Issue Number 17
Spring Equinox MAG E-Zine
of Mid-Atlantic Geomancy
Welcome to our Spring Equinox edition of our MAG E-zine!
In our Winter Solstice Issue, we asked our geomantic writers to look into their crystal balls and to talk about the future of geomancy. In this issue, we have asked our writers to look at the now. We have come a long way (baby) since I first got in to this material in the late sixties and early seventies. Where are we today? We have some very interesting thinkers with us in this issue. Chuck Pettis and his son Bre, are geomancers out on the West Coast of the US. Peter Champoux is doing innovative work in New England. Billy Gawn comes from Northern Ireland, and I'm Mid-Atlantic, I live in Glastonbury, but also have a home in Vermont. So there is a view of geomancy today from a number of different angles, yet there is an interesting similarity that clearly ties these view together.
It has to do with establishing a special/new/different relationship with the Earth. We, as humans, seem to have forgotten some valuable bits of reality in our mad dash into out left-brained, rational, analytical world we now live in. Geomancy is one way to recover this information that is critical to our health and survival.
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Sig
A History on the Future of Geomancy
by
Peter Champoux
Peter Champoux is a practicing geomancer for hire, author, stone mason, designer and resident of Greenfield, Massachusetts, USA. His recent book Gaia Matrix makes great strides towards making geomancy part of our cultural lexicon. He and his partner Susan Franklin-Wilson jointly operate the publishing company, Franklin Media, specializing in digital publishing from raw material, design- to printing. They are the principles of the non profit educational organization, Arkhom,Inc. You can contact them. Find out more about AMP, the Arkhom Millennium Project.
Will We Be Our Own Slave, or Our Own Master In the New Millennium?
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Billy Gawn
Billy Gawn is a fine Earth Energy dowser from Northern Ireland. I first met him through snail mail many years ago. He had written the American Society of Dowsers who passed his letter on to me. We ended up trading a number of nine page single-spaced typed letters about these energies and sacred sites. Billy now chairs the British Society of Dowsers' Earth Energy Group, and has written a booklet of Earth Energy dowsing terminology. Billy has also written several other articles for our MAG E-zine in which he discusses the primary water system.
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Chuck Pettis and Bre Pettis
Chuck Pettis, author of the new book, Secrets of Sacred Space (Llewellyn, 1999) is currently planning a 57-acre sacred ecology project on Whidbey Island in the State of Washington, USA. Chuck is a frequent speaker and workshop teacher on sacred space. Bre Pettis, Chuck's son, is a teacher, puppeteer and storyteller. Visit their web site The Geo Group, a group of artists, designers and other interested people dedicated to creating environmental art for the purposes of world peace and planetary healing.
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Sig Lonegren
Sig Lonegren is the webmaster of Mid-Atlantic Geomancy, with his partner Patrick MacManaway. He is also an author, teacher and active in his community in Glastonbury, England. His spiritual path has taken him through many different World Religions from Hinduism and the Native American path to Celtic and Indo-European Mythology to Biblical studies. He holds a M.A. in "Sacred Space," an interdisciplinary degree in archaeology, archaeoastronomy, sacred geometry, anthropology, and dowsing.