Have you divined it yet?
April 25, 2003
Unless you are an long, long-time trivia-buff reader of Thudfactor, you might be surprised by the nature of my new web tool. It still needs some work and I’m less than pleased with the design, but here it is:
The Geomantic Oracle
Geomancy is an old, old method of fortune-telling. It has a limited vocabulary and involves a fair amount of math, which made it excellent target for a small web-based application.
And before you ask, yes: I do use it. Whatever your skepticism may be on divination methods in general, I’ve found them to be great ways to disassociate temporarily from the problem at hand and look at the problem from a different direction. It helps break the unconstructive obsessive patterns of thinking I fall into far too often. Do spirits guide the divination? Am I subconciously controlling how the coins fall? Is it purely random data I then impose order upon?
I don’t know, and quite frankly I consider the question academic. My condition is improved through the practice, and that, I think, is what matters.
In this case at least.
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April 26th, 2003 at 11:05 am
Tres cool. A friend of mine was into geomancy for a long, long time (remember, I’m pagan), and I never did get around to learning about it.
I used to read ogham, which has its own interesting ways of looking at things. I had a link to an online ogham reader; I’ll try to dig it out.
April 27th, 2003 at 8:18 am
Another thumbs up from a loud-mouthed pagan chick. In fact, I was thinking of writing ‘Tres Cool’ before I clicked on the comments link and saw Scott beat me to the punch! :)
Personally, I’d like to add a Tarot tool to either Unique Snowflake or Practical Wicca, but don’t know of any available. Hmmmm….