MIDDLE SCHOOL
Raine Dawn Valentine
A group illustration from the annual Earth Love Festival in Duncannon, Pennsylvania.
The Flower of Life is a symbolic representation of life and the interconnectedness of all things. It is associated with the Sacred Geometry school of thought, an ancient science that studies the spiritual significance of shapes and proportions and how they reflect the universe.
The circles that make up the flower symbol can be arranged in an infinite number of ways, each creating a new and unique pattern. This reminds us that we are all capable of creating anything we can imagine and that our potential is limitless.
Sacred Geometry
Overlapping circles that build infinitely outward to form a flower-like grid are used for more complex Sacred Geometry shapes such as Metatron’s Cube and Merkaba. These shapes symbolize creation and remind us of the unity of everything and that we’re all built from the same blueprint.
Change happens when people work together toward a common goal. We discover new ways of doing things in order to transform the world in a way we wish to see. When we use the Flower of Life as an analogy for this connection, we begin to see how what we do affects those seven generations out. This resonates with the Native American Seven Generations teaching, which describes that what we do affects those seven generations after us, as we are also affected by seven generations before, reinforcing the idea that we are all connected.
Students work together to design a Flower of Life image with personal meaning.
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