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2013-08-01T01:36:06Z

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== What is a Geomancer? ==

=== What is a Geomancer? ===
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 What is a Geomancer?
Penned by Shoh

I'll do my best to explain to what exactly 'Geomancy'
entails, though the term itself is more often
misunderstood than correctly applied.

A Geomancer is one who is at one with the earth. The
Geomancer perceives the courtship of the winds where
others perceive little more than a mundane whistling.
The Geomancer understands the ancient and untold language
of the universe: he/she is at one with the natural rhythms
of existence itself.

This world is a living one. It is dynamic, changing,
diverse, yet somehow eternally the same, static and in
equilibrium. Heroes will be born and expire, kingdoms
will rise and fall, yet the Geomancer perceives that
little really changes. The Geomancer sees that this world
and everything in it (for everything is a part of this
world) is the continual and perpetual harmony of dual
opposites. The energies of the unnmoving, receptive, dark
and feminine forever incline towards the active, bright
and masculine. It is the interaction and flux of these
forces, the duality of opposites, that gives rise to all
earthly phenomena. We know this to be incontrovertible
fact. To know so is to perceive the very fabric of
existence.

The timeless and ancient balance of all things is known to
the Geomancer, yet it is a mystery most ecstatic and
sublime, for one can never contain its boundless secrets
in the flawed receptacle of the human mind. Knowing however
that it is the beginning and end of all things, one can
perceive it at work. The elements themselves are actors in
the drama of existence: they interact; wax and wane. Water
descends where fire rises. Wood is expansive, while metal
moves in on itself. Knowing that each element produces the
next is the key to observing the cycles of the natural
world. The natural rhythms are contained in repetition: yin
gives rise to yang and yang to yin.

Are these things of any interest to you? Is this knowledge
to your liking? Read on, young one.

=== The Geomancer Demeanor ===
=== A Geomancer's View ===
=== Geomancer Honors and Dishonors ===
=== Geomancer Guides ===
=== Path of the Earth Mage ===
=== Circle of Subpaths ===

== Geomancer Services ==
=== Summary of Geomancer Services ===
=== Ba Gua Ceremonies ===

== The Inner Sects ==
=== The Unity of Inner Sects ===
=== An Introduction to Wu Xing ===
=== An Introduction to Tiaoli ===
=== An Introduction to Wu Wei ===

== Geomancer Histories ==

== Geomancer Lessons ==

=== Qi and its Two Forms ===

=== Wu Chi and Tai Chi ===

=== Tracing the Tai Chi Circle ===

=== Yin, Yang, and Balance ===

=== Neutrality ===

=== Balance and Neutrality ===

=== The Luck Trinity ===

=== Karma ===

=== Karma Levels ===

=== The Four Deities (A) ===

=== The Four Deities (B) ===

=== The Earth's Dragon ===

=== The Wu Xing (Five Elements) ===

=== The Geomancer Way of Thinking ===

=== The Elemental Cycles (A) ===
,
/)
//
(/
_/ ______
) ( (-----(
/ \ \ \
\___/ \ \
_)_____)
`------`
 Geomancer Lessons:
The Elemental Cycles
Various Authors

"It was still the beginning of summer when the drought hit
our village. The glades and forests that had been so
plentiful were drying and dying. The greatest mind of our
land came together to solve the crises. DarthVex, a
scientist from the academy, and Phlegyas, a social activist
from the slums invented at those meetings, irrigation. The
forest was renewed by the water brought in and all like
seems grand...until the lightning struck. Fire spread
threw the forest and destroyed it in whole, leaving only
ash. It was (as we thought) the end. soon though we
realized what was happening...the fire had nourished the
earth...minerals were then found abundantly in our lands
...it was a new source of trade for us! I remember Darth
pointing out a strange thing though...the metal we mined
was melted down to create many things...it as he gazed
into it he pointed out how much it was like water. We both
remembered our first tool of irrigation and we were forced
to stop and contimplate what we were seeing...the
completion of the cycle....it all returned..again..and
again...."

