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Vilata Voznesenskaya
Women's mandalas. Magic circles for all occasions
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Mandalas for women and men
Mandalas of love and harmonious relationships
Protective mandalas
Mandalas for health
Money mandalas
Mandalas for different occasions and events
About the author
Hello! Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Vilata Voznesenskaya.
In this book I have placed the most successful and effective mandalas. They have been tested by time, experience and the results of many people who have used them in practice.
Each mandala is given a name, a description of the action of the mandala, ways of using it for yourself personally and for the surrounding space.
I am sure that the mandalas I created will be useful and will serve well children and adults, young and sages, women, men, psychologists, astrologers, tarot readers, artists, designers, needlewomen, feng shui masters, poor and rich, cheerful and sad, beginners and experienced esotericists.
The most important thing is that the expected changes come in your life, your heart beats, your eyes smile, and your soul is joyful.
What is a mandala?
Mandala - translated from Sanskrit means “circle”. That is, it is a drawing consisting of circles, or inscribed in a circle.
In various other traditions, the same word means wheel, crown, rotation, whirlpool, round dance, dance, ring, rhythm, ritual, prayer, home for God.
The literal translation of the Sanskrit word mandala is “that which contains the essence”, a drawing in which there is some important content, message, idea, soul, grain, essence. By the way, the word must be pronounced with emphasis on the first letter “A”. Some people put emphasis on the second letter “A” and end up with a swear word.
Types of mandalas
Mandalas can be of natural origin or man-made. They can be drawn on paper and fabric, embroidered or printed, built from sand, clay, concrete, iron or carved in marble. A mandala can be made as a tattoo on a person’s body, painted on a car bumper, or left as an element of the family coat of arms.
The mandalas themselves are divided into several types and purposes:
Constant images of the deity, setting up for meditation and prayer
Such mandalas are hung in a room where a person prays or meditates, and thus the mandala helps to tune in to the desired wave and enter a certain meditative state of mind.
Healing
These mandalas are drawn in order to cope with some kind of disease. Sometimes this is the mandala of the disease itself. A person draws his illness, pulling it out of his body onto paper. The mandala must be burned or otherwise destroyed so that the disease goes away forever.
There are healing mandalas that are drawn to attract the spirit of health and the forces of life. The mandala is hung at the head of the patient or opposite his gaze, so that he looks and tunes in with the energy of health.
Protective
These mandalas are drawn as amulets indoors. Their task is to stop and neutralize the flow of negative energy coming from the world.
Wells, traps
These mandalas work on the principle of a well in which you can hide something. Such mandalas “absorb” energy and retain it in themselves, like a sponge retains water.
Mills, turntables, generators
These mandalas work as transformers and converters of energy from one quality to another. Where there is little energy, it is sluggish, inactive, similar to a stagnant swamp, the mandala brings the energy of movement, activity, enthusiasm, and a positive mood. Where there is too much activity, chaos, aggression, nervousness, movement, the mandala will add peace, harmony, smoothness, silence and regularity.
Women's, men's, doubles
Mandalas containing feminine energy (yin), masculine energy (yang), or both energies in one design.
They tune a person to the missing vibrations, increase the production of female or male hormones in the human body. They harmonize relationships between partners, promote mutual understanding, balance of emotions and positive communication.
Application of mandalas
Mandalas are used in different areas of life and for different purposes.
Mandalas - portals - are used for meditation. When coloring, contemplating or drawing such mandalas, a person is transported mentally and energetically to certain time portals.
Shield mandalas are used for protection. They are hung indoors, in living rooms, children's rooms and bedrooms. They are also drawn as amulets and worn on the body, on clothes, and included in the design of jewelry, interiors, clothing, and accessories.
To cure diseases associated with mental trauma, mandalas-wells, mandalas-traps, and mandalas-transformers are used.
Mandalas perfectly cleanse and heal a person’s soul and mind, they can restore vision, enlighten the mind, give clarity of thoughts and feelings, excite or calm both one person and mass flows of people.
There are special mandalas that can influence the human body and organs such as the heart, kidneys, stomach, uterus, ovaries, spleen, joints, liver, bones, metabolism, regulation of mood swings, production of hormones and red blood cells.
Mandalas can influence plants and animals. Flowers can bloom more actively, trees can bear fruit, animals can’t get sick, and harmful insects can leave their place of deployment. With the help of a mandala, you can unite with the soul of any mineral, plant, animal or person.
Mandalas help to understand the past and model the future. Bring order and harmony to a person’s present and help to perceive current events more positively. Hear the melody of your own soul, decipher the voice of consciousness and subconscious.
Almost all types of mandalas can be used both for yourself personally, for your tasks, goals and desires, and for working with the surrounding space. You can also copy all types of mandalas from an existing sample, paint ready-made templates, or invent and draw mandalas yourself.
Meditation with mandala
This type of mandala work is one of the most frequently used in Buddhist culture, in Europe, the West and Russia.
General rules of meditation:
Take a sheet of paper with a ready-made template or a blank sheet on which you will create your mandala. Place colored pencils, markers, crayons or paints in front of you. Focus on your thoughts, questions or problem. Take any color you like and start painting from the center, moving in a circle or spiral to the outer edges. You can finish drawing a mandala at any time when you want it, or you feel tired.
After completing the process, evaluate the extent of the problem that concerns you. It remained the same or changed, became simpler, easier, more understandable, lost its sharpness or stopped frightening you. Speak or write down all the realizations you have during the coloring process. The drawing can be burned or kept as a souvenir. Draw the mandala as many times as you need.
Draw mandalas yourself
You can color the ready-made mandalas given in this book, or draw your own.
The rules of drawing are very simple - no rules. Give yourself completely to the process of drawing, to what your hand does on paper, driven by internal impulses. Trust your taste and desire to choose one color or another. Draw your own Bad mood and the good, your fears and your hopes, find color and form for your love and gratitude.
Feel free to scribble, stain a sheet of paper and put blots on it, or carefully and accurately draw out every line and dot.
At the end of the book there are several templates that you can use to draw a mandala yourself.
For those who like to draw in electronic programs, I advise you to buy an application for apple called YAMANDALA.
This is a drawing program in which templates of the author's mandalas are already given, and you can color them many, many times, experimenting with color and shape.
