Geomantic Magic Squares I am fascinated with patterns that have patterns within patterns, wherever I can find them. Fractals are like that– Simple equations that generate complex patterns, which don’t come out the same with successive runs. Fractals are probably the way that Nature encodes the instructions for making trees. How do the trees know how to do that? Topic for another blog... The Fibonacci sequence and its related structures are another example of this– Awesome and wonderful, and a model that seems to be used by the ground structure of the Universe, as discussed in Chemistry by Number Theory. Well, here’s another one-- I have been reading about the ancient practice of Geomancy. Geomancy is a traditional technique that apparently started somewhere in Africa or the Middle East. The idea is to generate a series of four figures, each consisting of four levels of dots. Each level can have one or two dots. Once generated, the four figures are used to answer questio