Through a series of adventures, geomantic resonances, and astronomical correspondences, the site of Cuzco was chosen. ❋ Olga Bonfiglio (2012)
Well, at the moment I have something coming out in an issue of Subterranean edited by Jonathan Strahan sometime this spring, I think (a story also preoccupied with climate change, hope, and forgiveness), and another story (about Korean history and geomantic warfare) coming out in Carmelo Rafala's The Immersion Book of SF, as far as I know, sometime later this year. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Each of the sixteen geomantic figures could occupy one of those positions. ❋ Alayna Williams (2010)
It operated similarly to the I Ching, relying on sixteen possible geomantic figures to divine the future. ❋ Alayna Williams (2010)
She reduced the sixteen lines of dots to four geomantic figures, the four Mothers. ❋ Alayna Williams (2010)
Bibliodyssey blog (which recently published a wonderful book about wonderful old books!) has a post up today with scans of a geomantic almanac from the mid-1500s: ❋ Unknown (2008)
He's written at least half a dozen really good novels, from the near-future police procedural Days of Atonement to the far-future geomantic science fantasies Metropolitan and City on Fire. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Spurred by the Olympics, the project symbolizes Beijing's goal of entering the big leagues -- and is dramatically changing the urban fabric of a city that for centuries followed ancient geomantic principles by avoiding breaking the earth's surface. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Metropolitan', is not only gritty and convincing but it is also the most remarkable exploration of the abuses of power political, sexual and geomantic! that I have ever read. ❋ Walter Jon Williams (2008)
He also claims to be a geomantic consultant to a well-known high-tech software company in Beijing. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Then my grandmother died and I took a geomantic tablet, being minded and determined to know the future, and I said to myself, ‘Let me see who will wed me!’ ❋ Unknown (2006)
So they brought it, and she took the pen and drawing a geomantic scheme, considered it awhile, then raising her head, exclaimed, Woe to thee, thou loser! ❋ Unknown (2006)
Quoth Zumurrud, “Bring me a table of sand and a pen of brass,” and when they brought her what she sought, she took the sand and the pen, and struck a geomantic figure in the likeness of a baboon; then, raising her head, she looked hard at ❋ Unknown (2006)
So they brought them and she took the pen and struck a geomantic scheme which she considered awhile; and then cried, “Thou hast spoken sooth, Allah will grant thee speedy reunion with her; so be not troubled.” ❋ Unknown (2006)
Returning to the geomantic significance of the Ka'bah, Professor Hawkins has argued that it is exceedingly accurately aligned on two heavenly phenomena. ❋ Jan (2008)
This is a geomantic chart drawn for King Richard II in 1390. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The main manifestation of the foreign faith was a set of thirteen Buddhist temples the Emperor had built on specially chosen geomantic sites around his realm, including Bhutan. ❋ Unknown (2006)
