Normally when I receive signs, it’s not near my house.
I walk my dog. Or I go somewhere to pick up groceries. I have never received a sign right in my own backyard. Literally. In ancient cultures, eggs were often cracked to reveal knowledge.
In magic, there is a form of divination called Oomancy. Using eggs for divination. But sometimes, especially in African practices, broken egg shells are used to divine the future. The way the egg shells break, are individual messages to a person. In this case it was both.
In this case, cracked shells and yoke. With a partially undeveloped fetus that’s still being devoured.
One of the lizards near the tree sucked the yoke out of one of the eggs. And the cracked eggs and part of the fetus fell near the idol. It almost looked like a sacrifice. And I learned that it was.
But that wasn’t what was weird. What was weird is the way the egg shells look. This looks as if a person had broken the shells for magic. I have laid egg shells exactly like that. But I know this wasn’t a person.
Ants are all over the shells. Hungrily eating what’s left behind. Sometimes when you see a sign, you get hit with something. An impression. Call it a minor “shockwave”.
But you know when it’s meant for you. Some spiritual cleansings are animal sacrifices. And I believe that is what this was. A sacrifice made by nature to keep me safe. Since I refuse to kill animals.
I invoked the spirits of the land. I called to the Earth Mother herself. And I asked what this sign was pertaining to. I already had an idea what it was. I do a Hoodoo version of geomancy.
Inspired* by the hakata method of talking to the Earth. With bones. For this, I called upon the Yoruba Orishas, the Loa of Haiti, and also the local Niiji (native) spirits. I needed their combined power to break through to know what was going on. I don’t normally need that.
This is a warning pertaining to a person I am helping. I was already going to write an article on that later. But for the earth herself and her creatures to warn me like this, is nothing small. This was a few days ago. Last night after inquiring the truth about this person’s condition from a Dark Goddess, I had a nasty dream.
My blood pressure rose.
I saw visions. Now I know how the hex was cast. I need to go undo it. And the Gods will want to personally handle this. The earth by means of the bones told me what I needed to know.
I’m on my way to handle business.
I’ll keep all of you updated.
– M
* Post Script *
Someone I respect had approached me in private to ask why I titled this Geomancy. I figured it would cause a lot of confusion. Because this doesn’t look like any kind of Geomancy most people are used to. Most Geomancy is complicated and used symbols that are drawn in dirt or sand to divine. And many geomancers are initiated into special societies to do this magic.
Let me explain.
Geomancy for me is not one thing or the other. I break it down to its simplest form : It’s clear communication and prophesy with the Earth Spirit. From Greek geomanteia (Earth Prophesy). Sometimes Manteia (μαντεία) translated as communication. Other people translate it as divination. Either way it all points towards gaining knowledge and talking to the Earth.
I am well aware that different traditions which use more complicated methods. Specifically geomantic figures (such as in Islam) or astrological signs. In Africa the Elders use bone castings to communicate with the nature spirits. To divine signs and etc….but they do it differently than in America. They don’t use divination mats for the bones.
As they see that as simply getting in the way of communication. They have to fall onto the ground. This is so direct communication with the Earth, the specific land I am on, and also the spirits which vary based on the land, can happen. This version is the Americanized (Hoodoo) version of Hakata which comes from different indigenous nations in Africa. It’s basically a hybridization of bone casting with geomancy.
I find it much simpler to use. The other forms are more complicated forms found in Western and Middle Eastern practices. I do eventually want to study those. And get initiated into such societies. But this practice works well for me.
And has suited me and aided me for years.
And it also feels more direct to me. It’s not always bones either. Shells, feathers, and other things can be used for this type of Geomancy. Because it’s a Hoodoo version, so it incorporates different cultures from Africa and Turtle Island. Because Hoodoo (Magic) and American Voodoo (the religion) were born from an eclectic mix.
The slaves lost many of their rituals in the Americas. So they had to make up for it with surrounding cultures. Everything from Germanic folk magics, to Judeo-Christian and other Western Magics, to Native American spirits, beliefs, and magics. Especially Native botany because they had to use the plants here. Since they didn’t have access to their traditional plants back home.
In fact they had to do that multiple times. Everytime they were taken to another land. I used Hoodoo here. Because the current issue this client has is so strong, that I needed a mixed practice to break through it. Sometimes you can’t hit things directly.
You have to hit them indirectly.
Some magicians and witches use really strong stuff. But they usually have one weakness. They have such linear thinking that the idea of someone approaching their magic differently, never dawns on them. They usually look down on eclectic practices. Or hybrid magics such as Hoodoo.
That’s what I needed to do here. Also while Hoodoo is eclectic, it is a strong and solid tradition in and of itself. I have met many who doubt it could possibly be that strong. And they have always regretted it.
There’s many specific systems of Geomancy. It pretty much depends on the culture. The Turkish form of Geomancy differs greatly from Sufi Islam’s version. And then I think (don’t quote me on that) the Hebrews had such a system too. Everyone prophesies with the Earth differently.
This one is a specific Hoodoo version I developed with Hoodoo teachers in Florida. Inspired by Hakata. I don’t use the actual Hakata practice. Rather I worked with my spirits. And those around me to use the bones castings. In a way similar to Hakata that I could understand.
And I did this with aid and blessings from two Hoodoo practitioners. Only a fool attempts something like this by themselves. Especially based on an older system. Even the Babalawos in IFA do a version of Geomancy with Iyerosun powder. Which is this golden powder from a sacred tree in Nigeria.
And they use the 256 IFA signs in the powder. I am not claiming to be doing these older systems. This is just my own American Hoodoo version of it. Inspired by something older. It has served me well.
And it has never let me down.
And later with my spirits. So I hope this answers and questions or doubts anyone has. I am not initiated into any traditional geomantic group. Some groups even have lineages. And you have to prove yourself worthy by doing a successful prophesy of the land.
I am not part of that.
This is just my version. I also take into account different things. Such as signs left by animals on the Earth. Like the shattered eggshells. And a few other things specific to my magical practice.
Which I will not divulge. But I hope this has made everything clear. I am no one’s “holy man”. Nor am I an elder. I am a student of many things.
Like any good magus. We are students, not masters. Even Mages who are masters consider themselves life time students. And I can only hope to achieve one iota of their wisdom in my life time. Cheers everyone.
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