Sacred Geometry Oracle Delayed

[ecosophia]

I think most people know at this point that the current CoVID-19 coronavirus outbreak has scrambled economic activity all over the world -- and yes, that's affecting even so modest an economic sector as the production of occult literature.  Aeon Press, the publisher that's going to be bringing out the new edition of my Sacred Geometry Oracle, had arranged to get the 33-card deck printed in China -- that's where most high-quality card decks are printed these days -- but they've just been informed that, due to the current mess, production is going to be on hold for some months to come.

With that in mind, Aeon Books has had to postpone the release of The Sacred Geometry Oracle until April of 2021. Those who've ordered advance copies will still get them; alternatively you can contact the publisher for a prompt refund. In the meantime, I'm going to speed up work on the system of occult training and practice that relies on this deck, with the hope of getting as much of it as possible into print in the months following the Oracle's release. 

Thank you for your patience! At least oracle decks aren't as unavoidable a necessity as, say, toilet paper...

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Works for me: I'll actually have money for them by the time they come out now!

Alternatives

[(Anonymous)]

I’m very sorry to hear this, it must be hugely frustrating.

You’ve probably got a variety of reasons not to do an early distribution electronically via pdf but as I’ve found recently, given the current circumstances - the people I do business have been willing to allow variances on contracts in order to let people survive. It’s easy to copy pdfs, but of course they can be watermarked and even sold on ‘print this out and delete the file’ promise.

Oh well. I will just have to content myself with getting hold of the Thibault translation which sounds fascinating. I suspect my days of poking swords at people are done, but there’s this novel I’m writing.....

Andy

Re: Alternatives

[ecosophia]

Since the thing that's delayed is the card deck -- and most people don't have the facilities to print out PDF files onto good laminated card stock -- I didn't really have the option. After all the other hassles and delays this project has faced since I first developed it 20 years ago, I can wait another year...

Re: Alternatives

[(Anonymous)]

What happened to make it take 20 years?

Re: Alternatives

[ecosophia]

It's a long and ugly story, and involves interactions between me and a publisher that probably shouldn't be splashed all over the internet, so I'm going to pass on explaining the details.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm going to have to wait until Amazon has this. I have tried to order from Aeon a number of times and I just can't seem to make it work. My bank is very conservative and they reject the online order as "suspicious" every time.

Annoying.

[(Anonymous)]

Unfortunate! This is one of the things I was really looking forward to this year.
-Cliff

[ecosophia]

I was looking forward at least as much to finally having a good version of it out. :-(

Spirals

[tunesmyth]

Sorry to hear this! May it all come together at the right time.

I didn’t ask this before because I was planning on just waiting for the new material. But as I own the old version, may I ask— you mentioned that you had revised your notion of the spiral somewhat since the original publication. As the spiral will be reordered In the deck (and a few other cards renumbered as a result), is it okay to ask what its new number will be? Also, I’m sure that the previous text is enough to get started with, but do you by any chance have anything new to say about the spiral for when we consider it in meditation?

Re: Spirals

[ecosophia]

In the new version, the card The Spiral moves from 5 to 21, and everything between those numbers moves down one -- thus The Ellipse is 5 and Gnomonic Expansion is 20. As far as the meditation goes, no, iirc it's exactly the same.

[thuley]

I decided at the beginning of the year that I couldn't wait and bought a copy of the old SGO.

It's really fantastic. I've learned more abstract occult concepts through this deck and its meditation exercises than any book I've read. The guidance has also been stellar. It's the most responsive method of divination I've experienced with cards in present and future positions routinely showing up in the past position when I've overcome the represented hurdle. Having this kind of progress marker as a solo practitioner is something I've desired for a long time.

I'll still buy the new deck to see the updates and to give readings to friends and family.

I am also supremely interested in the system of occult training and practice you're working on for sacred geometers. The SGO has caused me to seriously re-evaluate the way I see the world and shifted me from linear thinking toward seeing spiral patterns of expansion, limitation, and contraction everywhere--it's a little like Junji Ito's graphic novel Uzumaki to be honest. At the same time, it's causing me to scrutinize occult practices and see limitations and missed opportunities I haven't before. A working system of practices is going to be vital benchmark I can use to gauge the validity of such evaluations.

[ecosophia]

Glad to hear it. The system of occult training and practice is well under way; as I think I've mentioned already, it uses the Sphere of Protection as one of its three basic practices (the others, of course, being discursive meditation and divination with the SGO deck) and will have a great deal of material to work with: sacred geometry, occult philosophy, astrology, and more. If you haven't read my book The Secret of the Temple, that might be worth a glance sometime in the next year, because the material covered in that book is also going to be factored in...

[(Anonymous)]

Is the original version still available someplace? I was really looking forward to this, and if I can get the same benefit from the OV I might go ahead with it.

Thanks.

[ecosophia]

It's been out of print for a while but it's readily available on the used book market.