The cost of the application is 99 rubles.
Color, shape, number, figures used in the mandala
To make your creative process more conscious, I will give some meanings of the symbols used in drawing mandalas:
Colors:
Red, orange, yellow– colors of power, masculine yang energy, aggressive, active, sexy, exciting, energy of action, movement, vigor, warmth, internal potential and thirst for action.
Blue, purple, cyan– feminine energy, yin, clear, structural, gathering into a whole, calm, balanced, delineating boundaries. Gives strength to think and act calmly and evenly.
Green, turquoise, marsh– female yin energy, depending on the shade, causes either peace and tranquility, or activity of growth and development, or decline in mood, melancholy, sadness, sadness.
Black, grey, brown– intermediate and independent colors, often limiting colors, separators, developers. Depending on a person’s internal state, they can mean complete isolation from the world, withdrawal, depression, strong concentration on something specific, as well as aggression, energy, destructive impulse, action, fearlessness.
White– a universal color, it can show both the purity and silence of the inner world, and emptiness, loneliness, cold, fear and freezing of the human soul.
Figures and symbols:
Circles– yin energy, feminine, harmony, integrity, cycle, goal, place of assembly, symbol of money, coins, manifestation of the truthfulness of thoughts and feelings.
Spiral- a symbol of movement. A spiral going to the center is a drawing in, absorbing movement, like a whirlpool. A spiral unfolding into the outside world is a movement from the center to the sides, something is revealed, freed, gaining momentum. A sign of constantly moving energy, coming and going and coming again.
Shells- a symbol of drawing into oneself, clogging, closing, hiding secrets, storage.
Arrows, spikes, triangles, any sharp corners, zigzags, lightning– male symbols, yang energy, active, aggressive, protective and offensive. It cuts, indicates the target, pierces, frightens, excites, irritates, paves the way.
Eyes, ovals- a symbol of the divine eye or the all-seeing eye, which observes, protects, and maintains order. Function of protection, order, fear, calm, care, guardianship. The need for protection, protection, attention, security, or severity and punishment.
Squares, polygons, rhombuses– a symbol of a foundation, strong, solid, static, fixed. Law, truth, inertia, support, consistency.
Flowers, patterns, smooth lines- Yin energy. A symbol of peace, smoothness, fluidity, tenderness, slowness, beauty, craving for beauty.
Droplets- this is life-giving moisture, reviving life, life drips and merges into streams of long-awaited, healing energy. Droplets go to the center - a flow of energy flows from the environment to the center of the mandala. The droplets are directed outward - a stream flows out to people from the mandala or from your life.
Multi-beam stars, wings- a symbol of constant protection by guardian angels. There is always help from higher powers, luck, and fate on your path. A guiding star always shines for you.
Stories from practice using mandala
There are a lot of stories from life where my friends and I successfully use mandalas. I will tell you only two of them.
Renewal mandala
The owner of a network of laundries for students asked to establish a normal working atmosphere in the team, because employees steal, equipment breaks, customers leave dissatisfied, although the business is very promising.
Having eliminated all the legal, technical, and psychological problems in the business, she chose a mandala from those I had already drawn to harmonize the laundry space. I colored it myself, printed it out in a printing house in the form of a large poster and hung it on the wall. The mandala was active, I would even say aggressive, in bright orange tones, with a lot of sharp corners and thorns. The energy of the mandala cleansed the space and increased the speed of money and human flow.
In the first week, the entire laundry staff quit. Then the washing machines broke down and the sewer pipes became clogged. We had to make repairs, clean the plumbing, call an equipment technician and hire new workers.
Surprisingly, everything worked out quite quickly, the repairman discovered factory defects in all the washing machines, they were handed over to the factory and received new, high-quality units as compensation. New team gathered from young student students who worked in shifts, quickly mastered their duties, and created an atmosphere of modernity, novelty, fast service and convenience in the laundry. Six months later, the owner opened 5 more branches throughout the city. In each of the departments, a huge mandala hangs on the wall and serves for the benefit of the cause.
Courage to accept love
Woman mature years, being divorced, raised her son alone and no longer dreamed of family life. I was no longer the same age, and there were no suitable men around. Having seen the mandala “Courage to Accept Love” among other drawings at the exhibition, she literally fell in love with it and wanted to have it in her home. The mandala took a place in the bedroom, opposite the head of the bed. Going to bed in the evening and waking up, the woman looked at the drawing for a long time and remembered her life, her experience of love, meetings and partings, hopes and disappointments. After a couple of months, she suddenly understood why she was lonely, what her difficulties were in relationships. After reading the description of the mandala, the woman made an appointment with a psychologist and took a course of correction life values and therapy for forgiveness of grievances and disappointments. Another six months later, she successfully and happily married. The mandala design was also transferred to the bed linen and tile patterns in the bathroom. The mandala continues to inspire the owner to have the courage to learn to accept love.
Mandalas for coloring
You can draw directly in the book, feel free to tear out the page and use the mandala in life. You can scan the drawings and draw them many, many times.
It is possible that the existing description of the mandala and your own feelings from the drawing may not coincide, and then trust your feelings more than what is written.
It may also be that for you the same drawing will change in perception from time to time. Either it seems to you that the mandala is spinning inward, and then suddenly it is spinning outward, then it is threateningly dangerous for you, and then suddenly it has become beloved, kind and gentle. This is a sign that you are changing, and that's okay.
A very important secret of the mandala
If you look closely at the drawings, you will see that all the mandalas are not perfectly symmetrical, unevenly drawn, or not mirrored. This was done deliberately and consciously.
The fact is that there is no need to strive to draw a mandala that is ideal in shape. In any mandala there must remain some specially damaged, imperfect place or fragment. Buddhists call this “imperfect” place the GRAIN OF THE SPIRIT. It is to this place that the holy spirit descends to help people achieve harmony and new knowledge. If the mandala is 100% ideal, then the help of higher powers is not needed.
I advise you, after you color the mandala, to take and specially introduce into it a certain element of disharmony, a maximum of 5–10% of the drawing, indicate a “landing pad” for higher forces, and thereby agree that everything in this world imperfect, requires constant changes, updates, new knowledge and help from above.
