Inquiry: My Method of Casting Charts
Jan. 13th, 2022 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Sakura asks what is my preferred way of casting charts.
I use wands, pictured above. The set on the left is a set of geomancy wands I made 37 years ago, at the age of 15. I used them exclusively for many years. I threw them one at a time and noted the result of the toss before I tossed the next, and the third, and the final one.
The set on the right is a set of geomancy wands I commissioned from an artist in Canada last year. I have also used them frequently over the course of a year. They can be tossed all at once because they are marked with head, neck, body, and feet.
I also have frequently used a set of dice in four colors -- red, yellow, blue, and green. The number on the red die (Fire), even or odd, gives me the head of the figure. The number on the yellow die (Air), even or odd, gives me the neck of the figure. The blue die (Water) gives me the body. The green die (Earth) gives me the feet. I toss them four times.
A chart can be generated in any binary way. A coin can be tossed 16 times. Dice can be used. Playing cards can be drawn. Pebbles can be pulled out of a bag and counted.
My preferred method is the geomancy wands.