Gaiafield Lodestone

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Gaiafield Lodestone created by bellandtodd.com
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The story behind the Lodestone

This photo-collage logo image emerged from a collaborative visioning process amongst the Gaiafield Council. We call it the Gaiafield Lodestone because it magnetizes attention to our collective work and also grounds the energy of the Gaiafield Project in its luminous form.

To begin the process, each member of the Council shared key words, colors, shapes, and symbols that he or she wanted to see embodied in this lodestone image. These individual responses yielded a number of coherent themes and gave us a starting point for a deep attunement/visualization session on 9/30/11. Together, we saw the Earth and Sun in the middle as a core 2, surrounded by 5 concentric rings representing the domains of allies that support the Gaiafield Project. These five rings would also allude to the 5 elements of alchemy without picturing those elements explicitly.

Every element you see in this image is real; composed of photographs that the artists, Bell & Todd, re-arrange using sacred geometry. Most of the photographs were taken by the artists. The space photographs are used courtesy of NASA (Hubble Space Telescope/STScl). The Earth in the center is a meld of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres. The pointed circle around it is made from a photo of a solar flare. The 36 points also depict the gathering of the human beings who commune together in the Gaiafield. Around the solar disc is an 8 sided circle made from blue sky with clouds. All the additional rings are constructed using the geometry of 8.

Around the blue sky ring is a circle made from amethyst crystal. This layer holds the energy of the mineral allies. We chose amethyst both for its rich color and for its alignment to the higher centers of the body. Around the amethyst circle is a ring made the leaves of a tropical plant called Sanchezia. Its bright patterning conveys the energy and support of the plant allies on Earth. Following this is a ring made from the vividly colored feathers of several birds. Through this layer, we connect with the myriad creatures who are our allies and co-habitants of our world.

The next ring out is made from the orange and turquoise gas clouds of the Crab Nebula, signifying the cosmic energies and allies of the Gaiafield work. Beyond that is a ring made from the most distant photos taken by the space telescopes, called the Ultra Deep field. What appear to be stars in that layer are actually galaxies. This ring depicts the great mystery that permeates all and also brings the light from the most distant past into our collective work.

Around the many-ringed central medallion is a midday sky showing a corona around the sun. This softly glowing ring helps us connect with the numinous Gaiafield itself, barely seen, but present as a radiant field that radiates from local space out into the unseen realms. The outer border of glowing gold, ruby and violet light is a wide-spectrum image of the core of our Milky Way galaxy.

We hope that contemplating this image will illumine your connection with the Gaiafield Project and communicate the joy we had in co-creating it. you

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Gaiafield Lodestone image © 2011 Bonnie Bell and David Todd, www.bellandtodd.com