What We Carry
The mirror of Sacred Geometry and how it marries us to universal law.
Once upon a time, and forever after, the Earth began to offer its secrets through shape and pattern, a fascinating mathematical equation, hidden in plain sight and yet obvious everywhere we look.
Sacred geometry is the measure that weaves through everything living. Nothing that exists in nature is truly random; it is all built on order. We see it echoed in the unfolding of a petal, a fern, a flower, in the way a sunflower arranges itself, in the proportion of a nautilus shell showing off its exquisite measure of the golden mean. This is beauty in its purest state.
What continues to fascinate me is that it hides in plain sight, even living within our own DNA. Sometimes we are simply the observer, feeling a sense of grounding without knowing why. Artists have always known this. They studied the principles of sacred geometry and centered them in some of our greatest works of art.
One principle I frequently borrow in my work is the Vesica Piscis, translated from Latin as the vessel of the fish. What I love, and can talk about until your eyes glaze over (if they haven’t already), is its living evidence of a new birth.
Start with a single circle and draw another beside it, the same size, essentially a Venn diagram, and overlap the two. The space in between becomes the birth of a third. Another way to understand it: look at your two hands separately, then begin to clap them together. Apart, your hands have no interaction. But the friction between them is alive, and within that overlap is the creation of something entirely new. Opportunity is born through friction. Every single thing that arrives newly persists through this same equation.
North is your connection to whatever God you believe in, and to spirit. South is earth and grounding. East and west are the extension of your heart into your community. And we are the center, the point from which everything emanates.
When you hold an object in your hand that has a perfect proportion, something inside begins to ground itself and feel like home. There is a recognition in the measure of the order. We don’t need to understand higher math or physics to feel when something is true.
This is why we have always worn or carried things that become sacred talismans, essentially good luck charms. They are not magical in and of themselves, but when we connect with them there is a weight, a kind of alchemy, in their truth.
So this enthusiasm I feel for something so intrinsic to our nature is what so often guides me in creating jewelry. I am essentially a conduit, borrowing what nature offers freely. We live inside the pattern, not outside of it. We are made from it. When we sit in meditation we are the vessel, and our breath is the elixir that moves through us and creates a true alchemy. Here is the real magic, how these ingredients show us how to transform and transcend. There is no mistake in this universal law. This is the real hand that moves mine.
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Love….beautiful prose and pieces
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