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There was an incident in my life (maybe 1992?) where the memories and physical evidence were in conflict. I suspect something happened to me, but have never been able to figure out what it was. Perhaps Geomancy could shed some light on it?
Here's the incident as I remember it: I was in a weekly dinner and discussion group with people from my church. We met weekly in each others' homes, had a potluck dinner and a discussion, and had done that for a number of years at the time of this incident.
That week, we were meeting at the house of S*, about a mile and a half from the house where my wife and I lived. My wife was ill but stable, and decided to stay home that week. S* would often drive her large car to different peoples' houses and picked them up, and that week was no exception, even though she was hosting the gathering. She picked up 4 other people including me, and drove us to her home. We had dinner and a discussion, and she drove the same 5 people including me back to our respective houses, about 9 PM.
The car pulled away and was gone by the time I had carried my empty covered dish to my front door. I quickly found that I did not have my keys. This single fact was and is very VERY unusual for me. I have always worked in an industry where I have high-security, un-copy-able keys to one or more extremely secure workplaces. I never, never-ever, go anywhere without all my keys. They are attached to my belt and can't be easily unattached. So this was a potential work catastrophe--As well as that I was locked out of my house at 9 PM. I turned every pocket of my pants and jacket inside-out and emptied everything out of them. No keys. It was unheard of.
I beat on the front door and yelled until the neighbors' lights started to come on. My wife, sick in bed, did not wake up. Perhaps my keys had detached in S*'s car somehow. My first thought was to walk the mile and a half to S*'s house, knock on the door, and see if the keys were there. Nope, that was a bad idea. It happened that S*'s husband was out of town on business. S* was always well-behaved, but I could tell that she liked me a lot. Better not to risk putting both of us into a situation where something might happen that we would regret.
I remembered that I had given an emergency key to my brother, who lived a mile and a half in the other direction. So I left the stuff on the porch, walked the mile and a half to his house, collected the key, and walked back home. I was upset at losing my keys, grumpy at my wife (who was STILL asleep), and arrived past my bedtime.
When I woke up the next morning and started getting dressed. There were my keys, attached to the key ring, attached to the belt on the pants just like they always were. What the heck happened? Feeling like a complete idiot, I returned the spare key to my brothers house, but was faced with a mystery. Where were my keys the previous night, and how did I get them back?
I have never figured this one out. So maybe Geomancy could shed some light on it;
Question 1: Were my memories somehow altered after the keys incident?
(BTW, thanks SDI for the image generator--works great!)
So I cast Via, Via, Populus, Populus for the 4 mothers and got Populus for Querent, Quesited and Judge.
What the heck is going on!? Initial reading seems to say, "Everything was changed."
House 1 and 2 - both Via. Transformation/Change. 2 includes personal property (my keys).
House 5, 6, 7, 8 all Fortuna Minor. Luck/swiftness. 8 is 'My magic,' also death, spiritual entities.
5 - parties, 6 professionals/illness, 7 spouse/partnerships, 8 spiritual entities/my magic.
S* was a teacher at the time, so a professional. My take is that something happened swiftly; a chance happening, spiritual entities were involved. The rest is a good description of the evening.
Populus everywhere else. Could mean 'nothing else changed,' or perhaps 'everything else changed.'
Question 2: Did something unusual happen during the keys incident?
Q1 - Caput Drac - Beginnings
Q2 - Laetitia - Joy
J - Via
Again, what the heck?
Cardines:
1 - Beginning - Laetitia - Joy
10 - Middle - Carcer - Locked in/stability/trapped/imprisoned.
7 - End - Rubeus - Conniving/Wild behavior/full engagement/mischief
4 - Aftermath - Populus - Multitude/more of the same/passivity
5 - Amissio - loss (including lost heart). Hmmm, maybe S* had stronger feelings than I thought.
6 & 7 Rubeus - Trickery/wild behavior. Professionals/lover-spouse. Did S* try to set me up?
2 (Quesited-keys) & 12 - Conjunctio. I got my keys back by intervention of authorities?
9 & 11 - Cauda draconis - Ending of a long journey, Ending of hopes and wishes.
So possibly, S* set me up, but things didn't work out. Hopes and wishes ended, intervention of authorities.
Question 3: "Does S* remember the keys incident?
This is a question about a third party--
Q1 - S* would be in the friend/neighbor category, so Q1 is Conjunctio in the usual house 3.
Q2 - the keys - In the rotated chart, house 4 is now house 2, so Q2 is Via.
Cardines - Usually 1 - 10- 7 - 4.
In the rotated chart, I am looking at 3 - 12 - 9 - 6
3 - Beginning - Conjunctio - Meeting/Agreement/Contract/Treaty
12 - Middle - Amissio - Loss/Lost heart
9 - End - Acquisitio - Gain
6 - Aftermath - Puella - Girl/love
So a transformational experience for her as well.
2 & 5 - Via - transformation in keys--and sexuality/fruitfulness/crops
From the shield chart;
Q1 Fortuna minor - swiftness/chance
Q2 Populus - More of the same, lots and lots
J Fortuna minor - Swiftness/chance
Whatever happened, it came out of left field and happened quickly.
Summary
I still don't remember any new details of the keys incident. Geomancy could possibly be telling me that I went back to S*'s house to recover the keys where we had some sort of romantic encounter, and that spiritual entities re-set the realities so that none of this ever happened.
Or a more simple explanation could be that I was set up by spiritual entities to endure an initiation of some sort. "Would I take advantage of the situation to take advantage of S*'s feelings for me?" Since the answer was "no," they returned my keys.
