Square Root of Five — 2.236 : 1 — the Double Square

The Double Square is found in some of the best known sacred spaces in the world, from the King's Chamber in the Great Pyramid and Solomon's Temple in the Bible to the interior of Calendar II, an important underground stone chamber in Vermont, USA.

The diagonal of a double square is to the shorter side as the square root of five is to one. The square root of five = .618 + 1 + .618.

Solomon's Temple provides numerous examples of sacred geometry. The holy place (EFCD) is the place where good Jews who had been properly cleansed could go. This space measures twenty cubits by forty cubits.

Old Labyrinths

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.

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."(Source: Mid-Atlantic Geomancy)

The Bagua

The Bagua (pronounced ba-gwa) is a color chart with nine boxes. Each box represents a specific life situation that can be correlated with a specific part of your home or office. By using the bagua color chart to divide your space, you can improve your quality of life by importing your environment. To Feng Shui your space, follow the easy steps below.

1. In your mind's eye (or, even on an actual blueprint) visualize the space that you are attempting to Feng Shui as a perfect square or rectangle. (Note: Do not include any spaces built as additions. These areas get Feng Shui’d separately within the bagua).

2. Now, divide this space into nine equal squares or grids, like a Tic-Tac-Toe board.

3. This grid is known as the Feng Shui bagua map. Click here see illustration in top right corner; use this application to navigate through the bagua and find tips in each section.)

4. Align the bottom of the board with the same wall that includes the front or formal entrance way. This is the door that the building intentioned as the formal entrance. It does not matter what door you use the most often. We are only speaking of the front door.

5. Your entrance, then, will fall into one of the three front or bottom grids (individually called 'guas') on this Feng Shui bagua map.

6. Your entrance through the bagua map will fall into Knowledge or Career or Helpful People. There are no exceptions to this. Sometimes, though, your entrance will 'stradle' or 'bleed' into two different areas. This is fine. Just remember to divide the main floor into nine equal spaces as if there were no standing walls in the house, and it were an empty plane to work with.

7. Standing at the threshold with your back to the street side, you are now ready to identify which locations correspond to the energies of which sector on the grid of the bagua.

8. Although the basement, second and third floors in the home/office should eventually be appropriately assessed, for immediate and accurate Feng Shui response, we are only superimposing this bagua map onto what would be considered the main floor. You may, additionally, center this grid over any individual room and begin to Feng Shui as the macrocosm to the micro. But, we like to use the pecking order of; main floor first, master bedroom second, living room third, and outside property last.

9. You can even employ this method of superimposing this bagua over the top of your desk using your seating as the 'entryway.'

10. Be sure to remember that one of the three energetic grids that lie along the same wall as the front door will always be your entranceway, and the rest of the Feng Shui bagua remains fixed according to that entry. (For example, if money is an issue or concern, then stand stationary at your front entrance with your back to the street. Now, where is the far back left-hand wall located? That’s right: the wall that is farthest left and to the back of the whole space, that’s the Wealth area of the bagua map. Now, make an adjustment to stimulate the Chi and watch your fortunes become fruitful. See? Easy!

11. This method of employing the bagua is considered Western (or Black Hat Feng Shui) and disregards the more traditional practice of using compass directions and/or personal astrology in defining space/issue boundaries. (Ellen Whitehurst)

Yin Yang Concept

In the study of Chinese medicine, we are well when the Yin and Yang of our body is in a state of balance. But when the body body goes out of balance or when when there is too much Yin or Yang, we fall sick. The aim is to keep the body in balance. This is the basic Yin Yang concept.

This is why watermelon is consumed in Summer while double boiled soup is taken in winter. Watermelon has a cooling effect and it serves to cool the body during the hot summer months. In Winter, the hot double boiled soup provide balance by warming the body.

But what has this to do with Feng Shui?

Just like our body, we are also striving for balance in our home. For example, the concrete structure of your home is Yang while the plants in the garden is Yin. A good Feng Shui home should ideally have a mix of concrete structure and landscaping.

Here are more example. A large home with very few occupants is considered to be Yin. A house that is brightly lit and painted entirely in white is too yang. A home that is dark with small doors and windows that are closed most of the time is too Yin and considered to be out of balance.