----------------------------------------------------------

Knowing the properties of the elements allow us to examine
the interactions between them. There are two cycles: a
productive cycle, which delineates the ability of each
element to activate another and the destrictive cycle,
which outlines the ability of each element to limit the
activity of another. They are transcribed below:

Productive (or generative) Cycle

Water---Wood---Fire---Earth---Metal

Water feeds wood for it to grow. Wood feeds fire which
produces Earth. Earth creates metal and Metal holds Water.
The cycle continues. To use the productive cycle you are
able to use the element before and after the main element
you are bringing into the room. For example, if you are to
bring wood into the home you may add water because it
feeds the wood and/or add fire because it is created by
fire. The destructive cycle will show which elements do
not work well together.

Destructive (or degenerative) Cycle

Water---Fire---Metal---Wood---Earth

Water douses fire. Fire melts metal. Metal cuts down the
wood. Wood clogs the earth. Earth muddies the waters. The
destructive cycle is used in Feng Shui to lessen an energy.
For example, if a room is filled with a great deal of new
age metallic objects and streamlined furniture. You would
add some fire like a fireplace or some red throw pillows
on the couch to cut down the metal energies.

Knowing which element produces the next or quashes the
last in each cycle is the key to creating an auspicious
flow of Chi. Where the energies of each element are
appropriately balanced, Chi will flow well, and vice versa.

Contemplating the elements teaches us a greater balance.

If we think about it, the elements are not really
physically manifested in nature. Rather they are an
abstract presence in the world -- energies, if you will.
How else may metal generate water? Water in the real world
is in a constant state of flux and is moved around as it
flows through crevices and cracks in the earth. It is also
evaporated and redistributed through the earth as rain,
snow, sleet, et cetera.

(Continued ...)

=== The Elemental Cycles (B) ===

/)
//
(/
_/ ______
) ( (-----(
/ \ \ \
\___/ \ \
_)_____)
`------`
 Geomancer Lessons:
The Elemental Cycles (Part Two)
Various Authors

So how does this effect balance? Well the entire world is
in a state of constant flux, always changing. So to
balance this, the world needed a cycle capable of
controlling and generating the elements. This is where we
get our generative and control cycles from. I say control
cycles when referring to the destructive cycle, because
controlling and limiting elemental presence in the world
is what it really does.

Because the balance is the world as a whole, what effects
one part of the world will effect the other. A large
forest fire in one part of the world destroys a forest.
This diminishes woods presence in the world, but it
creates more earth. This in turn causes a greater metal
presence. This in turn generates water, and perhaps is
manifested in another part of the world as long periods of
rain. This generates more wood. Not only in the cycle but at
times like that it is usually a growing season. More trees,
more plants, more of everything in that aspect. Where is
metals manifestation in this? We don't see it do we? But
isn't there more wood and more water generated? Yes there
is. So must the elements be physically manifested? No.

What does this lead us to see? That the world uses this
as a whole to create a delicate balance. But because wood
is a growing thing it needs tweaking, and when it reduces
or increases one it must adjust the others to balance it.
The elements are indeed wonderous. The power they have is
not explicit, but it is in balancing oneself that its power
is manifested.

=== The Eight Trigrams ===

=== Elemental Affinities (A) ===

=== Elemental Affinities (B) ===

=== The Origins of the Ba Gua ===

=== Two Ba Gua Sequences ===

=== The Ba Gua Map ===
,
/)
//
(/
_/ ______
) ( (-----(
/ \ \ \
\___/ \ \
_)_____)
`------`
 Geomancer Lessons:
The Ba Gua Map
Penned by Innysus

Later Heavens Sequence:

Li
-------
--- ---
-------
Xun ------- --- --- K'un
------- --- ---
--- --- --- ---

Chen --- --- --- --- Tui
--- --- CENTER -------
------- -------

Ken ------- ------- Chi'en
--- --- -------
--- --- -------
--- ---
-------
--- ---
K'an

Starting from the top and going clockwise, each trigram
in the Later Heavens Sequence denotes a color, direction
element, personality, role, season, and trigram.

