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Showing posts with label Symbolism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Symbolism. Show all posts

Friday, 9 May 2025

Animal Messengers

 Animals share our planet with us, but experience it differently. Each has its own abilities and gifts that allow them to interact successfully with the natural world. Since we are merely one manifestation of the universe’s energy in action, we can turn to animals in nature for guidance when we feel the need for direction. Animals can show us different ways to approach and deal with our challenges.

As we hold a question in mind, we can begin to pay attention to the animal activity around us. While we stare out a window, we may notice a bird soaring high in the sky, showing us how to look at our situation from a greater distance. If we don’t get an immediate answer, we can remember that the universe has its own perfect timing that doesn’t heed the ticking of the clock. Instead, we can release our question into the universe’s care, and then trust that an animal messenger will carry inspiration our way. In the meantime, we align ourselves with the universe’s rhythm — opening ourselves and shifting our perceptions so that at the perfect time, we will be ready. Then, even weeks later, the sight of a small bird hopping from branch to branch may signal us to use a talent other than our greatest strength and to take small leaps rather than fly over details. A squirrel bounding across an open expanse of grass to stash its latest prize may remind us to check our favorite hiding places for a forgotten treasure. Even if we don’t see actual animals, their representations may hold messages; whether we see them in a shape in the clouds, a picture, or a show on television, their symbolic meaning is the same.

Animals are closer to the rhythms and cycles of nature and have fewer distractions from it than humans do. That is why they are the perfect messengers when we are in need of advice. Just by being themselves, they remind us of the wisdom of the universe and that all answers are available to us when we reconnect with our source and with those who know how to be nurtured by it. (Daily OM)

Tuesday, 8 April 2025

The Sacred Geometry of The Circumpunct

 The Pythagoreans were said to have noted the above sentiment as well: that the infinite and eternal creative generative forces of God are center everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. All ancient symbols communicate multiple ideas. In a world where most people were illiterate, symbols were used to communicate moral or political ideas, inspire positive action, be perceived as conceptual models, and even be utilized as meditation tools.

The Circumpunt or monad is one such symbol. It is certainly one of the oldest symbols shared by humanity and is possibly the simplest symbol that paradoxically encapsulates and depicts totality. As a thinking model and meditation tool, the Circumpunct soothes comprehension of totality toward eased mindfulness.

The Circumpunct is one of the simplest symbols, yet it is also one of the most profound. It is the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph for Ra, the Sun, and the infinite repeating cycle of life. The Circumpunct can also represent the sacred mound of creation.The ancient Maya had the Circumpunct too, and it was bestowed with similar symbolic values as the Egyptians. The Mayan Circumpunct was central to four flowers, which were symbolic of the Sun and the Mayan Sun God, Kinich Ahau, creative forces and sacred mounds or mountains. It is believed that these sacred mounds would eventually inspire the creation of pyramids worldwide....<<<Read More>>>>..