I Need Help, I have been seeing a repeated symbol everywhere Options

It all started around a week ago. I was meditating and I had a dream that there was an axe coming down on a bowl, and I knew that bowl full of water was the world, and when I put my shoulder to the giant arm holding the axe, myself emerging from the bowl, I was asked to defend Magic being in this world. I forget what all I said, but it centered around something like "There are still believers here, and I am one of them. Please don't give up". Since then, I've been seeing a symbol very similar to the Hieroglyphic Monad, as I'm sure some of you are familiar with. If not, here's a good example.

(IMG:http://z.about.com/d/altreligion/1/0/T/z/2/skircherdiagram.jpg)

Remove the semicircles at the bottom, shorten the cross, and take out the symbol for Helios, instead putting the Lunar Crescent at the top of the cross, and that's what I've been seeing. Everywhere. It's shown up in shadows on my wall, it showed up on my left forearm as a tattoo I didn't remember for approximately five minutes. I took a picture, and it turned up as having nothing there. I saw it on my own face when I went to look in the mirror, and it was there for about three seconds. I've been seeing it in shadows cast across my room while reading, and in random places right in front of me. I'm not sure what to think, I can't find a match for this symbol anywhere. I've done some sigil work, but this has never been one of them. And it's really freaking me out. I want to know what this symbol is, and where it came from.

One thought I had was that it might be Phoenician, but it's not. In fact, I have literally no idea what this symbol is. Taking it apart from the Hieroglyphic Monad standpoint, it should be the cross, representing the four primal elements, and the Lunar Crescent, giving credence to the moon's power over these elements as a celestial body. But that doesn't make a whole lot of sense for me, as a person, and I'm completely confused.

Please, if you have a thought, no matter how simple, tell me. This issue is driving me insane.

Not at all, feel free. I'm simply... Different now, both in my way of thinking and in my interface with the world.

when one does think of mercury, bare this in mind, mercury being the 'messenger' is the planet or "gate" to the sun, or the "i am" within you and mercury is what receives all of that energy and allows and transmits only that which it chooses to express and route to where it feels it appropriate. definitely an awakening of a time when perhaps you are to begin teaching, sharing or expressing that which only you can experience and know.

those were my thoughts after reading your postings.

This post has been edited by business voodoo: Dec 14 2006, 04:45 PM

The symbol could be Mercury and was meant to catch your attention. I've had a similar experience. I too consider myself a child of the moon, I am a Cancerian. However, I was born on the Summer Solstice. I wax and wane between bright hope and delving into deep mystery.

The essay that helped me figure out so much about my alchemical fascination and the symbols that showed up everywhere in my dreams and waking visions was THE ALCHEMY IN SPIRITUAL PROGRESS by Nanci Shanderá, Ph.D.

According to the essay: (Nanci Shanderá, Ph.D. is a Mystery School teacher and spiritual counselor-dreamworker at EarthSpirit Center in Eagle Rock, California. This article is excerpted from her book in progress: Digging for Gold: the Alchemical Art of Discovering the Soul's Majesty

http://faculty.mdc.edu/jmcnair/Joe5pages/THE%20ALCHEMY.htm

This essay discusses the seven stages of Alchemical spiritual evolution. In the final stage Shandera writes:

"Wholeness is inexorably linked to holiness and, interestingly, the word "holy" has its roots in "hale," which means sound, whole, and happy. So many of us have been taught that holiness is a distant, mysterious, and unreachable state reserved those in the higher echelons of organized religion. I say phooey to that because being holy is a highly creative way of being that demonstrates that which cannot be politicized, organized, or exclusivized. In the alchemical model of spiritual transformation, a holy person is one who has gone through all the lower stages: calcination (burning out the ego's control), dissolution (feeling and taking ownership of the emotions), separation (deciding what's important) - many times! - and has then moved into numerous explorations of the stage of conjunction to discover where one's heart is. After this basic work is solidly integrated, we are free to expand our determination to become whole through the stages of Putrefaction-Fermentation (where we experience wrestling matches with our inner demons), Distillation (where we become far more interested in the greater good than merely in our own, and finally Coagulation, which is where true wholeness/holiness is revealed."

Through fire (challenges) the soul is purified (quicksilver or quicksilver mercury).

Everyone has offered good advice and Business Voodoo has hit on something.

when one does think of mercury, bare this in mind, mercury being the 'messenger' is the planet or "gate" to the sun, or the "i am" within you and mercury is what receives all of that energy and allows and transmits only that which it chooses to express and route to where it feels it appropriate. definitely an awakening of a time when perhaps you are to begin teaching, sharing or expressing that which only you can experience and know.

And once I discoverd that I was going through this process of refinement, not perfection, but change and empowerment I began a personal mantra, "I am mercury, I am qicksilver, essence am I."

Magick has been defined as many things. For me, it is a way of life. It is the mystery of Divinity surrounding us and within us. It is the paradox of being the universe and being a small part of it. The way to strengthen the conccept of magick in our world's paradigm, is to teach it. And by teaching it, it is preserved.

This post has been edited by Masery: Dec 16 2006, 02:48 AM