Ref.PD1036

Ref.PD1036 - Gold plated on silver pendant with Tantric Star geometry, ecologically sourced deer horn carved hands, mother of pearl carved flames, pink sapphire carved lotus flower, and blue sapphire gemstones.

In modern spirituality the lotus flower echoes its meanings from ancient Eastern traditions but often with a modern twist:

-    Spiritual Awakening and Enlightenment: Just as the lotus emerges from murky waters to bloom in beauty, it symbolizes the journey from ignorance to enlightenment, from the material to the spiritual. It's a powerful emblem of transcending earthly challenges to reach spiritual purity.
-    Purity: Despite growing in muddy waters, the lotus remains clean and pure, symbolizing the purity of the soul or spirit amidst the chaos of the world. It encourages individuals to maintain purity of heart and intention.
-    Rebirth and Renewal: The daily cycle of the lotus closing at night and opening in the morning symbolizes renewal, rebirth, and the ever-present opportunity for a fresh start, thus focusing on personal transformation.
-     Connection to Spirit: In various cultures, the lotus represents a connection to higher consciousness or Spirit. It's seen as a bridge between the mundane and the sacred.
-    Balance and Harmony: The lotus's ability to float above water yet be rooted below symbolizes the balance between spiritual and material existence, encouraging harmony in one's life.
-    Self-Realization: The stages of the lotus's growth are sometimes likened to stages of self-realization or enlightenment, from being submerged in the material world to fully blooming in spiritual awareness.
-    Resilience: The lotus's ability to thrive in difficult environments is a symbol of resilience, teaching that one can grow and flourish despite adverse conditions.
-    Beauty in Imperfection: The lotus, with its roots in mud, also celebrates the beauty in what is often considered imperfect or less desirable. This can inspire acceptance and love for oneself, flaws included.
-    Meditation and Focus: In meditation practices, focusing on the image of a lotus can help center the mind, fostering peace, clarity, and a deep meditative state.
-    Chakras and Energy Flow: In yogic and energy work modalities, the lotus is associated with the heart chakra, symbolizing love, compassion, and the flow of life-force energy.
-    Healing: The lotus is also seen as a symbol of healing, both physical and emotional, representing the healing power of nature and the spirit's capacity to heal itself.

The lotus flower is not just an emblem of spiritual ideals but also a practical guide for personal growth, encouraging practices that lead to inner peace, balance, and a deeper connection with the universe. Many use lotus imagery in meditation, artwork, or wear it as jewelry to embody these qualities in their daily life.

Flames, as elemental manifestations of fire, carry profound symbolic significance across cultures, embodying both creation and destruction, transformation and vitality. Their flickering, untamed nature lends them a versatile meaning that resonates deeply with human experience and perception.

Symbolic Significance

    Transformation and Renewal: Flames symbolize change at its core. They consume fuel—wood, wax, or flesh—turning it into ash, heat, and light, reflecting life’s cycles of destruction and rebirth. This duality mirrors personal growth, where old habits or burdens burn away to make space for new beginnings.
    Energy and Life Force: The warmth and glow of flames represent vitality and the spark of existence. In many traditions, fire is the animating essence—think of the hearth sustaining a home or the inner “fire” of passion and will. It’s the pulse of life itself, dynamic and sustaining.
    Illumination and Knowledge: Flames pierce darkness, symbolizing insight and understanding. A candle or torch lights the way, both literally and metaphorically, suggesting wisdom, truth, or revelation breaking through ignorance—a beacon for the mind or soul.
    Power and Danger: Fire’s raw strength evokes awe and fear. Flames can forge steel or raze cities, embodying untamed potency. They symbolize the dual edge of power—creative when controlled, devastating when unchecked—mirroring ambition or emotion run wild.
    Purification and Cleansing: Flames burn away impurities, as seen in rituals like bonfires or smudging. This purifying aspect suggests renewal through release, stripping down to essentials—whether physical, emotional, or spiritual—and leaving clarity in its wake.

Broader Contexts

    Cultural Roots: In Greek myth, Prometheus’s stolen flame marks humanity’s leap. Vedic traditions fire as a messenger between realms. Christian candles signify hope or presence.
    Psychological Lens: Jung tied fire to the psyche’s transformative energy—passion or rage alchemized into growth. It’s the inner forge of change.
    Modern Echoes: Flames in art or protest (e.g., Molotov cocktails) symbolize resistance or fervor, adapting ancient potency to new struggles.

Flames’ fleeting dance—rising and fading—mirrors time’s impermanence, urging us to seize the moment before it burns out.
Flames weave transformation, vitality, insight, power, and purification into a vivid symbol—both creator and destroyer, a spark of life’s complexity. 

Tantric Star

Activation: Initiation, Inspiration

The Tantric Star is formed by interlocking ascending and descending tetrahedrons (see below). Also known as the Mer Ka Ba, the Tantric Star functions as a 3-dimensional mandala, connecting us to our centre point, a stargate into the matrix of manifest reality. It describes the energy pattern created by the electromagnetic male and female potencies of creation as they come together to conceive atoms, Humans, the Universe - the seminal form that Consciousness takes as it initiates the polarisation of the Monad into the sacred enclosure of the Trinity, holding the frequency of the 3rd dimension fully manifest in form.

This form protects against unbalanced magnetic emanations, e.g., mobile and cordless phones. 

Size: 85mm/3.35in approx.