The shield chart of geomantic divination offers a wide range of methods for assessing both overall conditions and particular facets of a situation. One such divinatory method is known as the Via Puncti, the Way of the Points. While not present in every chart, in shields where such a Way can be traced it offers additional guidance for considering underlying factors or additional clarifying advice.

Significantly, these Ways of the Points highlight the value of examining a dimension of conditions that we may not have expected to be significant before casting the chart. The Via Puncti presents an invaluable divinatory technique for measuring and assessing the parts of situation we didn’t initially consider that we needed to examine.

Here then, we may discover aid from unexpected corners, advice from unanticipated considerations, or simply a fuller and clearer sense of how to pursue goals and avoid difficulties from an expanded field of vantage on the situation upon which we are divining. This can include consideration of how to apply this additional information into helpful assessments of the realities and possibilities open to us, and indeed formulation of particular remediations and strategies for best navigating those conditions.

In this class, professional geomancer and divination coach Dr Alexander Cummins will lead us in an exploration of how to trace and understand the Ways of the Points in our geomancy to derive fuller readings, deeper interpretations, and additional counsel for ourselves and our clients.