Latitude with Attitude

Aligning homes makes such a difference in our daily lives. A harmonized home is a place of refuge and renewal. I share with you here the story of aligning my own home. I decided to buy my little home within a few minutes. The great elm tree towering over it had an inviting energy and the land felt good and renewing. First impressions are always best, I think – good to notice before we try to second guess our intuition. Next I walked the land and found it largely neutral except for one subterranean water line that ran along the wall just inside my soon-to-be bedroom. Once I moved in I noticed I was not spending much time in the bedroom even though I was not sleeping on the water line. I realized that I really needed to harmonize that line. Once done I found myself spending more time in the bedroom in meditation, reading and just enjoying the space. That seemed good enough for awhile, but I realize it would be best for the long run to fully harmonize my new place.
Latitude with Attitude colleagues, Karen Jarldane, Cat Daily, Gaela Morrison and I set about mapping the place. Following our analysis I chose the solsticial quadrilateral, a pattern that marks the annual movement of the sun in this latitude and is a very stable form of harmonization, for my place. I sought out stones of around 200 pounds and Jim Shugart helped me set them in the exact proportional shape around my home. I loved the look of the granitic stones I had chosen, they look a bit like cosmic eggs about to hatch. With dowsing rods we could read the level of the newly harmonized space created following the placement of the stones. It felt nice! The real surprise and learning, however, occurred that night. As I lay in bed half sleeping, half streaming-dreaming I could feel the energy of the land within the solsticial quadrilateral that surrounded me shifting in a dramatic way. I had not experienced something quite like this before. I woke up feeling that I had been inside an acupuncture or cranio-sacral treatment all night. Wow. The best words I can find to describe it are these: – setting up a harmonized space around one’s dwelling place is like living within an acupuncture or other aligning treatment because it creates an on-going charged and balanced healing zone in which to live. I would never live anywhere now without doing this basic work of alignment with the land, the sky (by way of the latitude) and life around me.