Geomancy work

Geomancy work is a vast subject. In a general sense, most everything taught about geomancy is an aspect of geomancy work. But the emphasis of this chapter is mostly about the actual physical work. First we must understand that our aim is to serve both the planet and human beings. It is not one instead of the other. It has to be about both. Geomancy's primary aims are to maintain and sometimes heal the sacred energy flows on Earth, yet geomancy is also concerned with building on the land in harmony with the energies and flows of nature. One of the possible works of geomancy is to actually affect the flow of earth energies. It is possible to attract and bring positive energy flows from the surrounding area into a particular place or land site. It is also possible to protect areas from any negative energies in the surrounding area caused by inharmonious structures or actions. Geomancy also uses pattern, symbolism, and even intentionally directed thought to create benefit and healing on the land, and for those who abide there. Designing with and using sacred geometry is also a very powerful way of enhancing the land, and everyone there, with healing and harmonious energies. In summary, geomancy is working with the subtle earth energies; which involves a possible use of these energies for our own well-being and for others, but also we learn to work harmoniously with these energies.

Balancing human needs with Nature

Needs of the Earth and the quality of earth energies are of utmost importance in geomancy. This ought to be our primary concern. But human needs and wishes are also important in geomancy, because the human kingdom has its own very special purpose in life, which includes creativity and enjoyment, as well as many other values. Geomancy does not deny the value and importance of human needs and enjoyment. But there must be right balance in this. There has to be also a serious consideration of what the earth needs or what the land needs, to be balanced with our human needs and wishes. We have to balance human needs with natural earth needs. Because on the one hand, we too are important in this life on earth, and as humans we will not be able to avoid seeking our human enjoyment and fulfillment. Yet on the other hand, we have a responsibility and ethical obligation to also care for the needs of nature or of the natural environment in which we live.

So we have to come into a balance - a balance between our human desires and what is needed for the land, the Earth. Both have to be considered. Yet what we also must realize in this balancing act is that we humans are intimately affected by the energies and quality of the natural area in which we abide, as well as being affected by the local natural environment around us. In other words, the quality of nature's energy, harmony and beauty, which we stand upon and are surrounded by, has a very real effect on us, physically and psychologically. Thus, whatever we do to the natural world has a reverberating echoing effect back upon us. So if we neglect a respectful consideration for the natural world and earth energies surrounding us and in which we abide, then whatever harm or disruption we create will reverberate back to us. Whatever is done to the natural environment is then also done to us. Because wherever we are, we are unavoidably in some quality of natural environment and subtle energies that will unavoidably affect us, either beneficially or detrimentally. Geomancy, and any geomancy work, is based on this realization.

In geomancy work, one needs to define the goals and objectives for the work, understand the responsibilities and permission concerning the land, and stay attuned in our intention to serve, using all of our knowledge and abilities possible. The work of geomancy may involve creative building and landscaping, defining space and function for better use, improving the natural eco-system, or working with the subtle and psychological energies of the land. Geomancy uses certain principles and techniques for healing, harmonizing, creating order and beneficial pattern on the land. The work uses principles of energy physics, artistic beauty and spiritual psychology.

The work is to serve both -- the needs of the land and the people living there. Our greatest responsibility is to the overall healing of the planet and the evolution of mankind on it. One first needs to establish an inventory of the potentials of the land and the values and needs which are asking to be manifested. Next, one must consider the limitations of any possible work and the permissions necessary to work. One attunes to the highest need and destiny possible at this time and in this place. The specific needs of the people involved with the land are considered and clarified, and these immediate and longer-term needs are integrated into the planetary and ecological needs, as much as possible. We attempt to serve the overall planetary work and harmonize with the greater geomantic patterns of the surroundings, while doing what we can to help a specific area serve human needs. Thus, a geomancer has to serve both natural-ecological needs and human needs, or attempt to balance these in some way.

Four types of geomancy work

First, is to live and create in harmony with the natural laws. This is basic to all work. It involves a growing understanding of how to live in a healthy and harmonious manner on this planet.

Second, we can learn how to maintain a healthy environment, both natural environment and human environment. This involves principles of healthy maintenance and long-term vision, regarding land-uses and human living areas, such as buildings, gardens, forests, eco-systems, etc. We need to have a very broad and long-range vision of how the human world shall maintain harmony with the natural world.

Third, is the healing of what is harmed or out of balance. This involves doing whatever we can to get life, the environment, and human beings back into natural harmony and health.

