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As you may know, I have been looking for a way to link Geomantic Readings with 4X4 Magic Squares. Some promising leads indicated it should be possible to do, fairly easy, and useful. I kept having the feeling that I was missing something.
In fact, I was missing something huge-- The House Chart itself is a Magic Square Diamond. I can almost hear you saying, “He’s been staring at this stuff too long,” but hang in there and I will explain why I think this, using geometry.
Here we have an ordinary House Chart.
We will start by moving the Cardines just outside the house chart:
So far, it does not look too different from the usual house chart.
Now, we will continue to move the Cardines outward from the house chart:
The Cardines are now in places where, if we drew lines from each Cardine to its neighbors, the lines would just touch the square corners of the house chart, and would make a diamond shape. Let’s go ahead and add those lines;
We can now see that each of the twelve triangles of the house chart are occupying the same positions as the twelve diamonds that touch the edges of the Magic Square Diamond. We will now add six more diagonal lines (three slanting left and three slanting ight) to map the squares of the Geomantic Magic Diamond onto the House Chart.
There are four blank diamonds in the middle of the diagram. However, remember that we often see the Querent, Quesited and Judge from the Shield Chart stuck into the center court of the House Chart. Typically, the Querent is on the right, the Quesited on the left, and the judge below them in the center. This leaves one blank spot in the Center Court, above the Judge. Ah, but wait! We have one remaining figure to place. Let’s put the Reconciler above the Judge. That places all 16 figures in the Geomantic Magic Diamond. The diagram is kind of busy. We could eliminate all the diagonal lines that cross through each diamond. Doing that turns the House Chart entirely into a Geomantic Magic Diamond:
How Does This Help Us?
This is a valid question! Of course, it helps me a great deal with my project because I have found a standardized way to map a Geomantic Reading onto a Magic Square Diamond. ;-) But generally speaking, we can apply the pathways of the Phoenix Magic Diamond to a House Chart without much trouble and perhaps gain additional insights from the relationships defined by them. The Phoenix pathways also integrate the four figures in the center court with the rest of the figures in the House Chart.
It may also be possible to do open-question divinations by selecting one of the many possible 4X4 Magic Squares, inserting it into a House Chart, and reading the placements of the figures according to House Chart analysis methods.
What does Spiritus Mundi Think?
Also a valid question! Here is the casting I got with the question,
“Is the House Chart a different form of Magic Diamond?”
From Querent, Quesited and Judge in the Shield Chart, looks like the answer is 'Yes.'
Looking at the House Chart, you would want to insert the Reconciler, Cauda Draconis, above the judge in the inner court and move Querent and Quesited down to the middle of the court.
If Quesited is in house "9" (long [philosophical/spiritual] journey), then it still looks like a "yes" to me. Puella links to 5 which I see as 'fruitful' or 'information reliable,' so possibly a long and fruitful journey.
Puer in house 1 links to House 3, friends/family/neighborhood. Could mean that I am, in the short run, rushing into things without completely thinking them through--and may also be dragging others with me. So I will take this chance to emphasize the tentative nature of my findings!
Puer and Puella --Not sure if the paired figures in Querent and Quesited count as a mode of perfection. If Puer is considered negative, then we have a -+ pattern that can mean "you'll get what you want, but regret it.' On the other hand, there is a sinister trine and trinece mode of perfection here, so maybe its just about me jumping the gun a bit.
Well, there you have it! A plausible link between Geomancy and
Magic Squares in the form of the Magic Diamond.
Let me know what you think :-))
In fact, I was missing something huge-- The House Chart itself is a Magic Square Diamond. I can almost hear you saying, “He’s been staring at this stuff too long,” but hang in there and I will explain why I think this, using geometry.
Here we have an ordinary House Chart.
We will start by moving the Cardines just outside the house chart:
So far, it does not look too different from the usual house chart.
Now, we will continue to move the Cardines outward from the house chart:
The Cardines are now in places where, if we drew lines from each Cardine to its neighbors, the lines would just touch the square corners of the house chart, and would make a diamond shape. Let’s go ahead and add those lines;
We can now see that each of the twelve triangles of the house chart are occupying the same positions as the twelve diamonds that touch the edges of the Magic Square Diamond. We will now add six more diagonal lines (three slanting left and three slanting ight) to map the squares of the Geomantic Magic Diamond onto the House Chart.
There are four blank diamonds in the middle of the diagram. However, remember that we often see the Querent, Quesited and Judge from the Shield Chart stuck into the center court of the House Chart. Typically, the Querent is on the right, the Quesited on the left, and the judge below them in the center. This leaves one blank spot in the Center Court, above the Judge. Ah, but wait! We have one remaining figure to place. Let’s put the Reconciler above the Judge. That places all 16 figures in the Geomantic Magic Diamond. The diagram is kind of busy. We could eliminate all the diagonal lines that cross through each diamond. Doing that turns the House Chart entirely into a Geomantic Magic Diamond:
How Does This Help Us?
This is a valid question! Of course, it helps me a great deal with my project because I have found a standardized way to map a Geomantic Reading onto a Magic Square Diamond. ;-) But generally speaking, we can apply the pathways of the Phoenix Magic Diamond to a House Chart without much trouble and perhaps gain additional insights from the relationships defined by them. The Phoenix pathways also integrate the four figures in the center court with the rest of the figures in the House Chart.
It may also be possible to do open-question divinations by selecting one of the many possible 4X4 Magic Squares, inserting it into a House Chart, and reading the placements of the figures according to House Chart analysis methods.
What does Spiritus Mundi Think?
Also a valid question! Here is the casting I got with the question,
“Is the House Chart a different form of Magic Diamond?”
From Querent, Quesited and Judge in the Shield Chart, looks like the answer is 'Yes.'
Looking at the House Chart, you would want to insert the Reconciler, Cauda Draconis, above the judge in the inner court and move Querent and Quesited down to the middle of the court.
If Quesited is in house "9" (long [philosophical/spiritual] journey), then it still looks like a "yes" to me. Puella links to 5 which I see as 'fruitful' or 'information reliable,' so possibly a long and fruitful journey.
Puer in house 1 links to House 3, friends/family/neighborhood. Could mean that I am, in the short run, rushing into things without completely thinking them through--and may also be dragging others with me. So I will take this chance to emphasize the tentative nature of my findings!
Puer and Puella --Not sure if the paired figures in Querent and Quesited count as a mode of perfection. If Puer is considered negative, then we have a -+ pattern that can mean "you'll get what you want, but regret it.' On the other hand, there is a sinister trine and trinece mode of perfection here, so maybe its just about me jumping the gun a bit.
Well, there you have it! A plausible link between Geomancy and
Magic Squares in the form of the Magic Diamond.
Let me know what you think :-))
