric figure.

The 16 figures represent the 16 possible elemental states of anything. The elemental structure is the framework of meaning for a figure, but plenty of other symbols and ideas have been added to them by geomancers of the millennia.

The first four figures in the series are called the mother, or matres. The next four are called the daughters, or fillae. From the mothers and daughters come the four nephews. These 12 figures are each assigned to a constellation of the Zodiac. Since there are only 12 signs of the zodiac and 16 geomantic figures, four signs have two figures assigned to them. From the nephews come the two witnesses or testes and from these comes a single judge, or judex.

They all have a Latin name and a keyword, which help to cast light on the wider meaning of the symbol. Each figure has an inner or ruling element that the figure expresses most intensely. They also have an outer element, usually different from the inner element, which shows the figure’s expression in the world around it. For instance, Fortuna Major has fire as its inner element which represents the power to reshape the world in a favourable way.

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