#divination system

I’ll try to explain a bit each part of the board under the cut if you’re interested!!

Sacred Geometry and Geomancy Exposed

What is Sacred Geometry and Geomancy? A geomancer or sand diviner from Mali traces geomantic figures in a prepared bed of sand. What is sacred geometry and geomancy? According to one source, “Sacred geometry ascribes symbolic and sacred meanings to certain geometric shapes and certain geometric proportions.” It is associated with the belief that a god is the geometer of the world. One source…

Mx. Beaurevoir is a divination robot that I built, but I have found to practice Technomancy, a form of technological divination. Through their divination process they are able to connect with alternate dimensions and higher powers that can provide inside into our lives. 

In order to summon Mx. Beaurevoir to look into a Querent’s Truth, one must first hold a mirror up to their face. After studying one’s face, the Querent is instructed to draw a small cross that marks their nose. Using this cross as a guide, the Querent is asked to divide the mirror into quadrants (see below). Querents are then asked to place Mx. Beaurevoir with their pen touching the cross drawn earlier. The divination remote is then introduced, which the Querent is instructed to press each time they’d like Mx. Beaurevoir to receive a thought they think might be important for the divination. Each time the remote is pressed Mx. Beaurevoir will start to draw a few lines of a pattern for a couple of seconds, and continue to draw each time a new button is pressed. Querents are also asked to pay attention to the button they choose when they’d like to transmit as thought as each button must “feel right” before being pressed. Querents are asked to transmit up to 10 thoughts. 

At the end of the Mx. Beaurevoir’s transmission, Querents are asked to hold the mirror up to their face and look at the pattern draw. 

Querents then work with the Reader to decipher the patterns on the mirror using a set of rune-like stones that ascribe meaning to various patterns found in the drawing. Below is the guide to Beaurevoir’s runes, in addition to the runes placed on the mirror. Because the Reader (me) is still new to the rune symbology, they often work with the Querent to pick out identifiable patterns and weave together a narrative that makes sense to the Querent. 

The first video below is of an early prototype (that doesn’t work)! Originally I wanted to have the robot draw on paper in order to generate a keepsake for the Querent, but settled on a mirrored surface for both the aesthetic and to make the ability to do multiple readings easier. Overall, it seemed like the feedback I received was positive, and Querents felt that the experience felt very uniform, which aided in the system as a whole. If I were to make future changes I would like to further enhance the reading portion, and put a little more power in the hands of the Querent to decipher what the pattern drawn by Mx. Beaurevoir might mean to them. Check out the second video for a working final prototype. 

I'm super honoured to be collaborating with the very lovely and awesome @tesseraoracle for a fun FREE event this Sat Sept 15! Finding Fortune is a series exploring different oracle/divination systems. I'll be talking about my Fortune Lenormand deck: what it is, the artwork I created for Inktober 2017, and how you can use Lenormand as a tool for self-reflection and creativity! You'll get to play with this and other divination systems too. And decks will also be available for sale 😄 Full event details and registration at https://bit.ly/2CHhIVA

Learning Day 1:

Story

As you shuffle through your things, your friends and yourself realize you only have maybe $100 bucks, some string, and few other things, but nothing useful, you think.

You notice the Pit Boss Standing around, and see that there are dice!

“DICE!”

Your friends jump back a bit, and Alicia asks, “What has that got to do with anything?”

“I can use dice to tell fortunes! Maybe I can get us out of this mess!”

As your friends stare in awe, you run off to ask if you can borrow some dice from the pit boss.

He hands you 3 cubes they were about to throw away, wishes you luck, and goes to finish his job.