Why geomancy?
Valeria MenozziThey asked me: "Vale, but why geomancy ?"
Why, of all the divinations that exist, this one, so ancient and complex, so little known and widespread? Wasn't it enough for you to write once again about tarot cards that, after all, in almost all esoteric environments, are loved and used?
No, it wasn't enough for me.
The problem is that I have a real obsession with ancient things. In fact, the more ancient, unusual and forgotten they are, the more valuable they become in my eyes. Maybe because I come from a family of antique dealers, maybe because I studied History and I think like a historian, maybe because my way of living spirituality is animist and pagan, and consequently it comes naturally to me to think that the closer we get to the origins, the more we relate to the primordial archetypes and experience the Truth.
In short, I couldn't help but do it. I couldn't help but study it, love it, spread it. Geomancy is, perhaps, the most ancient divinatory art of all, even more than astrology, because before turning their eyes to the sky, sapiens must have paid attention to where they put their feet. And under their feet is the earth, with its energies, its spirits, its messages. Messages that we must learn to read and interpret.
For centuries, or rather, millennia, geomancy has been practiced, starting from the Middle East, passing through Africa, reaching Europe and the Americas. There was no Renaissance magician who did not know it, there was no African priest who did not consider it a ceremonial act of the utmost importance.
The question that should be asked is rather: why has it fallen into disuse in the West and why do modern esotericists prefer other divinations ?
Simple, because essentially this divination is an archaeological find. Like a temple, it has been covered by the debris of time, like an idol it has been demonized and reviled by the religious mentalities that have followed one another over the centuries, like a vase or a cup it has been fragmented, often poorly assembled and interpreted, deprived - in many cases - of its rich original rituality.
So I decided, as an idolater restorer, to dust it off, recompose it, study it and propose it again, trying to give it a more modern, coherent connotation and inclined to the needs of contemporary esotericists. I did it because I believe it is an extremely fascinating divination, capable of still offering so much. You cannot undertake a spiritual path if you do not know where it originated.
That's why geomancy.
