Remembering Who You Are

Flower of Life

A pattern of 19 overlapping circles in perfect hexagonal symmetry — the foundational template of sacred geometry. Found etched into the Osirion at Abydos, one of Egypt’s oldest temple sites, it is said to contain the blueprint of all form: every structure and pattern in the universe. From it derive the Seed of Life, the Fruit of Life, and Metatron’s Cube.

Seed of Life

Seven circles — one at the center, six surrounding it — forming the first stage of the Flower of Life. It represents the six days of creation and the seventh of rest: the genesis pattern from which all geometry unfolds. A symbol of beginnings, of the universe taking form from a single point.

Vesica Piscis

The almond-shaped overlap of two equal circles, each centered on the other’s edge. Its proportions contain √2, √3, and the golden ratio — the mathematical root of much sacred architecture. It symbolizes the union of opposites, the meeting of two worlds, and the act of creation that occurs at the boundary between them.

Sri Yantra

The most revered diagram of Hindu Tantra: nine interlocking triangles — four pointing upward (Shiva, the masculine) and five downward (Shakti, the feminine) — around a single point, the bindu. Together they form 43 smaller triangles representing the cosmos and the layers of consciousness. It is a map of creation and the union of the divine feminine and masculine.

Metatron’s Cube

Named for the archangel Metatron, this figure is drawn by connecting the centers of the 13 circles of the Fruit of Life. Within its lines lie all five Platonic solids — the only three-dimensional shapes with identical faces, which Plato associated with the elements. It is the geometric scaffolding from which all form is believed to arise.

Tree of Life

The central diagram of Kabbalistic mysticism: ten spheres (sephirot) connected by 22 paths, mirroring the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. It describes the flow of divine energy from the infinite (Ein Sof) into the manifest world, and the soul’s return — a map of the cosmos and of the human psyche, each sephira a facet of consciousness.

Pentagram

A five-pointed star drawn in a single unbroken line, enclosing the golden ratio in its proportions. The ancients associated its five points with the elements — earth, air, fire, water, and spirit — and with the human form (head, arms, legs). Long a symbol of protection and the hidden harmony of the body and nature.

Hexagram

Two interlocking triangles — one pointing up (fire, the heavens, the masculine), one down (water, the earth, the feminine). In alchemy it signified the union of opposites, the reconciliation of fire and water. Known as the Seal of Solomon and the Star of David, it represents the balance and interdependence of opposing forces.

Yin-Yang (Taijitu)

The central symbol of Taoism: two complementary forces curled into one another, each holding a seed of the other. It expresses that all things exist in relation to their opposite — light and dark, active and receptive — and that balance is not stillness but a living, turning equilibrium.

Ouroboros

The serpent or dragon devouring its own tail, forming a circle. One of humanity’s oldest symbols, found in ancient Egypt and Greece and central to alchemy. It represents eternity, the endless cycle of destruction and renewal, and the unity of beginning and end — the self-consuming, self-generating nature of the cosmos.

Ankh

The ancient Egyptian “key of life”: a cross surmounted by a loop. Carried by the gods, it symbolized eternal life and the union of male and female principles. Some read the loop as the rising sun and the crossbar as the horizon — the daily rebirth of light.

Merkaba

Two interpenetrating tetrahedra forming a three-dimensional star. In Hebrew, Merkabah means “chariot” — the mystic vehicle of ascension described in Ezekiel’s vision. In esoteric traditions it represents the light-body: the counter-rotating fields of energy through which consciousness is said to travel between dimensions.