The balance of Ying and Yang is a fundamental requirement in Feng Shui.

This Yin Yang concept is pervasive in Chinese metaphysics and is use in many other disciplines. Let me give you an example from Chinese naming.

In this system we are influenced by elements that are derived from our date of birth. By charting our birth chart we can see the mix of elements that we are 'made' of. Let's say that you have too little water elements in your chart. Water is needed to restore balance. In the system of Chinese naming, one of the technique is to introduce the character 'water' or either characters that represent water such as river, lake, sea etc into the name.

This is the basic yin yang concept.

What is Chi or Qi?

Chi literally means breathe or air. You should however not think of qi in its literal sense. If you do that you will seriously limit your undersanding of Chinese metaphysics. Instead for now, think it it as an invisible 'energy'.

So what really is chi? The ancient Chinese believe in the existence of an invisible life force or energy that permeates the universe. You cannot see it (like radio waves) but it exist in the environment, in things (matter) and in humans.

Zhang Dai, a great scientist during the Song Dynasty said of Chi:

"The universe is a body of chi. Chi has both positive and negative qualities. When qi spreads out, it permeates all things; when it coalesces (spreads out) it becomes nebulous (gaseous or vague). When it settle into form it becomes matter. When it disintegrates it returns to its original state."

The explanation appear to imply that all things are a body of energy and that energy and matter are the same and the states are interchangeable. Since all things are 'energies', the idea that one (the environment) can affect another (mankind) when brought in close proximity makes Feng Shui entirely plausible.

Positive Qi is known as Sheng Qi or Living Qi while Negative Qi is called Sha Qi or Killing Qi. In the practice of Feng Shui sheng chi can help improve wealth, heath, relationships etc while Shar chi may cause injury, accident, fire, lawsuit, illness and so on.

The whole idea of Feng Shui is to position, orientate and layout our homes and workplaces to accumulate and tap on Sheng (good) chi and avoid or minimize Shar (bad) chi.

Ming Gua

Ming is Chinese for life or destiny. Therefore Ming Gua means Life or Destiny Gua.

It is a diagram (also denoted by a number) that is assigned based on our Chinese Solar Calendar year of birth. The number (or Gua number) can be between 1 to 4 and 6 to 9. The number 5 is not used. (The Chinese Solar year usually starts on or around the 4th February every year. Therefore if you are born before the 4th February you should take the previous year as your year of birth.)

There is a simple technique to calculate the Ming Gua number. For someone born between 1900 and 1999, you take the last two digits and reduce it to a single digit. Then take 10 and subtract it from this digit. The resulting number is the Ming Gua number. For someone born on or after 2000, you do the same but instead of subtracting from 10 you subtract from 9.

Let’s take the example of someone born in 1948. The last two digits are 4 and 8. When we add them together we get 12 (i.e. 4 + 8). We can further reduce the number 12 to a single digit, 3 by adding the numbers together (i.e. 1 + 2 = 3). Finally we subtract 3 from 10 giving 7 which is the Ming Gua for someone born in the Chinese Solar year of 1948.

Similarly for someone born in 2003, we take the last two digits 0 and 3 and reduce it to a single digit, 3 by adding them together (i.e. 0 + 3 = 3). Finally we subtract it from 9 (i.e. 9 – 3) to give a gua number of 6.

The Ming Gua is use in many systems of Feng Shui such as the Eight Mansions and Xuan Kong Da Gua.

You should note that in some systems the gua number is calculated the same way for both the male and female born in the same year. In others the gua number for the female born in the same year is calculated differently resulting in a different gua number of the female born in the same year as another male.

For example in Xuan Kong Da Gua, a Feng Shui system, the gua number is calculated in the same for both the male and female. It is used primarily to determine the optimal orientation of the front door and water location.

In the Eight Mansions (a.k.a Eight Houses) system the gua number is calculated differently for the male and female members of a household. The application is different. It is used mainly to determine the optimal location of the main door, kitchen and bedroom plus the orientation of the main door, stove and bed for the occupants of the house.