Li -
Color: Red
Direction: South
Element: Fire
Personaliy: the Clinging
Role: Reputation and Social life
Season: Early Summer
Trigram: Fire

K'un -
Color: Yellow
Direction: Southwest
Element: (Big) Earth
Personality: the Receptive
Role: Marriage, Relationships, and Romance
Season: Late Summer
Trigram: Earth

Tui -
Color: Grey
Direction: West
Element: (Small) Metal
Personality: the Joyous
Role: Children, Creativity, and Entertainment
Season: Early Fall
Trigram: Pond

Chi'en -
Color: Grey
Direction: Northwest
Element: (Big) Metal
Personality: the Creative
Role: Helpful people, Spiritual life, and Travel
Season: Late Fall
Trigram: Heaven

K'an -
Color: Blue
Direction: North
Element: Water
Personality: the Abysmal
Role: Career, Life Mission, and Individuality
Season: Early Winter
Trigram: Water

Ken -
Color: Brown
Direction: Northeast
Element: (Small) Earth
Personality: the Still
Role: Wisdom, Self-Knowledge, and Rest
Season: Late Winter
Trigram: Mountain

Chen -
Color: Green
Direction: East
Element: (Big) Wood
Personality: the Arousing
Role: Health, Family, and Community
Season: Early Spring
Trigram: Thunder

Xun -
Color: Green
Direction: Southeast
Element: (Small) Wood
Personality: the Gentle
Role: Wealth and Prosperity
Season: Late Spring
Trigram: Wind

Center -

The Center of the Ba gua map represents you. It is sometimes associated with your health, though Chen in the East is as well. The Center helps to maintain balance in the rest of the Ba gua and affects each of the other areas. The Center uses earthy colors similar to those of K'un and Ken and is associated with the element of Earth.

=== Ba Gua Zhang ===

=== Feng Shui ===

=== The Stems and Branches System (A) ===

=== The Stems and Branches System (B) ===

=== The Ba Yin ===

== Tao Te Ching ==

== Creative Works ==

Shu-Jing

2013-08-01T01:20:44Z

Perpetualgamer: /* The Elemental Cycles (B) */

== What is a Geomancer? ==

=== What is a Geomancer? ===
_.ooo-._
.OOOP _ '.
dOOOO (_) \
OOOOOb |
OOOOOOb. |
OOOOOOOOb |
YOO(_)OOO /
'OOOOOY _.'
'""""''
 What is a Geomancer?
Penned by Shoh

I'll do my best to explain to what exactly 'Geomancy'
entails, though the term itself is more often
misunderstood than correctly applied.

A Geomancer is one who is at one with the earth. The
Geomancer perceives the courtship of the winds where
others perceive little more than a mundane whistling.
The Geomancer understands the ancient and untold language
of the universe: he/she is at one with the natural rhythms
of existence itself.

This world is a living one. It is dynamic, changing,
diverse, yet somehow eternally the same, static and in
equilibrium. Heroes will be born and expire, kingdoms
will rise and fall, yet the Geomancer perceives that
little really changes. The Geomancer sees that this world
and everything in it (for everything is a part of this
world) is the continual and perpetual harmony of dual
opposites. The energies of the unnmoving, receptive, dark
and feminine forever incline towards the active, bright
and masculine. It is the interaction and flux of these
forces, the duality of opposites, that gives rise to all
earthly phenomena. We know this to be incontrovertible
fact. To know so is to perceive the very fabric of
existence.

The timeless and ancient balance of all things is known to
the Geomancer, yet it is a mystery most ecstatic and
sublime, for one can never contain its boundless secrets
in the flawed receptacle of the human mind. Knowing however
that it is the beginning and end of all things, one can
perceive it at work. The elements themselves are actors in
the drama of existence: they interact; wax and wane. Water
descends where fire rises. Wood is expansive, while metal
moves in on itself. Knowing that each element produces the
next is the key to observing the cycles of the natural
world. The natural rhythms are contained in repetition: yin
gives rise to yang and yang to yin.

Are these things of any interest to you? Is this knowledge
to your liking? Read on, young one.

