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Sacred Space
All the Earth is sacred - it's just that some places seem alive, and it is easier to be aware of that spiritual connection. We have found that these sacred spaces are aligned astronomically, constucted using sacred geometery, and built over Earth energy power centers. LABYRINTHS Labyrinths are a sub-class of sacred spaces. These magical single path tools are undoubtedly the most popular of the new sacred spaces that are being built today. A geomancer's job is to set the stage for the spiritual production. This labyrinths section can give you ideas on how you can make them using their seed patterns. There are also ideas on one way that you can use these ancient sacred spaces as a practical problem solving device. OLD SACRED SPACES It is through the study of ancient sacred spaces that modern geomancers have learned much of what we presently know about our ancient art. Patrick MacManaway lives in New England, and Sig got his Masters Degree studying sacred spaces there. Here are some examples. Glastonbury is but one of many sacred sites around the world. Sig and Barry happen to live here, so we have a section on this magnificent pilgrimage town. Easter Aquorthies is a classic example of a recombent stone ring. Remember to use the scroll bar.
Labyrinths, magical single path tools, are found 'round the world, and are in a class by themselves. This section shows old labyrinths around the Atlantic from the dim reaches of pre history, to our arbitratry date of 1900 CE.. Archaeoastronomy at sacred sites has demonstrated the importance of the heavens. NEW SACRED SPACE In recent years, there has been a revival in the construction of new sacred spaces using old geomantic principles. We offer one section of new sacred spaces of various kinds, and another specifically on new labyrinths that have been built within the last ten years. We also include our Sacred Crops section. Regardless of your theory of how they are constructed and who actually makes them, these crop circles are new, and they are found in England around some of this countrty's most important sacred sites. |
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The Avebury Megalithic Complex  The panorama below was taken by Karin Schlüter, Sig's partner, from the flat top of Silbury Hill, prehistoric Europe's largest human made mound. Shortly before this picture was taken on July 9th 1998, six different crop circles could be seen from the top of Silbury Hill. Unfortunately, several of the fields containing these circles were harvested. We did manage to capture a couple of them.
The individual pictures were stitched together by Heather Hoon. Scroll round the picture below by clicking on the image and dragging the mouse left or right. Quicktime required. http://www.geomancy.org/sacred-space/old-sacred-spaces/silbury-hill/index.html |
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New England's Megalithic Mysteries Beginning in the late nineteen-sixties, many people in New England (in NorthEastern USA) have awakened to the reality that someone unknown to them has left a great deal of lithic/stone evidence of their being there. These "old stone bones" take many forms, but this culture is best known for their underground dry-wall stone chambers. In this section of MAG, we will present evidence of this culture throughout New England (in northeastern United States, just below Eastern Canada) and in the Hudson River Valley of New York. Vermont - Calendar II  Calendar II in central Vermont is perhaps the most famous of the Vermont chambers. Standing to the left of the mouth of Calendar II is Betty Sincerbeaux, perhaps more than anyone else, was responsible for waking the rest of us see the reality of this lithic culture in Vermont. Photo by Byron Dix.
 The interior of the chamber. This is the biggest chamber in Vermont, and perhaps in all of New England, measuring ten feet by twenty feet (approximately three meters by six meters). This ratio of 20:10 / 2:1 is found in the King's chamber of the Great Pyramid. There are seven massive lintel stones that span this width. Notice the flue hole/opening in the ceiling at the back of the chamber. See the candle in the back? This is evidence of its use as a ceremonial centre.
 Winter Solstice Sunrise as seen from the back of the chamber of Calendar II. Notice that the sun is rising through a notch in the hills. Many chambers in New England are oriented towards significant horizonal astronomical events. Sacred sites do not have the same degree of spiritual energy throughout the year. One of the best indicators of when a site is at its "hottest" is when the major axis aligns to a significant horizonal astronomical (in this case Solar) event. Photo by Byron Dix.
