Tradition guide
Multi-faith
18 sacred sites available through this shared spiritual lineage.
Countries with strong presence
Common site types
Airport Mesa, Sedona
Sedona, Arizona, United States
Perched above Sedona with 360-degree views of the red rock landscape, Airport Mesa offers the most accessible encounter with vortex energy. The masculine, upflow quality here supports clarity, motivation, and the kind of expanded perspective that comes from seeing far. Sunrise and sunset transform this overlook into something numinous.
Altare Rupestre di Santo Stefano
Oscheri/Oschiri, Sardinia, Italy
Altare Rupestre di Santo Stefano is a altar of sacred significance. Approximate coordinates: 40.72749, 9.10729. Attributes: built, cultural, archaeological, ceremonial. Located in Oscheri/Oschiri, Sardigna/Sardegna, Italy.
Chair of Isis (Throne of Isis)
Rennes-les-Bains, Occitanie, France
High above the thermal village of Rennes-les-Bains, a granite seat carved into the forest floor has drawn seekers for centuries. Known to locals as the Devil's Armchair—a name given by the Church to sites it could not suppress—contemporary practitioners call it the Throne of Isis, approaching it as an initiatory seat of power for feminine mysteries. The adjacent sacred spring and position within a landscape of geometric alignments mark it as a place where something persists.
Chalice Well Gardens
Glastonbury, Somerset, United Kingdom
At the foot of Glastonbury Tor, iron-stained waters have flowed without ceasing for over two thousand years. Christian pilgrims come seeking the Holy Grail. Goddess devotees honor the sacred feminine. Pagans mark the wheel of the year. Yet beneath all interpretations, the spring simply flows—red, constant, indifferent to the meanings we bring, open to all who come seeking.
Chanctonbury Rings, Findon, West Sussex, England
Horsham, England, United Kingdom
Chanctonbury Rings, Findon, West Sussex, England is a hill fort of sacred significance. Approximate coordinates: 50.89675, -0.38106. Attributes: built, cultural, archaeological. Located in Horsham, England, United Kingdom.
Cissbury Ring, Findon, West Sussex, England
Worthing, England, United Kingdom
Cissbury Ring, Findon, West Sussex, England is a neolithic flint mines of sacred significance. Approximate coordinates: 50.86046, -0.38325. Attributes: built, cultural, archaeological. Located in Worthing, England, United Kingdom.
Crestone
Crestone, Colorado, United States
Crestone in Crestone, Colorado, United States.
Glastonbury Tor
Glastonbury, Somerset, United Kingdom
Rising 158 meters above the Somerset Levels, Glastonbury Tor has drawn seekers for millennia. Celtic tradition holds it as a gateway to Annwn, the Otherworld. Christian legend claims Joseph of Arimathea buried the Holy Grail at its foot.
Pantheon, Rome, Italy
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Pantheon, Rome, Italy is a site of sacred significance. Approximate coordinates: 41.89861, 12.47687. Located in Roma, Lazio, Italy.
Paucartambo—Fiesta de la Virgen del Carmen
Paucartambo, Cusco, Peru
Paucartambo—Fiesta de la Virgen del Carmen in Paucartambo, Cusco, Peru.
Pharping Vajrayogini Temple
Pharping, Bagmati Province, Nepal
At the base of the stairs leading to Guru Rinpoche's Asura Cave, this 11th-century temple marks where the Pamtingpa brothers transmitted Vajrayogini teachings that would transform Tibetan Buddhism. Marpa Lotsawa—the great translator who brought so much to Tibet—visited at least three times. One of four Vajrayogini temples forming a sacred mandala around Kathmandu Valley, Pharping's temple combines living worship with lineage significance.