Although in both cases the same Ming Gua is used, there is no conflict as the way that it is applied is different. Both systems have their own unique way to apply the Ming Gua.

(Absolutely Feng Shui)

More on 'Feng Shui'

Feng Shui which literally means Wind Water is a ancient Chinese metaphysical discipline that study how mankind is affected, for better or for worst, by the environment.

The environment is not just limited to the surrounding features such as mountains and rivers or the internal arrangement of the home of office but also include astronomical influences.

The interest in this study is growing and the aim of this website is to provide information on as many aspect of classical Feng Shui as possible.

Feng Shui is a study of the effect of the environment on mankind. While Feng Shui is one of the factors, there are other factors that affects mankind's life path and the most significant is astrology or destiny. As such, I have also included sections on Chinese Astrology and other related disciplines.

Feng Shui

Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese art used to promote such things as health, happiness and prosperity. The words literally mean 'wind' and 'water'.

Feng Shui, also called the Chinese Art of Placement, is a technique that is thousands of years old for bringing balance to one's home, business and the land that surrounds them. It looks at many areas of one's life (health, wealth, family, relationships, career, friends, fame, children, and knowledge) to determine blockages within the home or business, that might cause some type of problem, and then at the different types of "cures" that can be used to alleviate the problem. The methods for analyzing a space and the "cures" to correct the problems can vary from esoteric modalities used for centuries to technological solutions of our current timeline. Both must blend in harmony to created balance in one's life.

The purpose of life is to create balance in all things allowing your consciousness to evolve beyond time and emotion, the duality of the illusion. Healing and working on yourself - is part of the equation - as all things are created by mathematical design / the blueprint or architecture of our consciousness program in third dimension - sacred geometry. When you are in a space where feng shui has been used to create balance - you will experience it in all levels of your soul's awareness ... then you will understand.

One important Feng Shui formula concerns the eight main life Aspirations, corresponding to the four cardinal Directions and the four inter-cardinal Directions of the compass (Lo Pan).

Each of these Aspirations is symbolized in the octagonal shaped Pa Kua, one of the most basic Feng Shui tools, which identifies where the particular Aspirational locations lie in your home or workplace, allowing you to energize them as required.

This will stimulate positive chi (life force) flow and create good Feng Shui for you.

Feng Shui has its roots in the Chinese reverence for nature and belief in the oneness of all things. The assumption is that the key to living a harmonious life is to reflect the balance of nature in their daily lives. This is most easily understood by the following concepts: Yin and Yang, qi, and the Five Elements - Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. In rural China, however, according to recent fieldwork by Ole Bruun, qi flow is rarely mentioned. Nevertheless, Feng Shui is used to increase wealth, health, and harmonious relationships.

Classical Feng Shui began as an interplay of construction and astronomy. Early Yangshao houses at Banpo were oriented to catch the mid-afternoon winter sun at its warmest, just after the solstice. (Some tribes in southern China still refer to this month as "House-building Month.") Professor David Pankenier and his associates performed retrospective computation on the Chinese sky at the time of the Banpo dwellings (4000 BCE) to show that the asterism Yingshi (Lay out the Hall, in the Warring States period and early Han era) corresponded to the sun's location at this time. Several hundred years earlier the asterism Yingshi was known as Ding. It was used to indicate the appropriate time to build a capital city, according to the Shijing.

The grave at Puyang (4,000 BCE) that contains mosaics of the Dragon and Tiger constellations and Beidou (Big Dipper) is similarly oriented with cosmological accuracy along a north-south axis.

The tombs of Shang kings and their consorts at Xiaotun lie on a north-south axis, ten degrees east of due north. The Shang palaces at Erlitou are also on a north-south axis, slightly west of true north. These orientations were obtained by astronomy, not by magnetic compass.

All capital cities of China followed rules of Feng Shui for their design and layout. These rules were codified during the Zhou era in the Kaogong ji (Manual of Crafts). Rules for builders were codified in the Lu ban jing (Carpenter's Manual). Graves and tombs also followed rules of Feng Shui. From the earliest records, it seems that the rules for these structures were developed from rules for dwellings.

