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So the thing about circles…well, its like multiplexing. Like if you have a 2D image on a computer, it gets stored as a string of bytes. Maybe bytes next to each other are pixels next to each other in the same row, but pixels next to them in the same column will be a certain distance apart. (since rows are stored one after the other) So there is a periodicity, like a wave. There is a relationship between things that are next to each other, and things a given period away from them. In a circle like that, this same relationship holds. In fact, a circle can almost be *defined* as an infinite set of points, where each point has a unique point that is farthest away from it alone, and a unique pair of points closest to it alone.

The thing I am trying to say here, Crow Grandfather, is a that the seemingly complex geometry of the circle has at its heart these two relationships: That which is farthest from a thing (its opposite) and that which mostly closely neighbors a thing. (its simile) I personally don’t believe that latter is that important here: It doesn’t matter how minutely you divide the compass. What’s more important for the work is the the opposites. For the symbol to work there must be a circle within. This is therefore to say that the individual has to *contain many opposites* to be balanced. Only when this balance is attained, the fundamental opposite/duality, the barrier between macrocosm and microcosm is removed.

Anyway, I can FEEL what this means, but I’m having a hard time finding words for it. We have too look for the opposites of what we THINK we are and illuminate these aspects of our personality.

Its a theory anyway.

Peace Tim, Love the site as always.

There’s so much meaning that can be mapped onto this. I like the empty, inviolable center, the arrows traversing a zone shared with others (the noosphere?) then out into the infinite universe.

Eight is a good number. Calls to mind the Buddhist eightfold path. What else?

But that convergence symbol you had on here before is what does it for me. Focus on the black, the arrows swirl inwards. Focus on the white, they explode outwards. But they’re really doing both at the same time.

It’s a consciousness exercise in simple graphic form.

…compass rose and the Dharma Wheel. Rota Fortuna, the Tao & halo.

The symbol also bears resemblance to the chaos star.