Fourth, is to create new living spaces and environments to bring forth new potentials of beauty, harmony and use, for the greater benefit of ourselves and all life on the planet. This involves an exploration into new realms of creative possibility for our life and the environment, while staying in the bounds of natural laws and respect for all life. These four types often combine with eachother in actual work.

Maintenance, or in fact any work on the land, can be understood and enacted in a four-fold way, involving sensitivity, self-awareness, the process, and results. There needs to be results in the work, either to maintain, heal or create forms of harmony, beauty and goodness. When one works at designing or building something, there is at least some idea of an intended result, or a goal to be accomplished, and the result is proof of the quality of the job done. Let us use the example of planting a small tree. The result is obviously the tree upright with the roots in the ground, having been well watered and maybe fertilized. The result itself is the measurement of the quality of work done. While planting the tree, we already know what is intended. A well planted tree which will grow to health maturity, and our work is basically functional. We intentionally seek to accomplish this goal, and do what is necessary for the most perfect result possible. We are functional instruments for the accomplishment of the result, and need to do our best to fulfill this, with all the knowledge and skill available.

The intended result might be purely functional, in terms of definite need in the human community or in the eco-system, or it may also demand some artistic sense and skill, to create the more subtle ideals of harmony and beauty. We need to have in mind what we are intending and want as a result of our work, such as use, durability, beauty and harmony with the environment.

The next aspect of work involves the actual process. It concerns how the work is done and the steps taken to make the result. Using the example of planting a tree, we need to consider the preparation of gathering the right materials, tools, knowledge and skills for doing the work, and use these in the best way. We need to supply the work with the substances needed, such as water and nutrients, and find the best spot to plant in. The process involves our right use of knowledge, skills, materials and tools, and our efficiency of labor and time.

Areas for Building and Use

Sacred areas are all over the planet; and in general, all places on earth have some quality of sacredness because the whole earth is sacred. Yet certain places or areas have a greater degree of positive energies, just as certain places have an unusual, special beauty about them. The most special areas of natural energies and beauty ought to be left alone, to be enjoyed in their most pristine natural state.

However, there are many other areas, with sacred or especially positive energies, that we can feel permitted to build upon to some modest extent or to place useful structures, so that the area can be enjoyed or made use of, respectfully, while also preserving its natural sacred-positive energies. It is in these cases, where one is building, landscaping, or making changes to the original natural circumstance, that we need to consider with extreme care and use our highest intuition mixed with our most awakened sensitivity, to determine what can be accomplished for the benefit of human-use yet also for the land.

So, there are many areas that do not need to be left pristinely alone. In fact, they can be enhanced with some creative structures or alterations on them. These are natural sites which allow us to make use of them, to build on them, or make aesthetic improvements. Very often, these are areas with more yin polarity and more magnetic quality, rather than electrical yang quality (see chapter on Qualities). They are areas with more receptivity to our unique creativity, and they invite us to create more beautification and harmonious use. Through our right use and the placement of harmoniously structures on the land, we can actually help the land resonate with greater power and healing, and allow the surrounding energies to flow into and out of these sites with ease. We can bring forth greater potentials of these sites with good works, harmonious pattern, proportion, form and beauty.

Here, we can create a beautiful, contemplative garden, or a picnic area, or possibly a built place of worship. We might place a special symbolic or religious monument on this site, taking care to harmonize with the surrounding qualities of the area.

Some areas have even greater receptivity -- areas with great magnetism and attraction to human activity. These are areas which invite communities to live and grow, building homes, work places and more experimental creativity. Many communities and cities are already existing in these larger sacred, magnetic areas, and within these areas are sites of special significance discussed above.

In geomancy design planning and healing work, we have to deal with the realities at hand. We can’t just plow down everything and begin anew. So, we look at and work with limited areas, in order to help these, while always considering the greater whole and doing whatever we can to help the overall situation.

Pattern and Resonance

The overall land-use pattern of defined areas and buildings can be designed to benefit the land and our lives, when we consider the relationships between things in the most comprehensive and holistic manner. If we are dealing with land already having certain defined areas of use and structures there on, we can help these better relate together harmoniously. When there is a need for some type of use or building, we can design and place these in a way that relates harmoniously with the existing creations, the shape of the land, the ecology of the area and the subtle energies.

