The sacred earth energies are essentially the same, but they can have different qualities and vibrations. By analogy, all light is light, but light comes in different frequencies, and these differences produce unique phenomenal effects, both physical and psychological. We all know how different colors affect us in different ways. So the same is true of the different qualities of earth energies. First we will consider the differences between power points and magnetic sites, which also are related to yang and yin energies. Polarities in energies are always important to consider and study. The qualities can also be sensed and understood in relation to seven types, based on the cosmic principle of seven. Additionally, there are three aspects in all earth energies, relating to health-giving vitality, higher emotions, and the energies of consciousness or awakened intelligence. Each area of land will hold and give forth a unique combination of these, in varying degrees. Also, from these basic three kinds-of-energy, or in their combination, come creative inspirations. Next, we consider how areas of land have a psychological quality. Lastly we consider the power of symbolic meaning in the landscape and the psychological effect of pattern.

Power Points and Magnetic Areas

Sacred areas on the planet can be roughly divided into two main categories: power points and magnetic areas. The power points have a more blasting effect, and the magnetic areas are more soothing and attractive to life. One does not stay for long in power points and certainly should not build residence in them. The magnetic areas are very good to live in and share life with others together. Power points release energy at such a blasting way, that they could burn us up, so to speak, if we stayed there too long at one time, but they are very good for quick rejuvenation and healing, or meditations and vision quests, or group celebrations and rituals. Magnetic areas, in contrast, release positive energies in a slower and more peaceful manner, so are very attractive to live and work within on a more permanent basis.

An understanding of the difference between these two types of areas can be found in a study of the different kind of vortex present. If you visualize a vortex, you will note that it has both a vertical and horizontal direction to it. A spiral is created from a circular, horizontal flow and a linear, vertical flow combined. A spiral can either be very thin and fast rising, or it can be more wide and slow rising, and it can be anywhere between these two extremes. Simply then, the power points are the more extremely vertical, rising spirals, and the magnetic areas are the more horizontal, widely encompassing spirals. Because of this, power points exist in small areas and magnetic areas can encompass very large areas of land. The positive spiral of magnetic areas extends and fills a larger body of land, because the spiral is more fat or horizontal. So this is the real distinction between these two types. The distinction is a matter of extremes, and many areas are in the medium of the extreme, thus having both properties more balanced.

The four properties of energy are involved in these positive vortexes, which are gravity and levity juxtaposed , and electricity and magnetism juxtaposed. Visualize them on a graph. The power points have more levity and electricity, and the magnetic areas have more gravity and magnetism.

A place with more electricity has a kind of scintillating, charging energy. A place with more magnetism has a kind of nurturing, peaceful energy. More levity produces an erupting, high feeling, and more gravity produces a grounding, productive feeling. The power points might be seen as more masculine or yang, while the magnetic areas are more more feminine or yin. The horizontal, circular component of the spiral represents the feminine, and the vertical, uprising component represents the masculine aspect.

Since each area has its own unique blend of energies and qualities, and likewise, each of us people do too, special sacred sites are good places to blend energies together, or what we might call cross-pollination One can receive the particular substances of one place, digest them within one’s being, and carry this new syntheses to other places; thereby helping to cross-pollinate and synthesis different acupuncture points on the earth. Magnetic areas can especially act as human beehives -- places to gather the many blends of energies together, producing new, synthesized energies on the earth and for humanity.

Lines of energy can flow in concentration and with much force, and when they meet each other they create positive vortexes and force energy upward, thus creating vortex springs and more powerful em fields. Three or more concentrated ley lines crossing will produce a very healing sacred site, which can be beneficially used for group spiritual gatherings, meditation spots, and can be a good place to build a sanctuary, temple or church. These places are not the same as power points which act as digesting and transmitting incoming higher energy. Instead, they are created from merging lines which produce magnetic areas. ⁱ

Cosmic-Earth energy has three aspects -- consciousness, love, and power (life-vitality)

These three blend to form the many possible qualities of any place, to be discussed in more detail later on. Consciousness is given to the earth in varying degrees, and different places will accumulate and radiate a certain intensity of pure consciousness, which awakens and en-lightens our experience. It is through the conscious energy that we awaken to the sacredness and creative beauty of a place. This also stimulates our self- awareness and consciousness of Being. The love aspect of a place gives us the feeling of being loved and nurtured, and resonates the love within ourselves. One feels a very special love in the place and our love of that place is especially enhanced. The qualities of deep caring, appreciation and enjoyment are enhanced here. The aspect of vitality energizes us and provides the life force, the living chi or prana, giving us more enthusiasm and energy to do things and live to the fullest.

