Date: 2020-10-11 09:16 pm (UTC)
sdi: Oil painting of the Heliconian Muse whispering inspiration to Hesiod. (0)
From: [personal profile] sdi
I'm embarrassed to admit that I wondered if there was a "plug-and-play" graphic image maker.

😅 As you can see, my Mercury and Saturn are dignified and my Venus is a mess! So I'm afraid I do things the hard way, and don't know about such programs.


I'm working with 25 combinations because Spirit is regarded as one "elemental" component in the modern Ogham tradition.

That makes sense to me: 25 is the number of each pairing of 5 elements where order matters (that is, fire+water is different from water+fire). That reminds me of the I Ching (which has 8 "elements" and a similar ordering requirement). (This is a bit different than a geomancy-like system involving spirit, since it would include a total of 32 figures, and only the presence or absence of an element would matter and not the order.) Your project sounds really interesting, I'd love to hear more about it! I've never thought about "spirit" as an element, before, so I'm curious what it's associations would look like.

As far as geomancy goes, Greer's books (Earth Divination, Earth Magic and The Art and Practice of Geomancy, they're basically the same as far as this is concerned) are the best ones I've seen on the topic. Super briefly, the figures you want are:

  • Laetitia (pure fire): activity, energy, will, joy
  • Rubeus (pure air): interaction, passion, confusion, violence
  • Albus (pure water): detachment, peace, order, purity
  • Tristitia (pure earth): form, structure, solidity, sorrow
  • Fortuna Minor (fire+air): intensity that burns out quickly, swiftness
  • Amissio (fire+water): loss, simplification, generosity
  • Carcer (fire+earth): separation, binding, frustration, difficulty
  • Conjunctio (air+water): unity, freedom, flow, ease
  • Acquisitio (air+earth): gain, growth, hoarding
  • Fortuna Major (water+earth): success that comes through adversity, slowness
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