Scott Grossberg
THE VITRUVIAN SQUARE
Limited Edition $90; Mass Market edition $29.97

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THE BLURB:
Those of you who already have Scott's book BAUTA know of
Scott's scholarly writing style and ability to really
explore a subject in new and amazingly inspiring ways.

If you have purchased his Deck of Shadows or Keys, you know
that he also likes sharing his expertise in arcane fields
with anyone who has an interest.

This is what Jerome Finley had to say in his introduction to
this book:

"Welcome to THE VITRUVIAN SQUARE.

Knowing what I know, I envy your position now and I'm
thrilled about the incredible journey and path you're about
to step foot upon.

Many months ago I contacted Scott Grossberg to seek his
advice on something that had been deeply troubling me.
Extremely impressed with Scott's live readings and radio
performances, his former works, THE MASKS OF TAROT and
BAUTA, and his oracle cards, THE DECK OF SHADOWS, I was
certain I had contacted the proper man for this particular
issue.

At the time I had recently crossed over from doing readings
with one oracle (system, method, and approach) into new and
uncharted territory that was foreign to me on the level at
which I was practicing. I had fallen flat on my face
multiple times now, HARD, and I didn't want that to happen
again.

I realized immediately that I had to grow, adapt, evolve,
and then expand my tools and refresh my approach to what I
call, "The Art and Science of Knowing Other People."

There had to be an answer and I was confident that Scott
Grossberg had it, knew of it, or could point me in the right
direction to find it. I couldn't have been more correct!

I contacted Scott out of pure necessity and we spoke for
some hours about the special problems and issues I was
experiencing. Besides providing me with volumes of priceless
insights and invigorating approaches to what I was doing,
Scott told me there was something else he had been working
with privately for several years now . . . something he
called, "The Vitruvian Square."

Little did I realize that Scott was actually tipping (for
the very first time) HIS OWN superb system and approach for
giving deep and impactful readings; a system composed of
equally balanced parts built and maintained with a sort of
elegance and harmony only a Master could deliver. What
appeared then was a systematic approach to the "art of
knowing others" - a cohesive structure, path of logic, and
school of wisdom (as functional as any oracle could provide
or hope to offer) which not only allowed for one's natural
knowing, intuition, and creativity to flourish, but the
system itself demanded and provoked such.

Though he had developed his system quietly and for his own
private use, Scott was willing to provide me with a basic
write-up of his unique system and got to work. What appeared
over the following weeks and months was a multitude of
insights, methods, techniques, and approaches that were
nothing short of ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT.

Once Scott had started the amazing task of putting his
thoughts and approach into words, he often found it
difficult to stop writing as this particular system flows so
organically from one insight to the next that each piece
explained and opened up the doors wide to a dozen others.
Interestingly enough, this is exactly what will take place
in your own readings drawing upon THE VITRUVIAN SQUARE
system.

What Scott shared with me has completely transformed the way
I do my readings. No other technique or approached I've ever
used has been of such incredible value or personal benefit
to me and even my clients can tell the difference. My level
of confidence has soared, my private readings and public
performances have become tighter than ever before, and I'm
simply able to KNOW MORE with far less time and effort.

Using the approach and methods Scott has honed and perfected
through years of personal use, you'll find yourself ready
and able to give amazingly detailed readings in any
situation or venue, without repetition, without stock lines
or memorized scripts, without the need for chicanery of any
kind and without fear of failure.

If there's one thing I've learned in all my years of doing
this work, I owe the most self-growth to and personal
success in the realm of private readings and public question
answering, it is without a doubt Scott Grossberg's
VITRUVIAN SQUARE.

Having derived such remarkable value and insight,
confidence, personal power, and sustained ability from this
approach I gently encouraged Scott and nudged him in the
direction he had been contemplating in private,
specifically, making this work available to others.

That Scott's VITRUVIAN SQUARE had impacted me on such deep
and significant levels was more than enough to convince me
this was something others could and would greatly benefit
from, as well. For me personally, Scott's approach was the
missing link in my own work and provided me and the people I
read for exactly what was being sought after, needed,
required, and desired to take my readings and our experience
together to the next level and beyond.

What started as a private sharing and conversation between
friends has evolved into what I firmly believe will be
hailed as the single greatest advance and breakthrough
approach to giving readings developed in the last 100 years.

Though Scott has offered us a superior system, rock-solid
approach, and spectacular structure to implement in our
readings it should be noted this is NOT a "cold reading"
method. Like every oracle born through necessity, "The
Vitruvian Square" provides us with a combination of tools
(all working together) which allows the reader, the client,
the oracle, and the individual parts that comprise each to
move the experience and insights gleaned from one point and
level to the next in an elegant, logical, intuitive,
detailed, and harmonious fashion.

Scott's approach is an even blend and perfect balance
between logic and intuition. Once you've learned and
integrated THE VITRUVIAN SQUARE system, you'll be able to
look at a person, place or thing, question, problem or
circumstance, and through interacting with the square, be
able to know and understand it on a deeper and more profound
level than ever before.

