You don't need to install a meditation garden or consult a geomancer. From Wordnik.com. [Karen Maezen Miller: 7 Tips Inspired By Monasteries to De-Stress Your Home] Reference
If he feels that the edifice will upset the natural order, the geomancer advises against its construction. From Wordnik.com. [Hong Kong and the Art of Geomancy] Reference
Thus, one sees in this use of geometry something of the natural order that the divine geomancer has written into creation. From Wordnik.com. [The Theology and Metaphysics of the Gothic Cathedral - part 4 & conclusion] Reference
The task of ensuring that there is harmony in the universe falls to the geomancer; traditionally he is consulted whenever a change to the landscape is planned. From Wordnik.com. [Hong Kong and the Art of Geomancy] Reference
And since we're just freshly into the Year of the Tiger, Vin, who is a pig that is, was born in the year of the pig, but I leave it to you if you want to read it any other way asked me for his Chinese horoscope, as if I was some geomancer, which I'm not. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-02-01] Reference
And though he was almost persuaded that Aladdin must have died miserably in the subterraneous abode where he had left him, yet he had the curiosity to inform himself about his end with certainty; and as he was a great geomancer, he took out of a cupboard a square covered box, which he used in his geomantic observations: then sat himself down on his sofa, set it before him, and uncovered it. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
The geomancer had told them that, and they believed him. From Wordnik.com. [Civilization Tales of the Orient] Reference
A skilful geomancer is desired by a tradesman to cast his horoscope. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
As a Hermetic Shaman and geomancer I find this video in tune with all that is. From Wordnik.com. [Red Ice Creations] Reference
They even questioned the premier on whether he had his own fortune told by the geomancer. From Wordnik.com. [China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper] Reference
It is the custom of the Chinese to bury their dead wherever a geomancer indicates a "lucky" place. From Wordnik.com. [New Forces in Old China : An Inevitable Awakening] Reference
The man, mistaking him for the tradesman, seized the geomancer and with a sharp awl pierced his eyes, blinding him for ever. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
A geomancer skilled in Feng Shui tries to rescue a young couple, Ah Kan and Yan, from a child demon that wants to be reincarnated as their newborn. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
The geomancer lowers the tradesman down it in a basket, which the latter fills with gold and silver and precious stones, and it is drawn up by the geomancer. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
She changed her name to "Li Jia Er" - which sounds the same phonetically as the phrase "adding a son", on the advice of her geomancer, who said it would increase her chances of getting pregnant. From Wordnik.com. [Channel NewsAsia Front Page News] Reference
Lai even changed her Chinese name in December, from "Li Zi" to "Li Jia Er", which sounds the same phonetically as the phrase "adding a son", on the advice of her geomancer, in hopes of getting children. From Wordnik.com. [Channel NewsAsia Front Page News] Reference
They are called in to select propitious sites for houses and graves; and it often happens that if the fortunes of a family are failing, a geomancer will be invited to modify in some way the arrangement of the ancestral graveyard. From Wordnik.com. [The Civilization of China] Reference
The geomancer and his assistants stand on the side of the grave which is turned away from the sun; and the grave-diggers and coffin-bearers attach their shadows firmly to their persons by tying a strip of cloth tightly round their waists. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference
It was also able to foretell the fortunes of any community family or individual according to the spot selected, people believed in the past that a geomancer was able to counteract evil influences by good ones and to save whole districts from devastation by floods, pestilence and so forth. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference
Both the geomancer and the tradesman's enemy are pardoned, but the latter dies soon after, while the geomancer retires to a cave in the mountains, where every morning and evening two small loaves are thrown in to him by an unknown hand, and during the rest of his life he never ceased to repeat this distich. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
Now it happened that the poor tradesman had an enemy who had long waited for an opportunity to do him a personal injury, and that very night he came to the house, and by means of a rope with a hook which he fastened to the wall he climbed on to the roof and descended into the place where the geomancer was sleeping. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
And though he was almost persuaded that Aladdin must have died miserably in the subterranean abode where he had left him, yet he had the curiosity to inform himself about his end with certainty; and as he was a great geomancer, he took out of a cupboard a square, covered box, which he used in his geomantic observations. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales] Reference
When this has been repeated several times and the geomancer views the immense quantity of glittering treasure heaped up beside him, covetous thoughts enter his mind, and he determines to leave the tradesman to his fate at the bottom of the well, take all the wealth for himself, and live in comfort and luxury the rest of his days. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
Of Saturn; and the geomancer sees. From Wordnik.com. [Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete] Reference
The geomancer. From Wordnik.com. [Purgatory. Canto XIX] Reference
The tradesman, taking him for the geomancer, come for more gold, upbraided him for his insatiable avarice, and the man, in his turn, supposing him to have been thrown into the well by the tradesman, replied, "Be satisfied; I have punished him who cast you into this place," but as he began to howl from the pain of his broken foot, the tradesman knew that he was not the geomancer. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
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