Feel free and with interest to let colored drawings, patterns and ornaments called MANDALA into your life. Invite to your daily life higher powers and become more perfect yourself.
Find out how, with the help of mandalas and more, you can stop tribal wars in the family, find out your destiny, discover your talents, learn to forgive and get rid of jealousy, allow yourself to be happy, desired and loved.
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I wish you interesting changes in life and successful realization of your desires!
Vilata Voznesenskaya
Women's mandalas
These mandalas are created especially for women. Women are naturally rich inner world, a very flexible nervous system, they have increased sensitivity, intuition, can see prophetic dreams, unravel omens and signs.
Women's mandalas help restore the natural energy of flexibility of feelings, fluidity of thoughts, the ability to look into the depths of events and phenomena, simplicity of attitude towards complex things, wise attention to your body and soul, good attitude to a man.
If you lack feminine energy, you feel that it is difficult for you to relax, trust, you are too critical of life, you have problems with conceiving, bearing children and with creativity - color one of the women's mandalas.
Also, these mandalas are useful for children, and especially girls.
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Women's youth and creativity
For yourself: Place a photo of yourself, your mother, friend, daughter, sister or beloved classmate in the center of the picture. Draw a mandala, enjoy the shape of the drawing, the color, the rhythm of the pattern.
Perhaps you will hear music inside yourself that sounds from the vibrations of the mandala, or you will want to dance, hum something or just smile. If the mandala annoys you, put it aside for later.
Mandala rejuvenates the body. Relieves fatigue from life experience and frees the mind and soul from the burden of problems. Excites creative thoughts, ideas, returns a joyful, light, childish perception of life. Creates an aura of love, desire and harmony.
For space: calms irritation and aggression, brings harmony and ease of perception of the situation, gives a feeling of freshness, cleanliness and volume, as if all the windows and doors were opened in the room and a fresh wind from the sea was let in.
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Mandala of good mood, positivity and good luck
For yourself: sets you up for joy, fun, accepting the situation in a positive way. Children really like this mandala and give peaceful dreams.
Draw from any place and fragment, in any direction. “Berry balls” in the pattern symbolize the harmony and integrity of perception of any situations that happen to you. And also the situations and events themselves, which in all cases occur for the benefit of you and your environment.
Elements in the form of wings are a symbol of help from higher powers, amulet and protection in your affairs. Everything that happens in a woman’s life is all with the consent of the guardian angels and the forces of good.
For space: radiates lightness, brightness, good mood, joy. Gives a good sleep and a joyful, easy awakening.
A mandala is similar to the consonance of bells of different tones, shapes and materials, which ring from the blow of the wind, from the touch of birds, insects, the hands of a person or a child. Awakens the desire to dance, sing, draw, be beautiful, have a positive attitude, and evaluate the world from the point of view of good and benefit.
Many people, in the process of drawing this mandala, want to add a couple more circles to it, because the mandala activates imagination and the flight of creative thought. Trust yourself and feel free to complete your drawings and create.
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Prayer for the birth of a child
For yourself: stimulates the work of the ovaries, increases the rate of fertilization, triggers the mechanism for updating female hormones, and turns on the function of rejuvenating the body. Nourishes the female body with the forces of life.
Mandala is useful for women of different ages, from babies to experienced ones, as it tunes the female body to natural rhythms, vibrations and impulses.
The mandala pattern consists of female and male “figures” that are in a harmonious combination, giving naturalness and ease to fit into the flow of events and remain in natural feminine rhythms.
For girls the mandala carries natural course maturation, without failures, disruptions and crises.
For girls it is a natural inclusion in female rhythms, in love, sex, self-expression.
For married women, it brings ease of pregnancy and childbearing, the joy of motherhood and caring for the family. Preserves women's rhythms in their natural course, aligns and restores various disorders.
For experienced women, a mandala can delay the moment of menopause, does not allow creative potential to fade, and stimulates the female “centers” of creation and thirst for life.
For space: calms aggression, induces joy, the desire to dance, creativity and sex. Dispels negativity, cleanses the aura, gives a feeling of music in the room.
Fragments of the mandala can be transferred to clothes, scarves, skirts, worn on the body in the form of amulets and jewelry, and the design can be incorporated into the interior of the room (curtains, bed linen, carpets, bedspreads, wallpaper).
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It is metaphorical (that is, we recognize and develop ourselves through symbols) and art-therapeutic - and therefore brings huge amount joy and pleasure))))
This instrument is called a mandala.
I'm sure you all know what it is. Even those who hear this word for the first time have seen mandalas hundreds of times in their lives. Well, if you can’t figure it out, google it)))
Short definition. Tibetan translation of the Sanskrit word "mandala" ( dkyil-‘khor) literally means "that which surrounds the center". In principle, a mandala is a geometric symbol of a complex structure that is interpreted as a model of the universe, a “map of the cosmos.”
In therapy, a mandala is a model of your own personal universe, your world, as it appears to you on at the moment. And when we prepare it (draw, weave, etc.) we enter our world, reflect it, accept and harmonize ourselves. This is why working with mandalas is so therapeutic, it heals our soul and even our body.
Today I want to invite you to use the “Mandala Card Test” technique, which I invented in the 70s. American psychotherapist named Joan Kellogg.
Joan Kellogg made the following points in her defense:
- all mandalas created by people correspond to 13 basic types, they can be called archetypal stages of the Great Circle of the Mandala.
- All together, these 13 basic types form the Great Circle of the Mandala - like the “annual cycle - winter-spring-summer-autumn” or the “zodiacal circle”,
- The Great Circle of the Mandala is an abstraction, a “sum”, and each of us resides specifically here and now - in one of thirteen states, passing through states (or getting stuck in them),
- A person can move around the Great Circle of the Mandala not in the order of the 13 states, because there is no such “order” in a linear sense here.
Walking through the Great Circle of the Mandala is the path to the Self, the path to self-actualization. Although regression, getting stuck, stereotypical repetition of the same thing is also possible. All this will be shown by your mandala, or more precisely, a series of your mandalas.
Working with mandalas as part of a card test is very simple. There are two options.
First. You draw a mandala like “God will put it on your soul,” as it feels now. Then you read the description of the stages of the Great Circle and receive information to think about your internal state.
Second option. You first read the description of the stages, choose the desired state for you and draw the mandala consciously, based on the description of the structure.
