PLACE AND THE OCCULT

 "I was struck — clobbered over the head would be a better description — by Vine Deloria Jr.’s comments in God is Red about the importance of place as well as time in spirituality; it’s something badly neglected in most Western religious traditions, though that wasn’t always the case. One of the useful bits of Druid teaching in this context is the contrast between the solar and telluric currents, the two main currents of spiritual energy we can access; the solar current varies over time — thus some times and days and seasons are better for this or that work than others — but the telluric current varies similarly over space — thus some locations are better for this or that work than others. One of the great challenges for the occultists of the future will be working out a way of reading the characteristics of place that’s as well developed as the astrological method of reading the characteristics of time."

John Michael Greer