Cards, staves, coins and earth. Four systems that have very little to do with one another historically, and which arrive at the same place: a fixed set of symbols, a method of selecting among them without deciding, and a body of traditional meaning to read the result against.
Each is sourced separately, and each says plainly where its material comes from — and where it doesn’t. Astrology sits apart from these, in its own chapter, because it asks a different kind of question: not what has been drawn, but where things stand.
78 cards in the Rider–Waite tradition, with hermetic correspondences throughout.
Sourced from: Regardie’s Golden Dawn material; Skinner’s The Magician’s Tables.
Elder Futhark and Odin’s Rune — upright and merkstave, across all three aettir.
Sourced from: Gundarsson, Thorsson and Blum — approached as a careful outsider.
The Book of Changes — sixty-four hexagrams, each read from the bottom line upward.
Sourced from: James Legge’s 1882 translation, public domain, verified against the original scan.
Divination by the earth — sixteen figures cast without counting, read through twelve houses.
Sourced from: The Golden Dawn geomancy papers, ed. Regardie.
Every correspondence in these four systems is either cited to a named source or marked as synthesis. The full record lives on the Citations & Trust page.