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This journal is for recording research and practice with the divinatory art of Geomancy, as practiced by such notables as Hugo de Santalla, Christopher Cattan, Robert Fludd, Gerard of Cremona, Pietro d'Abano, John Heydon, and Cornelius Agrippa. The emphasis is on practice and accurate interpretation, not on history. Our interpretive methods are closest to those of Cattan and Heydon, although our elemental and zodiacal correspondences differ, as do our methods of assigning certain questions to the Mundane Houses.

"Geomancie is a Science and Art which consisteth of points, prickes, and lines, made in steade of the four Elementes, and of the Starres and Planets of Heaven, called the Science of earth, because in times past it was made on it, as we will hereafter declare. And thus every pricke signifieth a Starre, and every line an Element, and every figure the foure quarters of the worlde ... "
-- The Geomancie of Maister Christopher Cattan, Gentleman
A Booke, no less pleasant and recreative, then of a wittie invention, to knowe all things, past, present, and to come. (publ. London, 1591).

"Creation proceedeth by division. Two and two and two and two, and thou hast all the world."
-- Nathaniel Crowfoot, alchemist, geomancer, Cheshire, 1810