The oldest known Feng Shui device consists of a two-sided board with astronomical sightlines. Liuren astrolabes have been unearthed from Qin-era tombs at Wangjiatai and Zhoujiatai. These devices date between 278 BCE and 209 BCE. Today Feng Shui practitioners can select from three types of Luopan or Feng Shui compasses: San He (the so-called "form school," although the compass name means "Triple Combination"), San Yuan (the so-called "compass school," although the compass name actually refers to time), and the Zong He that combines the other two.

Classical Feng Shui is still considered important in some segments of modern Chinese culture, especially Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan. It is less common among educated Chinese in the People's Republic of China as it is often thought of as peasant superstition. Since the mid-20th century, it has been illegal in the PRC because of the propensity for fraud. This all came about because of the Cultural Revolution that set about destroying most of the old culture of China. It has been kept alive in books and practitioners in Taiwan and Hong Kong. In the 1960s, Feng Shui was introduced in the West. Regardless of the country of practice, East or West, businesses typically use Feng Shui to increase sales and boost morale. Homeowners have come to use Feng Shui in an attempt to bring peace and harmony to their surroundings.

Feng Shui promotes the searching for places where Chi forms or accumulates as these places are perfect to live happy, prosperous, successful lives. In Feng Shui winds are noted as being bad as they scatter Chi rater than accumulate it, so when searching for a site bypass any that are wind swept.

Geomancy

Strictly speaking, the term "geomancy" refers to an ancient form of divination in which, simply put, handfuls of soil or other materials were scattered on the ground, or markings made in the earth or sand, to generate a range of dot configurations which could then be "read" by a seer.

In the 19th century, however, geomancy came to be applied to the Chinese practice of feng shui by which the location and orientation of houses and tombs was determined with close regard to the topography of the local landscape. The feng shui master or geomant employed a circular magnetic compass, called a luopan, which was marked off in rings containing data relating to astrology, directions, the elements, landscape forms, times of day, and so on. The aim was to locate a site where the energies or ch'i of the land and sky were brought into perfect balance. The harmony of these energies ensured good fortune.

The science of feng shui, literally "wind and water", recognized that certain powerful currents and lines of magnetism run invisible through the landscape over the whole surface of the earth. The task of the geomancer was to detect these currents and interpret their influences on the land through which they passed.

These lines of magnetic force, known in China as the "dragon current", or lung-mei, existed in two forms: the yin, or negative, current represented by the white tiger, and the yang, or positive, current, represented by the blue dragon. The landscape will display both yin and yang features; gently undulating country is yin, or female, while sharp rocks and steep mountains are yang, or male.

It was the aim of the geomancer to place every structure precisely within the landscape in accordance with a magic system by which the laws of music and mathematics were expressed in the geometry of the earth's surface. The landscape itself may be manipulated in order to achieve the harmony sought through the placement or adjustment, or removal, of trees or rocks, or bodies of water. Every feature of the landscape may be contrived to produce an effect which ultimately is perceived as beautiful; indeed, perceived beauty in a landscape may in fact be simply when the lines of the dragon current are in balance.

At the outset, a geomancer must locate the course of the major lines of the dragon current in his or her area. These days, it is claimed that such energy lines can be detected, and traced, through dowsing.

Ley Lines

Leylines and other energylines are paths of energy that run through our landscape. These paths of energy stream in a certain direction, which can be different for each energyline.

These energylines are (almost) always dead straight, and can have a length of thousands of kilometres/miles. The size of the different energylines vary from 10 centimetres to sometimes more than 10 metres wide. The energylines lie on the surface of the planet, and the energy of a line isn't as strong as everywhere.

This can be different in time, be different for another line, and it can be different for the spot on a line. The energylines react in strength, just like the sea with low and high tide, to the moon and other cosmic influences. The several types of energylines are different from each other because of the different characteristics and qualities they have, they each have an own character.

Leylines have for example the characteristic of power, that's why they are also called powerlines with powerplaces. All lines are male or female and positive (pleasant for humans) or negative (unpleasant), and all have there own specific qualities. People can influence parts of lines, that these parts are different in energy than they where originally. Also neutral lines do exist. Most leylines and crosspoints are positive. They can become negative because of human influence, like human sacrifices, murder, and battles.

