Journal of Geomancy vol. 3 no. 3, April 1979
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THE PRESS GANG FOR THIS ISSUE (more or less) WAS: Nigel Pennick, B.Sc.; editorialists, layout etc. Ann Pennick; typeproduxion, layout, theoretical consultancy. John Cann, L.I.Biol.; constructivism. Sheila Cann; rapid constructivism. Prudence Jones, M.A.; sundries and comestibles. Rupert Pennick; Moral support.
The editor would like to thank all our friends and supporters who came to our modest stand at the AQUARIAN FESTIVAL and talked or bought publications. It is by your support that we are able to continue bringing you the JOURNAL OF GEOMANCY and all the other sundry print jobs for which we are known.
After an extended period of gestation, the editor’s major work on geomancy, The Ancient Science of Geomancy has been brought out by Thames & Hudson. Review elsewhere in this issue.
Owing to pressure of events, the THIRD CAMBRIDGE GEOMANCY SYMPOSIUM has now been put off until the autumn. Notification of date and venue will appear in the July issue of the JOG.
JOG’s sister magazine, Albion,is now to be published quarterly and will be produced in association with the Society for Promoting Pagan Knowledge (SPPK).
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The following back numbers of the JOG are available:
Vol 1 OUT OF PRINT
Vol 2 OUT OF PRINT
Vol 3 No 1 Contents: Winchester Zodiac; Chephren’s Pyramid by Robert Forrest; John Michell on Watkins’s Revelation; Ley Width; MacLellan Mann’s “Druid Temple” near Glasgow; Letters & Reviews.
Vol 3 No 2: Cambridge 7 church ley by Behrend & Pennick; Heinsch on PreChristian Geomancy; Diodorus’s Dragons; + Proceedings of the 2nd Cambridge Geomancy Symposium with contributions by Prudence Jones, Nigel Pennick, Peter Martin and Mike Collier; Kenyan Stones; Letters and Reviews.
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NOTE: IN the interest of a balanced issue, the geometrical works of Ed. W. Cox on Liverpool Castle etc. are held over until JOG 3/4. The archive material in this issue is on the Glastonbury Eggstone by the great excavator and expositor of the mysteries of Glastonbury, Frederick Bligh Bond.
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16th/17th June 1979 GLASTONBURY The Ley Hunter Magazine Moot, celebrating the 10th anniversary of its re-founding. Details from TLH, Address, London N10.
Summer Solstice GLASTONBURY TOR Digger ceremony, info. from Pete Brown, Address, Dursley, Glos. Postcode. Tel: Phone.
8–14 July ISLE OF MAN 1000th anniversary of Tynwald ceremonies and celebrations. Info from An Party Kenethlegek Kernow, Justin Williams, Address, Brixham, Devon.
10–12 August ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL. Polgooth Faire, Little John Field, Polgooth, St. Austell (by the London Apprentice on the Mevagissey Road). Theatre, ritual, 330th Annual General Meeting of the Diggers, music & events. Details from Dave Stringer, Address, Fowey, Cornwall.
An exhibition by John Billingsley in the entrance hall of the Birchcliffe Centre, Hebden Bridge, W. Yorkshire, from May 21st for two weeks.
Across the face of Britain are emerging intriguing patterns laid out in features of the everyday landscape. Most of us are familiar with such works as the White Horse of Uffington or the phallic giant at Cerne Abbas, but there are, apart from these quite considerable monuments, geomantic executions both larger and more subtle. Among these other, hidden, factors, to the prospect of Britain are the terrestrial zodiacs.
The Hebden Bridge Zodiac has no precedent or close relative. It is a small, iconoclastic, oval-shaped collection of the twelve signs, plus two external but associated figures. Its tendrils reach into the life and history of this stretch of the Calder Valley, to the extent of blurring the division of cause and effect on the events and routines of the area. It has a subtle effect on the ideas and understanding that shape the valley and its natural occupants. However the zodiac came about, it lives as a force to be reckoned with.
The zodiac was discovered on May Day 1977, and investigation continues on many lines. Articles have appeared
in the JOG, Pulsar and the Terrestrial Zodiacs Newsletter;
the exhibition is seen as a progress report on the research, and the first local display of the zodiac.
It is not presented as a final outcome, as a conclusion to the matter of the terrestrial zodiac of Hebden Bridge or elsewhere.
JOHN BILLINGSLEY
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No 6 The Round Church of Orphir, Orkney by Ian Worden. Sacred geometry of a non-Templar round church in the northern isles. 35p
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