If you’re not prepared for a lesson on sacred geometry, keep on scrolling.
This is the Seed of Life. It can be found in the pattern known as the Flower of Life, the flower or life pretty much being a basis of everything, to put it quite bluntly. Within the seed of life, pictured above, can be found the egg of life, which is the basis of music (the pattern is composed of seven circles - if you know really anything about music, you know there are seven notes). The egg of life also resembles what you look like when you are just starting out as a couple of cells. The pattern starts off with the vesica piscis, which contains a vast amount of information, such as depth, proportion, and the square roots of 2, 3, and 5. The pattern of the Flower of life and all of its little components can be found in ALL of the world’s major religions. All of em. And another thing that’s neat - In Christianity, God took seven days to make the world, yes? Again, the seed of life is composed of seven circles. That is only ONE of the many, many relations between this pattern and the religions of the world.
To put it in the simplest of ways, the flower of life is basically the basis for absolutely everything. Yes, even you.
And so here is my little seed of life for you.
Joey made me this out of a 3D printer as a necklace for my birthday. For those of you who don’t know what it is, its the center of the Flower of Life design in Sacred Geometry.
Sacred geometry can be described as a belief system attributing a religious or cultural value to many of the fundamental forms of space and time. According to this belief system, the basic patterns of existence are perceived as sacred, since contemplating one is contemplating the origin of all things. By studying the nature of these forms and their relationship to each other, one may seek to gain insight into the scientific, philosophical, psychological, aesthetic and mystical laws of the universe
Gobnait: Woman of the Bees
by Siofra Geoghegan
Attendance at holy wells goes back a long, long way in Ireland. Many of the wells were originally the sites of pagan shrines. When Christianity came, veneration of the wells was adapted and assimilated into the new religion. Folks come to the wells anytime, but usually there is a special day, the Pattern Day, when large crowds traditionally assemble.
Gobnait’s Pattern Day is February 11th and is still celebrated by the community of Ballyvourney, in County Cork. During a Mass at the well, everyone takes water from it.
Gobnait (pronounced GAWB-net) is known for her care of the sick. One story tells how she kept the plague out of Ballyvourney by designating it consecrated ground. She had a strong relationship with bees and used the properties of honey in the treatment of illness and healing of wounds. Her name is the Irish equivalent of the Hebrew name Deborah, which means “Honey Bee.” The Bees have long been important in Irish society and were part of the ancient laws called the Bech Bretha (Bee Judgments). In prehistoric times the soul was thought to leave the body as an insect, either a bee or a butterfly.