On many many places on this planet energylines (from the same kind) cross each other. These crossing-points are called energycentres, which are mostly only small. Also most crossings of leylines are weak and small. But every region has a number of strong crossings too. These leycentres are some kind of traffic junctions of energy. Several lines come together on points, and on these places a concentration of energy is present, a powerplace or a powercentre. These powerplaces are energetic powerpoints where several powerlines come together. These powerplaces are seen as sacred sites.

With positive leycentres there is a forcefield full of energy, that can give you inspiration, cure, and miracles. For the transfer of information energy is needed, this explains the inspiration, after all there lots of is energy. Because of the extra energy on these special places, it also occurs that lightphenomena are seen near leycentres. Examples of these light phenomena are a dolmen near Loon in the Netherlands, and the monastery of Aduard (prov. Groningen). The monastery is built here because of these lightphenomena.

In history, many people built sanctuaries for devotion or sacrificing. They chose a leycentre for their sacred sites. The reason why people did choose leycentres is because of much energy that is present on these places. Here they tried to get in contact with the gods and worship them on these sacred sites. Examples of these sacred sites are for example the pyramids of Egypt, Stonehenge and Avebury-henge in England, dolmens, menhirs, stone circles, burial mounds, and other sacred sites around the world. And so many sacred sites are used by our ancestors. And also the churches and cathedrals, which have been built in early Christian ages (before 1350) on a crossing of leylines.

Besides the usage of people to situate sacred sites on the crossings of leylines, people used them also to build castles on. They leylines themselves have been used in other ways too. In Roman ages, it was a habit to lay long straight roads on leylines. In this way, the men got extra energy and power to make long (walking) tours. In early Christian ages deathroads and corpseroads were laid on leylines, over what the dead person had to be carried to the graveyard and/or church. Because leylines connect sacred sites with each other, leylines are also called 'sacred lines'.

The number of leylines around the Uk is very large. Most of these leylines are very weak, and very narrow (10/20 cm). Because of this large quantity almost everyone within a few metres you can find a leyline (2/3 within each 10 metres). It is almost impossible to map every leyline in a region, province or country. So maps of leylines are rare. But a part of the strong and very strong leylines is investigated. In the Netherlands and Belgium this is for example the leyline Stonehenge - Externsteine. More information about strong and very strong leylines see the page Strong leylines. Strong leylines are mostly a metre wide and higher than a metre, but differences are possible.

Leylines do have several names. Ley-lines are also called meridians and gaialines. Because many leylines lie between sacred places, leylines are called sacred lines too. Other names refer to the sacred sites they run through. Examples are:

-Treelines: several trees that are in extension with each other on a leyline.

-Churchlines: several churches that are in extension with each other on a leyline.

-Lines with names of saints: in the province East-Flanders in Belgium four Saint-Martinus churches lie on one leyline. In the east of the province North-Brabant in The Netherlands five Saint-Lambertus churches lie on one leyline. These leylines can be named Martinusline and Lambertusline.

The length of leylines can be very long. There are lines that are hundreds of kilometres long, but there are much more leylines that are only a couple of kilometres long. So far we know, every leyline has a start and an end. How far the rasterline do run is unknown. When you try to find a start or an end of a leyline you will notice that it suddenly will start or end. At such a place lies a magic square, which takes care of the supply and drainage of the energy. There are also magic squares elsewhere on an energyline which freshen the energy. Every type of energylines has its own magic squares which connect the energylines with an other planet, by which is energy exchanged with.

The leylines and other energylines lie for thousands of years round our planet, they are the Ancient Energies of the Earth. The origin of the energylines is not clear. About how they came into being are several theories about.

-One thought is that the leylines came into being when our planet came into being. But what happened exactly with the creation of our planet is not known. A mystery solved with another mystery, with this theory the creation of the energylines stays shroud in mystery.

