The pattern of phi has influenced the position and construction of religious monuments, settlements and even the landscape zodiacs. The absolute conformity with the divine pattern created the conditions which allowed the ancients to literally shape the landscape on the scale of the landscape zodiacs, but there are also what are considered to be natural features of the earth as a part of the pattern. Puy de Dome is a region of volcanic peaks reaching up to over

1 800 m. Nevertheless, it also conforms to the growth of the pattern of phi, providing evidence that consciousness is the medium that shapes entire land-masses.

Until relatively recent times our ancestors constructed their sacred places of worship and conducted their pilgrimages as a means of bringing human consciousness into unity with the divine pattern in both « place » and « time ».To determine their « place » of worship, we need only to look at the position of France’s major religious constructions and see how they comply with the pattern. We will also see the emergence of a country zodiac which determined the « time » of pilgrimage.

We shall first investigate the size and shape of France and its sacred monuments.

The French Zodiac

The distance between the points of the seal of Solomon at Orleans cathedral and the geographical centre of the volcanic Puy de Dome at Brioude is 2/phi x 2⁸ Km, or half of the distance between the towns or Rouen and Nimes (Fig 21).

The seal of Solomon pattern of length 2/phi x 2⁹ Km therefore fits very closely into the natural boundaries of France. An immediate point of reference to determine the compliance of France’s sacred monuments with the divine pattern is the basilica at Vezelay, which was founded on the hill named by the Romans as Mont Scorpion, or Scorpio of the country zodiac.

The line which passes directly through Vezelay is therefore the Scorpio/Taurus axis.