Spiritual symbolism
Spiritual symbolism and sacred geometry from around the world are the heart of my inspiration for Jaya Moksha designs.
Throughout time, people have adorned themselves with jewelry decorated with potent spiritual symbols, creating powerful amulets. Objects that are worn on our bodies collect energy and power, and wearing objects that remind us of a greater truth aligns this energy with our spiritual intentions.
Here's some information on the most common symbols that appear in my jewelry.
Vesica Piscis
The Vesica Piscis is a geometric symbol that looks like two circles overlapping each other, and is one of the most profound and ancient symbols of sacred geometry. It is found as a symbol of union in early Christianity, a design to surround images of deities in both western and eastern religious traditions, and in pagan European iconography, including on the modern Chalice Well structure at Glastonbury. It is the mathematical principle from which the Flower of Life design is created. The Vesica Piscis represents a lens for finding common ground or unity in both our external experience and internal landscape, union in polarity and peace in paradox.
Lotus
In Buddhist and Hindu cosmology, the lotus represents awakening, as the purity of the lotus and truth arises out of mud and illusion. In Tibetian Buddhism, the mostly commonly used mantra is Om Mani Padme Hum, which means “the jewel is in the lotus.” One meaning of this is the potent reminder that the truth and peace which we seek is contained not in some esoteric or distant spiritual purity, but in challenges and mundane of the “mud” of our everyday lives.
Spirals
Spirals are ancient symbols in many different spiritual and cultural traditions of the cycles of life & transformation – birth, growth, death, and rebirth. They also represent the consciousness of nature and the change of seasons – attuning to the natural order of things.
Shakti Triangle
The downward facing triangle is an ancient traditional symbol in India for Shakti, the power of the feminine. The triangle represents the yoni, female genitalia, and our yonis' energy as the source of all creation, both in giving birth and in the raw power of pure dynamic feminine energy.
Infinity Loop
The modern infinity symbol, a figure eight loop on its side, is a mathematical symbol of an infinitely large number or “unboundedness.” Other similar symbols have been found in many cultures, including the Ouroboros of ancient Greece (a snake eating its own tail in a figure eight) and the Eternal Knot symbol of Tibetian Buddhism. The infinity symbol holds the energy of no limits and infinite possibilities, a beautiful symbol for love and personal transformation.
Moon Phases and Crescent Moon
A number of my designs include moon phases and crescent moons. For everyone, this can honor the feminine part of our beings - our emotional heart, our receptivity, our intuition, and our powerful connection to our bodies. Moon images also represent our relationship to the natural world, and to the cycles of the year and seasons. And for women, this can honor our menstrual moon cycles and the powerful way this connects us to the rhythms of our life, our sisterhood, and constant letting go and renewal.
Seed of Life and Flower of Life
The Seed of Life is composed of seven overlapping circles, and is the basic component of the Flower of Life design, an ancient symbol found all over the world, including in the Forbidden City in China, the temple of Osiris in Abydos, Egypt, ancient synagogues in Isreal, kabbalistic scriptures, temples in Japan, temples in India, ancient alchemical writings, and medieval art in Italy and Spain. The Flower and Seed of Life are considered by many to be two fundamental symbols of sacred geometry, the belief that geometrical and mathematical harmony are found within all levels of life, and as we see the fundamental truths of physical and spiritual existence, these harmonious patterns reveal themselves clearly. Some see the Seed of Life as metaphorically or literally representing the seven days in which God created life and from which the Flower of Life is born, the blueprint of all reality. Others see the Seed of Life as depicting the fundamental form of space in time, or a visual expression of the connections of life that run through all beings. This symbol can be a potent reminder of the heart of all existence, the fundamental non-duality of all reality, and the act of creation that exists microcosmically in everything, on every level.
Sri Yantra
The Sri Yantra is the most powerful and revered yantra (a geometrical mandala visually representing the harmonic tones of a mantra and producing specific energies) in Hinduism. It is also known as the Cosmic Yantra or the Yantra of Creation, and is the symbol of Tripurasundari, the supreme goddess of Tantra. Meditating on the Sri Yantra attunes the individual consciousness with the harmony of universal consciousness. The Sri Yantra is composed of nine intersecting triangles, and represents the cosmic spiritual union of Shiva, the divine masculine represented by the four upward facing triangles, with Shakti, the divine feminine represented by the five downward facing triangles. The Sri Yantra is the image of the OM mantra, the primordial sound of creation. The Sri Yantra radiates out from its central point or bindu, which is the junction between the unmanifest source of all reality, pure nondual consciousness, and the physical universe of duality. The nine triangles of the Sri Yantra are interlaced together to form 43 smaller triangles in a web that symbolizes the entire cosmos or the womb of creation, as well as our human spiritual journey from feeling seperate to knowing the not-seperateness of all of reality.