Many people have experienced, intuited or sensed the consciousness, the love, or the vitality of a place, or all three. In geomancy we learn to become sensitive to this, to divine it, and to help a place receive it. We apply certain methods to enhance, create, heal, or protect these higher energies.

These are aspects of the divine energy stored and flowing all over the planet. These divine energies are also developed within ourselves, to some degree, and we bring these to wherever we are, giving our own degrees of consciousness, love and vitality to places.

The blendings of all these aspects produce the particular creative energy of a place. The unique qualities of the place, depend upon the blending of these subtle energies. We experience the creative blend as the psychology of the area. There is an inner feeling for the particular psychology of a place, and this is reflected in our experience of its unique beauty or harmony. Of course sometimes there is the psychological feeling of ugliness, disharmony or pain in an area, usually due to man’s greed and mis-use of the land. The creative energy is known in a psychological way and also through our physical senses. The creative is the formative matrix, of which qualities, forms and ecological relationships are patterned after. This creative, formative world patterns the particular psychology and physical manifestations of different area on the planet. The particular archetypal psychology of places come from this creative matrix. The particular intelligence and beauty comes out of this.

Areas have a certain intelligence and beingness to them. This is the kingdom of Deva spirits. A Deva is the natural-spirit being of an area which embodies the consciousness and intelligence, the the love and compassionate caring, the living vitality, and the creative pattern and design. A Deva is the beingness of the area, as well as its guardian and creative inspiration. Each Deva has a distinct existence, but is not really separated from the others, for all living beings are inter-related. The whole inter-related planetary matrix is the great creative mind or intelligence forming this earth existence, and this is organized in a system of hierarchies and interconnected sub-systems. The Deva kingdom is actually this whole formative system, and the individual Devas are inter-related parts or sub-systems. They exist like souls within souls within the great Soul of the planet. SEE - Devas

Different qualities of earth energies

Each point on earth is a little different than the others, depending on the particular mixture of energy qualities and their intensities. Yet the essential properties of all the energies and of what the power vortexes do is the same. There is ultimately only one soul-consciousness, one living-essence, one energy, one love in manifestation, and all these are ultimately One Being. The One Being has different aspects within It and manifests in varying creative attributes.

These different qualities are both psychological and creative, in that they effect different types of experience and also creatively manifest in different ways. The energies, and all places on earth, have the full spectrum of attributes within, but certain ones are more dominating or powerful in their actualization. The unique blend of these qualities give each place its own personality, so to speak. We can differentiate the qualities into some number of categories or types, and represent them in different ways. In the arcane esoterica, types are divided into seven rays, seven colors, seven chakras or seven planets. We will use this system in this geomancy study, and also see energies in terms of the four elements, and also use the yin/yang or masculine/feminine polarity.

Seeing differences in energy in terms of polarities, such as yin/yang, or masculine/feminine, is probably the easiest and most universal. Of course, one should not be too rigid in any of these generalizations. We need to also acknowledge that distinguishing a yang energy from a yin energy, or in describing an area as particularly feminine or conversely as masculine, is not to imply that all women just embody the feminine or all men just embody the masculine. These are only energy types, and they are also generalizations. Thus, we might describe as such. The masculine or yang energy is outgoing, courageous, assertive, leading, logical, electrical and vertical. The feminine or yin energy is receptive, enfolding, nurturing, caring, peaceful, intuitive, magnetic and circular. Some of these qualities might seem to only apply to human beings, but try to use metaphoric imagination in order to understand how even the land can hold such qualities.

These descriptions are of course just a few examples. The polarities of anything can basically be put on this dividing scale. It is the most generalized of all categorization. Our first feelings for different qualities of energy will usually be in these terms, and they relate to a very deep understanding within our collective unconscious. In a sense, mountains, or anything very vertical or protruding in a landscape will most be yang; while valleys, lakes, caves, or anything more circular or with a kind of opening will most often have a yin energy quality. So in geomancy applications, an area might be best balanced with creations polar opposite to the existing dominating quality, in order to achieve an overall quality of polarity balance.

Seven qualities of earth energies

Studying seven types of qualities offers more differentiations, which can be more useful to our work. We can divide the qualities into seven planetary types: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Sun and Moon. You will notice of course that the sun and moon are not really planets, but in the arcane tradition these are considered as being planetary types. The solar and lunar qualities are of a slightly different type anyways. In the arcane tradition of geomancy and alchemy, these seven planets were believed to cause and influence the seven types.

