EARTH / Landscape, weather & animal signs

Nephomancy.

Symbolic interpretation of cloud shapes or changing cloud formations.

LEXICON / LANGUAGE & MEANING

Names in context.

Nephomancy: Nefelomancia
Divination through cloud forms.
Cloud reading: Lectura de nubes
Observation and interpretation of clouds, with meteorological and symbolic meanings stated separately.

PROVENANCE & INTERPRETATION

A practice,
a setting.

Cloud reading can sit alongside ordinary cloud observation. A meteorological classification describes physical forms, while a symbolic reading records a personal or culturally sourced association.

Earth

FIELD NOTE / METHOD

Keep a record.

Record the time, direction, weather and visible horizon.
Describe cloud type or shape before naming an association.
Retain the full scene and note how the form changes over time.

POTPOURRI / PHOTO GUIDE

What to include.

Include a wide sky image with the horizon or a direction reference.
Send a short time sequence if the reading concerns a transformation in shape.

POTPOURRI / PERSONAL INTERPRETATION

Share a photograph or a record.

A photograph, drawing or dated record can be sent privately for a personal reading. Include the procedure and the question.

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