Table Of ContentGeomancy
About Richard Webster
Author of over forty titles published with Llewellyn, Richard Web
ster is one of New Zealand’s most prolific writers. His best
selling books include Spirit Guides el Angel Guardians, Creative
Visualization for Beginners, Soul Mates, Is Your Pet Psychic?, Prac
tical Guide to Past-Life Memories, Astral Travel for Beginners,
Miracles, and the four-book series on archangels: Michael,
Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel.
A noted psychic, Richard is a member of the National Guild of
Hypnotherapists (USA), the Association of Professional Hyp
notherapists and Parapsychologists (UK), the International Reg
istry of Professional Hypnotherapists (Canada), and the Psy
chotherapy and Hypnotherapy Institute of New Zealand. When
not touring, he resides in New Zealand with his wife and family.
Geomancy
For Beginner
Simple Techniques for Earth Divination
RICHARD WEBSTER
Llewellyn Publications
Woodbury, Minnesota
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introduction
one
What Is Geomancy?
two
How Does It Work?
three
The Sixteen Symbols
four
Meet the Family
five
Astrological Geomancy
six
Planets and Signs
seven
Gerard of Cremona
eight
Cornelius Agrippa
nine
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
ten
Arthurian Divination
eleven
Horary Geomancy
twelve
Napoleon’s Book of Fate
conclusion
notes
suggested reading
For Tim and Jennifer Eddington
and Pathfinder Bookshop
introduction
When I was twenty-one, the publishing company I worked for
sent me to the English county of Cornwall as a sales represen
tative. I was excited, as this gave me a territory of my own and a
company car. My landlady was extremely interested in psychic
matters, and introduced me to a wide range of people with sim
ilar interests. This was exciting for me, as up until then I’d had to
keep my interest in the psychic world a secret.
Back in the 1960s it was almost a guilty secret to be interested
in these subjects. I had been educated at a Christian school, and
then worked for a company that published a large number of
Christian books. I'd found myself in trouble at school because of
my interests in palmistry and hypnosis. Consequently, I’d
learned not to discuss anything to do with psychic matters out
side of my immediate family.
Suddenly, thanks to my landlady, I met dozens of people with
similar interests. One of the groups I joined studied different
forms of divination using gemstones. I loved the look of the
crystals and the beautiful displays they made. I also enjoyed
making my own divination stones from stones I collected on a
riverbank. Henry, one of the members, helped me make my first
set of rune stones and taught me how to use them.
At one of the meetings, Henry mentioned rune sticks and the
art of geomancy. This was the first time I heard the word
geomcmcy. We all asked him to bring his rune sticks to the next
meeting. I was slightly disappointed when he produced four
sticks, each with one line on one side and two lines on the other.
However, I was immediately captivated when he demonstrated
them to us. I was amazed that such a simple process could pro
duce such detailed and accurate readings. We all made sets of
rune sticks and enjoyed working with them, using the method
described in chapter 10 of this book, Arthurian divination.
I used my rune sticks regularly, and many of the clients who
came to me for a palmistry reading received an Arthurian divina
tion reading as well. About ten years after I first learned about
geomancy, my sister gave me a copy of Stephen Skinner’s The
Oracle of Geomancy as a Christmas present, and I discovered
there was much more to the subject than I had imagined. I have
been involved with geomancy for more than forty years, and I am
still learning.
The word geomancy comes from the Greek word geomanteia.
Geo means “earth,” and manteia (-mancy) relates to divination.
Consequently, geomancy is the art of divination from the earth.
Geomancy, in a variety of forms, is one of the oldest methods of
divination, and its origins are lost to time.
Not surprisingly, a number of legends try to explain how and
where geomancy originated. The Arabs say that Jibril (Archangel
Gabriel) taught geomancy to their prophet Idris (Hermes Tris-
megistus) after he saw the angel drawing a geomantic figure in a
dream. When Idris asked for enlightenment, Jibril taught him the
basics of geomancy. Idris passed this information on to an In
dian king called Tumtum al-Hindi, who later wrote a book on the
subject. This book was kept secret for many generations until it
came into the possession of Khalaf al-Barbari. When Khalaf was