Here I have selected test options if you can’t draw, but want to understand your inner state.
So, the stages of the Great Circle of the Mandala.
It is also necessary to take into account that any symbol or color in a mandala is twofold. It can mean both "good" and "bad". Interpretation in one direction or another depends on the context of the drawing, experience, intuition and... common sense))).
Zero stage “Pure Light”
What it looks like:
There is no mandala as such. Instead of a mandala design - a ring, a hoop, a circle. Fire ring. However, any color, on any background. The drawing lacks the “body of the circle”; I repeat, only the circle is visible.
Explanation:
At the moment, you really need peace, experience and the state “pre-birth”, an imitation of being in non-existence, in complete darkness and silence. The state of grain planted in black soil. A grain that will very soon “explode” into a green sprout. Accumulating the energy necessary for a breakthrough. Strong religious experiences.
First stage "Emptiness"
What it looks like:
A “circle body” appears, but practically nothing else, with one exception. All designs are of the “Japanese flag” type. Colored circle on a colored background. White circle on a black background. Black circle on a white background.
Exception: the first stage “Emptiness” also includes mandalas depicting a web or similar to a web.
Explanation:
Returning “to earth”, a feeling of unity with matter, with the earth, with the mother. The state of “we have reached land.” The soil under your feet, the ability to contact the surrounding “earthly”. Also a feeling of heaviness, rigidity, immobility, earthiness. The state of “nowhere to run, we are on an island.”
Second stage "Bliss"
What it looks like:
Any designs like “American flag”, that is, an abundance of small stars in the background. A field dotted with flowers, a polka dot print, a coat of arms strewn with heraldic lines, snowflakes, a sky in small curly clouds, fish in the water, freckles. The design is rippling, colorful, and represents a scattering of something, sparks, fireworks, fireworks, sparkles.
At the same time, the main feeling from such a mandala is fluidity or lightness, flickering and shimmer.
Explanation:
Feelings of pleasure, bliss, passivity, regression to childhood. (Regression can be either “good” or “bad”).
You are ready to fully accept the world, you are ready to trust. Attitude: “Everything is connected to everything and is reflected in everything.” A craving for mythological thinking, a rejection of rationality, being as opposed to “doing.”
Third Stage “Labyrinth, spiral, vortex”
What it looks like:
A very simple mandala. Looks like a labyrinth, a spiral, a spring, a vortex, a tornado, a screw thread, a spiral staircase. Umbilical cord.
Explanation:
The labyrinth has two exits. One leads deeper into the belly of the labyrinth - to death. The second exit leads to light, to Awakening.
Ambivalent state. Movement, advancement, pathfinding, goals, intuition, the unknown, slow progress through a tunnel, at the end of which the light is not yet visible.
Fourth stage “Beginning”
What it looks like:
Any drawing with a clear symbol located strictly in the center. Any geometric figure, inscribed in a circle; any symbol in the center, triangle, dot, comma, man, eye, heart, flower. Embryo in the womb. Gothic "rosette", rose.
Explanation:
A picture reflecting the vision: “Me and the world”, self-preoccupation, narcissism, awakening of the “I”, the need for self-affirmation, the struggle for one’s rights, an attempt to express oneself, however, combined with passivity, dependence on others and their assessment. Good for those who "never had their own Self."
Fifth Stage "Target"
What it looks like:
The mandala looks like a target, a funnel, as opposed to a spiral - the mandala often looks “volumetric”.
Series of concentric circles.
Explanation:
High feelings of helplessness, anxiety, vulnerability. In this regard, an attempt is to protect oneself from accidents, misfortunes, and mistakes through clear ritual actions. An attempt to overcome chaos with an artificially ordered structure. Search for a strong patron.
“Magical thinking”, obsessive-compulsive neurosis, attempt to lead an orderly lifestyle, closedness. The outside world is perceived as a threat. The desire to “explain everything”, to reduce it to simple formulas.
Sixth stage “Cleavage, combat with the Dragon”
What it looks like:
The circle of the mandala is divided in half - vertically or horizontally. A clear line divides the drawing into two halves. Heaven and earth, separated by the horizon, separated by the sea.
Transcript: The time has come to openly declare your rights, time to declare war, open confrontation. “The upper classes don’t want to, the lower classes can’t.”
Active life position. Believe in yourself. Increasing contradictions that precede positive changes. Unlike the “Beginning” stage, the I declares itself, but at the same time no longer relies on the environment and is not dependent on it.
Seventh stage “Squaring the circle”
What it looks like:
Pictures showing:
- or a vertical cross,
- or a square inscribed in a circle.
In the mandala there are practically only straight lines.
Explanation:
Mandalas with crosses: The feeling that energy is bursting inside you and there is “nowhere to put it.” A feeling of freedom, “the shackles have fallen,” self-esteem is high and not inflated.
Pose “with arms outstretched, standing on top of a mountain.”
The beginning of a new positive stage in life. Change of social role, increase in status.
Mandalas with a square inscribed in a circle: an archetype of an enchanted garden or courtyard-patio, closed from prying eyes, where wonderful fruits grow and jets of a magical fountain gush.
Successfully defending your own territorial rights, building the boundaries of your personality, even your home, even buying a “piece of land”, “grounding” in general, sometimes the desire and excellent opportunity to move to live in the village, in your own room, in your own apartment. Feeling like a “Boss”, a landowner, a positive homebody.
Eighth stage "Functioning Ego"
What it looks like:
A five-pointed star in a circle, standing “on its feet” (a symbol of a person and his normal physicality - uprightness). Leonardo's man.
Any images of swastikas and flowers with petals similar to swastikas.
Lightning within the circle, sometimes extending beyond the circle.
Explanation:
"Discovery of the body." A man is surprised to learn that he has... a body. The period of "physicality". The joy of owning a body, the joy of being able to move, walk, give the body physical activity - even chop wood. Staying in a dynamic period of life. Exit from a state of rest, sleep. Enjoyment of Action and any physical activity. It is shown to start learning to dance, run, and take the risk of going on a hike.