Mercury gives practical skill and dexterity for work. It has versatility and gets things done in the quickest and most economical manner. It is a good type of place for getting work done most efficiently, and it also carries the quality of communication skills. Venus shares its beauty, peace and harmony. It carries a sensuousness and an aesthetic sense, and brings people together for playfulness, pleasure and enjoyment. Mars is very assertive and determined to succeed. It carries much courage and endurance, and will fight devotionally for a just cause. Mars also helps activate our own will power, determination, and perseverance. Jupiter is nurturing and very generous. It is kind-hearted, sympathetic, and loves gatherings. It carries a motherly-caring and protection quality, and builds a sense of family or community among people. Saturn has an intelligent, educational and teaching quality, so it can help activate those qualities in us. It also helps us become more investigative and analytical, and also helps us at organizing and managing business and other creative endeavors. The Moon, or lunar quality, is receptive, adaptive and assimilating. It is more introspective, or aloof and detached. It can help us be alone, quiet, introspective, and meditative. Caves will often have a lunar quality. The lunar will often have a quiet and silent feeling, and it can sometimes be sort of dark or mysterious, but this should not imply negativity. The Sun, or solar quality, is very radiant quality. It has an outgoing kind of quality, compared to the inward-going lunar quality. Sometimes it will have a commanding quality. It carries the energy-qualities of leadership and spiritual guidance, and it helps initiate new inspiration and action.

One or two of these qualities will usually be most strong and dominant in any one area. Certain features or shapes in an area, or of a hill-mountain, can clue us into its main energy-quality. Different mountains, for instance, will give out more of one quality, and even appear with certain physical characteristics common to that quality. For example, Venus energy most often comes from a rounded shaped hill; while mars has a more pointed, pyramidal, or masculine shape. But valleys and lake areas will also often have a Venus quality. Jupiter and Venus places are more similar looking, while Saturn and Mars places are also more similar looking; but Jupiter and Saturn places have a more grand look and presence; while Venus and Mars places tend to be smaller areas. Mountain plateaus often have a Saturn quality. Large open roundish areas will often be a Jupiter quality, but there could be subsidiary qualities within that area. Venus areas are often more quaint and romantic. Solar places often appear to be more grand places and they emit the most intense energy, while lunar energy tends to be more quiet.

Sometimes a mountain, or any power vortex, will emit one main quality in one direction yet a different quality in another direction. It sort of depends on from where you are and are feeling it, or to where the energy is going. Different combinations of these qualities will flow through and influence any given area of land. Vortexes and centers will resonate some of these notes more than others. Also, the energy qualities of a place will tend to attract the energies of other places and activities that resonate with its particular quality.

One can understand the more potent possibilities for an area by finding the energy qualities of the place and also the energy-qualities coming from surrounding directions, then sensing their psychological effect on the land. Within an area of land there are often definite places which accumulate and radiate certain qualities of subtle energy that can be used for specific purposes. We might place a building there, or a developed land-use, or leave it open for visiting, depending on the quality to be tapped. These qualities always have a physical, emotional, psychological correspondence. For example, a certain place might have an abundance of confidence, or nurturing, or helping concentration or imagination, and this would be a good place to sit or develop a land-use for acquiring that kind of quality. If one is in need of a certain quality, one can dowse or feel out the right spot to be on the land for a time. It is a matter of feeling and knowing what you need, then sensing where you are naturally attracted to be fulfilled.

A study of the energy qualities affecting an area of land can reveal useful insights into what is possible to do and how to use these for functional and psychological benefit. A building or a spot to be used for some specific function can be placed and oriented to better receive a needed quality. Also, by defining a place or structure properly, by the use of design and pattern and also by correct placement, one can help particular energies flow into them or resonate at that site. Designing with certain kinds of pattern and proportion, along with correct placement, can draw in the qualities one needs. ^{ii iii iv}

Psychology of the land

Because we have consciousness, thoughts and emotions, we affect the land psychologically. The land, in turn, affects us psychologically as well. The subtle energies have a psychological aspect, which can affect and be affected. It may seem either odd or mistaken to regard the land as having a psychology, since psyche and subjective inner experience seem to be unique to human beings. But geomancy and many other earth-attuned spiritual perspectives believe that nature and the lives of nature do have degrees of inner consciousness and also qualities of being; thus, parts of nature or areas of nature have a psychological aspect. Some people may prefer to not think of nature in terms of psychology. But one gains a unique experience about the land, trees, etc; when one considers the psychology or psyche of it. Remember that mind creates vibration and pattern, and vice versa, so in a sense we can sensitively tune into the more subtle, implicit, vibration and pattern; which is the same meaning as its 'psychology'.

