A Grand Unified Theory of the First Triplicity

[sdi]

(tunesmyth, this is primarily directed at you!)

The first mother/house represents you and the second mother/house represents anything you hold close.

In a physical sense, the second mother/house represents your physical assets, whether money, possessions, advisors, or guides. So it makes sense that the first niece/ninth house represents anything that takes resources, logistics, and time to attain: education, a skill, travel experience, etc.

In a metaphysical sense, the second mother/house represents your spiritual assets, whether your beliefs, your worldview, or your most privately kept secrets. So it makes sense that the first niece/ninth house represents anything is shaped by these: religion, spirituality, dreams, etc.

Consequently, the first triplicity as a whole represents anything that can be "carried with you," whether physically, mentally, or spiritually. Your stuff, your knowledge, your beliefs, your religion. It's your toolkit: that which arms or prepares you to take on or experience the wider world generally.

Comments

[tunesmyth]

Love it. I think it’s worth meditation on each of the three combinations of houses in the triplicity, as given here (1+2=9, but also 1+9=2 and 2+9=1), to explore how they combine and relate further.

Okay, so far so good! That’ll be one down, just three left to go! :-)

...Seriously, it’s probably just my messiah complex speaking here, but as I see it, if we (er, you?) manage to crack this code, it could completely transform the practice of western geomancy. But no pressure or anything!

[sdi]

I think the reverse forms are a little easier once the big picture's in place.

• With effort (1) you can turn expertise (9) into wealth (2). (That's true both physically and spiritually, by the way. I've changed worldviews several times, and religion and meditation are potent devices for doing so.)
• One's closely held things (2) and attainments (9) are what compose one's ego (1). (So make sure you "store up your treasures in heaven," or woe betide you when you lose your money! One sees too many suicides when the economy collapses.)

if we (er, you?) manage to crack this code, it could completely transform the practice of western geomancy

Ha! Thank you, but I've been at the meditation game long enough to know what my meditations are worth: very much to me, but nothing to anyone else. This is the curse of the mystic: that experiences cannot be communicated in mere words, but only hinted at to those who have begun to experience likewise. For my meditations to be worth anything to anyone else, they must meditate on it and make it their own! And even assuming I am on to something, I'm neither the charismatic speaker, nor are we living in that peculiarly mindful time, for my thoughts to go so far as you suppose. :)

[tunesmyth]

On the reverse forms, nicely done! You've saved me the effort of needing to go and meditate on them myself now. ;-) I kid, I kid.

That said, this is precisely how I believe this is so valuable to others. Yes, of course, meditation will give deeper insights. But a unified theory of Shield and House-- should such a thing be indeed possible-- seems to promise an extra level of richness to Geomancy. Taking a form of divination which is already notable for allowing a 3D view of an image (given the binocular vision of the court and the fractal minicourts in the Shield Chart) but also allowing one to walk freely about that 3D environment and inspect it from all angles in the House.

It is very late here and I sense I may be babbling. :-)

Anyway, let's keep at this! This is a tree with some magical fruit.

[sdi]

Anyway, let's keep at this! This is a tree with some magical fruit.

I very much agree, this is a fruitful line of inquiry, and I appreciate your encouragement on it! Once I've got something fairly comprehensive, I plan on squishing it all together into a big, old post for conjunctio.