A symbol is the best possible expression for something unknown. Symbols are perceived by the senses. They evoke feeling and thought. The ability of the mind to form symbols has a function, the “transcendent function”, to unite conscious and unconscious and transform unconscious contents.

SYMBOL OF THE SHELL

Shells suggest life, emerging from the deep of the unconscious. They are symbols of fertility, growth, death and rebirth, of prosperity. Shells are associated with pearls and thereby with transformation, wisdom, and prosperity. The Chambered Nautilus reflects the natural sym metry of the Golden Mean.

The Chambered Nautilus reflects a constructive form of the spiraling energy of Nature. Other manifestations of spiraling energy are experienced as destructive when they strike us where we live.

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