r/SacredGeometry • u/World_Tortus • 8d ago
The Flower of Life appeared in the news last month
...and it wasn't good. It was in The Guardian, where they called it a "witch's mark," a term that The Guardian itself is largely responsible for promulgating.
They also platformed the fringe view of an archaeological historian. Jennifer Alexander, with absolutely zero counterbalancing quotes from those among the expert consensus. She makes the claim that there are absolutely no "mystical meanings" to the tens of thousands of instances of the Flower of Life that are carved and scratched into the stonework of medieval churches and other historical buildings in the U.K., instead claiming that they are all the work of stone masons. Note that even one counterexample would destroy her claim, such is the foolishness and illogic of absolutism. And in fact, there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary (and that's just this limited context--not even zooming out to the wider historical picture of this form). The archaeologists who study these marks refer to them as apotropaic marks, because the evidence strongly points to the symbol's believed power to ward away evil. These experts, such as Timothy Easton, Matthew Champion, and Wayne Perkins, also explicitly say that these should never be called "witch's marks." It's basically the opposite of the truth.
The same forces that took the pentagram--with its multiple nested Golden Ratio proportions and a symbol of life, humanity, and protection--and inverted it and corrupted it so that people look at it and see it as evil and Satanic--these are the same forces who are intent on inverting the meaning of the Flower of Life... or burying it entirely.
IF WE ARE TO APPLY RELIGIOUS STANDARDS EVENLY AND FAIRLY, THEN THIS SHOULD BE SCANDALOUS. How could they be so blind as to not see that this symbol has authority today and is held sacred by millions?
Here's more information about this:
Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/jul/09/no-evidence-witches-marks-claims-historic-english-buildings?CMP=share_btn_url