- Another explanation for the creation of the energylines is that the lines have been created by beings with consciousness, like humans, but in the remote past. The system of the several networks is a dynamical system. With some doings energylines can become different from what they were. With some doings energylines can be strengthened, but also created.

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Dowsing

Dowsing is the ability to find people, artefacts or substances by use of maps, pictures or physically being in a place are currently the most popular applications of Dowsing.

Most dowsers use two 'dowsing rods' and/or a pendulum. The rods, traditionally known as 'Wishing Rods', are formed into an L shape and are usually made of copper although the oldest known material was wood, usually forked Hazel branches along with Apple, Beech and Alder. (It is said that metal coat hangers work just as well!). One rod is held in each hand and you have located what it is you are looking for when the rods cross.

When using a pendulum most people weight the line with a crystal, or heavy weight. The important thing seems to be the length of the line which the pendulum swings on. What does seem a mystery is how diviners can dowse over a map to find people or substances when the focus of the search can be many kilometres away. Indeed this does suggest some sort of psychic activity.

Dowsing is reported to date back approximately 7000 years but origins are still unknown. It is accepted, however, that the Egyptians used images of forked rods in some of their artwork as did the Ancient Chinese kings. In Europe, it was known for dowsing to be used in the Middle Ages to find coal deposits. Since this time people have dowsed for everything from lost objects to missing people, some of them are reported to be very accurate although the scientific community as a whole have yet to decide if they support or refute this ability. Some people earn money by advising mining companies before they carry out test drilling/core sample.

In 1930's there was a great deal of activity in Europe with the formation of 'The British Society of Dowsers'. The term Rasiesthesia was also coined by French priest Alex Bouly based on the Latin words for 'radiation' and 'perception', although the term dowsing has stood the test of time..

Dowsing, scientifically known as Rasiesthesia, is the interaction of the mind of the dowser and the energy of the object of interest. Most dowsing is used to find water and minerals. It has been used to find lost objects, even people. It can be used to dowse the subtle energy field surrounding objects, plants, animals, and people. If we are doing energy healing, we can dowse the body of a patient before and after treatment, and observe any energy changes. If we quantify these results we can reach conclusions about the efficiency of our techniques.

If you want to measure the energy field of a person, make sure they are not holding or wearing any crystals or jewelry. Step back about 3 paces, turn and face them. Hold the L-rods parallel to the ground and pointing toward your subject. In your mind, or out loud, tell yourself what the L-rods are measuring. This is very important. Your mind is very precise. It will measure exactly what you tell it to. "I am measuring the reserve bio-energy field of this body."

Focus your attention only on this person. Do not let your mind wander and think of anyone or anything else, or you will affect the results. Walk toward the person, slowly, keeping the L-rods straight and level. When you enter the energy field, the wires will open wide, the left wire going to the left and the right hand wire swinging to the right. Measure the distance between the wires and the body.

Create the healing change. Once again, dowse the body. Step back at least 8 paces, turn and walk toward the body, L-rods parallel and pointing toward the subject. When you reach the energy field of the body the wires will swing open. Measure the distance and compare between the first effort. The difference is the change you made by the healing.

The same method can be used to see if crystals or jewelry have any effect on a human energy field. Measure the subject with nothing on and then add the object and measure again.

Explore these phenomena. Dowse plants, animals, crystals, trees, and people who touch these objects. This is a fascinating field to enter ...

Earth Chakras

In the human body there are seven chakras. The earth also has seven. Six of these chakras are at fixed, stable locations - one on each continent, with the exception of Antarctica. (Antarctica also has many major sacred sites, but they are given different descriptive names.)

The 6th chakra is mobile, and moves around the world in a clearly defined pattern in space and time. This 6th centre corresponds to the third eye chakra in yoga.

The six non-mobile chakras are found in groups of three: Inspirational, Structural, and Creative (giving a total of 18) which are at the foundation of a greater planetary structure. This total design contains 156 sacred centres.

In terms of earth energies, all of these centres are of equal importance. But the best point of entry into this work is through the chakra areas of the current cycle.

