Showing posts with label symbol meaning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label symbol meaning. Show all posts

Sunday, October 3, 2010

The Reiki Distance Healing symbol - Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen

Pronounced as: "Hon-Sha-Zee-Show-Nen", Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen is the Reiki symbol of unity, origin, connection. General meaning of this symbol is: "No past, no present, no future"or "The light in me meets the light in you".

This Reiki Symbol is often described as the bridge between heaven and earth. Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen connects your higher self with the higher self of the one you send energy, it allows to give Reiki treatments and energy to someone at a distance in place and in time ( to the past, present or future).Although it can't change the past, Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen can help the people involved get through traumatic events and give them peace and strength. This symbol is considered to be the most useful and powerful Reiki Symbol of all.

The Reiki Mental/Emotional symbol - Sei He Ki

Sei He ki is the second Reiki symbol, and means: “I have the key”.This symbol is pronounced ‘say-hay-key’and his general meaning is 'God and man become one'.
 
Sei He ki is known as the Mental-Emotional Healing Symbol, so it is used in the healing of mental and emotional distress. As a mental-emotional key Sei He Ki is a door into the subconscious. Also it represents peace and harmony.

The Sei He Ki can be used any time you believe there is an emotional or mental component to the problem being treated. This Reiki symbol helps one to contact the higher self, spirit guides,angels, and other spiritual beings or helpers. Also, it can be used to recall the past-life and to aid in altering emotional reactions to past events.

Saturday, October 2, 2010

The Reiki Power symbol - Cho Ku Rei

Cho Ku Rei (pronounced “Choh Koo Ray”) basically means that one's intention always rules over what happens.

In Reiki traditions, this symbol is used for increasing the power of Reiki that emanate from hands. It is the most frequently used Reiki symbol and its general meaning of Cho ku Rei is “put the power here”.

This is the symbol used to connect with the energy at the beginning of a session, and to increase energy where needed during a session.As the Cleansing Symbol it can be used to remove negative or stagnating energy during a Reiki healing session. It is drawn on the walls of a room to cleanse the room of negative energies.

Traditionally, the Cho Ku Rei is drawn counterclockwise, but sometimes is drawn opposite with the spiral clockwise; this is a matter of preference and it works with either way of drawing.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Blair Witch Symbol

The Legend of the Blair Witch began in 1785 with Elly Kedward who immigrated over to the town known as Blair (United States) from Ireland. 

The Blair citizens found out that she was luring the children into her house and drawing blood from them, so she was conviced of performing witchcraft. After she was conviced she was banished to the woods. By the end of that winter most of the children of Blair suddenly disappeared. The townspeople blamed the witch and proclaimed the township of Blair and the Black Woods as cursed.

The Blair Witch symbol is a five-pointed compound symbol. Its center trianglre is pointing down. The five lines resemble the microcosmic man with arms and legs outstretched inside a circle (with a pentagram in the background)-- a magic symbol or charm among medieval alchemists and wizards. Also, it might have been a a magic symbol among medieval alchemists and wizards.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Mano Cornuto (Horned Hand)

The mano cornuto is an Italian symbol and hand gesture of ancient origin. The Italian cornuto means literally to having horns, but figuratively it means the person is a cuckold - "a man whose wife has sexual relation with someone else". 

This hand gesture is formed so that the index and little fingers are extended while holding the middle and ring fingers down with the thumb. The reference is to the horned head of an animal. Whether made as an hand gesture or worn as an amulet,  mano cornuto is used for magical protection against the evil eye. Also, today this symbol has a variety of meanings in heavy metal music, where it symbolizes: devil sign, devil horns or goat horns.

Monday, January 18, 2010

The Star of Lakshmi

The Star of Lakshmi ( the Eight Pointed Star ) is a symbol in indian Philosophy, where it represents Ashtalakshmi, the eight forms of wealth or the eight forms of the Hindu goddess of fortune and prosperity named Lakshmi. Wealth in the context of Ashtalakshmi represents prosperity, knowledge, good health, progeny, strength, and power. Mathematically, it is a complex star figure with two squares with the same center at 45 degrees.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Jumis (Baltic Symbol)

 The symbol of Jumis (Yoo-mis) represents the Baltic Pagan God who personified the harvest. Jumis is the sign of fertility and good fortune, and is often found on clothing and decorative painting. Jumis sign looks like two crossed hooks or the letter W. The symbol of Jumis has been found on very old items, also on saint rocks. The analysis of the languages of ancient Indo-European nations suggests that concept of this sign can be explained as to hold together, to hold, paired off, a twin. The other explanation is to bind, to make, a roof, a connection.

