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Eight Pointed Chakra

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A line drawing I did in Illustrator based on something I read about in the Cosmology section of The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs by Robert Beer.

This is the circular hub of the Tibetan astrological tortoise diagram, enclosing an eight pointed chakra sealed with eight trigrams (the ones used here are those used on a thankga in the Potala Palace in Lhasa), and an inner circle containing the Tibetan numbers from one to nine arranged in a sequence to create the "magic square of fifteen."

Rotating clockwise from the top, the eight trigrams are: south-fire, southwest-earth, west-metal, northwest-sky, north-water, northeast-mountain, east-wood, southeast-wind. Outside of the chakra is a flame that represents the heating activity of the element fire (south), the iron sword on the right represents the cutting activity of the element metal (west), the water at the bottom represent the liquidity of the element water (north), and the tree on the left represents the movement of the element wood (east). The two triple squares at the top and the three-tiered mandalas at the bottom represent the solidity of the element earth.

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Motophan's avatar
hello, i love this, can i have permission to use it on my website please ? www.lostsouls.ch thank you :)