Strange experience. Maybe I'll never know.
Here's the incident as I remember it: I was in a weekly dinner and discussion group with people from my church. We met weekly in each others' homes, had a potluck dinner and a discussion, and had done that for a number of years at the time of this incident.
That week, we were meeting at the house of S*, about a mile and a half from the house where my wife and I lived. My wife was ill but stable, and decided to stay home that week. S* would often drive her large car to different peoples' houses and picked them up, and that week was no exception, even though she was hosting the gathering. She picked up 4 other people including me, and drove us to her home. We had dinner and a discussion, and she drove the same 5 people including me back to our respective houses, about 9 PM.
The car pulled away and was gone by the time I had carried my empty covered dish to my front door. I quickly found that I did not have my keys. This single fact was and is very VERY unusual for me. I have always worked in an industry where I have high-security, un-copy-able keys to one or more extremely secure workplaces. I never, never-ever, go anywhere without all my keys. They are attached to my belt and can't be easily unattached. So this was a potential work catastrophe--As well as that I was locked out of my house at 9 PM. I turned every pocket of my pants and jacket inside-out and emptied everything out of them. No keys. It was unheard of.
I beat on the front door and yelled until the neighbors' lights started to come on. My wife, sick in bed, did not wake up. Perhaps my keys had detached in S*'s car somehow. My first thought was to walk the mile and a half to S*'s house, knock on the door, and see if the keys were there. Nope, that was a bad idea. It happened that S*'s husband was out of town on business. S* was always well-behaved, but I could tell that she liked me a lot. Better not to risk putting both of us into a situation where something might happen that we would regret.
I remembered that I had given an emergency key to my brother, who lived a mile and a half in the other direction. So I left the stuff on the porch, walked the mile and a half to his house, collected the key, and walked back home. I was upset at losing my keys, grumpy at my wife (who was STILL asleep), and arrived past my bedtime.
When I woke up the next morning and started getting dressed. There were my keys, attached to the key ring, attached to the belt on the pants just like they always were. What the heck happened? Feeling like a complete idiot, I returned the spare key to my brothers house, but was faced with a mystery. Where were my keys the previous night, and how did I get them back?
I have never figured this one out. So maybe Geomancy could shed some light on it;
Question 1: Were my memories somehow altered after the keys incident?
(BTW, thanks SDI for the image generator--works great!)
So I cast Via, Via, Populus, Populus for the 4 mothers and got Populus for Querent, Quesited and Judge.
What the heck is going on!? Initial reading seems to say, "Everything was changed."
House 1 and 2 - both Via. Transformation/Change. 2 includes personal property (my keys).
House 5, 6, 7, 8 all Fortuna Minor. Luck/swiftness. 8 is 'My magic,' also death, spiritual entities.
5 - parties, 6 professionals/illness, 7 spouse/partnerships, 8 spiritual entities/my magic.
S* was a teacher at the time, so a professional. My take is that something happened swiftly; a chance happening, spiritual entities were involved. The rest is a good description of the evening.
Populus everywhere else. Could mean 'nothing else changed,' or perhaps 'everything else changed.'
Question 2: Did something unusual happen during the keys incident?
Q1 - Caput Drac - Beginnings
Q2 - Laetitia - Joy
J - Via
Again, what the heck?
Cardines:
1 - Beginning - Laetitia - Joy
10 - Middle - Carcer - Locked in/stability/trapped/imprisoned.
7 - End - Rubeus - Conniving/Wild behavior/full engagement/mischief
4 - Aftermath - Populus - Multitude/more of the same/passivity
5 - Amissio - loss (including lost heart). Hmmm, maybe S* had stronger feelings than I thought.
6 & 7 Rubeus - Trickery/wild behavior. Professionals/lover-spouse. Did S* try to set me up?
2 (Quesited-keys) & 12 - Conjunctio. I got my keys back by intervention of authorities?
9 & 11 - Cauda draconis - Ending of a long journey, Ending of hopes and wishes.
So possibly, S* set me up, but things didn't work out. Hopes and wishes ended, intervention of authorities.
Question 3: "Does S* remember the keys incident?
This is a question about a third party--
Q1 - S* would be in the friend/neighbor category, so Q1 is Conjunctio in the usual house 3.
Q2 - the keys - In the rotated chart, house 4 is now house 2, so Q2 is Via.
Cardines - Usually 1 - 10- 7 - 4.
In the rotated chart, I am looking at 3 - 12 - 9 - 6
3 - Beginning - Conjunctio - Meeting/Agreement/Contract/Treaty
12 - Middle - Amissio - Loss/Lost heart
9 - End - Acquisitio - Gain
6 - Aftermath - Puella - Girl/love
So a transformational experience for her as well.
2 & 5 - Via - transformation in keys--and sexuality/fruitfulness/crops
From the shield chart;
Q1 Fortuna minor - swiftness/chance
Q2 Populus - More of the same, lots and lots
J Fortuna minor - Swiftness/chance
Whatever happened, it came out of left field and happened quickly.
Summary
I still don't remember any new details of the keys incident. Geomancy could possibly be telling me that I went back to S*'s house to recover the keys where we had some sort of romantic encounter, and that spiritual entities re-set the realities so that none of this ever happened.
Or a more simple explanation could be that I was set up by spiritual entities to endure an initiation of some sort. "Would I take advantage of the situation to take advantage of S*'s feelings for me?" Since the answer was "no," they returned my keys.
Strange experience. Maybe I'll never know.
