Sep. 10th, 2021

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

I tend to spend a lot of time in prayer each day. I've been pretty sick for the last couple months, but I was feeling strong enough today that I decided to get out for a walk while I did my prayers today. About halfway in, a few dogs streamed in from all over the neighborhood I was in and started following me as if I was the Pied Piper of Hameln. I went on praying and as I wound down, the dogs trailed off one at a time until I was left alone by the time I reached home again.

What a strange experience! I've never had that happened before, and I wondered if there was a connection to my prayers, or if there was a more mundane explanation.

I'm passionate Rubeus in the first. Normally, this is a pretty bad sign, as it's an indicator that one isn't thinking clearly, or is even engaged in self-deception. In this case, though, I think it's simply showing that I was completely consumed in prayer, or perhaps, since Rubeus also occupies the fourth house (of private things), it indicates that my assumption that my prayers are private is quite mistaken! The quesited is shining Laetitia in the ninth house and occupying the third, indicating that yes, my prayers were in fact shining like a beacon for the neighborhood to see.

These perfect in three ways (which act as emphasis):

  1. Through the translation of Fortuna Minor in the second and tenth, indicating the intensity of my prayer.
  2. Through the translation of Populus in the eighth and twelfth, indicating receptive spiritual pathways.
  3. Through the mutation of Laetitia and Rubeus in the third and fourth, indicating the unexpected or surprising nature of the connection.

The dogs, as it happens, are masculine Puer in the sixth. (The largest dog, who was closest to me, was male, at least!) It is interesting that perfection also exists between me and the dogs, and between my prayer practice and the dogs, all facilitated through translations of receptive Populus.

I'm not clairvoyant, but this makes me wonder what the world looks like to one who is.

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