Ninth stage “Crystallization”
What it looks like:
Beautiful, symmetrical drawings (or clearly striving for symmetry and beauty - not everyone knows how to draw). They resemble Kai's snowflakes under a magnifying glass, the Sun, polygons, fruits, cross-sections of fruits, multi-rayed stars, multi-petaled flowers, "correct" Buddhist mandalas.
Explanation:
You are in the moment - in a state of harmony with yourself and the world around you. Social status- stable.
However, the stereotypical “obsession” with such a mandala is not good. If this “super” mandala does not clearly seem “positive”, then it could mean the following.
This mandala actually opens the theme “I and the World”, “I and Society”, as you feel it at the moment.
You are trying to keep “everything as is”, to freeze it. You don't want to change anything. Either you are in a dynamically changing, unpredictable environment (or a completely new, alien environment) and are desperately trying to adapt to it, to please it.
Tenth stage "Gate of Death"
What it looks like:
- “defeated” X-shaped (or diagonal) cross,
- crossroads,
- a circle divided into four (not connected together by the center) fragments,
- triangle pointing down.
Explanation:
Necessary loneliness, a feeling of helplessness, masochistic tendencies, the desire to sacrifice oneself, the willingness to “endure torment for the sake of...”, pleasure from the suffering experienced or the ability to draw strength from it for new growth, age crisis, dramatic loss of previous ideals, revaluation of values, intense need in renewal, the death of old Persona masks, immersion in the unconscious and refusal to cooperate with the old Logic of life.
Eleventh stage “Fragmentation”
What it looks like:
- It’s a mess, there is no feeling of “integrity of the picture.” (A disharmonious mandala, which almost always lacks a center. The fragments are in no way connected with each other. Chaos of details, lines, strokes).
- Trap, toothy mouth, vagina dentata, pit with sharp edges - as a center (such a center is an exception).
Explanation:
Now you allow yourself to do and say everything that others cannot do and say - it’s boiling. You are a jester, a holy fool, a servant of the cult of Shiva, smeared with human ashes. So act like a fool.
Take advantage of this resourceful state as a chance for growth and self-actualization.
Destruction of the old ego. The state of “Who am I?” “What kind of miller am I? I am a raven!..”
There is an intrapsychic destructive process going on that you may not even be aware of. Frustration of genuine needs.
Twelfth stage "Transcendental Ecstasy"
What it looks like:
- Jets of water, fountains, fireworks, explosions, fireworks;
- green sprouts, stems and shoots “breaking out” from the ground towards the light.
Very often the image spills out beyond the boundaries of the circle.
Unlike the “stars” and “spangles” of the “Bliss” stage, the “Ecstasy” stage has a clearly directed, active, dynamic “masculine” character.
Explanation:
You are in better shape and full of energy. The state of falling in love, falling in love with life. The desire to " natural beauty”, rejection of everything “artificial”, “civilized”, “limiting”, finding your own Path, style, solving the riddle-koan, “aha effect”, understanding and finding the meaning of life, triumph.
This is sacred in the cultures of peoples different countries a symbol that helps a person get closer to what he wants. Coloring or weaving a mandala is a meditation, therefore it adjusts the consciousness in a positive way, bringing a person happiness, love, financial well-being, etc. The drawing is a two-dimensional image on a plane or has a relief, three-dimensional shape. The magic circle is carved from stone or wood, embroidered on fabric using colored powders, drawn on sand, and woven with threads.
What is a mandala
This is one of the sacred symbols, representing geometric pattern. When literally translated, the word "mandala" means "circle" or "circle". The symbol looks like a square inscribed in a circle and decorated with many decorative elements and patterns. Each figure and ornament is arranged symmetrically. While creating a drawing, a person is immersed in a state comparable to the practice of meditation; the image accumulates the positive energy of the creator. This explains why many Buddhist and Hindu temples are decorated with such symbolism.
The word “mandala” appears for the first time in the Rigveda, meaning “space”, “circle”, “totality”. Buddhists believe that the first symbolic image was created in the 8th century by the founder of the Vajrayana, Padmasambhava, who used this ritual geometric object to invoke the deity. Padmasambhava created a mandala and prayed continuously for 7 days, after which a deity descended into the center of the sacred circle to fulfill his wishes.
In the east, the symbol is very sacred: it is recognized by Buddhist and Hindu followers. The monks draw a sacred circle, seeing in the image not just figures or patterns, but an object of worship, symbolizing the structures of the Universe. Creating a mandala helps a person open the subconscious and establish harmony with nature. To achieve such a result, you need to be passionate about knowledge of the inner world, develop in spiritually, be able to meditate.
Mandalas and their meaning
In Eastern countries, the symbol is considered sacred; its image can be found on walls, ceilings, and floors. A circle filled with patterns is drawn during religious rituals, including the Kalachakra initiation. Sand paints are used for this. The destruction of the sacred drawing completes the sacred ritual. What does a mandala mean in a particular culture?
Buddhist
In Buddhist culture, the meaning of a mandala has a sacred meaning. This image came to Buddhist practices from ancient Indian mythology, receiving a slightly modified meaning. The ritual symbol appeared in India several thousand years ago and was used as an auxiliary tool for meditation. In Buddhism, images are used in sacred rituals, symbolizing the field of certain saints and bodhisattvas, their habitat after emerging from endless rebirths.
While contemplating the image, Buddhists at the mental level come into contact with the deities in the center of the picture, moving to the highest stage of meditation, becoming one with the cosmic Absolute. Modern psychologists suggest that drawings serve as a tool for internal transformation and self-improvement of people. By looking at or creating a sacred symbol, Buddhists achieve mental balance, getting rid of problems, restoring own strength recovering from illnesses.
Numerical
One of the tools for understanding man and the world is bringing different phenomena to a single measure, which is a number. With its help, you can connect seemingly incompatible things, for example, a person’s date of birth and the words he speaks. The numerical symbol of integrity allows you to see how speech works and use it consciously. This will make life more joyful, happier.
Even ancient philosophers adhered to the idea that everything in the world can be expressed in numbers, which at the same time are filled with magical meaning. Modern scientists also talk about similar things, who express the idea that everything that exists in the Universe represents energy flows and information that can be expressed in numbers. The vibration they create affects a person’s life, which is studied by numerology.
This pseudoscience draws all the information it needs to study from a mandala - a drawing of fate created individually for each person. Using this technique you can trace life path and identify hidden opportunities. Such knowledge helps to correct shortcomings and use existing abilities, which will provide the opportunity to more successfully solve the tasks set by fate.
