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Back in 2012, my wife was working as a live-in nanny and we lived in a one-room studio apartment off of her employer's house. This was out in the country, amidst woods, farms, and estates. It was a Friday evening in September, and after a long work week I was interested in some quiet conversation with my wife, but she was intent on watching a movie. Movies cause me anxiety and I found the noise of it unbearable, and with no place to escape to in the apartment, I went for a long walk. It was a waning quarter moon with crystal-clear skies, so easily bright enough to see by. After an hour or two, I started to hear music: very faintly at first, but louder as I continued. It was a flute, beautifully playing some classical piece that I did not recognize. I thought this strange and interesting, so I followed the song down the road until I realized that it seemed to be coming from the woods. I stepped off the road and after a few minutes followed the music to its apparent source: a fairy-ring. I walked around it and the music seemed to be coming from, and not beyond, the fairy-ring! I listened to the music for a few minutes longer, and considered the ring curiously; but even a person as stupid as myself knows better than to step into a fairy-ring under such circumstances, and I was starting to get a bit alarmed, so I turned back and hurried home. I swear the music followed me for perhaps a quarter-mile before giving up and fading into the distance. I have always wondered what might have become of me, had I stepped within the ring!

For context, let me note that I was convinced there was no supernatural element to this story at all: there were several ritzy country estates in the area I lived, and I figured that one of them must have been having a party that night. Perhaps I had even had a drink or two before going for my walk—I can't remember! But, this little journal has a lot of affirmative geomancy examples, and I figured I would include this as a negative one. So imagine my surprise to see that it perfects, and strongly!

I'm represented by tense Cauda Draconis in the I. (This is also a traditional indicator that I'm already full of my own preconceptions.) Spirits generally are represented by Populus in the VIII, indicative of a crowd or gathering. This chart perfects in three ways: a conjunction from the I to VII (indicating that I stumbled into meeting them), a mutation between the II and VII greatly strengthened by company simple between the I and II (indicating that a third party—an advisor, very closely aligned with me, and also a partner—had a plan to make this happen and took an active role in doing so), and a mutation between the XII and VII (indicating that a second third party—a limiting or restricting factor and also a partner—was being disruptive to me and also took an active role in events). I take these to be my guardian angel (with whom I am now close) and my wife (who, on this night, was certainly frustrating me!), respectively. Populus also occupies the IX, hinting that the spirits in question were from a faraway place: given the general similarity to some stories of the Celtic Otherworld, I wonder if these were fairies. As a cute aside, Rubeus in the IV speaks to the disruption I felt at home, while Albus in the III speaks to the peace and solitude I found on my walk.

The court is straightforward: I (RW) wanted companionship (Conjunctio), but external factors (LW) pushed me to go for a walk instead (Via), resulting (J) in my needing and getting some space (Carcer), having the personal effect (S) of widening my horizons (Caput Draconis).