Earth Energies
By Karen Crowley Susani
Exploring the connection between heaven and earth.
The Real Sacred Geometry Real sacred geometry is connected to the sun and the earth and enhances your connection to the divine. Real sacred geometry is not primarily concerned with numbers such as Phi, the Golden Mean, or the Fibonacci spiral. Real sacred geometry is the intimate connection of the earth with the sun, the moon, and the stars.
Credit: Karen Crowley Susani
A marvelous stone marked some of these very first sacred places. Examples can be found at Delphi with their carved omphalos stone, the navel of their world. Also, in Ireland, the Stone of Destiny stands on top of the Hill of Tara, the sacred dwelling place of the gods and entrance to the underworld.
The Golden Mean is only a piece of the totality of sacred geometry. The streams of thought born in England, that the Golden Mean and Fibonacci sequences are the beginning and end of sacred geometry, are missing the most fundamental piece of the equation.
Where do humans meet the divine? Again, Mircea Eliade gives us a little insight. “Every reli‑ gion identifies a place and a time when the transcendent breaks into the world. When it does, it makes holy or sacred the place and the time of the breakthrough.”
To begin, the definition of ‘sacred’ is connected to a place where the human meets the divine. A word which nicely sums up the defi‑ nition of sacred is ‘hierophany’, which means the appearance of the divine. Hierophany is a word made popular by Mircea Eliade in the 1950s in his seminal work The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion.
There were particular places for each culture where this transcen‑ dence appeared, and many times it became the center of their world. These places of breakthrough are where heaven and earth connect and can be called the axis mundi.
After identifying a sacred place, protecting it was next. How did they design and build a holy space? A measurement was needed. Clues to this measure‑ ment may be found in the Greek word geometry. Geo – means earth, and metron translates into
Each culture believes its homeland is the center of the world. At its center, the axis mundi, is the most sacred place of all, and a meeting Star Nations Magazine • May 2020 • 23
Credit: The omphalos, the navel of the Greek world, from Delphi) Omphalos in Delphi archeologic museum, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Omphalos_museum.jpg
point of the four cardinal direc‑ tions. Outside of its boundaries is chaos and the unknown.
