A Case Study on the Geomantic Joys

[sdi]

[Over at conjunctio, tunesmyth asked if I could put together a couple case studies for my experimentation with the geomantic joys. This is one of those. It ended up running rather long, so I am posting it on my own diary for reference and linking to it from over there.]

I cast geomantic charts for each day, month, and year, so I can know what to expect. On August 18th, I received the above daily chart. You can see that I've made various annotations to it: the lines connecting the houses follow my (rather idiosyncratic) method of casting charts, and the asterisks in the third and eleventh houses indicate that those figures are rejoicing (that is, are of double signification). This latter is what I've been testing lately, with success.

I'd like to draw particular attention to Via (one of the two figures of the moon, representing transformation) rejoicing in the third (the moon's house, representing impressionability) in company with the fourth (home), and occupying the fifth (sexuality and children) and seventh (my wife). The moon, being the planet of motherhood, rejoicing and occupying the houses of sexuality and my wife, is pretty obviously suggestive that she's pregnant, yes? What's more, she casts daily Tarot readings, and every card in her spread for the day had a moon in it.

Now, we're not trying to have another child—her and my health, while generally improving, is not very good, and we already have a frenetic Gemini keeping us more than busy—but, well, these things happen! So a few days later, I cast a chart, asking "Is my wife pregnant?" I received the following chart:

Now, I wasn't sure if this chart was supposed to perfect between the first and the fifth or the seventh and the fifth, but it turns out it doesn't matter, since it perfects both ways. But this is a very "yes, but..." sort of reading: the quesited is sorrowful Tristitia, and also occupies the eighth house (death). I wasn't quite sure what to make of that—Rubeus in the first (me) and ninth (divination), after all—but decided to wait and see. After all, we'd know for sure soon enough!

As it turns out, my wife did a Tarot reading as well about whether she was pregnant, and also got a "yes, but..." reading, with the "but" being Death. She was upset about it, though, and so she didn't tell me about the reading until just now as I was writing this up!

In the coming weeks, we noticed my wife's body starting to get the sorts of changes a newly pregnant woman's does, and figured we should start to prepare for another little one. Despite all this, though, my wife eventually got her period, making sense of our readings: she was indeed pregnant, but it didn't take. Disappointing though this was, recall my original chart had Laetitia rejoicing: when I've seen this, it's always meant spiritual insight, and this has indeed been a growing and learning experience.

It's perhaps just as well: the due date would have been the day of next May's lunar eclipse, which is rather ominous!

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[sdi]

Yes, I've had quite a lot of Rubeus over the last couple months. That's pretty normal when I'm sick, and it's been a bad summer for my health!

Something interesting here in the daily chart is that the Populus and Rubeus lines cross each other, almost as if to say Luna and Mars are fighting each other (as indeed it turned out). I've seen that from time to time, and I plan to write a bit more about it when I get the chance!