Jul. 17th, 2020

sdi: Photograph of a geomantic house chart. (geomancy)

There is a rumor going around that the Three Gorges Dam is going to collapse soon. If it happened, it would be one of the worst human disasters in history. I wanted to know if the rumor was true.

I, personally, am represented by the first house, and characterized by kept-in-the-dark Carcer. The rumor is represented by the third house, and characterized by deceitful Rubeus. The person telling the rumor is represented by the seventh house, and is also characterized by Rubeus. Impedition exists between the first and third houses, indicating that the rumor is not true. Furthermore, the figure of Rubeus in the third and seventh indicates that the person telling the rumor is intentionally sowing dishonesty. Laetitia in the eighth house (the second from the seventh, representing the rumor-teller's pocketbook) could indicate that they are being paid to spread the rumor, particularly since it also occupies the fourth (the tenth from the seventh, representing someone in authority to the rumor-teller, such as their government or boss). One must be careful what they read on the Internet!

While the meaning of the house chart is quite clear, I personally have difficulty making much sense of this court. This is, in my mind, one of the benefits of house charts: they are rather cut-and-dried—does the chart perfect, or not?—which helps to prevent the geomancer from reading their own desires into a chart with fanciful interpretations of the court figures.

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