 The ASD /NEARA Earth Energies Group measured forty different chambers in Vermont in the early nineteen-eighties. Here several of the members are working on Calendar 1 during the time of the excavation. They looked for three things:
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Is there evidence of archaeo-astronomical alignment of the chambers to the Sun or Moon on significant days of the year? (This is what they are looking for here.) -
Are significant sacred geometrical ratios found by taking three length measurements and three width measurements, dividing each by three, and then dividing the average width into the average depth? This yields a ratio of something to the number one. In the case of Calendar I, above, the ratio is 1.617 : 1. Phi (Ø) is a basic sacred geometrical ratio is 1.618 : 1. - Were there common patterns of Earth energies in these chambers? We found this to be the case in many of them.
 |  | | One view of the Equinox Sunrise at Calendar I. The chamber faces a high ridge that runs North-South. There are peaks at both ends of the ridge, and a saddle, or dip, in the middle (where the Equinox sun rises somewhat south of East due to the angle of elevation to the horizon. Photo by Byron Dix. | The Equinox sun rise from a lower angle, within the same chamber. As you can see from the picture to the left, there is a significant angle of elevation to the horizon, so while, given a level horizon, the Sun rises due East anywhere on Earth at both Equinoxes, the Calendar 1 chamber is oriented somewhat south of True East to make the alignment. Photo by Dorothy Todd. |  Archaeoastronomer Byron Dix at a stone he found central to the astronomy at Calendar I. Here he is demonstrating how he was kneeling when something like an enormous shock had literally thrown him off the stone!
It is standing with one's foot wedged against this stone that the Winter Solstice Sunrise can be seen (see next image).  A North/South ridge rises sharply to the East of Calendar 1. The angle of elevation to the horizon is significant; therefore, the Sun rises much further to the South than it would be with a level horizon. The Equinox Sunrise as seen from the Calendar 1 chamber occurs in a saddle in that ridge.
This stone is at the top of the southern end of that north-south ridge. When standing at that central stone, the first gleam of the rising Summer Solstice Sun can be seen through this notch! |
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Glastonbury Glastonbury Tor  Glastonbury, in the county of Somerset in South Western England, has been a place of sanctity and pilgrimage for at least several thousand years. Glastonbury Tor (just called 'the Tor') with its single tower, dominates the area sticking up well above the flat Somerset Levels, which are at, or a bit below, sea level.
It is not sure when the Glastobury area was first occupied. The Sweet Track (dated 1380 BCE) the oldest marsh walkway known. It's far from Mere. The first people we know occupied Ynys Witrin, or the Isle of Glass, were the Celtic Druids. It is said that Glastonbury (at that time a small cluster of islands rising above the submerged Somerset Levels) was the location of one of three Druidic perpetual choirs. The other two were said to be on the islands of Anglesey (North West Wales, where the Druids made their last stand against the Romans), and Iona (further North, off the West coast of Scotland, where St Columba brought Catholic Christianity to Scotland). These eternal choirs made music twenty-four hours a day, three hundred and sixty five days a year. They were literally enchanting the land.  Glastonbury, as seen from the Holy
Thorn on Wearyall Hill, is in the upper
left-hand corner. The Abbey is below
the first 'Y' on the bottom branch.
On the right horizon, Chalice Hill is
just to the left of the TorAccording to tradition, in 37AD, Joseph of Arimathea, the man who provided Christ his tomb, came here. He set foot onto Ynys Witrin on Wearyall Hill, where he plant-ed his Jerusalem Thorn staff and rested his feet from the long journey. The staff took root, and it is said that a scion of that tree still grows on Wearyall Hill to this day Glastonbury Abbey  This chapel marks the site of Joseph of Arimathea's original church, the first above-ground purpose-built church in all of Christendom. Glastonbury is the only place that claims King Arthur's grave. It was found in the the Abbey cemetery - to the right in this view.
The Celts had a deity named Easus who died and was supposed to come back to life. When the Druids heard about Jesus from Joseph of Arimathea, they saw the return of Easus in the story, and they gave Ynys Witrin to him. It was here on the site of the Mary Chapel where Joseph built the first above-ground Christian church in all of Christendom. Notice that the arches are Romanesque - half round.  On the wall of the Mary Chapel, to the right of the door above, are the words:
Jesus
Maria Historians say this Mary is the Blessed Virgin. Mythtorians say it is Mary Magdalene, the name of the street that runs in front of today's main gate to the Abbey.  The Gallillee is the section below the right hand tower above. The Gothic arch in the door at the top of the stairs of this building to the right frames the rest of the Abbey.
