kennethreitz
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Publish the Obsidian vault's Knowledge folder as /knowledge (881 notes, 67 folders), with a Knowledge item in the nav and footer. - scripts/import_knowledge.py regenerates data/knowledge from the vault: slugged paths, folder notes as index pages, wikilinks resolved to site links (or plain text), callouts, highlights, and Dataview tables rendered statically. Personal notes are withheld via an exclusion list plus a privacy guard. - tuftecms/core/knowledge.py builds a concept index from note titles and aliases. First mentions on ordinary pages link to their Knowledge note (capped, never in headings, code, links, or sidenotes); Knowledge pages list related notes and where they're mentioned across the site; other pages get a Related Knowledge block. - Knowledge URLs join sitemap.xml (so the sweep test covers them), never displace existing legacy slugs, list alphabetically, and mermaid diagrams render client-side only on pages that have them.
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description, source
| description | source |
|---|---|
| One circle learns to repeat itself, and the whole garden of form unfolds. | obsidian-knowledge |
Flower of Life
One circle learns to repeat itself, and the whole garden of form unfolds.
The Form
The Flower of Life is a pattern of evenly spaced, overlapping circles arranged in sixfold symmetry, each circle passing through the centers of those around it. Beginning from a single circle, a ring of six is drawn around it, then further rings outward, until the plane fills with a lattice of interlocking arcs whose points of intersection blossom into a field of petal shapes. Traditionally the figure is bounded by a large circle, containing nineteen complete circles and a fringe of partial ones, held in a hexagonal balance.
The pattern is ancient and widespread, found carved on temple walls and traced in manuscripts across many cultures. Its appeal lies in how much it contains within so simple a rule: from the mere repetition of one circle at one spacing, an astonishing wealth of further figures emerges. Within its overlaps one can trace the Vesica Piscis, the Seed of Life, and the framework from which Metatron's Cube and the Platonic solids are drawn. It is often called the template of creation, the single sheet on which all the sacred forms are already latent.
Correspondences
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Construction | Overlapping circles, sixfold symmetry |
| Base unit | The circle |
| Symmetry | Hexagonal |
| Contains | Seed of Life, Vesica Piscis, the Platonic solids |
| Symbolism | Template of creation, unity of all form |
Meaning
The Flower of Life is a meditation on how multiplicity arises from unity without ever departing from it. Every circle is the same size as the first; nothing new is introduced, only repeated, and yet from that repetition the entire vocabulary of sacred geometry unfolds. This is its metaphysical claim: that creation is not addition but reflection, the one endlessly overlapping itself into the many. Because it is said to contain all five Platonic solids within its intersections, it is read as the womb-pattern of the material world, the sheet of possibility from which the elemental bodies are cut. To trace it by hand is to rehearse, slowly, the emergence of everything from a single generative gesture.