Saturday, January 2, 2010

The winged sun (Behedeti)

The winged sun (sometimes known as Behedeti) is one of the most widespread ancient symbols that is still in use today, it is found throughout Egypt. It is associated with divinity, royalty and power and it is found throughout Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Persia. this symbol consists of a circle or solar-type disk enclosed by a pair of wings. In ritual magic it is suspended over the alter in an easterly direction and used when invoking the protection and co-operation of the sylphs. In ancient Egyptian symbology wings signify ascension. Even before Egyptian civilization, the sun disk appeared in the literature of ancient Sumer, which was the first known civilization. In early Egyptian religion, this symbol  represented Horus, later identified with Ra. Variations of this symbol are used as a trademark logo on vehicles produced by the Chrysler, and Harley Davidson.

Cherub (Cherubim)

Cherubim is a celestial winged being with human, animal, or birdlike characteristics. This winged creatures have four faces, those of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle. They are included among the angels, and in the Hebrew scriptures they are described as the throne bearers of God. Cherubim were probably thought of in the ancient Middle East as composite creatures like the winged creatures of Assyria. The late Christian art often represented them as a winged child or winged head of a child. They are symbolizing dignity, glory, and honor. With the seraphim they are said to be in the very presence of God. The color surrounding them is traditionally blue. The color blue is associated with the Cherubim, as the color red is with the Seraphim.

Monday, December 14, 2009

Hermetic Seal Of Light

This symbol consists of geometric shapes, elemental symbols and astrological signs. Each part representing the various elements and forces needed for magical work in the quest for physical transformation and spiritual illumination and immortality.This symbol originates from the ancient Pythagorean philosophy, wherein the square, circle, the and the triangle are the emblems of the material body, the soul, and the spirit, the three elements believed to be necessary for alchemical transformation.In Alchemie these are Mercury, Salt, and Sulfur.

Chaos Star (Symbol Of Chaos)

The Chaos star is a symbol with eight equidistant arrows radiating from a central point. The Symbol of Chaos originates from Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion stories. In contrast, the symbol of Law is a single upright arrow. It is also called the Arms of Chaos, the Arrows of Chaos or the Symbol of Eight.The Chaos star is used in chaos magic, as is its 3D analog, the Chaosphere.Its current rounded shape was devised by occult author and chaos magician Peter Carroll. The chaos wheel is a popular decorative emblem for jewelry and clothing.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Sacred Heart Of Jesus

The Sacred Heart is a devotional name used by some Roman Catholics to refer to the physical heart of Jesus Christ as a symbol of Divine love. Devotion to the Sacred Heart in focusing on Christ's heart metaphorically focuses on the emotional and moral life of Jesus and especially His love for humanity. It also stresses the central Christian concept of loving and adoring Jesus. The Sacred Heart of Jesus is today one of the most recognizable symbols of the Catholic faith. The image originated in France near the end of the seventeenth century when a nun named Marguerite Marie Alacoque (Often anglicized to Mary-Margaret) began to publicize her mystical visions of Jesus, who admonished her to devote herself and the country to the veneration of his heart, which she described the heart as the center of communication between humans and the Divine. In most depictions, Christ's heart is shown containing wounds to which Christ points, as well as a crown of thorns. This wounded heart is meant to symbolize Christ's pain at the rejection of God's Gospel message of salvation and righteousness by humanity.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Celtic Tree Of Life

The Tree was a central part of early Celtic spirituality. The tree of life symbolizes the cycle of life, death, and rebirth in a sense of the wheel of life. The branches and roots are connecting heaven and the underworld. Also, it can represent the Celtic theme of three worlds, that of the upper for dieties, middle as our physical plane, and lower as the realm of the fey or faeries. This is depicted by the branches that reach to the heavens, the trunk in the center, and the roots below. It's basic overall symbolism is how we are all connected through nature.In Celtic legends of the Gods, trees guard sacred wells and provide healing, shelter, and wisdom.
The tree of life is associated with many cultures other than the Celts a motif in various world mythologies, theologies, and philosophies.