The Gothic Arch came after the Romanesque arch, and is made with the top half of a vesica pisces.  |  | | This was the birthplace of Celtic Christianity. It grew to be a powerful site of pilgrimage for Christians - so powerful that, when Henry VIII created the Anglican Church, he had to send his men to Glastonbury to find a pretext to take over the Abbey's land. They found a chalice in Abbot Whiting's office. They said that it should have been in the treasury, so Abbot Whiting was obviously stealing it. They hanged him on trumped-up charges and then drew and quartered this unfortunate Catholic Abbot. After that, the Abbey treasure was taken and the building was allowed to fall into ruin. | The Choir. In the foreground is where King Arthur's bones were moved after they were discovered in the Abbey cemetery. Behind that is the black-chained ares that marks the High Altar. The pillars behind the altar mark the beginning of the Edgar Chapel, and behind that, the Edwardian Manor House that is now an Anglican Retreat Centre. Today the Abbey is a pilgrimage site for all who come to Glastonbury. Its grounds are beautifully kept, and it is a place of silent meditation for all who enter. | Bligh Bond at the Abbey 
Bond marked any structure he added to support the
ruined Abbey with the date he did it - note 1909.
In the first part of the twentieth century, the Anglican Church hired Church architect Frederick Bligh Bond to do a dig at the Glastonbury Abbey. His discoveries were amazing, including the unexpected Edgar Chapel at the head of the Abbey (in foreground). His success was due to a series of automatic writings in which Bond communicated with a thirteenth century monk, who spoke to him about the layout of the Abbey and grounds. Unfortunately for him, Bond wrote about this communication in a book called The Gate Of Remembrance, published in 1918. He very quickly lost his job and was not often hired as an ecclesiastical architect after that. Bond also designed the vesica pisces lid on the Chalice Well.  The Egg Stone was discovered by Bond in the Edgar Chapel, the building behind the High Altar. It was clearly a pagan item - much like an omphalos (navel) stone. While the Church didn't want to leave it where it was found, it was too powerful to be thrown away, so Bond tucked it away behind the Abbot's Kitchen.
The Chalice Well  Here you will find a place of beauty, peace, and healing. Spiritual Pilgrims of all kinds have come to this special place from time immemorial. The waters of this holy well are known for its healing and for it's connection with the Earth Mother, the red waters of the Chalice Well in Glastonbury, England. This is a visual visit up through the garden to the Chalice Well, known locally as the Red Spring, or the Blood Spring. There are so many special places to visit in this garden. Here are some of the high points along the way. Welcome again to the garden and the Chalice Well. May you find what you seek here.
 The head of the well is at the top of the garden. The first spot you will reach at the bottom of the garden is this vesica pisces shaped pool that has Chalice Well water flowing in to it through a series of flow forms. The vesica pisces is a sacred geometrical symbol in which the circumference of one circle goes through the center of another identical circle. The bit in the middle is the vesica.
The Vesica Pisces is the sacred geometrical figure of the last two thousand years. Extend one end of the Vesica and you get a fish - the symbol in Roman times that you were a Christian. The top half of the Vesica made the Gothic arch. It is a symbol that comes up again and again in these gardens. It is one of the five major sacred geometrical symbols. If the radius of either circle is one, the major axis of the vesica is the square root of three.  The vesica picses is not only sacred to Christians. It is an important symbol for many spiritual paths. Just up the hill from the Vesica Pool, on the right next to a door in the wall, is an old yew tree that has grown apart at the base and then grown together again about six feet higher up. This vulvic shape is sacred to the Goddess, and many visitors see these waters as Her blood spring.
 The next area of the garden is called King Arthur's courtyard. It has long been a place of healing. The pool on the right is a shallow one now, but in the nineteenth century, it was much deeper, allowing for total immersion. It is now a place of quiet contemplation with the sound of the falling water creating a soothing background.
