CREATING PLACES OF POWER: Geomancy, Builder's Rites, and Electional Astrology in the Hermetic Tradition

Illustrating ancient principles of divination, chronomancy, and electional astrology, Pennick examines all the factors behind the ancestral art of geomancy: the auspicious creation and alignment of sacred buildings as places of power. He explains how many cities were constructed on specially selected sites and founded ritually at precise, predetermined moments. Well illus.