About Geofancy

I first heard of geomancy in 2022 and was immediately taken with it. Polyphanes / Sam Block's writing helped me find good sources and serious material to work through, and John Michael Greer's The Art and Practice of Geomancy was the book I learned the modern revival from — it shaped how I came to the art and how I first structured the engine. I owe both of them a real debt.

Around the same time I had just started my first job as a software engineer on the Microsoft stack. I wanted to build the geomancy tool I wished existed, and through building one I could learn the system from first principles. I started with a WinForms desktop app in C#: shield generation, house projection, perfections — no AI involved in the logic (coding assistants did not meaningfully exist yet). Years of slow evolution later, that engine became the web app and wiki you see today.

I want to be straightforward about this because it matters in our community.

The engine and original interpretive scaffolding follow Greer's approach — the modern English-language framework I learned through. The mechanical doctrine (classical perfecting modes, aspects, Company of Houses, the broad shape of the Way of Points) comes from the shared traditional record Greer works from.

The on-screen reference text today is my own writing. I rewrote every figure, house, and court description (beyond short labels) from practice, reading notes, and public-domain sources (Agrippa, Cattan, Heydon, Fludd, Hartmann, and related material). None of Greer's prose or wording is reproduced; the corpus is mine and is licensed for non-commercial reuse so other practitioners can quote it freely. Rewriting it forced me to deepen the material and own what I present.

Doctrinal lineage acknowledged; copyrighted prose not reproduced. The educational text in the app is something you can read and quote without worrying about third-party IP underneath.

The technical knowledge and logic are mine — every calculation, perfection rule, data model, and API contract was reasoned out intentionally. AI sped up typing code; it did not decide what the code should do. Your reading never touches a server-side chart database or an LLM.

Geofancy is free to use: no paywall, premium tier, ads, or subscription. I intend to keep the core experience free. If anything monetized ever appears, it will be optional and will not gate the chart engine, perfections, Way of Points, or existing reference material.

Geofancy's on-screen text is reference material — vocabulary, structure, and prompts to think with alongside your own interpretation. Software cannot read a chart for you: it cannot weigh your situation, timing, relationship to the question, or the figures' resonance in your life. Whatever any tool prints — mine included — is not a substitute for your own discernment, study, mentorship, or a qualified practitioner.

I built this app first for my own study — to break geomancy down systematically, strengthen how I read charts, and deepen my correspondence with the figures and their placements. I hope the analysis tools help other practitioners see more structure in a reading and support the preservation of the art — without pretending the screen can answer the question for you.