The Lion's Head under the Glastonbury Tor  The Chalice Well is nestled at the base of the Glastonbury Tor. You can see the tower on the Tor through the trees. Below the tower is the Lion's Head, where pilgrims are welcome to drink of these waters. It is always a place of special prayers and personal ceremony. The tree above and to the left of the Lion's Head is a holy thorn, scion of The Holy Thorn Tree (Crateagus Monogyna Praecox) that Joseph of Arimathea brought from the Holy Land. It is a special thorn because in late October and early November, around the time of Samhain, the Celtic time of death and rebirth, this tree, and others like it around Glastonbury have both berries and flowers!
Holy Thorn with both Blossoms and Berries  It is as if both birth and death, flower and fruit can happen at the same moment. The Holy Thorn truly reflects the spirit of the Samhain, the Celtic New Year. There are two Holy Thorns in the garden - one is next to the Vesica Pool, and the other is the tree in the centre of the picture above - just above the Loin's Head. This blossoming and berries are still happening at the WInter Solstice when the Mayor of Glastonbury cuts a branch or two from the Holy Thorn in St. John's Church yard, and sends it to the Queen for her breakfast table on Christmas morning - again, a time of birth.
This garden is a place of transformation. Just a short stroll above the Lion's Head is the goal of our pilgrimage, the Chalice Well itself.  The vesica pisces on the lid of Chalice Well was designed by the excavator of Glastonbury Abbey, Frederick Bligh Bond, resident archaeologist of the Glastonbury Abbey in the early 1900's. It was given to the Chalice Well as a thank-offering for Peace in 1919, and ideal symbol for Universal Peace, by friends and lovers of the Well and of Glastonbury, representing every type of thought, Eastern and Western among them. The Chalice Well Trust carries on this philosophy today, and the gardens are open to individuals of all spiritual paths. The vesica pisces clearly symbolizes this.
 The waters of the Chalice Well have never been known to fail. It was the only source that kept on working through the drought of 1921 -22. Under Bligh Bond's lid, 25,000 gallons of water gush upwards to the surface of the Earth every day filing several human-built small-room-sized subterranean chambers. For millennia, both Christians and Pagans (as well as followers of many other spiritual paths from other lands) have come to this holy place to seek healing, new visions and renewal. Come visit the garden yourself, taste the water, and take time to be in the silence and enjoy the beauty. This is but one of the sacred places on the Isle of Glass where you can experience the Spirit of Glastonbury.
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Tor means "natural hill." Some say the Glastonbury Tor is actually a three-dimensional labyrinth. My feeling is, if you see it, it's there. If you don't, is isn't. |  We end up where we began on this all too brief tour of Glastonbury, at the Tor. This 518ft high natural hill dominates the Somerset Levels and the hills that contain the Levels. It has Druidic, Arthurian, Christian and other spiritual connections. Go there on any Celtic Cross-quarter day - there will be people celebrating on the Tor. I have been there for many seasonal celebrations. One full Moon-eclipse-and-see-the-comet heavenly light show is particularly memorable. At times like this there are usually a hundred souls up there celebrating with the drumming, chanting and other activities, it is quite powerful.
Running up from St Michael's Mount near Penzance in South-Western Cornwall, there is a narrow geomantic corridor that runs for a few hundred miles to the North-East through a number of significant sacred sites including the Tor and the edge of the Avebury stone circle, and a large number of sites and churches dedicated to St Michael. With a level horizon, this alignment points to the rising Sun on the Celtic Cross-quarter day of Beltane (May Day), and the setting sun on Samhain (Halloween).  John Michell first proposed this 'Michael Line'. Hamish Miller and Paul Broadhurst dowsed it and found that it was actually two sinuous lines - one was yin, the other yang. They called them the Michael and Mary lines. This geomantic corridor, and the Michael and Mary lines converge on the top of Glastonbury Tor. It is at the top of the Tor where Glastonbury connects with the rest of the world.