Indian
According to one version, woven Indian mandalas in the form in which they exist now come from South and Central America. It is known that such symbols were woven by the Huichol Indians living in the territory of modern Mexico. During the colonization of America, many valuable skills in the art were forgotten, and today weaving is hardly remembered. The Indians themselves called such products “God's Eye.”
Even children could weave the most primitive patterns: their products were hung in a prominent place, since it was believed that the mandala made by children brings prosperity to the house, through it God protects the family from misfortunes. A wise Indian, the leader of the Dakota tribe, said that everything done by the Power of the World is done in a circle - the sky, the earth, birds' nests, the sun, the moon are round, etc. The seasons also replace each other and are constantly repeated, forming a circle. Thus, the mandala symbolizes the cyclical nature of all living things.
Yoga
On the path to self-improvement, understanding the structure of the human essence plays an important role. For this there is mandal yoga, which is a type of exercise that combines asanas, vinyasas, mantras and mandalas themselves. The result of these actions is the formation in space of a complex geometric figure oriented to the cardinal points. In the center of the symbol is a practicing person and, if the technique is performed correctly, he feels new unusual feelings located at the level of energy channels.
Mandala for coloring
A magical diagram used in Buddhist and Hindu practices. Creating and coloring a sacred drawing can harmonize a person’s inner state and give strength. The work requires the ability to contemplate and visually perceive the world. The goals of the practice are different: a mandala of love and happiness, material wealth, health, etc. can be created. The drawing is a circle, inside of which there are triangles, other figures and patterns arranged symmetrically. The elements are painted in different colors, which is considered a form of art therapy.
Why are they needed?
Modern publishing houses offer collections of meditative coloring books for sale. What are mandalas and why are they needed? Simple graphic drawings, with the right approach to creative process, help improve relationships in the family, attract love to own life, get rid of diseases and achieve other goals. Coloring diagrams and patterns will help your child learn to concentrate and independently understand his own feelings. Herals and mandalas are a tool for developing thinking, setting and achieving goals.
How to color
Tibetan monks draw real mandalas with colored sand on a flat surface for 2 months. This process is a means of meditation. When the drawing is completed, the sand is blown off and a new one is started. No matter what your goals are when creating color mandalas, it is important to know how to do it correctly. The sacred symbol is always multi-colored, so for the technique you will need paints, pencils or felt-tip pens.
You need to color the drawing from the center to the edges, because this way the drawing will come out organic and the colors will not be smeared by hand. Absolutely used when drawing different colors, each of which matters. An example of deciphering popular shades for creating a picture:
- yellow – prosperity, happiness, joy;
- red – love, passion, life;
- black – darkness, danger, despair;
- green – understanding, support, desire to help;
- orange – emotionality, ambition, controversy;
- blue – conflict, mysticism, fear, intuition;
- lilac – well-being, emotions, worries;
- purple – emotional dependence;
- light green – weak energy field;
- blue – water, sky, source of life.
How to use
To meditate, take a comfortable position, you can light candles, incense, and turn on quiet, calm music. Clear your mind of thoughts and worries, look at the center of the image, but do not focus your gaze. Listen to your inner state without analyzing or evaluating what is happening. As you continue to perceive any feelings, concentrate your attention on them to achieve maximum intensity of these sensations. How to color mandalas? Meditative coloring can take from 5 minutes to an hour; you need to stop the process if you feel tired.
The circle symbolizes the cosmos and is an ancient symbol of peace used in different cultures. Apply sacred symbols for a variety of purposes including:
- amulet, protection of a person, home;
- healing the body, healing from diseases;
- energy filling;
- meditation, purification of consciousness, subconscious;
- raising money;
- finding love, family happiness;
- development of character qualities (elimination of negative ones, activation of positive ones), etc.
For women
Coloring mandalas brings a person sacred energy, influences the outcome of many events. Thus, the figure acts as a tool for getting what you want through meditation. With the help of such technology, plans can be easily realized and dreams come true. Beautiful mandalas for marriage are capable of accumulating and exuding the beneficial energy of a woman. Such drawings are needed so that the girl does not lose confidence and finds family happiness.
For luck
The mandala of happiness awakens the spirit of integrity, helping to feel the joy of life, establishing a person’s mental balance. Contemplating the finished painted drawing, the mind tunes into a positive mood, attracting more happy moments into a person’s life. In addition, the image brings the effects of satisfaction and inner peace, helping to love and accept oneself.
For love
The symbol of relationships carries a special meaning and energy; it is used when they want to attract people into life. bright feeling love. In addition, individual symbols help strengthen already existing relationships. While painting the figures, a strong energy surge occurs, making it possible to fulfill the dreams of the person who creates the mandala.
To fulfill a wish
This is a very powerful technique for fulfilling your plans and desires. By creating a magical image, a person imbues the drawing with positive energy, freeing himself from uncertainty and doubt. The completed bright picture is kept in a visible place where the image often catches the eye. Every time you pass by a drawing, you should focus on it and think about what you have in mind.
Family Mandala
Before performing the technique, think about the ideal family relationships whether they will be passionate or calm. If desired, having tuned in to the desired mood, draw a mandala using universal signs or creating individual symbols. Favorable colors for the family are red, white, blue, purple. If you don't want to draw, use the ready-made template presented below. While coloring it, constantly think about feelings and love.
To attract money
The image should be created with positive thoughts, while the mind is first freed from pressing problems and troubles, bad memories, painful thoughts. If you thought about something bad while creating the symbol, it is better to burn the drawing. You should start coloring patterns from the center to the edges, intuitively selecting colors. Sacred rituals to attract money are recommended to be performed in the morning.
For health
Certain symbols from Tibetan Buddhism carry special healing powers, their effect has been tested for centuries. Sometimes you just need to fill the finished template with color and place the work in a visible place to gain health. To enhance the effect, it is recommended to supplement the drawing of sacred images with meditations, affirmations, and reading mantras. It should be understood that this technique is not an alternative to going to the doctor, as it will not replace a medical examination, but recovery will be much faster and easier.
