Egg of Life

Construction note

Central circle ringed by six tangent circles.

About this symbol

Meaning

Seven spheres, a stage of the Flower of Life.

Culture / origin

Cross-cultural geometric tradition

Era

Antiquity to the present

Historical context

Geometric and 'sacred geometry' figures recur across mathematics, art and esoteric thought as models of proportion, symmetry and cosmos.

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