This connection can be felt at all times of the day or night. One of my favourites is in the evening at Sunset. Many pilgrims walk up the Tor at that time. The entire town benefits from the energies of this magical sacred space, and it radiates this spiritual awareness, love, readiness for change and openness to alternative thinking and living out into the rest of the world.  If you are planning to visit Glastonbury, be sure to get a copy of Palden Jenkins ley map called The Ancient Landscape Around Glastonbury. A wonderful ley map of the Glastonbury and a great overall view of this magical pilgrimage town. A must have map if you plan to visit Glastonbury. Glastonbury: Gothic Image Publications. ISBN 0 906362 66 0. £3.99
This is the end of our MAG tour of Glastonbury. There are a number of other sites that focus on Glastonbury. Here are some: Isle of Avalon is the Glastonbury Alternative website. It contains numerous web pages from "The Glastonbury Archive" and "The Knowledge Bank," both resources Glastonbury ideas much by Glastonbury authors, to a guide to the millennium, several guided tours 'round the Land of Avalon, a good astrology section, and "Avalon Articulates" (an e-zine), and much more. IMHO, the best site for alternative Glastonbury. Mystical-WWW is Mell Paul's wonderful site. This has a section is devoted specifically to Glastonbury - all the sacred sites, a history, and a special emphasis on Arthurian connections. This has much solid information. Welcome to Glastonbury. A good site for when you come here for the first time. Good on the practical stuff - how to get here, where to stay, shopping, business directory. |
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Old Labyrinths Old Europe This collection of pictures of "Old" Labyrinths (built before 1900 CE, and admittedly arbitrary figure) is not meant in any way to cover the entire range of possibilities. More, it is a record of labyrinths that Sig, or his friends have visited, but it gives a general picture of labyrinths on both sides of the Atlantic. They are in rough chronological order.  The Meander Pattern, or Greek Key, goes back way into our prehistoric past. Marija Gimbutas found this meander pattern on the figurine on the left in the Ukraine dated at 15,000 to 18,000 BCE. She also found it in this bird goddess figurine on the right from the Vinca Culture in what was Northern Yugoslavia. (reprinted from Sig's book, by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.)
The Meander River and the word "labrys" and it also appears that "labyrinth" come from an area of SouthWestern Turkey that was called "Caunia." The Meander is one key to making the labyrinths. The seed pattern is, of course, another.  The most famous labyrinth, of course, is the one in Knossos, on the Eastern Mediterranean island of Crete. Here King Minos constructed the famous labyrinth that held his monster son, the Minotaur. This is the story of Thesius, the most famous human hero in Greek mythology. Sent on a mission to defeat the Minoans, after receiving the "clew" from Ariadne, Thesius unrolled a ball of yarn as he descended into the monster's lair. This actually was a maze not a labyrinth. The Greeks didn't realize that there was a difference between the two, that's the confusion.
Notice on the illustration on the left of Thesius and the Minotaur, that it is surrounded by the meander pattern, or the Greek key.  The earliest recorded labyrinth was found in C.1200 BCE, in King Nestor palace Pylos, Southern Greece. Nestor fought with Agamemnon at Troy. Many labyrinths in Northern Europe are called Troytown, Walls of Troy, Trojaberg (in Sweden). Caerdria, the leading English language magazine on labyrinths means "hill of turning" or "hill of Troy."
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Archaeoastronomy Introduction  Our prehistoric ancestors were very aware of the movements of celestial bodies in the heavens - especially the Sun. Ancient sacred sites were usually oriented towards significant horizonal astronomical events. Since the time of Norman Lockyer when he documented at the turn of the last century that indeed the Summer Solstice Sunrise did come up over the Heel Stone at Stonehenge (on the Wiltshire Downs in England), scientists have been finding significant astronomical orientations at more and more ancient sacred sites all over the world.
 From the Peruvian Machu Picchu's 'hitching post of the Sun', the Intihuatana Stone, to the Viking labyrinths in Sweden, and at Cairn T at Loughcrew Carnbane East (seen here on the right), it was important to orient the sacred site towards the Sun, the Moon and occasionally specific stars as they rose or set along the horizon. Carnbane East is in the Loughcrew Mountains of Ireland, about twenty miles North-West of Newgrange.
