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Geomancy 
Cara Soror, 
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. 
Your last letter has really put me up a gum tree. I do not 
see how I can write you an account of Geomancy. At first 
sight it looks as if all I could do was to refer you to the 
official text book of that sublime and difficult art. You will 
find it in The Equinox, Vol. I, No.2. 
The first thing to remember about Geomancy is that 
although the various intelligences are attributed to the twelve 
signs of the Zodiac they all appertain to the element of earth. 
Anyone therefore who has got in his nativity an earthy sign 
rising, or the sun in an earthy sign, or a good proportion of 
planets in an earthy sign, is much more likely to find 
Geomancy attractive than anyone the principal features of 
whose horoscope are devoted to other elements, especially 
air, which of course is the enemy of earth . 
Now these remarks apply of course very much to the type 
of question that is likely to be within the grasp of the 
Geomantic Intelligences, that must certainly be considered as 
well as the natural faculty of the practitioner to master the 
art. 
I ought of course to emphasize that I am just the worst 
person in the habitable globe that you could have asked 
about this matter , as my rising sign and my planets are all in 
fire, air; or water, except Neptune , which as Astrology 
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