Key 2, whose High Priestess symbolizes the the dark side of the feminine, the chaos, and the cthonic grinding in the deep bowels of the Earth, the lunar feminine flux.

Until recently, it was believed that all chaotic systems were invariably subject to entropy; that is, ever increasing disorder. With the ability to crunch huge numbers that came with computers, it was realized that there is another kind of chaos: Deterministic Chaos - apparent chaos that reveals patterns over time and space, meaning that with enough distance, the apparent disorder of water molecules in the ocean is seen as ripples or waves, or that after time, a repeating scenario is seen as part of a larger historical pattern.

The Empress is the generatrix of ideas, the multiplication of images, the subconscious matrix from which arise new concepts and mind-forms. This multiplication is shown in the wheat growing in front of her; each seed head represents an exponential increase from the original seed of that plant.

There is endless multiplication, repetition, and self-similarity in nature, because space/time is fractal. The fractal's convolutions are the folds of the Empress Mother's blankets. She also has control over sequence of development (gestation - Fallopian billows), another key component of the fractal - a mathematical representation of the mind of Goddess.

Natural patterns are fractal; fractals are "Chaotic Systems." They reveal patterns in apparent chaos; they "gestalt" a confusing miasma of numbers and show infinitely complex and beautiful patterns. The fractal begins with a "seed" formula, then develops through re-iteration; the same formula is repeated millions of times, the results of each operation fed into the next one. This is called a feedback loop. The perimeter of the fractal is a graph of all of the equation results.

Mandelbrot fractal X7 (seven magnifications)

The fractal exhibits certain features. It has self similarity over time and space. It has strategic dependence on initial conditions, where a tiny difference at the Seed Level, at the very beginning of the process, can make immense differences after development, repetitions, and re-iterations. It has infinite depth; it can be enlarged forever without losing detail. A fractal is a finite area with an infinitely long perimeter.

Mandelbrot fractal X13 (thirteen magnifications)

Fractals, and nature, are "attracted" into their patterns by mathematical versions of our Symbols; they are "power points" or "gravity wells," that influence the final form of the pattern. Our symbolic belief systems, dreams, archetypes, and personal associations are the same thing. They inform our lives, affecting us as much as we affect them, and help to create the fractal of our personalities, souls, and life stories.

Six Essential Elements of Symbols:

They

• point beyond themselves
• participate in that toward which they point
• open up levels of reality which otherwise are closed to us
• unlock dimensions and elements of our soul which correspond to the dimensions and elements of reality
• cannot be produced intentionally
• grow and die (when they can no longer produce a response)

Paul Tillich,The Dynamics of Faith.
New York: Harper and Row 1956

Symbols express what is beyond words.

Through means of the symbol, there is revealed hidden light from the concealed life of the Infinite that illuminates from within.... One could say that all of creation is only a language, a symbolic expression of that level which cannot be apprehended by thought... the entire world is thus a symbolic body, within whose concrete reality there is reflected the divine secret.
Gershom Scholem : On The Possibility of Jewish Mysticism in Our Time : 1997

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beaming, streaming, dreaming, gleaming, seeming GODDESS..

bb, ani 

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I love fractals, totally into this WoW.....Jenna

apologies that the gorgeous animated fractal images from the original post went away...

Here is a fractal video...

About This Video

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ed8W9LKFYY


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tRdLD6vh3g


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN1N8jQbk4w


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_GBwuYuOOs

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 ”A decade after Mandelbrot published his physiological speculations, some theoretical biologists began to find fractal organization controlling structures all through the body. The standard ‘exponential’ description of a bronchial branching proved to be quite wrong; a fractal description turned out to fit the data….” –James Gleick. In the view of the Darwinists, the endlessly exquisite designs of nature are the result of an interplay of two factors–random genetic mutation and Natural Selection. Genetic mutation proposes, Natural Selection disposes.

The question of “design” in nature was one that troubled Charles Darwin all his professional life. In the year following the publication of the Origin, he writes to Asa Gray: “I am conscious that I am in an utterly hopeless muddle. I cannot think that the world, as we see it, is the result of chance; and yet I cannot look at each separate thing as the result of design.” Darwinist Ernst Mayr, for one, is well aware of the design dilemma. “No consequence of Darwin’s theory of natural selection was a source of greater dismay to his opponents than the elimination of design from nature. Those who studied the countless superb adaptations of animals and plants had been most gratified by the explanation that such perfection was clearly the result of design by the maker of this world.” In fact, Darwin did not eliminate design from nature, as he himself indicates in his letter to Gray. Darwin and his followers succeeded only in challenging the traditional idea that the source of all design is God.

Today, any graduate student asked to develop a paper on the subject of design in nature would invariably wind up looking into fractal geometry and mathematics. Fractal geometry, as its name implies, is a geometry focusing on the description of geometrical structures, and structuring, in fract[ion]al space

Until 1975, we didn’t have a fractal geometry. Our only geometry was the familiar Euclidean geometry, which goes back over two thousand years. The Elements of Euclid (circa 300 B.C.) summarized in thirteen volumes the mathematical knowledge of ancient Greece. Up into our own century, Euclid’s books of geometry were taken as the final, authoritative word on the subject. Euclidean geometry deals with whole rather than fractional realities. Plane geometry concerns planar (one- and two-dimensional) structures, and solid geometry describes volumetric (three-dimensional) structures.

“New geometry’s always begin,” writes James Gleick, “when someone changes a fundamental rule.” Fundamental supposition would be a better term than rule. Gleick continues: “Suppose space can be curved instead of flat, a geometer says, and the result is a weird curved parody of Euclid that provides precisely the right framework for the general theory of relativity. Suppose space can have four dimensions, or five, or six. Suppose the number expressing dimension can be a fraction…. suppose shapes are defined, not by solving an equation once, but by iterating it [repeating it] in a feedback
loop,……. Suppose that fractals are the secret to your answers.”

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