These are major sacred site areas which generate the four alchemical forces symbolised by fire, air, water and earth. The spinner wheels are vortices for the four elements. They are called spinner wheels because the earth energies emanate from them in either a spinning clockwise or anti-clockwise motion. Due to this movement, the influence for change generated from any of these four areas extends to a greater distance than other sacred sites.

As with the earth chakras, the four spinner wheels are each part of a triune group giving a total of 12 sites. The fire spinner wheel generates liberty and will; the air vortex develops more abundant qualities of life; the water wheel expands love; and the earth spinner uses light to immortalise structure.

There are two dragon paths, which represent the primary arteries of the living earth, circulating abundant life energies and other vital qualities worldwide. On a flat map, they form an infinity symbol; while on the sphere of the earth, they are great circles intersecting each other at Bali and Lake Titicaca. These energy arteries are, variously, known as ley lines, songlines, or dragon paths. Each path has a name:

The Rainbow Serpent is a yin-feminine earth current which originates in Australia, at the world solar plexus chakra, and then encircles the globe, passing through Mt. Kailas, Sergiev Posad-Moscow, Glastonbury-Shaftesbury and Lake Titicaca.

The Plumed Serpent, or Quetzalcoatl Current, is yang-male and originates from the world Gemini centre in southern Mexico. It then travels to Mt. Shasta, Mt. Fuji, Bali, and Lake Titicaca, as it moves around the world. Through meditation and ritual it is possible to stimulate the flow of earth energies in either direction along these great ley arteries. This is best done on auspicious astronomical occasions, such as a new or full moon, etc.

Leys

Ley lines, or Leys, are alignments of ancient sites stretching across the landscape. Ancient sites or holy places may be situated in a straight line ranging from one or two to several miles in length. A ley may be identified simply by an aligned placing of marker sites, or it might be visible on the ground for all or part of its length by the remnants of an old straight track.

Ley Lines were 're-discovered' on 30 June 1921 by Alfred Watkins (1855-1935), a locally well-known and respected Herefordshire businessman, who while looking at a map for features of interest noticed a straight line that passed over hill tops through various points of interest, all of which were ancient. At the time of his discovery, Watkins had no theory about alignments but on that June afternoon saw "in a flash" a whole pattern of lines stretching across the landscape. Four years later, in 1925, he described his vision in a book he titled The Old Straight Track:

"Imagine a fairy chain stretched from mountain peak to mountain peak, as far as the eye could reach, and paid out until it reached the 'high places' of the earth at a number of ridges, banks, and knowls. Then visualise a mound, circular earthwork, or clump of trees, planted on these high points, and in low points in the valley other mounds ringed around with water to be seen from a distance. Then great standing stones brought to mark the way at intervals, and on a bank leading up to a mountain ridge or down to a ford the track cut deep so as to form a guiding notch on the skyline as you come up.... Here and there, at two ends of the way, a beacon fire used to lay out the track. With ponds dug on the line, or streams banked up into 'flashes' to form reflecting points on the beacon track so that it might be checked when at least once a year the beacon was fired on the traditional day. All these works exactly on the sighting line."

Watkins surmised that these straight tracks, or ley lines as he called them at first, were the remnants of prehistoric trading routes. He went on to associate ley lines with the Greek god Hermes (the Roman Mercury, the Norse Woden) who was the god of communication and of boundaries, the winged messenger, and the guide to travellers on unknown paths. Watkins identified Hermes-Mercury with the chief god of the Druids and argued that:

"A Celtic god, Tout, or in its Romanised form Toutates, is supposed to be what Caesar referred to, and this name has been found on a Romano-British altar. It is a fact that sighting mounds called Tot, Toot, Tout, Tute and Twt abound all over the Kingdom, and the root is probably Celtic... The fact that such mounds are mark-points on trackways strengthen the link..."

Taken from Earth Mysteries

What are LEY LINES?

Ley lines are hypothetical alignments of a number of places of geographical interest, such as ancient monuments and megaliths. Their existence was suggested in 1921 by the amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins, whose book The Old Straight Track brought the alignments to the attention of the wider public.

