Planetary Mandalas

http://www.ccrsdodona.org/m_dilemma/1990/sag/mandalas.html

Like Time, nothing remains still in space. Time and space are one. And as bodies drift along in timespace, an invisible trail marks their path. Like sparklers burning designs in thin air,
our sister worlds carve intricate doodlings in emptiness of space. Using special logarthims and specialized software some scientist artists are recreating these patterns of planetary movements. The images are striking. In a function of time and space the gentle glidings appear like dancers with long
ribbons of silk. At once elaborate and simplistic, these creations exude elegance, evidence of a great design. So named beause of their resemblence to the beautiful mandalas drawn by Hindu and Buddhist monks as a spiritual devotion to the Creator.

I love staring into a mandala. The puzzlelike angles drawing in the eye while the mind relaxs into a silent witness state lost in intricacy. Swaying with the curves I feel a tune vibrating from the bottomlessness. They never get old, they are never truely mastered. I post them on my walls, I doodle them on notebooks and in the sand, I trace them in the air with incense.

And to think, these artistic devotions, so earthly in origin, are but recreations of an ancient art forged in the heat of creation. Our constellations and amatuer attempts to calcuate motions are like childish scribbles in the gallery of mastered mandala movements. Where, oh wandering stars, will your doodlings lead you to night?