That nothing in this field or endeavor has been of greater
value or personal significance to me speaks volumes. Through
Scott's approach I am better equipped to truly "Know
Thyself" and now I see THE VITRUVIAN SQUARE in all things.
It is the perfect looking glass, sounding board, and
reflective surface within which one is allowed and empowered
towards a level of understanding and intimacy rarely
approached. More than just an incredible system for giving
readings, THE VITRUVIAN SQUARE provides us with a tool and
process for self-discovery.

My own work with THE VITRUVIAN SQUARE has shown me more
and more every day that our world is made up of symbols,
layers, energies, codes, thoughts, consciousness,
suggestions, perceptions, and our feeble attempts to define
and make sense of these things. And though we may never
fully understand all of them, we CAN begin to understand all
of them even more via the work and process you're currently
holding.

Enter now the Vitruvian Palace and allow her residents to
speak to you. In a short time you'll begin to see THE
VITRUVIAN SQUARE in all things, and that all things exist
(on some level) within THE VITRUVIAN SQUARE.

By throwing yourself and/or another person into this
self-contained Palace of Wisdom you'll see things you've not
ever seen before . . . and it will happen very quickly.

To end, I'm absolutely honored that Scott has shared this
ground breaking work with me and even still, that I'm able
to write the forward to this book. It will go down in
history as an instant classic and the golden standard by
which all future systems and approaches shall be measured.

Jerome D. Finley"


Since mankind's earliest days, we have sought to know the
thoughts of another. From the sheer need for safety and
survival, we have tried to predict what tomorrow will bring.
The challenge, of course, has been how unique we all are and
the different ways each of us has tried to know and
understand ourselves and what waits for us up ahead. No one
has ever dreamed it would be possible to bring all the
varied divination methods together into one workable system.
Until now . . .

Reduced to its simplest description, this is a book about
fortune telling. Really, this is a book that teaches you how
to tell people about themselves, where they have been, and
where they are likely going. Inside these pages you are
given a system of techniques that have been joined together
in a novel and highly useable way.

So, are you ready to embark on an exciting and mystifying
adventure through the world of prediction and prophecy?

Leaping Lizards is really proud that Scott has entrusted us
with his latest book created for the general public, THE
VITRUVIAN SQUARE.


MY COMMENTS:
When Scott Grossberg first told me about this, I was very
excited. After reading this book (6" x 9", 170 pages), I
feel no less about this. This is an amazing tool for anyone
who's interested in doing readings. What Grossberg has
done is to create a very simple, easy-to-learn foundation
for doing readings of many types and of all levels. It's
based on the classic Lo Shu Square, though Grossberg has
made some very wise modifications and provided some
unique insight so that it can apply to a wide variety of
things. It is a complete system and once you learn this,
you don't really need anything else. You can apply this to
many other types of readings, too.

To clarify, this versatile tool can certainly be classified
as a cold reading system. With this, you're able to read a
person without having met them before. You can use the
basic Vitruvian Square or get as advanced as you need to.
The Vitruvian Square can apply to numerology, tarot,
symbols, and palmistry, in addition to other reading
oracles.

Grossberg uses a worksheet which is included in the back of
the book for duplicating purposes or for practice. If you
can count from 1 to 9, know the letters of the alphabet, and
play Tic-Tac-Toe, then you have all the skills you need.
There is some memorization necessary, but that's really only
for those who are unfamiliar with numerology. Grossberg has
made it very easy for you to learn, if you don't know the
basic meanings already.

The limited edition from Leaping Lizards is hardcover, plus
it comes with a special CD that contains a PDF version of
the worksheet in full-size (8.5" x 11"). It also contains a
special 60-minute audio in which Grossberg provides tips,
personal handling, and a "quick start" private tutoring of
the method. I felt that this audio recording alone was
worth purchasing the limited edition.

The mass market paperback edition is available from
Amazon.com. It does not come with the CD, but it is
cheaper. It lists for $29.95 and, as of the time of this
writing, it's discounted quite a bit.

To be fair, Scott Grossberg is a friend and I just featured
him in an issue of Journal of the Mind. So, yeah, I may be
a bit biased. But I think I can honestly say that even if
there were not the case, I would still think the same way.
Needless to say, I highly recommend this for anyone who's
interested in doing any type of readings, both beginners and
professional.

Table of Contents:
Forward by Jerome Finley
An Introduction
Some Background
The Basic Vitruvian Square
The Letters of the Alphabet
Tarot - The Major Arcana
The Planes
The Axes
Other Connections
Choosing the Squares to Use - The Basics
Choosing the Squares to Use - Threefold Number Method
Choosing the Squares to Use - Further Adventures
Mythic Readings with the Vitruvian Square
Medicine Wheels, The Minor Arcana, and Structures of Self
Alchemy and the Vessels of the Soul
Miscellaneous Odds and Ends
Palmistry
Additional Tools
The Vitruvian Palace - An Inner Journey