Creating Places of Power: Geomancy, Builder's Rites, and Electional Astrology in the Hermetic Tradition

This book explores traditional esoteric building and crafting rites, explaining ceremonial foundations for sacred buildings, homes, and barns. It also covers electional astrology, natural time computation, and examples from ancient Egypt, Iran, India, and Europe spanning the Stone Age to the Renaissance, including secret societies.

When creating something, there’s a precise moment when it becomes a separate entity with unique qualities. This moment has a right time and a wrong time, and we can select favorable moments for our creations, just as our ancestors did, according to the book. The author goes into into the connection between geomantic principles and the very fabric of the world. As such this book might be best suited to someone witchy who is planning on building a structure.