What is a Geomancer?
What is a Geomancer?
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What is a Geomancer?
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I'll do my best to explain to what exactly 'Geomancy' entails, though the term itself is more often misunderstood than correctly applied.
A Geomancer is one who is at one with the earth. The Geomancer perceives the courtship of the winds where others perceive little more than a mundane whistling. The Geomancer understands the ancient and untold language of the universe: he/she is at one with the natural rhythms of existence itself.
This world is a living one. It is dynamic, changing, diverse, yet somehow eternally the same, static and in equilibrium. Heroes will be born and expire, kingdoms will rise and fall, yet the Geomancer perceives that little really changes. The Geomancer sees that this world and everything in it (for everything is a part of this world) is the continual and perpetual harmony of dual opposites. The energies of the unnmoving, receptive, dark and feminine forever incline towards the active, bright and masculine. It is the interaction and flux of these forces, the duality of opposites, that gives rise to all earthly phenomena. We know this to be incontrovertible fact. To know so is to perceive the very fabric of existence.
The timeless and ancient balance of all things is known to the Geomancer, yet it is a mystery most ecstatic and sublime, for one can never contain its boundless secrets in the flawed receptacle of the human mind. Knowing however that it is the beginning and end of all things, one can perceive it at work. The elements themselves are actors in the drama of existence: they interact; wax and wane. Water descends where fire rises. Wood is expansive, while metal moves in on itself. Knowing that each element produces the next is the key to observing the cycles of the natural world. The natural rhythms are contained in repetition: yin gives rise to yang and yang to yin.
Are these things of any interest to you? Is this knowledge to your liking? Read on, young one.