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.

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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.

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.

The sun has always spurned me. I tried as a child to comprehend it and instead of studying its symbolism, I stared. I now have a permanent marking in my field of vision in the form of corneal scarring. Of course, this is my fault. But I have grown apart from it since. Too bright, hard to concentrate when things are too bright. On the awakening, perhaps correct. I have begun to go through a deeper learning, and I love to teach, help and foster growth. But not in a conventional sense. I am here to keep magic alive, I know this to be fact. I have been called Overseer recently by a group of spirits I've begun to understand are the trio representation of my life, one for each aspect: Beginning, Middle, and Last. I understand they are called "Incarna". I don't know how I understand this, but it feels right. In short: I agree. I am fit to teach, but I need to learn more. We always learn, but I need to know enough to be confident. Though I suppose confidence is a wholly internal concept. More meditation is required. Very interesting name, by the way.

Another thought was just because the symbol is differant does not mean its not what you think or feel would even be better. It's possible it was differant in a older (or newer age) or it could be a new symbol that is going to be uncovered. Between 2007 and 2012 we will find proof that atlantis existed maybe it will show up in text than.
If your an experianced dreamer ask someone in your dream what it means. find a guru or master or even a lay person from the dream. Its a symbol thats been on you but is it on your physical self or on your spirit self? You said that you have seen it many times but only mention once about the original scenario you were in. What are some other occurances that happened while you wore this symbol?

Last but not least you can go into the "twilight" and ask your higher self the true meaning. i feel that you do already know in some shape or form. Only because you could explain in depth what it looked like. Most dreamers are yet to be experianced enough to explain that kind of detail. That means its very important. also Just because a certain symbol has nothing to do with you does not mean it is not incorporated some how. Even though you may be a moon person the sun is important for energy and life to all of us. You may have no idea why mercury is of interest but a past life knows exactly why you would.

I feel that it does indeed represent Luna in her most primal form, and her worshiper beneath, myself, spread arms in the form of the cross; in itself a nod to the four primal elements. I feel that it represents the spirits/powers that be acknowledging that I am who I've thought I am for ages. When I drew it on my arm with a pen, I felt like I was on fire. I felt like I had just connected with something so old, so familiar, that it could be my origin as a being. I don't know, I sound so damn crazy when I talk about it. I felt, not heard, felt a voice telling me to pray to Luna, and it went something like this: "Luna, my Goddess, awaken in me that which I have long forgotten. Come back to me, my mother, my angel, my lover. You are the wind beneath my wings and the earth beneath my paws. Enlighten me as you used to, and let me be as a knight to you." and I ended it by crossing myself with the symbol. I've felt incredibly alive since then, like I woke from a dream.

And I can't seem to find a higher self anywhere, I've never really been able to find anything but shades of myself. Most of those I either banish or, for lack of a better term, eat.

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.

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

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.

Well I'm an Aries, and I wasn't born on any special day, that I remember. I don't think the symbol was Mercury, the design is too different. It doesn't feel the same, either. The messenger aspect makes sense, but as I stated before, I don't think that was the case. It feels like a key, something I have to inscribe to open a door. Not sure to what. And as for my mantra, it's usually centered around death. I have legally died three times in my short life thus far. Once in the crib, once as a 14 year old, and another as an 18 year old. The third time was due to sleep apnia, which I hear is common, but my friend who was staying over felt me get cold and called the ambulance. The second time, I had been suffocated by ... Well, the doctors couldn't figure out what, and I have no idea. The first time was, you guessed it, crib death. I consider myself blessed. Not lucky, though. That seems like a slap in the face to the things that kept me alive. Death is just so familiar to me, is it any surprise I'm a necromancer by and large? Anyways, my elements have always been darkness and quiet. I consider them my focus. So to me, magic is intrinsically linked with the dark, and candles, and burning, and the sweet smell of decay... And things of that nature.

Alchemy really isn't my forte, and trying to link the symbol to alchemy just makes me agitated. I found one symbol that exactly matches it, and it's a symbol for Quicksilver, which we all know is Mercury. But that just... Feels wrong. Completely false.