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A guide to the history and practice of traditional European nature-based spirituality
• Examines the Eight Directions and the powers of their Winds, the Tides of the Day, and the eightfold year of modern Pagan practice
• Explores geomancy practices, how to work with spirits of place, and the power of mountains, rivers, caves, standing stones, and crossroads
• Shares spiritual exercises, including runic practices and divination techniques, as well as how to craft your own magical tools
In this guide to the Way of the Eight Winds, Nigel Pennick explores the history and practice of traditional European Pagan spirituality, a path that recognizes and celebrates our relationship with the Cosmos and the creativity of Nature.
The author looks at the Eight Directions and the powers of their Winds, the Tides of the Day, stations and houses of the Sun, and the eightfold year of modern Pagan practice. He explores practices for restoring a connection with sacred places in the landscape and the eldritch powers that inhabit them, including working with spirits of place (the Anima Loci), interpreting the lore of trees, and recognizing magical, otherworldly, and auspicious features. He describes divination techniques, including ostenta and signs, as well as sigils and emblems that emerge from the Wildwood. He explores geomancy and the magic of the landscape, including both natural and man-made features such as standing stones and crossroads. He shares spiritual exercises, including meditations, runic practices, and geomantic walking, and explores how to craft your own magical tools and build labyrinths, from small talismanic ones to those large enough to be danced in.
With re-enchantment of life as the goal, Pennick emphasizes the Way of the Eight Winds as a spiritual path that reconnects us to Nature, brings us back to the present, and helps us see the world our ancestors venerated.
Contents
PREFACE
An Ever-Changing and Ever-Flowing Cosmos
PROLOGOS
Origins of the Way of the Eight Winds
PART I
Philosophical Viewpoints
1 Points of View
2 The Recovery of Ancient Wisdom
3 Unity
4 The Eternal Tradition
5 A History of Authenticity
6 On Spectacle
7 Divination and Chance
8 Human Personifications of the Divine
9 The Naming of Names
10 Ørlög and History
The Formation of the Modern World
11 The Eldritch World
PART II
Cosmic Principles
12 The Four Elements and the Cosmic Egg
13 The World, the Cosmos, and the Human Body
14 Temperament and the Divine Harmony
15 The Planetary Spheres and the Ogdoas
16 Myths of Coming into Being
17 At the Center of the World
The Omphalos and the Spindle
of Necessity
18 Time, Space, and Fate
19 Our Place on Earth
20 The Four Directions
21 The Eight Tides of the Day
22 The Winds
23 Specific Winds
24 The Right Place at the Right Time
25 Nature and the Eldritch
26 The Sacredness of Manifested Phenomena
27 Places of Spirit
28 Trees, Temenoi, and Places
of the Ancestral Spirits
29 Numinous Places in the Land
30 Feng Shui
31 Crossing the Borderlines
32 The Locus Terribilis and the Locus Amoenus
33 The Sacred and the Profane
Archaeology
PART III
Geomancy
34 Physical Elements of Geomancy
35 The Cosmic Axis
36 The Road Leads Us On
37 Stonehenge
38 The Crossroads
39 Labyrinths
40 Geomantic Protection
PART IV
Makings
41 The Spiritual Arts and Crafts
42 Sacred Geometry
43 Specific Geometric Forms
44 Spiritual Exercises
45 Tools and Techniques
PART V
Metaphorical Texts
46 The Labyrinth
Ariadne's Dancing Ground
47 Wayland's House
48 The Wayfarer's Legacy
EPILOGOS
Confluence
APPENDIX 1
Number Symbolism
APPENDIX 2
Musical Ratios
APPENDIX 3
The Tides of the Day
Glossary
Bibliography and Sources for Further Study
Index
