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What's a Mandala ?
The word ‘mandala’ comes from the ancient Sanscrit script of India and means – the outside edge and centre of a circle. Pictures of similar patterns within a circle are called mandalas. The patterns within the circle lead your eye inward and toward the centre, and back out again.
These patterns are found throughout nature. A centre within a circle encompasses everything from the basic cell structure to the Earth’s crust and it’s magnetic core. The circular pattern of a flower’s petals, the spiral of the cross-section of a shell, the segments of half an orange and the star within an apple. All are circular patterns radiating into and out from the centre. Different religions and cultures have created mandalas for medicinal and meditational purposes. Like the Buddhist’s and American Indian’s sand mandalas, and the Asian Yin-Yang symbol combining interdependence and opposition.
Whether a whirlpool, a sundial, clockface or the twelve 30 degree segments of the zodiac, all these circles mean something. Maybe the comfortable feeling of something geometrically uniform and complete. Being a working part of a functional circle produces a feeling of wholeness.
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