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, read through five sourced systems: Waite-Smith, Golden Dawn, French occult, Etteilla, and a modern reading. Correspondences are switchable too.
Sourced from: Waite’s Pictorial Key to the Tarot; the Golden Dawn’s Book T (Regardie, The Complete Golden Dawn System of Magic); Papus’s Tarot of the Bohemians; Etteilla’s Dictionnaire synonimique; cross-checked against Skinner’s The Magician’s Tables.
Elder Futhark and Odin’s Rune: upright and merkstave, across all three aettir.
Sourced from: the medieval rune poems (Dickins, 1915), with Thorsson, Blum and Arcarti for the modern layers, each labelled by age.
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.