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What's a Mandala ?
The word ‘mandala’ comes from the ancient Sanscrit script of India and means
the outside edge and centre of a circle. Pictures of similar patterns within a circle are called mandalas.
The patterns within the circle lead your eye inward and toward the centre, and back out again.
These patterns are found throughout nature. A centre within a circle encompasses
everything from the basic cell structure to the Earth’s crust and it’s magnetic core.
The circular pattern of a flower’s petals, the spiral of the cross-section of a shell,
the segments of half an orange and the star within an apple.
All are circular patterns radiating into and out from the centre. Different religions and cultures
have created mandalas for medicinal and meditational purposes. Like the Buddhist’s and American
Indian’s sand mandalas, and the Asian Yin-Yang symbol combining interdependence andopposition.
Whether a whirlpool, a sundial, clockface or the twelve 30 degree segments of the zodiac, all these
circles mean something. Maybe the comfortable feeling of something geometrically uniform and
complete. Being a working part of a functional circle produces a feeling of wholeness.
 Sun-Sign Mandala
is a visual representation of the Zodiac.
The twelve types of personalities of astrology, known as sun-signs or star signs,
each occupy a 30 degree segment of the heavens surrounding our Sun and it's solar system.
As each of the planets of our system revolve around our Sun they pass through all twelve signs and,
if you can imagine, taint or flavour the energy and celestial influences within our lives.
This is the true meaning of the verse ' as it is in the heavens, so shall it be on Earth '.
The result is a continual circle of influences affecting our lives. Self-perpetuating and
forever changing from one unique combination to another.
Full Colour wall chart with guide book
A1 size
90cm x 60cm
(3' x 2')
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