POPULUS

The People (Inertia) · figure 2222 · Il Popolo (Inerzia)

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

The People (Inertia)

The weight of the collective. The situation is heavily influenced by external consensus or environment. It suggests stability through mass, but also passivity and the inability to act unilaterally. You are moving with the current of the majority.

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)