=== The Geomancer Demeanor ===
=== A Geomancer's View ===
=== Geomancer Honors and Dishonors ===
=== Geomancer Guides ===
=== Path of the Earth Mage ===
=== Circle of Subpaths ===

== Geomancer Services ==
=== Summary of Geomancer Services ===
=== Ba Gua Ceremonies ===

== The Inner Sects ==
=== The Unity of Inner Sects ===
=== An Introduction to Wu Xing ===
=== An Introduction to Tiaoli ===
=== An Introduction to Wu Wei ===

== Geomancer Histories ==

== Geomancer Lessons ==

=== Qi and its Two Forms ===

=== Wu Chi and Tai Chi ===

=== Tracing the Tai Chi Circle ===

=== Yin, Yang, and Balance ===

=== Neutrality ===

=== Balance and Neutrality ===

=== The Luck Trinity ===

=== Karma ===

=== Karma Levels ===

=== The Four Deities (A) ===

=== The Four Deities (B) ===

=== The Earth's Dragon ===

=== The Wu Xing (Five Elements) ===

=== The Geomancer Way of Thinking ===

=== The Elemental Cycles (A) ===
,
/)
//
(/
_/ ______
) ( (-----(
/ \ \ \
\___/ \ \
_)_____)
`------`
 Geomancer Lessons:
The Elemental Cycles
Various Authors

"It was still the beginning of summer when the drought hit
our village. The glades and forests that had been so
plentiful were drying and dying. The greatest mind of our
land came together to solve the crises. DarthVex, a
scientist from the academy, and Phlegyas, a social activist
from the slums invented at those meetings, irrigation. The
forest was renewed by the water brought in and all like
seems grand...until the lightning struck. Fire spread
threw the forest and destroyed it in whole, leaving only
ash. It was (as we thought) the end. soon though we
realized what was happening...the fire had nourished the
earth...minerals were then found abundantly in our lands
...it was a new source of trade for us! I remember Darth
pointing out a strange thing though...the metal we mined
was melted down to create many things...it as he gazed
into it he pointed out how much it was like water. We both
remembered our first tool of irrigation and we were forced
to stop and contimplate what we were seeing...the
completion of the cycle....it all returned..again..and
again...."

----------------------------------------------------------

Knowing the properties of the elements allow us to examine
the interactions between them. There are two cycles: a
productive cycle, which delineates the ability of each
element to activate another and the destrictive cycle,
which outlines the ability of each element to limit the
activity of another. They are transcribed below:

Productive (or generative) Cycle

Water---Wood---Fire---Earth---Metal

Water feeds wood for it to grow. Wood feeds fire which
produces Earth. Earth creates metal and Metal holds Water.
The cycle continues. To use the productive cycle you are
able to use the element before and after the main element
you are bringing into the room. For example, if you are to
bring wood into the home you may add water because it
feeds the wood and/or add fire because it is created by
fire. The destructive cycle will show which elements do
not work well together.

Destructive (or degenerative) Cycle

Water---Fire---Metal---Wood---Earth

Water douses fire. Fire melts metal. Metal cuts down the
wood. Wood clogs the earth. Earth muddies the waters. The
destructive cycle is used in Feng Shui to lessen an energy.
For example, if a room is filled with a great deal of new
age metallic objects and streamlined furniture. You would
add some fire like a fireplace or some red throw pillows
on the couch to cut down the metal energies.

Knowing which element produces the next or quashes the
last in each cycle is the key to creating an auspicious
flow of Chi. Where the energies of each element are
appropriately balanced, Chi will flow well, and vice versa.

Contemplating the elements teaches us a greater balance.

If we think about it, the elements are not really
physically manifested in nature. Rather they are an
abstract presence in the world -- energies, if you will.
How else may metal generate water? Water in the real world
is in a constant state of flux and is moved around as it
flows through crevices and cracks in the earth. It is also
evaporated and redistributed through the earth as rain,
snow, sleet, et cetera.

(Continued ...)

=== The Elemental Cycles (B) ===

/)
//
(/
_/ ______
) ( (-----(
/ \ \ \
\___/ \ \
_)_____)
`------`
 Geomancer Lessons:
The Elemental Cycles (Part Two)
Various Authors

So how does this effect balance? Well the entire world is
in a state of constant flux, always changing. So to
balance this, the world needed a cycle capable of
controlling and generating the elements. This is where we
get our generative and control cycles from. I say control
cycles when referring to the destructive cycle, because
controlling and limiting elemental presence in the world
is what it really does.

Because the balance is the world as a whole, what effects
one part of the world will effect the other. A large
forest fire in one part of the world destroys a forest.
This diminishes woods presence in the world, but it
creates more earth. This in turn causes a greater metal
presence. This in turn generates water, and perhaps is
manifested in another part of the world as long periods of
rain. This generates more wood. Not only in the cycle but at
times like that it is usually a growing season. More trees,
more plants, more of everything in that aspect. Where is
metals manifestation in this? We don't see it do we? But
isn't there more wood and more water generated? Yes there
is. So must the elements be physically manifested? No.