 Notice the shaft of light creating a circle with an eight-petalled flower inside, pecked on the back wall of the chamber. Sig took this series of photos in the late eighties, Notice how different the beam of light looks in the video from Knowth.com above. I am not clear why this is the case - perhaps one was shot one day off from the actual point of Equinox.
Link to a great video of Cairn T at Loughcrew Equinox Sunrise. Thanks to Knowth.com for this video. |
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The Cross Quarter Days Why did our foremothers and forefathers know so much about astronomy? First of all, unlike ourselves, they lived in it. Anyone who has lived outdoors for a while begins to develop a different relationship with nature and the sky. Living in houses and especially in cities, where the ambient light and the tall buildings block out the heavens, we have forgotten the natural flow of the cosmos. Outdoors, if you get up at first light and go to bed when it gets dark, you notice the Sun as it rises and sets each day. In the Northern hemisphere, over the months you see the Sunrise moving along the Eastern horizon from the North-East at Summer Solstice (the longest day of the year), to the South-East at the Winter Solstice. Likewise, at Sunset, you would see the Sunset also moves along the Western horizon over the year as well. 
The Druidic Cross & the Eight-Point Solar Year This is a copy of a Druidic Cross that was given to me by the Welsh Druid Ray Kerley when I lived in Glastonbury, England in the mid-eighties. It was Ray's family's druidic Cross. From an astronomical point of view, the four arms represent: The four Quarter Days of the yearly cycle Exact times of Quarter Days 2006-2020 But the Celts (pronounced "Kelts"), the people of Iron Age Northern Europe were interested in the days half way between these Quarter Days. These Cross-Quarter Days were the major feast days of the Celts. They are represented by the four black balls at the points where the two arms Cross on the Cross shown above. - Samhain - around November 1st, the Celtic New Year
(The black ball at 4:30 o'clock - between Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice) - Imbolc - around February 1st, the quickening
(The seed planted at Samhain moves for the first time (the black ball is at 8:30) - Beltane - around May Day, May 1st, the Cross-quarter day of fertility
(The crops are up, let's work for their fertility (the black ball is at 10:30) - Lughnasad (Lammas/Loaf-Mass) - around August 1st, the first harvest of the grain
(ground into the first loaf of bread of the season for Loaf Mass/Lammas (the black ball is at 2:30) In looking at orientations, in addition to those of the Quarter Days, some sacred sites on both sides of the Big Pond are oriented towards these Cross-Quarter Days. Here's an example from Northern Vermont, USA. The picture was taken inside an underground stone chamber. 
Cross Quarter Day - Imbolc - Sunset Rodwin Chamber, Northern Vermont, USA. Notice the notch in the horizon. |
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Interdimensional Travel One of the skills one can gain through the study of sacred space is the ability to move at will and consciously to different levels of reality. By focusing intent, one can go from one dimension to another. Through studying the Sun and the Moon and learning how to predict where they will rise and set at major time-points of the year, we are exposed to new ideas about how to move into different dimensions and what it may be like there. We can meet some doorways. Sacred space has doors. Astronomy opens them for us.  |  | Betty Sincerbeaux at Calendar II
Central Vermont, USA Photo © Byron Dix | Winter Solstice Sunrise Calendar II, Central Vermont, USA Again, notice the notch on the horizon Photo © Byron Dix | The ancients used this knowledge to better calculate and intuit when the earth energies would be at their peak. If the energy-ley that runs down the major axis of the site is oriented to the Summer Solstice Sunrise, then that will be the day when that particular site will experience a peak of power. Archaeoastronomy can help you know where various important solar, lunar and stellar rises and sets will occur - assuming a non-level horizon. This aids the geomancer in tuning the site and in knowing at what point on the cycle the peaks will occur. Commercial Break! Great Archaeo-astronomical Software! Voyager 4
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New ArchaeoAstronomy
Orthographic Projection Index WARNING: Some pages in this section are graphic-intensive,
and they will take some time to load.
