01-01-2026, 04:52 AM
@ R. Sale, Thanks for your note and directing me to that page (I will take a look more carefully if I ever go back to the chart).
I was aware that the topic has been discussed as far as the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. chart is concerned (as I noted in my post). I had not seen considerations of the chart involving geomantic figures. Even your own 4x17 (rather than 4x16, separated by the “ligature,” in my reading) illustrates that you were not considering it from the geomantic vantage point. So, I am suggesting a different reading of the chart. You may disagree with this, but that is how we can recognize different interpretations offered (admittedly speculatively on all sides) even when looking at the same chart, in the past or now.
Another point I was adding was regarding the interpretation of the depictions of the persons on the right and the left in the center. I was stating that their right and left hands are indicating directions, their faces serving to tell the reader that the right and left hands are being used to suggest directions in the chart. Face orientations, in other words, serve the identification of right and left hands raised. I may have missed others pointing that out before, but I thought it had not been explained as such before, so I was sharing it just in case.
Whether you consider the above as parts of the elephant missed before is of course your choice. I thought those were new suggestions. You are welcome to your own opinion.
I was aware that the topic has been discussed as far as the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. chart is concerned (as I noted in my post). I had not seen considerations of the chart involving geomantic figures. Even your own 4x17 (rather than 4x16, separated by the “ligature,” in my reading) illustrates that you were not considering it from the geomantic vantage point. So, I am suggesting a different reading of the chart. You may disagree with this, but that is how we can recognize different interpretations offered (admittedly speculatively on all sides) even when looking at the same chart, in the past or now.
Another point I was adding was regarding the interpretation of the depictions of the persons on the right and the left in the center. I was stating that their right and left hands are indicating directions, their faces serving to tell the reader that the right and left hands are being used to suggest directions in the chart. Face orientations, in other words, serve the identification of right and left hands raised. I may have missed others pointing that out before, but I thought it had not been explained as such before, so I was sharing it just in case.
Whether you consider the above as parts of the elephant missed before is of course your choice. I thought those were new suggestions. You are welcome to your own opinion.