Video
I begin to outline the stages of the Great Circle of the Mandala, which the momentary drawing reflects, in the order of Joan Kellogg. Please note that any symbol or color in the mandala is ambivalent, dual. It can mean both "good" and "bad". Interpretation in one direction or another depends on the context surrounding the controversial symbol, experience, intuition and... common sense of the interpreter.
Now that you have a drawing of your first mandala in your hands, we begin to “read” it. Next, you will create mandalas based not on of this description(which you will forget anyway), but from an internal need - to draw this way and not otherwise, so that “it becomes easier and clearer.”
Among other things, you can intentionally “enter” one of the 13 archetypes. Then you will try to create a “conscious” mandala based on its archetype.
Zero stage “Pure Light”
What it looks like:
There is no mandala as such. Instead of a mandala design - a ring, a hoop, a circle. Fire ring. However, any color, on any background. The drawing lacks the “body of the circle”; I repeat, only the circle is visible.
Explanation:
At the moment, you really need peace, experience and the state “pre-birth”, an imitation of being in non-existence, in complete darkness and silence. The state of grain planted in black soil. A grain that will very soon “explode” into a green sprout. Accumulating the energy necessary for a breakthrough. Strong religious experiences.
First stage "Emptiness"
What it looks like:
A “circle body” appears, but practically nothing else, with one exception. All designs are of the “Japanese flag” type. Colored circle on a colored background. White circle on a black background. Black circle on a white background.
Exception: the first stage “Emptiness” also includes mandalas depicting a web or similar to a web.
Explanation:
Returning “to earth”, a feeling of unity with matter, with the earth, with the mother. The state of “we have reached land.” The soil under your feet, the ability to contact the surrounding “earthly”. Also a feeling of heaviness, rigidity, immobility, earthiness. The state of “nowhere to run, we are on an island.”
Second stage "Bliss"
What it looks like:
Any designs like “American flag”, that is, an abundance of small stars in the background. A field dotted with flowers, a polka dot print, a coat of arms strewn with heraldic lines, snowflakes, a sky in small curly clouds, fish in the water, freckles. The design is rippling, colorful, and represents a scattering of something, sparks, fireworks, fireworks, sparkles.
At the same time, the main feeling from such a mandala is fluidity or lightness, flickering and play.
Explanation:
Feelings of pleasure, bliss, passivity, regression to childhood. (Regression can be either “good” or “bad”).
You are ready to fully accept the world, you are ready to trust. Attitude: “Everything is connected to everything and is reflected in everything.” A craving for mythological thinking, a rejection of rationality, being as opposed to “doing.”
Third Stage “Labyrinth, spiral, vortex”
What it looks like:
A very simple mandala. Looks like a labyrinth, a spiral, a spring, a vortex, a tornado, a screw thread, a spiral staircase. Umbilical cord.
Explanation:
The labyrinth has two exits. One leads deeper into the belly of the labyrinth - to death. The second exit leads to light, to Awakening.
Ambivalent state. Movement, advancement, pathfinding, goals, intuition, the unknown, slow progress through a tunnel, at the end of which the light is not yet visible.
Fourth stage “Beginning”
What it looks like:
Any drawing with a clear symbol located strictly in the center. Any geometric figure inscribed in a circle; any symbol in the center, triangle, dot, comma, man, eye, heart, flower. Embryo in the womb. Gothic "rosette", rose.
Explanation:
A picture reflecting the vision: “Me and the world”, self-concern, narcissism, awakening of the “I”, the need for self-affirmation, the fight for one’s rights, an attempt to express oneself, however - combined with passivity, dependence on others and their assessment. Good for those who "never had their own Self."
Fifth Stage "Target"
What it looks like:
The mandala looks like a target, a funnel, as opposed to a spiral - the mandala often looks “volumetric”.
Series of concentric circles.
Explanation:
High feelings of helplessness, anxiety, vulnerability. In this regard, an attempt is to protect oneself from accidents, misfortunes, and mistakes through clear ritual actions. An attempt to overcome chaos with an artificially ordered structure. Search for a strong patron.
“Magical thinking”, obsessive-compulsive neurosis, attempt to lead an orderly lifestyle, closedness. The outside world is perceived as a threat. The desire to “explain everything”, to reduce it to simple formulas.
Sixth stage “Cleavage, combat with the Dragon”
What it looks like:
The circle of the mandala is divided in half - vertically or horizontally. A clear line divides the drawing into two halves. Heaven and earth, separated by the horizon, separated by the sea.
Explanation:
The time has come to openly declare our rights, time to declare war, open confrontation. “The upper classes don’t want to, the lower classes can’t.”
Active life position. Believe in yourself. Increasing contradictions that precede positive changes. Unlike the “Beginning” stage, the I declares itself, but at the same time no longer relies on the environment and is not dependent on it.
Seventh stage “Squaring the circle”
What it looks like:
Pictures showing:
- or a vertical cross,
- or a square inscribed in a circle.
In the mandala there are practically only straight lines.
Explanation:
Mandalas with crosses: The feeling that energy is bursting inside you and there is “nowhere to put it.” A feeling of freedom, “the shackles have fallen,” self-esteem is high and not inflated.
Pose “with arms outstretched, standing on top of a mountain.”
The beginning of a new positive stage in life. Change of social role, increase in status.
Mandalas with a square inscribed in a circle: the archetype of an enchanted garden or courtyard-patio, closed from prying eyes, where wonderful fruits grow and the jets of a magical fountain gush.
Successfully defending your own territorial rights, building the boundaries of your personality, even your home, even buying a “piece of land”, “grounding” in general, sometimes the desire and excellent opportunity to move to live in the village, in your own room, in your own apartment. Feeling like a “Boss”, a landowner, a positive homebody.
Eighth stage "Functioning Ego"
What it looks like:
A five-pointed star in a circle, standing “on its feet” (a symbol of a person and his normal physicality - uprightness). Leonardo's man.
Any images of swastikas and flowers with petals similar to swastikas.
Lightning within the circle, sometimes extending beyond the circle.
Explanation:
"Discovery of the body." A man is surprised to learn that he has... a body. The period of "physicality". The joy of owning a body, the joy of being able to move, walk, give the body physical activity - even chop wood. Staying in a dynamic period of life. Exit from a state of rest, sleep. Enjoyment of Action and any physical activity. It is shown to start learning to dance, run, and take the risk of going on a hike.
