Spirals

Journey Through The World of Spirit: God, Gaia and Guardian Angels

A Near Death Experience Book

Cover art by Robert Sharen

What the spirals on Journey's cover symbolize...

Spirals

In the archaeology of this planet, spirals always represent Goddess energy. The spiral shape is found in all natural phenomena, weather patterns, thunderstorms and hurricanes tornadoes are very intense spiral storms human DNA, and plants grow following a spiral Fibonacci series.

Both single and double spirals were among the most sacred signs of Neolithic Europe. They appeared on megalithic monuments and temples all over the continent and the Celtic islands.

The single spiral is the oldest and most recorded of these motifs. It has symbolized the concept of growth, expansion, and cosmic energy, depending on the culture in which it is used.

To the ancient inhabitants of Ireland, the spiral was used to represent their sun. A tightly wound, clockwise spiral represented their shrinking winter sun. A loosely wound anti-clockwise spiral represented the large summer sun.

The dual centered spiral is also prolific in stone carvings. It has associations with motifs from other cultures such as the Yin Yang symbol. It signifies the duality of nature and balance.

Spiral oculi (double twists resembling eyes) appear prominently in places like the threshold stones at Newgrange in Ireland. A double spiral is used to represent the equinoxes, when day and night are of equal length.

The spiral is the cosmic symbol for the natural form of growth; a symbol of eternal life, reminding us of the flow and movement of the cosmos. The passages between the spirals symbolized the divisions between life, death, and rebirth.

The whorls represent the continuousness of the creation and dissolution of the world. Creation is not something that occurred once and then stopped. It is ongoing...a never-ending balanced dance of opposing forces: light and dark, life and death, masculine and feminine, "good and evil", etc..

The spiral is an attempt to mirror the macrocosmic order of the heavens, the gyratory movement representing the whirling of the stars above the fixed earth. Everything whirling about a still center, the heart of the universe, or the womb which will give birth and to which all return. A natural form of spiral can be found in some shells such as snail shells and more notably, the nautilus shell.

Courtesy: Heartlink Institute

"You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars; And whether of not it is clear to you, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should."

-Max Ehrmann

Here are some pictures of "Spiral Galaxies" courtesy of the Hubblesite

A Tiny, Youthful Spiral Galaxy Eso 418-008