Geomancy: By Which One Can Foresee, Determine, and Predict All Doubtful and Uncertain Matters

Biblioteca Obscura No. 10

By G. de La Tayssonnière

Long before tarot cards and crystal balls became synonymous with divination, seekers turned to geomancy—one of the oldest and most respected systems of fortune-telling in the Western esoteric tradition. In Geomancy: By Which One Can Foresee, Determine, and Predict All Doubtful and Uncertain Matters, G. de La Tayssonnière presents a practical and historical guide to the art of interpreting symbolic figures in order to answer life's most uncertain questions.

Rooted in medieval and Renaissance traditions, geomancy combines chance, symbolism, astrology, and established methods of interpretation into a structured system believed capable of revealing hidden influences and probable outcomes. This remarkable work explains the generation of geomantic figures, their meanings, their relationships to the zodiac and planetary influences, and the methods by which practitioners sought guidance on matters of love, fortune, health, travel, legal disputes, and countless other concerns.

More than a manual of divination, this volume offers a fascinating glimpse into a worldview in which the patterns of chance were believed to reflect the hidden order of the universe. It stands as an important historical document illustrating one of the principal divinatory arts practiced throughout Europe for centuries.

Professionally restored from the original edition, this volume preserves a rare and significant treatise on geomancy, divination, astrology, and the Western esoteric tradition.

Why This Volume Matters

For hundreds of years, geomancy ranked alongside astrology, chiromancy, and other respected divinatory sciences as a legitimate means of seeking knowledge about uncertain events. Its symbolic system influenced magicians, scholars, astrologers, and occult philosophers across Europe and the Middle East, yet today it remains one of the least understood branches of traditional divination.

For students of the occult, historical divination, Hermetic philosophy, astrology, and Renaissance esotericism, this work offers an invaluable introduction to one of the oldest and most sophisticated methods of symbolic interpretation ever developed.

About Biblioteca Obscura

Biblioteca Obscura is a collectible series from Shadowborn Press devoted to forgotten historical works that have shaped humanity's understanding of the occult, folklore, witchcraft, demonology, religion, alchemy, spiritualism, and the supernatural.

Each volume is carefully restored from original editions, professionally typeset, and designed to create a uniform collector's library preserving rare texts that have long remained inaccessible to modern readers.

Book Details

• Series: Biblioteca Obscura
• Volume: No. 10
• Author: G. de La Tayssonnière
• Format: Premium collectible paperback
• Trim Size: 4 × 6 inches
• Publisher: Shadowborn Press
• Carefully restored from the original historical edition