The secret of doors and archways is such: A road, a pathway, or liminal space carries its own energy - but what is this energy made up of? Energetically speaking, what defines the temperament of a place of passage is where and what it leads to. A road to a path of judgement and torment - such as a corrupt prison - will be marred by twisted energy. Those intuitive enough will feel its dark weight and avoid taking such roads completely. A pathway to a place of cleansing or beauty - such as a museum, or a church - will be charged with life-giving energy. It will function as a portal into higher states of both being and mind. One of the oldest symbolic sigil-keys of the mind is the pathway to grace, or to enlightenment, or to a place where one is expected with warmth and open arms. Whatever feels like homecoming is a portal. Yet when two kinds of roads are intertwined and interconnect - a crossroads is formed. Symbolically, the crossroads both unites and separates these energies from one another - and dampens the effect of both. This is why the "outside", especially in large cities with many pathways, feels neutral for most humans - and that neutrality has an energy of its own. That neutrality is what we call the consensus experience. This is where the sign of the cross, or the symbol of the crossroads - a meeting place of choice (and also where the devil is known to greet mankind) - borrows its significance from. The architecture of a place largely determines its energetic imprint and value. A road borrows and extends the energy of whatever it is connected to along its own body - and transfers it to the point of its destination. Why the placement of a house or apartment is important and a thing to be studied and certainly not underestimated when purchasing or moving into. Generally, a natural road implies any sort of narrowing corridor with well-defined borders - another ancient symbolic sigil that the mind understands as the language of portals - the pathway, or the narrowing tunnel. This same knowledge can be applied to homebuilding and the placement of objects of beauty and decoration - for cleansing and purification. In your home, on your street - whichever road you take must lead you to something beautiful, or valuable, or positively sentimental. If you follow this rule - even just in your homestead - you will have aligned its energetic temperament with its most heightened form. You will have harnessed its highest potential. As for protection from outside influences - the door - and type of door - including the shape and form of the archway plays a large role. But that's a conversation for another day, and a rather lengthy one. ![[8743b42e-5bdf-47f7-8791-bb6350fe265c.png]]