The study of sacred geometry, so ably and beautifully presented by Robert Lawlor in his workbook, "Sacred Geometry", and chronicled by Drunvolo Melchisedek in "The Flower of Life" is an ancient practice, dating back thousands of years. The study of sacred geometry accesses information held by wisdom traditions, mystery schools, and indigenous sacred circles throughout human time.

My own studies began recently when the Flower of Life symbol came to my attention in a dream, and prompted my search for its origin and meaning. My quest has led me into extensive research, as well as experiential practices with various forms, such as drawing, painting and meditation. My focus has been on various 6-sided and 12-sided forms based on pi, which need only a compass and straight edge and a pencil to create. I've found that physically working with the forms opens up new levels of knowledge, information and healing for myself, as well as for viewers or meditators using the pieces. According to Robert Lawlor, "the architecture of bodily existence is determined by an invisible immaterial world of pure form and geometry."

Practices such as painting or drawing the forms, meditating with the symbols as yantras, walking or sitting inside of forms larger than the human body, are just some of the ways to access information held within them. This is part of my study now, as I paint, and work with meditation groups and healers to discover how the human body can work with these painted diagrams of fundamental archetypal forms. "Each form you see has it's unseen archetype" wrote Rumi centuries ago.

As an artist, the process of painting and drawing ancient geometric symbols such as Metatron's Cube has allowed me to understand countless archetypal relationships as I work--different information becoming apparent to me each time I work with a symbol anew.

I decided to paint a series of Metatron's Cubes in a broad spectrum of colors and retain the same symbol, format, and design, to see what would be new or different each time. The process always begins with pencil drawings, moves into paintings (which are not pre-drawn), and then progresses to meditation after the paintings manifest themselves. The pieces are placed where other people can also work with them. One of my questions was: how is the symbol perceived by the body if only the color is varied? It's a tricky study though, because there is one level of experience that occurs for me when I'm physically painting, and an entirely other experience gained when working with the paintings as objects for mediation.

The first series of pieces to study that question were the six Metatron's cube series, painted in six of the chakra colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple. Study and meditation with these forms in numerous groups has shown that the 12 pointed star works as a sort of doorway, almost as a machine, allowing people to journey within and beyond themselves. The territory where each person travels differs, even when meditating in a group together. Metatron's Cube seems to be useful as a focusing tool, for healing and meditation. Different color fields seem to make the form more accessible to different people. Sky blue, for instance, has a very different resonance than sunflower yellow, and will generate a stronger response in people depending on their energetic state at the time they are meditating. Historically, the meaning of the Metatron's Cube diagram is keyed to earth-based crystal structures. As a form, it is "found" by using the Flower of Life diagram as a "key", locating the essential circles with which to form the intersecting lines that create the geometry. The diagram, created by connecting the centers of all the circles in the form (two rings of 6, and one in the center) is said to function as a blueprint for the crystal structures of all carbon based life. It is possible to find rectangles, diamonds, triangles, cubes, and pentagons, all implied by the lines in the diagram. The angel Metatron, for whom this diagram is named, is known as the keeper of the keys of knowledge.