About Us: Maggie and Nigel Percy

Who We Are And How We Came To Do This

We are Nigel and Maggie Percy. Our stories, expertise and outlook are here, both as individuals and as a couple, one of the few couples in the world who work together in this field.

'This field' is geomancy. More properly, we are professional modern western geomancers. What that means is that we seek to create harmony between individuals and their environments.

We use the terms 'modern' and 'western' to distinguish what we do as being different from Feng Shui and also to indicate that we use a wider variety of techniques and approaches than older styles of geomancy.

What is going around you is often a reflection of what is going on inside you.

For those who seek and are ready for bigger, more permanent change in their lives, we work on their internal environment as well.

Nigel’s story

Of the two of us, I (Nigel) have been dowsing the longest, starting out over a sleeping cat, as I didn’t want anyone else to think I was strange! That was when reading about dowsing changed into actually doing it. I was dowsing over the body of the cat (Sonic) having heard about the aura but knew nothing else. As I was moving the pendulum over and above Sonic, it changed what it was doing at one point. I thought I was doing something wrong and re-traced my steps. Same thing happened. That’s when I looked down at Sonic and away from the pendulum and I realized I was directly over her spay scar! That’s when I became a believer!

I grew more and more interested in dowsing and it took more and more of my attention away from my work as a lecturer in History and Philosophy. I read more books, attended the British Society of Dowsers’ meetings in London and developed my ideas and experimented more and more.

Over the years since then I’ve bought a lot of pendulums and other tools and slowly learned to do without them all. Now I mainly use my eyelids to dowse with. Yes, I know that sounds strange, but it works. I blink for a ‘Yes’ response and I don’t blink for a ‘No’.

About 10 to 12 years ago, I began to get interested in how different energies made a huge difference in my life; in the way I felt and acted.

That’s when I started going to places like Avebury and Stonehenge and looking at the landscape with new eyes. My dowsing increased in intensity and I began making some interesting discoveries about the earth energies and also began to look at ways of altering them to make them more beneficial to me.

Me at the Chalice Well Gardens in Glastonbury. A beautiful place!

As I gained more experience, so I learned that there was more to it than just finding a list of things in an environment. It was also about listening to it, feeling it, letting it ‘talk’ to me about which areas needed attention and what would work.

Dowsing some interesting earth energies around an old Abbey near the coast of England on a windy day

I pretty soon moved away from the ‘traditional’ fixes, and began to experiment (by this time, with Maggie) with other techniques. Maggie and I also attended other peoples’ courses and learned from their points of view new ways of working.

In other words, my story has been one of slowly becoming more and more involved with dowsing and with the earth. In fact, at one point, when I was still living in the UK, I was walking along by myself and, out of nowhere, I heard this big voice saying, ‘Learn the Earth!’ I jumped and looked around, but could see no-one else or anything which might have explained it rationally.

So, you might say I’m just doing what I was told to do!

Maggie’s story

I came to dowsing, intuition and energy work from a very indirect route. My background is heavily steeped in science. I have two degrees in Biology. I was employed at NASA for 14 years, and my research is published in scientific journals and patents.

As the result of a health catastrophe that took my health away completely, I decided to research nutrition. The doctors gave up on me. Fortunately, I had my schooling to fall back on, so I decided to use my education to restore my health.

Maggie relaxing on the ruins of an old town (Old Sarum) in the UK. And it was actually warm!!

I decided to research nutrition, as my main symptoms related to digestion. From there I was led to the intriguing world of herbs and supplements. I also began to use the services of holistic health practitioners like chiropractors, massage therapists and naturopathic doctors. My healing progressed at a faster rate.

I became totally intrigued with Therapeutic Touch and then Reiki. I became a Reiki Master Teacher. When attending my Karuna^tmReiki Master Training, I had my first exposure to dowsing. The teacher showed us how to dowse the human chakras using a pendulum. I bought a pendulum from her and immediately started using it.

Maggie Map Dowsing

I devoured every book and class I could find about dowsing and attended ASD (American Society of Dowsers) meetings regularly. I joined the American Society of Dowsers. In a few short months, I was accurately using dowsing in my Reiki practice and with family and pets to help resolve health issues. I was hooked for life.

The more I read, the more versatile I found dowsing to be. I learned to do space clearing and even animal communication using dowsing. I had some wonderful successes that built my confidence in using my intuition through dowsing. It also changed my paradigm completely, as intuition was able to answer questions and address issues that science was unable to deal with.

Maggie dowsing around one of the huge stones at Avebury.

My participation in the ASD led me to Nigel, who was a member of an ASD email group I had joined in 2000. Our email correspondence blossomed into romance, and I went to the UK late in 2000 and we married in England in 2001.

It was a long, circuitous route to where I now am, but I am thrilled with the results. I am passionate about using intuition and working with the invisible energies around us in a conscious fashion to harmonize our relationship with the earth and all that lives here.

Our story

We’re both passionate about using intuition. And about working with the invisible energies around us to harmonize our relationship with the earth and all that lives here.

Since coming back to America in 2001 and starting up our own business (Sixth Sense Consulting, Inc.) we have progressed to the point where we contribute to journals, give presentations about our work, teach workshops and have a growing, satisfied client base.

We are, almost, unique! There are hardly any husband and wife teams working in this field. We are lucky that we are able to get along with each other and what one of us might miss or mis-interpret, the other one gets.

Another unique aspect is that we like the same things, have had remarkably similar lives and share the same dreams and aspirations. As a couple working together, we’re pretty much blessed!

It's not, however, been that easy getting the word out about us. After all, it's a pretty narrow niche we're in. You can find out how we finally did it here.

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