The flame of a saffron bindi
We've been singing praises to synchoronicity here at Auspicious Projects, where we practice our psychic ability and manifest cookies regularly, and not just because we like Tom Petty. Lately at headquarters, we've been ruminating on our icon - the saffron dot - and noting what a perfect symbol it is for the living breathing love-life-art-work thesis of Auspicious Projects: the ability to synthesize the rational and the ethereal, revealing that art and science have been prosperous bedfellows all along.
The Auspicious dot is our bindi, a Hindu adornment and symbol swarming with all the significance from which the Auspicious Projects vision and values burn forth brilliantly. 'Bindi' comes from the Sanskrit word 'bindu' which means 'drop.' This drop of good fortune symbolizes the point of all creation itself - from cell to idea.
In India, the vermillion colored bindi is worn between the eyes, just above the eyebrows, at the nexus of the sixth chakra, the agna, often called 'The Third Eye.' The red stands the fire of passion, and the fire of destruction that turns the cycle of creation. As a mark of feminine divinity, it symbolizes Sakti (feminine energy and goddess of strength), and is believed to protect women (and their husbands) from non-auspicious forces.
Resonating with clear thinking and clear vision, the sixth chakra integrates intelligence and intuition. Bringing together memories, book-smarts, logic, dreams, the primal body of perception -- it synthesizes all ways of knowing.
We like to think of it as text and image with soul and savvy.
Creative Conspirator In-Chief