As discussed previously, ley lines have different aspects or qualities manifesting more or less, and certain dominant qualities can be tapped and attracted for certain uses. It is most efficient to place our uses along the existing lines of these qualities, yet the use itself will attract, by resonance, like qualities, dependent upon the agreement, receptivity and anchoring pattern. We can attract qualities through pattern, shape and symbolic art-form. It all works according to the principles of resonance and receptive accumulation. With the right frequency of vibration, it is possible to tune into a similar resonance.

We may want to sedate certain overly intense qualities of energy coming from the surrounding environment, or even on our land. Or, we may want to enhance certain qualities, or bring these qualities into specific places. Or, we may want to better balance the qualities for an overall harmonious effect. This is all done through the principles of attracting-directing energies through correct pattern and placement, and resonance. The particular quality of our pattern and use will determine the particular energies attracted, and of course we can rightly place things in line with the particular quality of energy needed. We can place markers, monuments or creative structures to resonate areas of the land for amplification, receptivity and accumulation of energies, whether it be in a general or specific way.

Sacred-Natural Proportion

Designing with and using sacred geometry is also a very powerful way of enhancing the land, and everyone there, with healing and harmonious energies.

The subtle energies of the land can be enhanced by our creative use of sacred pattern and proportion. These create harmonic resonance through the land and resonating throughout the area, which help enhance the harmony of subtle earth-sacred energies and also harmonize energies in our human bodies and psyche. We can beneficially use sacred geometric patterns placed in the landscape or in buildings for protection, healing, balance, and for resonating or anchoring higher qualities and vibrations of subtle energy. This is especially beneficial at certain places on the land where ley lines cross or natural positive vortexes occur. One needs to study the area and the intended use there on, to determine the best pattern and shape needed. Certain qualities of subtle energy will resonate according to the patterns and proportions used. Remember that pattern and proportion create vibrational tones and musical harmonics, and music certainly has a psychological-emotional effect on us. Use of certain kinds of stones, gems or natural elements can amplify, resonate and focus qualities to an area.

Examples of geometric shape are too many to discuss here, but they can be found in the mathematics of geometry and in actual microscopic scientific pictures of natural inner structures. Sacred proportion and geometry is also found in many religious structures throughout the world, as designed by those who understood the esoteric science of such. Examples of sacred proportion are the golden mean, golden spiral, the Vesica Piscis, use of Pi and Phi, and of course circles and ovals.

☼Remember too that the vibrational 'sound' of our consciousness, thought and agreement create resonating patterns and long-term effects. This can especially be powerfully and longer lasting in its effect if done in group ritual. We can effectively create a great resonating power of united and synergistic consciousness, with directed thought or prayer or group ritual. Certain group rituals using sound, thought and movement can invoke and generate positive resonating qualities to an area.

Energy Flow and Anchoring

We can help the movement and flow of natural energies within and along the land. Our first work is to help protect and sustain the flow that is already there, by building on or using the land in a harmonious way. These flowing and resonating energies can also be enhanced, through a high quality of consciousness, activity and creativity on the land.

One needs to first know the kinds of energy desired for the place and where these are coming from. One must work with the flow at hand, the realities of the surrounding environment. If it is at all possible, it is best to design things in harmony with the flows as they are, because this is the easiest and most efficient way to attract the sacred flows.

Yet, we do have means, sometimes, to re-direct the flow for healing and beneficial purposes. It is possible bring lines of energy together at a place to create a vortex of healing energy, intensifying a certain place for specific accumulation and use, and making this place a centre from which energies move out from. It is also possible to bounce the energies over some constricting obstruction, by way of a tall tree or tall monument of right proportion.

We also can draw these lines of flow into our places of living and activity. This is done by anchoring the energies along a direction that will flow into that place, and anchoring it there. It is possible to re-direct or curve the flow of energy by anchoring something that will attract it. We can use the technique of earth acupuncture to mark and designate a line of direction, using metal or stone or anything that will attract, accumulate and allow the energies to concentrate through, much like a lens.

We can focus energies to a place by making it a focus of attention, using trees, flower gardens, ponds or fountains, monuments, sculptures or sacred buildings. Having some areas of focus can create proportion and balance in the landscape, and help order the subtle energies harmoniously.

Lines of energy-flow can be created by defined borders and paths. For example, rock walls or edges in the landscape create lines of energy and pattern. The shape of our created landscape, using vegetation and structure, helps shape the energy flows and the overall subtle effect on the land.