Ninth stage “Crystallization”
What it looks like:
Beautiful, symmetrical drawings (or clearly striving for symmetry and beauty - not everyone knows how to draw). They resemble Kai's snowflakes under a magnifying glass, the Sun, polygons, fruits, cross-sections of fruits, multi-rayed stars, multi-petaled flowers, "correct" Buddhist mandalas.
Explanation:
You are in the moment - in a state of harmony with yourself and the world around you. Social position is stable.
However, the stereotypical “obsession” with such a mandala is not good. If this “super” mandala does not clearly seem “positive”, then it could mean the following.
This mandala actually opens the theme “I and the World”, “I and Society”, as you feel it at the moment.
You are trying to keep “everything as is”, to freeze it. You don't want to change anything. Either you are in a dynamically changing, unpredictable environment (or a completely new, alien environment) and are desperately trying to adapt to it, to please it.
Tenth stage "Gate of Death"
What it looks like:
- “defeated” X-shaped (or diagonal) cross,
- crossroads,
- a circle divided into four (not connected together by the center) fragments,
- triangle pointing down.
Explanation:
Necessary loneliness, a feeling of helplessness, masochistic tendencies, the desire to sacrifice oneself, the willingness to “endure torment for the sake of...”, pleasure from the suffering experienced or the ability to draw strength from it for new growth, age crisis, dramatic loss of previous ideals, revaluation of values, a strong need for renewal, the death of old Persona masks, immersion in the unconscious and refusal to cooperate with the old Logic of life.
Eleventh stage “Fragmentation”
What it looks like:
- It’s a mess, there is no feeling of “integrity of the picture.” (A disharmonious mandala, which almost always lacks a center. The fragments are in no way connected with each other. Chaos of details, lines, strokes).
- A trap, a toothy mouth, vagina dentata, a pit with sharp edges - as a center (such a center is an exception).
Decoding:
Now you allow yourself to do and say everything that others cannot do and say - it’s boiling over. You are a jester, a holy fool, a servant of the cult of Shiva, smeared with human ashes. So act like a fool.
Take advantage of this resourceful state as a chance for growth and self-actualization.
Destruction of the old ego. The state of “Who am I?” “What kind of miller am I? I am a raven!..”
There is an intrapsychic destructive process going on that you may not even be aware of. Frustration of genuine needs.
Twelfth stage "Transcendental Ecstasy"
What it looks like:
- Jets of water, fountains, fireworks, explosions, fireworks;
- green sprouts, stems and shoots “breaking out” from the ground towards the light.
Very often the image spills out beyond the boundaries of the circle.
Unlike the “stars” and “spangles” of the “Bliss” stage, the “Ecstasy” stage has a clearly directed, active, dynamic “masculine” character.
Explanation:
You are in better shape and full of energy. The state of falling in love, falling in love with life. The desire for “natural beauty”, rejection of everything “artificial”, “civilized”, “limiting”, finding one’s own Path, style, solving the riddle-koan, “aha effect”, understanding and finding the meaning of life, triumph.
At the end of our conversation (in the next article), we will talk about some of the “remaining little things” necessary for reading a spontaneous mandala or constructing a mandala for purposeful entry into an archetype.
See you!
Elena NazarenkoThe word "mandala" is borrowed from Sanskrit and means "circle" or "completion". In many cultures of the world artwork, resembling a circle, were intended to connect the earthly and divine - the manifestation of God in the world.
In Mexican territories, these mandalas were called Ojo de Dio (read as Ojo de Dios) - “Eye of God”, and in the Huichol language the word Sikuli was used - “Power to see the hidden” or, in another word, clairvoyance.
Children could also weave the simplest mandalas: their products were often hung in a prominent place, believing that a mandala made by children’s hands brings a blessing to the house and that God watches over the world and protects the family through these works. Weaving large complex mandalas was a real art.
If you could learn how to make high-quality Ojos with your hands quite quickly, then the science of working with thoughts in this process took years to comprehend. The Indians could put a whole narrative into mandalas, expressing words and lines with colors and patterns, their combinations and interweavings. They even say that one Indian, having picked up the mandala of his fellow man, could, reading the mandala from the center, almost literally reproduce the image embedded in it. That is, take from the patterns what the master was thinking about at the moment of weaving. Such skills - correctly laying down and reading correctly - have been going on for years.
Among the Huichol Indians, Ojo de dios symbolizes the “eye” through which God protects a person praying for health and long life their children. In fact, there is a cross inside the Ojo de Dios, however, it has nothing in common with the Christian cross. The Huichols consider Ojo to be a spiritual portal between us and the gods. Ojos is an ancient protective art in which one or more images are embedded in a product when weaving it. The mandala spread beyond the Huichol tribe, and already people of another Navajo tribe, along with rituals of laying out sand mandalas, began to weave 8-pointed amulets inscribed in a circle. Now there are very few people left on earth who are fluent in the art of weaving mandalas.
By the way, many Indian tribes use mandalas in various ritual and decorative purposes. For example, herbal mandalas of the Quechua Indians. Such mandalas are created from Power plants and are dedicated either to spirits or aimed at healing a person. The Pueblo and Navajo Indians have a ritual of pouring sand mandalas. It is said that such mandalas are created to “heal the sick mind and sad heart.” One way or another, images enclosed in a circle are present not only among all Indians, but also among the majority ancient peoples and civilizations of our planet. Ojos de Dios are traditional basketry products from Central and South America. This original paintings world, expressing the inner world of a person, as well as objects of Power that protect the house and owner. Many modern psychology specialists: psychologists and psychoanalysts use mandalas as an exceptional tool for self-knowledge and self-development. 
With the help of mandalas, it is possible to overcome numerous problems of our psyche. There is even a separate direction of psychotherapy - “Art Therapy”. The formal similarity between the Mandalas of Tibet and the American Indians lies in the healing property - getting rid of psychosomatic symptoms - as an integral quality of meditation. Mandalas bring various blocks to the surface of consciousness and help to free ourselves from them, strengthening our inner potential. They help to find the causes of life’s difficulties and develop consciousness. They harmonize and cleanse the space, bring the organs of the physical body and soul into harmonious sound and tuning.
