This image is actually supposed to stand on its points so it forms a diamond shape. This is another image inspired by the angels at 4:44 AM, three hours after I fell down the stairs, broke my toe and got a whip-lash injury.
6:00 PM As I am looking at this image right now I have another realization. It is emerging out of the darkness and into the light.
Painting Title: DNA Rose
Message: “You have a ladder to pure expand consciousness inside of you. The DNA is your personal blueprint encoded with the perfection of Divine Consciousness. Go within to access it.”
I feel like this is direct message to me, though it also has global implications, because a few hours earlier I fell down the stairs and broke my toe and got a whip-lash injury. I think it is telling me to connect with the blue print of Divine perfection to bring my injuries back to their harmonious state. I am very curious about the symbolism.
Symbol Analysis: Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms and some viruses. The main role of DNA molecules is the long-term storage of information. DNA is often compared to a set of blueprints or a recipe, or a code, since it contains the instructions needed to construct other components of cells, such as proteins and RNA molecules.
The DNA segments that carry this genetic information are called genes, but other DNA sequences have structural purposes, or are involved in regulating the use of this genetic information. An important property of DNA is that it can replicate, or make copies of itself. Each strand of DNA in the double helix can serve as a pattern for duplicating the sequence of bases. This is critical when cells divide because each new cell needs to have an exact copy of the DNA present in the old cell.
DNA is a double helix formed by base pairs attached to a sugar-phosphate backbone. That is a double helix in the image. The DNA molecule, the program for all life, is based on the golden section. The golden section is also used to make the violin from yesterdays image.
Red Rose:
Originally a symbol of joy, the rose later indicated secrecy and silence but is now usually associated in the common mind with romantic love. But the rose is much more meaningful, much older and more deeply embedded in the human unconscious than most people believe. Rose fossils 35 million year old have been found in Europe, and petrified rose wreaths have been unearthed from the oldest Egyptian tombs.
To understand the archetypal signature of the rose, it is necessary to suspend one’s intellectual and cultural connections to it and simply be open to the “presence” of the rose. This popular flower has a complicated symbology with paradoxical meanings. It is at once a symbol of both purity and passion, both heavenly perfection and earthly desire; both virginity and fertility; both death and life. The rose is the flower of the goddesses Isis and Venus but also the blood of Osiris, Adonis, and Christ.
In alchemy, the rose is primarily a symbol of the operation of Conjunction, the Mystical Marriage of opposites. It represents the regeneration of separated essences and their resurrection on a new level. In the Practice of Psychotherapy, Carl Jung discussed the archetypal underpinnings of love between people in terms of the rose: “The wholeness which is a combination of ‘I and you’ is part of a transcendent unity whose nature can only be grasped in symbols like the rose or the coniunctio (Conjunction).”
As a symbol of the Mystical Marriage on a personal level, the red rose represents a special kind of love in which one “melts away” into the beauty of another, and the old identity is surrendered for that of the beloved or a higher identity within oneself. In this sense, the rose is a symbol of complete surrender and permanent transmutation.
Because of its association with the workings of the heart, the rose in alchemy has come to symbolize secrets of the heart or things that cannot be spoken or an oath of silence in general. : passion, love; vitality, feeling of being alive; masculine or active energy; creative projects. Two red roses tied together symbolize an engagement. Fiery red symbolizes the flames of passion. Two roses that are intertwined, or stems wrapped around one another, expresses a marriage of ideas. Two red roses intertwined actually means “marry me.
Roses, often considered the most perfect flower, have had a strange hold over man throughout history. Roses are ancient symbols of love and beauty. In mythology, the rose was sacred to a number of goddesses including Isis and Aphrodite, the Goddess of love. The rose is often used as a symbol of the Virgin Mary as well. In alchemy the red rose is regarded as a masculine, active principle (Sulfur, expansion), the color red itself evolved from an early primal symbol for life into a metaphor for deep emotion.
In Greek and Roman mythology the red rose was closely tied to the goddess of love. Many early cultures used red roses to decorate marriage ceremonies and they were often a part of traditional wedding attire. Through this practice, the red rose became known as a symbol for love and fidelity. I
n alchemical texts and art, a rose with seven petals is a symbol of inclusion, universal understanding and order. Presumably, because in Pythagorean numerology the number seven is iconic of the perfection in the specific unfolding the universe as well as human understanding. Seeking symbolic meaning of the rose from an esoteric perspective, we can look at the Tarot, in which the rose is considered a symbol of balance. Here the beauty of the rose expresses promise, new beginnings, hope. Roses are applied in several nature cures for their healing properties.
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