Symbolism of this Labyrinth
The archway portal at the entrance represents the doorways of your life, body and soul: family origin, teen years, high school graduation, job, love, marriage, parenting, and particular relationships. This Portal challenges the invited to understand the mystery of one’s life from outside in and inside out. Who is the person who is you?
The LION at the entrance to the labyrinth represents the Hidden Lions that guard the gates of our awareness, pre-screening what we will notice and pay attention to. Our minds work outside conscious awareness to pre-select what we will notice. Perhaps a best example is the denial of a person with addiction. They simply refuse to attend to evidence, including pleas of loved ones that they have a problem. All sorts of reality is pre-screened by our minds.
Upright stone markers, or patrins, are Rorschach markers in our lives, on which we can project various steps, stages, guides or visions. For one person a marker might stand for Family Influence, for another Church or the Commandments, for another a list of preferred virtues, for another an important relationship or turning point or new direction. You decide.
The cairns or collection of stones represent people and influence of particular persons or events. Three cairns here are family, one particular friend, and a special group of spiritual friends. The several cairns signify the complexity of the networking of our particular histories.
Plants within the labyrinth are not the flowering kind. The labyrinth experience invites the walker to discover the flowers within, budding and emerging.
The Zen garden in the center is simple and round. One can rest there with whatever one holds closest and therefore sacred in one’s heart, appreciating a core value of one’s life that has emerged from many turns.
© Paschal Baute, 2007
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