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Ming Emperor Yung Lo followed his astrologer's plan to make the city a geomantic portrait of No Cha, a three-headed monster with six arms.

From Time Magazine Archive

The new Shanghai stock exchange is built in the shape of a hollowed square to help trap positive energy, a nod to the ancient geomantic rituals of feng shui.

From Time Magazine Archive

Moreover, before she died, my father said to her, 'Draw me a geomantic figure and see the issue of my affair and what will befall me.'

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by Payne, John

Whilst the geomantic art is a recognized one and is believed in by the whole of the nation, the professors of it are not held in the highest esteem by the community at large.

From Sidelights on Chinese Life by Macgowan, J. (John)

A long table was covered with scrolls, skulls, crucibles, crystals, star-charts, geomantic figures, and other appurtenances of a magician's calling.

From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Garnett, Richard