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I am pleased (and mystified) to say that neither the house, nor the neighbourhood, burned down (so far) in September 2021.  Pleased, because I really didn=t want my house to burn down.  Mystified, because I had Geomantic readings in July that said it would definitely burn down.

As you may remember from previous posts on this topic, I live in an area where seasonal wildfires seem to be on the increase.  The perennial question around here in the Spring is, AWill my house burn down this year?@ 

This year, a geomantic reading gave me a Adefinitely yes@ answer.  I did several more readings including one that simply asked, AHave I understood these readings correctly?@  -- Also Ayes.@ 

There were also indications that the neighborhood around us would burn down, and a couple of readings that indicated two groups of risky date rangesCOne in July, and another between September 18 and 24.

At this writing (September 25 2021) the wildfire season is over and (although some of the larger wildfires continue to burn, and may burn through the Winter).  I still have my house!  How can we explain this?

1)   Geomancy has no better results than random chance.     

I think we can discount this one.  Anyone who has tried Geomancy is familiar with the accuracyCoften eerie accuracyCand details that you didn=t know you needed to know.

2)   I misinterpreted the readings. 

I don=t think I misinterpreted the results.  The results were pretty clear, and many of our readers confirmed that it looked like it was saying my house would burn.  Also, the reading for AHave I understood this correctly?@ was also clearly yes.

3)   Geomancy does not reveal fate.        

This one is intriguing.  One reason we do Geomancy is to get some information about the future.  But Geomancy may not be able to deliver the goods on this one. 

When asked whether Geomancy delivers messages about the future that are set in stone, John M Greer said, AIt tells you the way that things are going.@  

Paraphrasing Magister G, a positive result in a Geomantic reading tells you useful information about your question, but not necessarily the future.  

This line of thought makes sense to me, and it reminds me a bit of the time travel paradoxes you hear about sometimes; 

The Paradox: AIf I tell myself in the past how to avoid the trouble that caused me to send the message, and the trouble is avoided, there will be no reason for me to send the message to the pastCAnd so the trouble happens, starting the cycle over again. 

As an example, suppose I am standing outside the smoking ruins of my burned down house in September.  The house is a total loss, and all the property I can see in any direction contains only burned trees and smoking ruins.  “Why couldn’t this have been avoided?” I say aloud to no one in particular.  Someone walks up to me with a briefcase.  AThis is a time machine,@ she says.  AYou can make one round trip with it.  I suggest you tell yourself in the past the steps he needs to take to prevent your house from burning down.@

I use the time machine, visit my self in July and tell past-me that the house is going to burn down.  AWhat should I do?@ my past self asks me.  Well, THAT’S a good question!  I may have a time machine, but that does not mean I know exactly what actions would definitely save the house.  So I tell him to move on the plans I know he/I already had for making the house safer from fireCCut down the too-close trees, rake up all the flammable cedar branches and litter, re-side with flameproof siding, etc.

The time machine returns me to the futureCOnly now, I am standing outside my un-burnt house.  This is the very date that my future self told me my house, and the surrounding neighbourhood would have burned down—And yet, it’s all fine.  I shake my head, wondering why he/I lied to me.  Surely it can’t be true that cutting down some trees and raking stuff up has saved the entire neighborhood!

About the time I look down to wonder why I am holding a briefcase, a woman I have never seen exclaims, AYou found my briefcase!  Thank you so much!@   She takes the briefcase and walks away.

Was it a certainty that the warning I gave my past self would keep the house from burning down?  No.  It was possible that my past self would do nothing with the information.  It was also possible that, even if my past self did everything possible to prevent it, that the house would burn down.  However, if the warning actually worked well enough to prevent the house from burning, I would never know it because my actions changed the timeline in July so that the house did not burn down in September.  It feels like a failure, even though it was a success. 

Just to be clear, the time-machine-briefcase example did not actually happen.  Not that I know of...

I think that with Geomancy, Spiritus Mundi is looking at the timeline from the Aeon, outside of time.  If the information comes from outside of our timeline, the paradox falls away.  When Spiritus Mundi adds information to part of the timeline, the timeline can change as a result of that information, and Spiritus Mundi retains knowledge of how the changes affected our timeline.  I believe that is what happened here, but with just my limited resources and perspective, I cannot know it. 

It is only speculation, but I can imagine some of possible ways this could have worked in my own case;

Possibility:  Unknowable benefit.

Wildfires often start here when lightning strikes a tall tree.  One of the trees that I removed was very tall and also close to the house.  I would have no way of knowing that removing that tree prevented it from being struck by lightning, preventing my house from catching fire and preventing the neighborhood from burning.

Possibility:  Unknowable indirect benefit.

Because I was especially worried about my house burning, I talked up fire prevention to a lot of the people who came to see me at work.  What if one of them took fire prevention steps that meant a fire did not happen that otherwise would have happened? 

Someone will say, AIt=s all in your mind.  There never was any risk of your house burning down, and nothing you did was any use in preventing it.@  Actually, there=s no way to know this either.  Unlike video gaming, we don’t have the option to restore from a saved point in July and re-run the game without interventions.  And there actually is a risk of my house burning down every year which leads me to ask Spiritus Mundi this sort of question.

4)   Can Geomancy tell us why the house did not burn down?         

This is, itself, a reasonable Geomantic question.  There could be more information from outside the timeline.  We could also ask, “Did my tree-cutting and fire-prep yardwork prevent my house from burning down?” 






Date: 1 Oct 2021
Question: Did my tree cutting and yard prep preventions keep the house from burning down?
Selections:
House Chart
Querent: I
Quesited: IV
Mothers: Puella, Carcer, Fortuna Major, Tristitia

https://amissio.net/gen/house/d9/c8.svg

Looks like denial of perfection, so "No, my preps did not keep the house from burning down."
Court Story; Water (Populus) led to security (Carcer) now, and in the future.
Cartines:  Puella-->Albus-->Amissio-->Tristitia
Starting with love and wisdom, nevertheless it ends with loss and sorrow..  Eventually the house burns down.


5)   A Spiral Omen? 

Geomancy is not the only occult source of additional information.  Among other things, there are synchronicities, and I believe I have had one;

https://emmanuelg.dreamwidth.org/file/50985.png

BC has a fire map to show the borders of all the wild fires throughout the province.  On Sept 2nd, I noticed a pattern to the wildfires near me.  They appear to follow the curve of a Fibonacci Spiral.  This is the same spiral you see in the shell of the nautilus, the curve of the roots of all our teeth, the curvature of the arms of the Milky Way Galaxy, and (in its 4-dimensional form) the curvature of space-time.  When I overlaid the spiral on the fire map with my house at the centre of the spiral, the borders of many of the wildfires are outside of it.

https://emmanuelg.dreamwidth.org/file/51387.png

The Fibonacci sequence, the golden ratio, and the spiral are very important to me– They are like a map to the order of the universe to me.  I am not certain what this means, but it feels like protection and answered prayers.