So, we can consciously tune into the psyche of the land and resonate with it. We can also help bring forth certain resonances, by way of how we perceive and work with the land, like bringing to awareness what is subconsciously there, but sleeping. Our own awakening to and recognition of the hidden energies, can awaken them into action. Certain potentials can be brought forth, and we can bring out certain memories or painful traumas locked within the land, though having some effect at some level, to heal them. Our conscious work and creativity can evoke certain hidden potentials into action.

Use of correct pattern, proportion, form and color in our building, landscaping and art can resonate beneficial qualities and harmonize subtle energies. Mind resonates mind. Action resonates action. Vibration resonates pattern and pattern resonates vibration. What we fix onto the land, by way of building and definition, will fix corresponding energies and patterns into play. It creates harmonic bounce across the land and resonates other areas toward similar vibration.

We can also build artistically or place artistic objects in a way that enhances positive psychological qualities in us. Structures built with natural proportion or with positive symbolic meaning, or positive artistic objects, placed correctly with geomancy in mind, will not only improve the quality of the land at hand and surrounding, but this will also have positive psychological effects -- affecting our health, emotions, and mental-spiritual vision.

Power of symbolic meaning

Certain features in the landscape reveal a symbolism or kind of meaning within our psyche, and they create an emotional response. How we see and find meaning in the land effects us. The land is known by its shape and pattern, its rhythm and form, and this even changes at different perspectives. So each part of the land has its unique artistic and psychological quality, which is further unique from each perspective. Different places are like different perspectives, so they perceive or attract different music.

We can speak of the unique music or artistic quality of a place. Each area has a unique sound and a unique song to it. Everything has kind of ring to it and a unique tune. We say that a place sounds very ..., or looks very..., or “I feel... resonating in me”. The music and sounds of The Creator are heard in nature, and our inner being resonates with this. We can be ever more receptive to this. Each of these places are themselves a music perceived. Each is influenced from the surrounding music, and, in turn, each is singing its tune to the surroundings. Sound creates pattern and pattern creates sound. Music creates artistic form and artistic form creates music. And it all acquires meaning and reality by way of how it is received. In fact, without receptivity, art, music and meaning does not really exist. It subsists in a world of possibility. The receiver, or receiving point, completes the meaning and actualization.

Without a listener, can music have any real existence? The actual reality of any energy or influence is the unique meeting between the source and the receiver. The actual influence of any source of energy is partly dependent upon the unique nature of the place it is received or where it travels over. There is usually some kind of receptivity at some level of life and mind, which influences matter, electro-magnetic fields, and a subliminal, subconscious field of the psyche.

Through conscious awareness and receptivity, one can understand these influences, give new meaning to them, and assimilate, organize and direct these subtle influences for better use. As we come to know our environment better and acquire an understanding of the music playing, we can really appreciate the subtleties and beautiful complexities of this life on earth, and harmonize with the music, while adding our unique creativity and direction to the overall concert in play. The possibilities are fascinating, but the world of possibility can only be realized through receptivity and effort.

The Pattern Effect

The planetary matrix of sacred energy, and how it is able to work on the planet, has a patterning effect on our human psyche and experience. Each individual psyche is not separate from the whole of humanity. Our individual, unique experience and psychological expression comes out of the greater collective consciousness or mind of humanity. Some schools of psychology call this greater mind the “collective unconscious”, because it is mostly unconscious in our lives.

Yet even if unconscious to us, it still has a great effect and patterning influence within each individual. Our conscious experience, our growing understanding of the world and ourself, is rooted in, and emerges from the collective mind of humanity. The collective mind of humanity is rooted in, and emerges from the Divine Mind, of which the carrier and medium is the sacred energies forming the planetary matrix. The collective human mind evolves from our group and individual experiences and transformations. It also evolves from the receptivity, accumulation and unfoldment of Divine energies. The collective mind of humanity is a kind of energy field enveloping all minds, having a patterning influence, and it emerges from the overall planetary matrix of sacred energies. This noosphere, as it has been called, of psyche experience and collective ideas has its own semi-autonomous reality and force field, but is still rooted in and connected with the etheric web of the earth, so what occurs at the subtle level of sacred, earth energies has its deepening effect on our whole collective mind.