Certain patterns, right proportioned structures, or built sites of beautiful significance, can also draw and direct the energies. The borders and patterns of a designed landscape can effect the flow and direction too. The main principle involved here is to effect the flow through an overall pattern in the landscape and through attracting receptivity to where one seeks to direct the energies.

One can anchor energies to a site in many ways, such as placement of rocks, stones, or crystals. Sometimes we pound iron rods with copper sleeves (balancing yin/yang metals) into the ground to create a kind of acupuncture effect and resonating impact. Special garden areas, sacred monuments, symbolic or geometric patterns, or defined meditation or recreation areas may be appropriate to the area and effect an anchoring. Even buildings and large trees can anchor the energy. We are fixing something onto and into the land to attract, accumulate and resonate, for anchoring flows of energy to that area or bringing out the potential energy at that place. We are fixing life, energy, pattern and sound into the crystalline inner structure of the land. This also accomplishes a grounding of EM at that place, and a stabilization of the overall surrounding em pattern of the area.

Remember that these ley lines are concentrated flows of energy, and all these techniques are for focalizing, intensifying, resonating and concentrating these. We are tapping into the energy flows and energy potentials of the land for human use and benefit, as well as harmoniously blending subtle energies together and evolving the shape of the planetary future. Ultimately, we are anchoring heaven on earth, anchoring life, consciousness and love into our places of custodianship for those who will later walk the earth and the future to come. We must be careful in how we use these techniques and these powers, for there is a hazard for making things worse, without proper sensitivity, knowledge, and questioning permission and real need. The art of geomancy is in how we creatively use these scientific principles, and to what degree of sensitivity and understanding we have developed within.ⁱⁱⁱ

Boundaries and Protection

It is very good to define the boundaries of our land and our responsibility of custodianship. Make a definite agreement to be responsible for this piece of land, to serve it in the best possible way and protect it from harm. The land will then respond to us, to our needs, and feel safe in our hands. Say hello to the land, and commit yourself to this relationship.

There are possible rituals for defining a land area, protecting it, and also declaring one's responsibility for it. One such ritual involves walking along the boundaries in prayer or in attunement, carrying the elements of fire (candles or torches), water ( a bowl of spring water), air (breath), mineral (rock or stone gathered on the land) and natural life acquired from the area (branches and flowers). Even animals can be part of the procession. Rituals of this sort will have a powerful and beneficial influence on the land, and can anchor the sense of responsibility and agreement in those participating.

Another kind of ritual would be to invoke guardian spirits for protection and also for the flow of higher wisdom on the land. There is no perfectly exact way to perform these rituals, so these rituals will vary, depending on cultural, religious, or group beliefs. Concentrated intention, verbal invocation, and visualization are three of the main necessary principles in such rituals. A very simple practice for protecting and purifying the land is an intentional visualization of purifying white or blue light filling all areas of the land.

Every given piece of land having a boundary will also have a potential centre, and if we can strengthen this centre with recognition and purification, protection and healing can then fully anchor itself and spiral out to all parts of the land.

Sometimes we need to protect our land from harmful, negative energies, which are human created distortions of the original sacred energy. Along some directions surrounding our land are influences that we do not want. These were created out of wrong use and improper placements of structure. Yet, we can protect ourselves and even help heal this negativity. The first and basic action to take is to live and create on our land in a way that promotes harmony and healing there on. Next, we can definitely define our boundaries of custodianship in physical and psychic ways.

The agreement we make in terms of our designated custodianship is the most important factor, and our group consciousness and harmonious activity on our land effects what will be attracted through resonance. But nobody is perfect in being attuned to the highest at all times, so it is very helpful to anchor some physical geomancy work.

Physically anchor something at the corners of your land, and create a line of boundary connecting these corners, first by visualization. A fence, hedge or stone border can be protective, but it is also possible to use a rhythmic placement of stones, shrubs or trees between the corner markers. In extreme cases one can lay out thin copper wire along the boundary to protect from and divert energy, but one must be careful to not isolate the place from the good energies. Once the exact direction is known from whence the unwanted influences are coming, we can even create a special area near that border to accumulate and transform the influence (a place to then stay clear of), or at least disperse its most concentrated line of force, so that it doesn’t ram right into our living spaces. A large tree with a patterned border around it, or a small grove of trees or shrubs with a hexagonal pattern can often do the trick. A fair size of shinny metal patterned in a square, propped up to face the negative line of influence can disperse the energy and protect the land like a shield. ⁱⁱⁱ

