Genesis · 2D
Flower of Life
Overlapping circles on a hexagonal lattice
Nineteen interlocking circles inside a great circle: the whole lattice of creation folded into one pattern. The Seed, Fruit, Tree and Metatron’s Cube all live inside it.
- Circles
- 19
- Petals
- 36
- Lattice
- hex
Watch it drawn with compass and straightedge, hear the chord of its lines, and turn the Dimension dial to raise its form in space.
Facts
- Circle centres sit on a hexagonal lattice, the densest way to pack equal circles.
- Each circle meets six neighbours through their centres: 6 petals per circle.
- The Fruit of Life, Metatron’s Cube and Tree of Life are all drawn from its points.
- Seen in 3D, the same lattice is the densest packing of spheres (Kepler’s conjecture).
History and meaning
The name was popularised in the 1990s, but the pattern is ancient: it is painted on granite in the Temple of Osiris at Abydos (around the 2nd century BCE or later), and Leonardo da Vinci studied its geometry in the Codex Atlanticus.
Across the dimensions
- Slice of Flower of Life in 3DThe Flower is the middle layer of the densest packing of spheres.
Learn it step by step
- Construct it Flower of LifeGrow the Seed into the Flower: add the next twelve circles.
- Journey GenesisStep 4: The Flower
- Journey The Plane RisesStep 4: The Flower is a packing
- Journey Sound Made VisibleStep 7: Close the loop
