Hi everybody - I'm sure someone out there can shed some light on this for me.
I had my reiki 1 attunement last year (about June) and since then when I'm doodling in a daydream state (like when in lectures :)-oops!) I kept drawing a particular symbol and wasn't sure where it came from only that I really liked it and wanted it as a symbol when I started up for myself. I have been asked to attend some mind body spirit festivals with my reiki master and started work on my logo and got something good but not quite right.
Then today something happened which really blew my mind - I was browsing on e-bay and came across a link to a page that eventually led to an image of my doodle!! I am totally blown away and don't know what to think.
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it is a celtic symbol known as a triskele apparently.
Well I have been drawn to celtic spirituality for a while now and love celtic knotwork and greenman images etc. Just two weeks ago I met Donald McKinney and bought his book on Celtic Spirituality and have just been finding references to Celtic Reiki - not sure if its a really big hint or what??
Anybody any thoughts? Please.
RE: Celtic Symbol
Hi,
This is quite interesting for me because during my 2nd & more so my Masters attunements, I kept seeing a symbol very similar to the one your talking about. It was simpler (& non-celtic looking) - a triangle within a circle, with the point of the triangle at the top. When I told my RM about it, she said she had in the past had people describe the same symbol to her.
I could see it really clearly especially during my Masters attunement & since then it crops up from time to time during meditation etc. It is generally as I described it, but sometimes it changed so the triangle was on the outside with the circle inside, & a couple of times, the circle was an eye instead.
I looked it up online as to a meaning & came across a fewexplanations. The one that came up the most was it is the symbol for Alcoholics Anonymous (!) but before they adopted the symbol as their own, I believe the three points of the triangle symbolise the physical, mental & spiritual & the cirlce connecting the points symbolises that these three are all connected & makes up a whole. That's the explanation which makes the most sense to me anyway, as it did at the time.
Other explanations includethe trianglesymbolising the trinity, the circle, eternity.
Also
[link= http://www.heptovania.com/world/pedia/pedk/kirukuna.htm ]http://www.heptovania.com/world/pedia/pedk/kirukuna.htm[/link]
[link= http://www.rahul.net/raithel/otfw/91circle.html ]http://www.rahul.net/raithel/otfw/91circle.html[/link]
[link= http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/ssm/ssm09.htm ]http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/ssm/ssm09.htm[/link] (u have to scroll down to the bottom for this one)
I think that the symbol itself, (& variations of it,) is a very spiritual symbol - as the writings in the last link states,
"These symbols are found in all ancient writings. Rather, they appear in many writings and among all people."
To it's true meaning though, I am not sure.
Very interesting topic for me though 😀
Love & Light
SS
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RE: Celtic Symbol
Many thanks Shining Star - have had a quick look at the links and will definitely go back to them after the kids are in bed!!
I think in celtic/pagan terms it is also to do with the symbolism of three and continuity.
Hadn't realised there were so many variations!!