Rollright Stones
West Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Rollright Stones is a site of sacred significance. Approximate coordinates: 51.97551, -1.57081. The Rollright Stones are a complex of three Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monuments near the village of Long Compton, on the borders of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire. Constructed from local oolitic limestone, the three monuments, now known as the King s Men and the Whispering Knights in Oxfordshire and the King Stone in Warwickshire, are distinct in their design and purpose. They were built at different periods in late prehistory. During the period when the three monuments were erected, there was a continuous tradition of ritual behaviour on sacred ground, from the 4th to the 2nd millennium BCE. The first to be constructed was the Whispering Knights, a dolmen that dates to the Early or Middle Neolithic period. It was likely to have been used as a place of burial. This was followed by the King s Men, a stone circle that was constructed in the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age; unusually, it has parallels to other circles located further north, in the Lake District, implying a trade-based or ritual connection. The third monument, the King Stone, is a single monolith. Although its construction has not been dated, the dominant theory amongst archaeologists is that it was a Bronze Age grave marker. The British philologist Richard Coates has proposed that the name Rollright is from the Brittonic phrase *rodland rïx wheel enclosure groove , where *rïx groove refers to a narrow valley near Great Rollright and *rodland wheel enclosure refers to the King s Men circle. By the Early Modern period, folkloric stories had developed about the Stones, telling of how they had once been a king and his knights who had been turned to stone by a witch. Such stories continued to be taught amongst local people well into the 19th century. Meanwhile, antiquarians such as William Camden, John Aubrey and William Stukeley had begun to take an interest in the monuments. Fuller archaeological investigations were undertaken in the 20th century, culminating in excavations run by George Lambrick in the 1980s. The site is listed by Historic England as a scheduled monument and was first designated in 1882. In the 20th century, the stones became an important site for adherents of various forms of Contemporary Paganism, as well as for other esotericists, who hold magico-religious ceremonies there. They also began to be referred to more widely in popular culture, being featured in television, literature, music and art. Located in West Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
Rudston Monolith
Rudston, England, United Kingdom
Rudston Monolith is a site of sacred significance. Approximate coordinates: 54.09390, -0.32256. The Rudston Monolith at over 25 feet (7.6 m) is the tallest monolith (standing stone) in the United Kingdom. It is situated in the churchyard in the village of Rudston (grid reference TA 098 678) in the East Riding of Yorkshire. Located in England, United Kingdom.
The Cheesewring
Henwood, England, United Kingdom
The Cheesewring is a site of sacred significance. Approximate coordinates: 50.52537, -4.45930. The Cheesewring (Cornish: Keuswask) is a granite tor in Cornwall, England, situated on the eastern flank of Bodmin Moor on Stowe s Hill in the parish of Linkinhorne approximately one mile northwest of the village of Minions and four miles (6 km) north of Liskeard. It is a natural geological formation, a rock outcrop of granite slabs formed by weathering. The name derives from the resemblance of the piled slabs to a stack of cheeses in a traditional cider press. Wilkie Collins described the Cheesewring in 1861 in his book Rambles Beyond Railways: If a man dreams of a great pile of stones in a nightmare, he would dream of such a pile as the Cheesewring. All the heaviest and largest of the seven thick slabs of which it is composed are at the top; all the lightest and smallest at the bottom. It rises perpendicularly to a height of thirty-two feet, without lateral support of any kind. The fifth and sixth rocks are of immense size and thickness, and overhang fearfully all round the four lower rocks which support them. All are perfectly irregular; the projections of one do not fit into the interstices of another; they are heaped up loosely in their extraordinary top-heavy form on slanting ground, half way down a steep hill. Located adjacent to the Cheesewring Quarry (which supplied the granite cladding for the structure of Tower Bridge, London) and surrounded by other granite formations, this landmark was threatened with destruction in the late nineteenth century by the proximity of blasting operations, but was saved as a result of local activism. Located in England, United Kingdom.
Valle de Sinakara—Quyllurit'i
Ocongate, Cusco, Peru
Valle de Sinakara—Quyllurit'i in Ocongate, Cusco, Peru.
Vortex at Boynton Canyon, Sedona
Sedona, Arizona, United States
Boynton Canyon holds the creation story of the Yavapai-Apache people, who understand this as the literal birthplace of their nation. The 80-foot Kachina Woman spire stands sentinel at the canyon's entrance, marking ground so sacred that tribal members gather here still for sunrise blessing ceremonies. For New Age seekers, this represents Sedona's most powerful balanced vortex. For the Yavapai-Apache, it is home.
Vortex at Cathedral Rock, Sedona
Sedona, Arizona, United States
Cathedral Rock rises from the Sedona landscape like hands raised in prayer, its twin spires reflected in the waters of Oak Creek below. Known as the deepest magnetic vortex in Sedona, this formation carries feminine energy—receptive, nurturing, drawing seekers inward toward emotional release and gentle self-discovery. Where the creek flows closest to the rock, something softens.
White Spring Temple
Glastonbury, Somerset, United Kingdom
Step from daylight into darkness. The White Spring Temple occupies a Victorian well house at the base of Glastonbury Tor, where calcite-white waters have flowed for millennia. Hundreds of candles illuminate shrines to Brigid, Our Lady of Avalon, and the King of Faery. This is an active temple where seekers come to bathe in cold, purifying waters and sit in silence at the threshold between worlds.