TRISTITIA

Sorrow (Condensation) · figure 2221 · Tristezza (Condensazione)

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

Sorrow (Condensation)

Contraction and grounding. The situation is heavy, serious, and immobile. While painful, it represents a necessary descent into foundational reality. Nothing moves here; it is a time for deep excavation, not surface construction.

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)