What does this lead us to see? That the world uses this
as a whole to create a delicate balance. But because wood
is a growing thing it needs tweaking, and when it reduces
or increases one it must adjust the others to balance it.
The elements are indeed wonderous. The power they have is
not explicit, but it is in balancing oneself that its power
is manifested.

=== The Eight Trigrams ===

=== Elemental Affinities (A) ===

=== Elemental Affinities (B) ===

=== The Origins of the Ba Gua ===

=== Two Ba Gua Sequences ===

=== The Ba Gua Map ===

=== Ba Gua Zhang ===

=== Feng Shui ===

=== The Stems and Branches System (A) ===

=== The Stems and Branches System (B) ===

=== The Ba Yin ===

== Tao Te Ching ==

== Creative Works ==

Shu-Jing

2013-08-01T01:19:00Z

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Shu-Jing

2013-08-01T01:17:55Z

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Shu-Jing

2013-08-01T01:09:20Z

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Geomancer

2013-08-01T01:05:39Z

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== Titles ==
[[Image:Geomancer.PNG]] Geomancer (99)

[[Image:Geomancer.PNG]] Haein-Sa (Il san) [[Image:Il_san_dot.jpg]]

[[Image:Geomancer.PNG]] Ba-Gua (Ee san) [[Image:Ee_san_dot.jpg]]

[[Image:Geomancer.PNG]] Xing-Yi (Sam san) [[Image:Sam_san_dot.jpg]]

[[Image:Geomancer.PNG]] DiZhu (Sa san) [[Image:Sa_san_dot.jpg]]

== Members ==
The current members of the Geomancer subpath can be found [http://users.nexustk.com/webreport/Geomancer.htm here]. The current elder of the Geomancers is [http://users.nexustk.com/userfiles/runai.html Runai].

The following are active guides of the Geomancer subath:

[[Image:Geomancer.PNG]] Geomancer [http://users.nexustk.com/userfiles/aeolus.html Aeolus]
 
[[Image:Geomancer.PNG]] Haein-Sa [http://users.nexustk.com/userfiles/elarra.html Elarra]
 
[[Image:Geomancer.PNG]] Geomancer [http://users.nexustk.com/userfiles/offren.html Offren]
 
[[Image:Geomancer.PNG]] Haein-Sa [http://users.nexustk.com/userfiles/princesangel.html PrincesAngel]

== Written Works ==

Most of the Geomancer Works can be found in the [[Shu-Jing]] purchased from the Earth Dragon for 1,000 coins.

== History ==
In order of Eldership, the path has been lead by:
 
1) Tego
 
2) Patalie
 
3) Armand
 
4) Pooh
 
5) SunGodess
 
6) Leodaris
 
7) Khyree
 
8) Leodaris
 
9) Nydori
 
10) Bylen
 
11) Khyree
 
12) Leodaris
 
13) Thebestmage
 
14) Minaku
 
15) Halome
 
16) Rhew
 
17) Quellious
 
18) Kenzi
 
19) Glacial
 
20) Kenzi
 
21) Runai

For an in-depth view of the history up until Leodaris, visit this [http://www.geomancy.tk/ website.]

== Roleplay ==

Geomancers are seekers of Balance. They are neither good nor evil, and strive to stay completely Neutral in all political situations.

For a long time, they were required to move to the [[Wilderness]] (like the [[Barbarian]]s), they eventually moved back to the kingdoms so they may spread their knowledge, and be easily accessible should one have an interest in the path. They currently reside in the wilderness.

War is not an option for a Geomancer, as it is one side versus another. Rather than participate in the bloodshed, the Geomancer would be working with all sides to try and stop the conflict. Many times, Geomancers are used as arbitrators because of their neutral standpoint.

If you have participated in a previous war, you had not been allowed to join the path. However, there has been a change to this and if you strive to work hard enough, you can learn to have [[Learned to walk the neutral path]].

The Geomancers also use the art of Feng Shui in order to harness the energy of the elements to promote balance and harmony in life.

[[Category:Geomancer]]
[[Category:Subpaths]]