The existence of alignments between sites is easily demonstrated. However, the causes of these
alignments are disputed. There are several major areas of interpretation:

Archaeological: A new area of archaeological study, archaeogeodesy, examines geodesy as practiced in prehistoric time, and as evidenced by archaeological remains. One major aspect of modern geodesy is surveying. As interpreted by geodesy, the so-called ley lines can be the product of ancient surveying, property markings, or commonly travelled pathways. Numerous societies, ancient and modern, employ straight lines between points of use; archaeologists have documented these traditions. Modern surveying also results in placement of constructs in lines on the landscape. It is reasonable to expect human constructs and activity areas to reflect human use of lines.

Cultural: Many cultures use straight lines across the landscape. In South America, such lines often are directed towards mountain peaks; the Nazca lines are a famous example of lengthy lines made by ancient cultures. Straight lines connect ancient pyramids in Mexico; today, modern roads built on the ancient roads deviate around the massive pyramids. The Chaco culture of Northeastern New Mexico cut stairs into sandstone cliffs to facilitate keeping roads straight.

New Age: Some writers (widely regarded as pseudoscientific) have claimed that the ley lines and their intersection points resonate a special psychic or magical energy. These theories often include elements such as geomancy, dowsing or UFOs, stating that, for instance, UFO's travel along ley lines (in the way that one might observe that cars use roads and highways). Some similarly believe these points on lines have electrical or magnetic forces associated with them.

Skeptical: Skeptics of the actuality of ley lines often classify them as pseudoscience. Such skeptics tend to doubt that ley lines were planned or made by ancient cultures, and argue that apparent ley lines can be readily explained without resorting to extraordinary or pseudoscientific ideas.

Alfred Watkins and The Old Straight Track
The concept of ley lines was first proposed by Alfred Watkins. On June 30, 1921, Watkins visited Blackwardine in Herefordshire, and went riding near some hills in the vicinity of Bredwardine when he noted many of the footpaths therein seemed to connect one hilltop to another in a straight line. He was studying a map when he noticed places in alignment. "The whole thing came to me in a flash," he would later explain to his son. Some people have portrayed this "flash" as being some sort of mystical experience.

However, some time before Watkins, William Henry Black gave a talk titled Boundaries and Landmarks to the British Archaeological Association in Hereford in September 1870. Here he speculated that "Monuments exist marking grand geometrical lines which cover the whole of Western Europe". It is possible that Watkins' experience stemmed from some half-recollected memories of an account of that presentation.

Watkins believed that in ancient times, when Britain had been far more densely forested, the country had been crisscrossed by a network of straight-line travel routes, with prominent features of the landscape being used as navigation points. This observation was made public at a meeting of the Woolhope Club of Hereford in September 1921. His work referred back to G. H. Piper's paper presented to the Woolhope Club in 1882 which noted that

"A line drawn from the Skirrid-fawr mountain northwards to Arthur's Stone would pass over the camp and southern most point of Hatterill Hill, Oldcastle, Longtown Castle, and Urishay and Snodhill castles." The ancient surveyors who supposedly made the lines were given the name "dodmen".

Watkins published his ideas in the books Early British Trackways and The Old Straight Track. Nevertheless, they were generally received with skepticism in the archaeological community. The archaeologist O. G. S. Crawford refused to accept advertisements for the latter book in the journal Antiquity, and most archaeologists since then have continued to be unaccepting of Watkins' ideas.

In 2004, John Bruno Hare wrote, "Watkins never attributed any supernatural significance to leys; he believed that they were simply pathways that had been used for trade or ceremonial purposes, very ancient in origin, possibly dating back to the Neolithic, certainly pre-Roman. His obsession with leys was a natural outgrowth of his interest in landscape photography and love of the British countryside. He was an intensely rational person with an active intellect, and I think he would be a bit disappointed with some of the fringe aspects of ley lines today."

Despite the largely negative reception to his ideas, some experts have made observations similar to Watkins': Megalithic researcher Alexander Thom offered a detailed analysis of megalithic alignments, proposing a standardization of measure by those who built megaliths.

However, Thom avoided using the term "ley line" in his discussion of megaliths. The discovery by Europeans of the Nazca lines, man-made lines on desert pavement in southern Peru, prompted study of their astronomical alignments.