Morning Flight
“I’m working on a morning flight to anywhere but here….
It’s not the way you say you hear my heart
when the music ends
I am just learning how to fly away again”
— Nanci Griffith on KHYI.com, 6:45 AM
Click on the above yantra for deeper meditations from May 24 and 25, 2003.
See entries of June 10-14, 2003, for more on the symbolism of the above figure’s central two triangles, which represent Shiva and Kali united. For the symbolism of the eight petals, see the eight-ray star of Venus in my Oct. 23, 2002, entry. This is one interpretation of the eightfold “Spider” symbol
which plays a major role in the Changewar stories of Fritz Leiber (my favorite mythology). This symbol, like the two-triangles symbol at the center of the eight-petal lotus above, represents “Shiva and Kali united in love,” according to Leiber. (See my journal note “Biblical Proportions,” written on this date in 1997.)
For a Christian perspective on the Spider symbol, see Quine in Purgatory.
For a different religious perspective on the two-triangles symbol in the lotus, see