Directed thought can attract positive energies

It is possible to attract lines to meet together, and anchor these, producing a new positive vortex, to be harnessed for good. Different ley lines can even be attracted to an area because of the particular activity or use there. Like attracts like, so the particular quality of an activity, function or building in a place will attract similar qualities of ley lines. Thought directs energy and agreement anchors it. Ley lines seek receptivity and will flow to where they are needed and used. Purpose attracts them. Agreement receives them. Use defines them. The point of these lines is in their function and use, so they tend to flow to “the point of it all”. We can center these forces on our land, creating a centre that radiates outward and balances the land around. Intersecting lines create the more magnetic areas.

Energy follows thought, and it is anchored by agreement. When people see in a certain way or their line of attention is directed in a certain way, subtle energy and a pathway is set-up. A memory pattern is set-up. The more this is done, the stronger the energy. If people continue to direct their attention and thoughts to a particular feature on the land, say a waterfall for instance, then an energy path is set-up between the place of observation and the observed feature. Or let’s say that a group of people look out from a particular window towards a particular feature in the landscape, and have been doing this every week for years; then, an energy pathway has been set-up and strengthened each time. If certain natural features or human constructions in a landscape are significant enough to continuously draw people’s attention, they will gain ever more energy (making them even more attention drawing), and the main pathway of this attention (depending on where people mostly look from) will also acquire more energy. The energy here we speak of is not usually neutral, but is colored by our thoughts. The kind of thought we give to something determines the particular quality of energy. A group of people might see a place as beautiful, or healing, or peaceful, or stimulating, or evoking some psychological quality such as confidence, devotion, endurance, introspection, etc., or negative thoughts might be given, such as ugliness, danger or hate.

These thought-forms attach to the place, and grow with continued use. In previous times, when individuals thought in more similar ways, when there was greater social and psychological cohesiveness and stronger collective thought patterns, the particular type of thought given manifested more powerfully than today. Certain types of miracles would continually occur, such as sacred waters turning into blood or mountains flaming up at certain defined times, all because of the given thought and belief. Examples of this energy effect occur all the time, even still, though not quite to such extremes. This is not to say that places are solely created from human thoughts, but there is an acquired influence due to thought , belief and agreement.

Sacred areas, as well as any area, and lines along the land will accumulate the thoughts given to it. This principle can be used for good and specific purposes, or it can ignorantly harm an area. In geomancy we sometimes have to help clear an area of its thought-forms and memory patterns. We mostly attempt to allow the place and the land to grow in its own destined way, without any thought presumption of our own. We give the land space to manifest its true potentials in time.

We open up more possibilities for good and beauty, and for the custodians of this land to give to it and receive what they need in time. We can share our consciousness, understanding, love and enthusiasm with the land, and help the purest of energies grow onto and within the land.

Possibilities and Potentials

At any place on earth there is some sort of existing manifestation of energies which also have influencing effects. Each place is interconnected and mutually interacting with its surroundings. Each place of energies is affected and stabilized by its surrounding energies, and in turn, it is an influence for the areas and places around it. Also, each place is in continual change and organic evolution, as is everything to some degree.

Yet, within each particular area or place lies a greater possibility. In other words, every place and everything only expresses some of its possible potential at any one time, but there subsists in potential many more possibilities. These are potential energies of the place. We could also call this the undifferentiated energy available, because the potential energy of this area of space has yet to define itself into specific form or reality. What we see and experience presently in a place is differentiated energy, or actualized energy with a particular quality, vibration and pattern. Pure, empty space has infinite potential energy and infinite possibility. In fact, each single point in space, throughout the whole universe, has a huge untapped energy potential, which is great secret to realize for it means that a vast energy is potentially available everywhere..

So, undifferentiated potential energy is within all space, all over. It is possible to tap into this undifferentiated energy, to find and bring forth the absolute source energy for new possibilities. How this comes into differentiation or actual expression is dependent upon a reconciliation between the intention involved and the receptivity or place. Each place has already existing qualities and a certain, limited set of needs, which make up the receptivity. The absolute, undifferentiated energy gains more and more intention and definition as it unfolds into physical actualization. Its deepest intention is patterned by the needs of the planetary matrix.

Our sense of choice and power of free will to change things in our life is part of our own undifferentiated potential energy, or the 'as yet to be determined'. We do not live in a completely determined world. It is open in some degree to our choices and our determinations. ^iv