We think they're worth waiting for. Orthographic projection is way of figuring out where the Sun or Moon will rise or set on any day of the year, at any latitude (between the Polar Circles), with any angle of elevation to the horizon. We've arranged these exercises in a specific order where each one builds from previous examples, but of course you can go to any section. There are three reasons why you may want to know how to do orthographic projection.  1. To check suspected astronomical alignments at ancient sites.
2. In new sacred spaces, to discover astronomical alignments to significant
astronomical rises and sets to the Solstices, Equinoxes and
the Cross-Quarter Days.
3. To learn to see our planet in a different way.
Download this Orthographic Projection Section These are rather big files, and you may prefer to work through this material off-line by downloading them: |
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New Sacred Spaces For the last twenty-five years, there has been an upsurge in the construction of new sacred spaces which take into consideration things like astronomy, geometry and earth energies. The earliest new sacred space that I know of was built by Chuck Pettis at the Foundation of Light in Ithaca, New York in the mid-seventies. 
Chuck Pettis' Stone RIng in Ithaca, New York
 In the early eighties, Sig was introduced to Grandmother Twylah Nitsch, Wolf Clan Mother of the Seneca. A wise woman, Grandmother Twylah was more interested in the colour of your heart than the colour of your skin. At that time, she ran her Seneca Historical Society at her home on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation in western New York.
When I met her, she was constructing various kinds of sacred spaces including the two below. To my surprise, while she did not use dowsing at that time, the Earth energies at these wheels conformed perfectly to the patterns I had been finding in Great Britain and in New England at much older sacred spaces.  |  | | This Medicine Wheel was under construction when I arrived at Grandmother Twylah's home. I dowsed it, and it conformed exactly to the Earth Energy patterns I had found at older sacred sites. | This white pine wheel was constructed later at Grandmother Twylah's home. There is a dome of water in the middle of the circle, and five veins exit - one out of the mouth (to the South), and the other four exit under four of the white pines! | 
Seneca Indian Howard Isaac stands in front of a Medicine
Wheel at Grandmother Twylah's home.
Notice the clear delineation of the Four Directions.
For four years in the early Nineties, Sig taught an apprenticeship program in the Construction and Uses of Sacred Space in Vermont, USA. The final project of this school was the construction of some new sacred spaces. Many different ones were built and here are just a few of them.  |  | | Lynn's Circle Dancing Circle. There is a beautiful square stone-lined fire-pit in the center. Central Vermont. |  This large stone ring has orientations to Solstice and Equinox Sunrises and Sunsets, and is located in Northeastern Connecticut. The ability to orient various stones astronomically was learned in the school, and today, new builders can use the Sunfinder on this website to do the same.
 Simple sacred sites can be based on some special natural feature like the ring of English daises found in Sig's front lawn in Vermont. These flowers are over a crossing of veins of primary water, and the Tor Goddess in the background comes from Glastonbury
There many other new sacred spaces constructed elsewhere too. More and more people around the world are building new sacred spaces using principles like those discussed throughout the Mid-Atlantic Geomancy website. Here are a few examples from the other side of The Big Pond. Sweden 
The Swedes have been celebrating Midsommar (June 24th) at least since Viking times. This is a Midsommar Stang at the home of one of my relatives in northern Sweden | 
There are more labyrinths along the coast of Sweden than anywhere else on Earth. I built this on with friends on an island in the Stockholm archipelago. | | | | Great Britain 
This is Rollright , a Neolithic Stone RIng a bit north of Oxford; however,
in the middle of the ring is a sculpture by modern artist Anish Kapoor.
It is a wonderful mixture of the old and new that is too seldom seen
at ancient sacred spaces.
 |  | | This beautiful small ring in Herefordshire was built several years ago by dowsers John and Jill Moss. | This much more massive stone ring was recently built by quarrymen at Hamm Hill in the middle of their quarry in southern Somerset. | Shaun Kirwin is a builder of sacred circles here in the UK. For Summer Solstice 2006, he built the temporary wooden Sunrise Circle near Frome in Somerset. 
I was most intrigued by the sacred geometry he used to lay out the circle. 
This is a really nice piece of work! |
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