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One closed lineMarks that have no outside.Breath and beginningLife as something given, sounded, or grown.The quiet churchCut small, when a plain cross was a risk.Seen and shieldedEyes, hands, and stars set against harm.The septenarySeven lights, and the metals said to answer them.Principles and rootsThree that a fire reveals, and four that the old physics named.World treesA cosmos you are asked to climb, not just to picture.Knots and threefoldDrawings that will not come apart into one strand.
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- AirHeat that does not scorch: blood, spring, thought.
- AnchorHope, carved where a cross would have been too loud.
- AnkhLife held out as a gift, often to the nostrils.
- CaduceusHermes’ staff: messages, trade, borders, and the road of the dead.
- Chi-RhoA monogram that became a battle standard.
- CrossTwo lines, and for Christians the particular death they say turned.
- DharmachakraA wheel set turning, with a hub that does not.
- EarthWeight, melancholy, and the body that remains.
- Endless knotA line with no start, so nothing in it stands alone.
- EnsōOne brushstroke, usually left unfinished.
- Eye of HorusAn eye taken apart, restored, and used as a measure.
- Eye of ProvidenceA claim that you are seen. The dollar bill did not invent it.
- FireHeat that rises, and the temper called choleric.
- Flower of lifeEvery circle born on the edge of another.
- HamsaAn open hand against the evil eye.
- IchthysA fish that is also a sentence.
- ੴIk OnkarOne, and that oneness is creative.
- InfinityA typesetter’s sign that escaped into metaphysics.
- JupiterTin, kingship, and the god who enlarges.
- KhandaTwo sovereignties, held together and not sheathed.
- LabrysA blade that faces two ways, and a cult object that became a banner.
- LingamA mark of Shiva that refuses a face.
- LotusWhat rises clean from the mud it grew in.
- MarsIron’s mark: a blade’s metal, and later a sex.
- MenorahSeven lights on one tree, and they have to be tended.
- MercuryThe go-between. Metal, planet, principle, and a god who travels.
- MjölnirA hammer that returns, and that hallows.
- MoonWhat changes on a schedule, and still returns.
- ॐOmA sonic cosmology in one syllable.
- OuroborosThe serpent that eats itself, and so has no outside.
- Peace signA designed mark, with an author, a day, and a brief.
- PentagramFive lines in one stroke. The doctrines came later, and they disagree.
- PhoenixA bird that burns and is the same bird after.
- Rod of AsclepiusOne serpent, one staff. The sign a hospital ought to mean.
- SaltWhat the fire cannot talk out of staying.
- SaturnWeight, time, and the stage of the work you cannot skip.
- Seed of lifeSeven circles: a center, and the ring that exhausts it.
- Star and crescentA lunar blade and a star — a dynasty’s badge that went traveling.
- Star of DavidTwo triangles locked, asked to stand for a people.
- SulfurWhat burns, and what gives a thing its character.
- SunThe center, and the metal that does not tarnish.
- SvastikaA bent cross that meant well-being, and was later occupied.
- Tree of lifeTen stations of emanation, and a way back up.
- TriquetraThree vesicae locked, so that parting them destroys the drawing.
- TriskeleThree spirals that share a center and refuse to be still.
- ValknutThree triangles locked, near what may be Odin, and we do not have the gloss.
- VenusCopper’s mark, long before it was a gender icon.
- Vesica piscisTwo equal circles, each through the other’s center. A third shape appears.
- WaterWhat sinks, gathers, and is felt before it is argued.
- YggdrasilThe tree at the middle, which is also a gallows.
- Yin and yangTwo phases of one motion, each carrying the seed of the other.