Every House has Many Meanings

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When I first began geomancy, one of the big questions I routinely found myself asking was, "When I see a figure in house X, how do I know which association of house X it signifies?" The experience of the last few years has convinced me that the answer is, "All of them." Today's geomantic chart had a particularly elegant example of this, so I figured I'd take a few minutes to discuss it.

The thing to note here is Puer—a figure of Mars, denoting conflict—rejoicing in the sixth house (of material limitations and misfortune) and occupying the tenth (of things above one). This can mean many things, but you can always expect a powerful Mars in a bad house to mean trouble! Here are two things that it signified today:

1. The friends my wife had invited over for a thanksgiving meal had to cancel, because a windstorm destroyed their chicken coop. As a material limitation, the sixth house can refer to domestic animals; as the sky is above, the tenth house can refer to weather; and the one attacking the other is Puer through and through.
2. My wife had bought some smoked turkey from a local farmer for the holiday as an hors d'oeuvre. We've had quite a lot of this farmer's produce and know it to be safe for my autoimmune issues, but as it turned out I must have a problem with whatever wood was used to smoke it, since it gave me itchy hives all over my arms and especially my legs. Again, as a material limitation, one's body and disease are the sixth house; in medical geomancy, the tenth house refers to the knees and lower legs; and a self-hostile immune system has Puer running all through it.