AMISSIO

Loss (Release) · figure 1212 · Perdita (Rilascio)

AMISSIO, panel from Christopher Cattan's table, 1591
Christopher Cattan, The Geomancie, 1591

Loss (Release)

The archetype of necessary subtraction. To move forward, something must be left behind. In material terms, it is a deficit; in psychological terms, it is the release of baggage required for evolution. Voluntary or involuntary shedding of weight.

The sixteen figures have no single historical text to quote: this reading is Neuromantica's own, in the line of the classical tradition given below.

Source

Classical geomantic tradition (Agrippa, Fludd, Gerard of Cremona), The sixteen figures: interpretive texts by Neuromantica (1531)