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Symbols

Symbols. Symbols. A symbol is something that stands for something else. Often a word, color, object, picture, person, setting or happening that symbolizes a deeper, broader meaning. WATER. birth-death-resurrection. creation. the unconscious. fertility and growth.

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Symbols

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  1. Symbols

  2. Symbols • A symbol is something that stands for something else. • Often a word, color, object, picture, person, setting or happening that symbolizes a deeper, broader meaning.

  3. WATER birth-death-resurrection creation the unconscious fertility and growth purification and redemption

  4. The Sea infinity life eternity spiritual mystery the unconscious death and rebirth

  5. Rivers death and rebirth (baptism) death flowing of time into eternity life cycle incarnations of deities

  6. Rain sadness sorrow

  7. SUN law in nature creative energy masculine Father Principle consciousness (thinking, enlightenment, wisdom) passage of time and life

  8. Rising Sun birth creation enlightenment

  9. Setting Sun death end of time

  10. MOONLIGHT romance

  11. ROSE Love lips kindness lovely woman

  12. BALANCING SCALES justice

  13. COLORS RED blood sacrifice passion violence disorder sensuality

  14. COLORS GREEN POSITIVE sensation growth fertility nature hope NEGATIVE death and decay

  15. COLORS BLUE usually highly positive religious feeling spiritual purity truth security

  16. COLORS BLACK evil darkness death primal wisdom the unknown mystery melancholy

  17. COLORS WHITE light POSITIVE purity timelessness innocence NEGATIVE blinding truth of cosmic mystery terror death the supernatural

  18. COLORS YELLOW light comprehension brightness

  19. CIRCLE or SPHERE unity wholeness completeness

  20. SEASONS AUTUMN Last few years of life SUMMER Prime of life SPRING New beginnings birth WINTER End of life

  21. TREE redemption (cross) life (tree of life) immortality inexhaustible life

  22. NUMBERS Three (masculine) spiritual awareness light holy unity

  23. Three • Three in Holy Trinity • Father, Son, Holy Ghost • Three Phases of Moon • New, Full, Old • Three Sun Gods • Horus, Ra, Osiris (rising, midday, setting) • Three Levels of Space • Heaven, earth, abyss

  24. NUMBERS Four (feminine) spiritual awareness circle holy life cycle

  25. Four • Four Ages of World (Ovid) • Gold, silver, bronze, iron • Four Cardinal Virtues (Plato) • Wisdom, courage, temperance, justice • Four Parts of Day • Dawn, day, evening, night • Four Cardinal Points • North, south, east, west • Four Faces of Christ • Lion (ruler), ox (servant), man (earthly), eagle (spiritual) • Four Seasons • Winter, spring, summer, fall

  26. NUMBERS Seven completeness perfection union of three and four most powerful of all symbolic numbers

  27. Seven • Seven Stars in Big Dipper • Seven Days of Week • Seven Planets (Old World) • Seven Days to Create World • Seven Days to Prepare food (OT) • Seven Colors in Rainbow

  28. NUMBERS TEN perfection completeness

  29. Ten • Ten fingers • Ten toes • Ten Commandments • Tithing (1/10)

  30. PLACES Garden (Edenic) innocence paradise fertile unspoiled beauty

  31. PLACES Desert nihilism spiritual aridity hopelessness death

  32. PLACES Island freedom innocence

  33. ANIMALS • FOX Slyness cleverness

  34. ANIMALS • ELEPHANT forgetfulness

  35. ANIMALS • LAMB gentleness purity sacrifice innocence

  36. ANIMALS • LION nobleness ferocity royalty

  37. ANIMALS • DONKEY stubbornness

  38. SERPENT (snake or worm) evil libido (sexual energy) mystery pure force wisdom corruption sensuality destruction the unconscious

  39. MONEY labor evil

  40. BIRDS • caged bird imprisonment

  41. BIRDS • Dove peace purity

  42. BIRDS • Eagle power clear-sightedness vision protection

  43. BIRDS • Hawk war warlike person pugnacious

  44. BIRDS • Owl wisdom

  45. BIRDS • Robin spring

  46. BIRDS • Vulture loathsome evil waiting to devour man

  47. BREAD life material things

  48. BLOOD life sacrifice

  49. FIRE or BURNING hell punishment passion

  50. NAKEDNESS naturalness primitive instincts savagery innocence

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