Friday, December 4, 2009

Kabbalistic Tree of Life

The Kabbalistic Tree of Life is an arrangement of ten interconnected spheres, which represent the central organizational system of the Jewish Kabbalistic tradition.esoteric mysticism. It first appeared four thousand years ago, in the Book of Creation. It was written that the tree represents a synthesis of the creation.
It is the central motif and has it's origin in the Jewish Kabbalah philosophy, the study of Hebrew
The Tree of Life contains ten Spheres drawn as circles, and twenty paths connecting the spheres and drawn as lines, bringing a total of thirty three paths of wisdom.
The structure is made of three lines: The right side - the masculine side, forms the column of Wisdom. The left side - the feminine side forms the column of Consciousness. The central line - symbolizes the neutral force which unites and balances the two sides.

Mano Fico

The mano fico, also called figa, is an ancient Italian or Etruscan symbol, and is also one of the better known protective gestures against the eye. Fico or figa means "fig." The Mano Fico represents a hand gesture with the thumb interlaced in the fingers and represents the female genitals (An English slang equivalent might as well be "pussy hand.") , and thus the Goddess.
The fig was associated by the Romans with female fertility and eroticism, the fruit was sacred to Bacchus.
Examples have been found from the Roman era, and it was also used by the Etruscans.

Green Man

The Celtic symbol also known as Foliate Head or Jack-of-the-Green is a mysterious figure depicted mainly in medieval Europe, believed to represent an ancient vegetation deity. A Green Man is a sculpture, drawing, or other representation of a face surrounded by or made from leaves. Green Man symbolises irrepressible life, renewal and rebirth, the eternal cycle of life, death and regeneration. The combination of human head with leaves and vegetation, it is a symbol of the union of mankind with nature.The green man motif has many variations,it is often used was used to decorate churches. It is not a strictly European symbol, similar images appear in Asian, Indian, and Arabic architecture and art also. Whatever his origin, the Green Man is now an unmistakable emblem of the Neopagan religious movement. In Wicca, the Green Man has often been used as a representation of the Horned Gceod.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Sacred Chao

The Sacred Chao is a symbol used by Discordians to illustrate the interrelatedness of order and disorder.
Discordianism is a modern religion centered on the idea that chaos is all that there is, and that disorder and order, the former considered a concept distinct from chaos, are both illusions that are imposed on chaos.
It resembles a Yin-Yang symbol, but according to the Principia Discordia.
The choice of the pentagon as a symbol of the Aneristic Principle is partly related to The Pentagon in Virginia.

Seax Wica

Seax Wica is a tradition or denomination, of the neopagan religion of Wicca which is largely inspired by the iconography of the historical Anglo-Saxon paganism founded in the 1970s by author Raymond Buckland. It is inspired by the Saxon religion of old, but is specifically not a reconstructionist tradition. The symbol of the tradition represents the moon, the sun, and the eight Wiccan sabbats.
The tradition honours Germanic deities such as Woden and Freya, and are seen as representations of the Wiccan deities of the Horned God and the Mother Goddess.
Runes are significant and regularly discussed. Even non-members can attend rituals as long as everyone in the coven agrees to it.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Raelian Emblem (Swastika of David)

Raelism, or The Raelian movement, is a UFO cult that believes that planet Earth and its people had received contacts by ancient extraterrestrials with the resemblance of human beings.
Symbol of the Raelian Movement is a hexagram intertwined with a right-facing swastika. This is a symbol that Rael saw on the Elohim spaceship. As a point of note, a very similar symbol can be seen on some copies of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, where a swastika sits inside two overlapping triangles.
For Raelians, this symbol means infinity. The hexagram is infinite space (one explanation indicates the upward pointing triangle represents the infinitely large, while the downward pointing one indicates the infinitely small), while the swastika is infinite time. Raelians believe that the universe's existence is cyclical, with no beginning or end.

Two Sig Runes

The Sig Rune also known as the Siegel rune, is an ancient symbol which symbolize the God of Victory, a name of Odin.
Sig is the name given by Guido von List for the Sigel or s rune of the Armanen Futharkh.
Walter Heck, a Sturmführer in the SS, drew 1931 two reversed and inverted Sig Runes side by side and it became the most common and widely recognizable SS unit sign.

While the rune itself has no direct connection to National-Socialism, the Sig rune was used in the context of Nazi mysticism and is most commonly used to refer to the insignia of the Schutzstaffel (SS) of the Third Reich.
The Hitler Youth also used a single Sig Rune as the emblem of its organizaton.
Today this symbol is still being frequently used by neo-Nazis.