The Living Compass A Practitioner’s Guide to Local Space Astrology
Coming in September 2026
by Tamira D. McGillivray
The Living Compass is a complete guide to directional astrology. It takes you step by step through the origins of Local Space and into casting and reading your own AstroCompass lines.
From there you learn to read the landscape around you, and to make the adjustments and enhancements that shift the energy of a home, a move or a relationship by changing how you are oriented within your surroundings.
What you will learn
- Where Local Space came from, and how it differs from other mapping techniques
- How to cast your own AstroCompass lines from your birth chart
- How to read those lines against the rooms, buildings and landscape you actually live in
- How to work with altitude, so the compass becomes three dimensional rather than flat
- How to make practical adjustments to a home or a room, and what to expect when you do
- How direction shapes a move, a relationship, and the work you do
- Where this meets Feng Shui, Vāstu, sacred geometry and sigils, and where it does not
About Tamira
Tamira D. McGillivray is an astrologer and educator who has spent years learning the practical language of the sky and teaching others to do the same. Alongside her astrology, she guides her students through energy and embodiment work that brings everything together into a living practice. She writes and teaches from Nova Scotia, Canada.
Arielle Guttman, from the foreword
Whether you are an astrologer widening your toolkit or simply looking for a more grounded way to steer your life, this book puts the AstroCompass in your hands and teaches you to read it, so you can answer back. Any astrologer or student seriously engaged with locational techniques owes it to themselves to read and carefully digest the feast of offerings presented here. The Living Compass is both a valuable contribution to the literature of astrological mapping and a practical guide for those wishing to bring the heavens into meaningful relationship with the spaces we inhabit.
Published by Silverdisc Publications · Halifax, Nova Scotia