Sig Lonegren tutored “Introduction to Power Centres and Sacred Space” at the Antrobus Arms Hotel in Amesbury, Wiltshire. We chose this location as it was so close to Stonehenge, which figured importantly in the course. There were a number of different topics covered on Saturday including a brief review of the EEG Entry Level course. This was followed by an intro to archaeoastronomy. This is perhaps, the most difficult of all topics we covered in the weekend and it was not possible to cover all the aspects of this arcane subject in the time available. Fortunately, Sig has developed a simple device called “Sunfinder” which students can use to either check possible solar alignments at ancient sites or to align new sacred spaces to a particular sun rise or set for any day in the year (see http://www.geomancy.org/sunfinder/).
After lunch, we moved in to sacred geometry. This is a subject which one can NOT learn using only the left brain. You have to do it with your hands using a pair of compasses (a circle maker), a straight edge, pencil and paper. We got as far as seeing the five basic shapes – the circle (), the square (), the vesica piscis (), the double square (), and the phi (ø) rectangle. We also began to draw circles and the vesica piscis using a pair of compasses. Like astronomy, this was only an introductory taste of the sacred geometry found in sacred space.
We then moved on to constructing new sacred space, and the various options one had including an understanding of the importance of the Four Directions and the role of dowsing in the location and orientation of these new spaces.

Stonehenge magic!

Sunday Morning
3:30am – Our BSD Accountant and course assistant Sylvia Cahill phoned each of our rooms very early to wake us up for the trip to the centre of Stonehenge and a possible the chance to see the sunrise near to the Heel Stone. The sun dramatically slows down its rising movement along the horizon the closer it gets to each solstice. On the 12th of June, it would be less than a half a degree from its Summer Solstce maximum azimuth (degrees from True North in a clockwise direction) of 50.79º at the latitude of Stonehenge.
4:40 am – We enter Stonehenge and have a look around the massive trilithons and Prescelly Blue Stones and begin to dowse.
4:52 am – The official time sunrise - NOT. It was quite cloudy along the northeastern horizon, and we only saw the sun about ten minutes later through the trilithons when it had risen a bit above the horizon.

just after sunrise

We held a short ceremony to find out what each of us could learn about how the Summer Solstice would effect us, and did some more dowsing, but sadly we only had a limited amount of time in the circle.

Bart does some dazzling dowsing!			Sylvia checks out a line

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