the ankh

 Please give me a mirror the size of the cosmos so that I may see mySelf
as all that I Am through eyes of reverent recognition.

For as long as I can remember I have always felt drawn to and connected to the ankh, and for some time now I have been exploring what it symbolically means to me.  The deeper I inner-dive into my own symbolic and metaphoric representations of the ankh, the deeper I surrender to its mystery.

To me it feels like a portal and looks like a ‘key’ to unlock mysteries, knowledge, technologies of ancient times, modern times, All Time.

the key of life

The ankh is mostly renowned as an ancient Egyptian symbol, a hieroglyph that means ‘life’.  Hence it is often referred to as the ‘key of life’.  Perhaps a key to some of the secrets of existence?

The ankh has two main parts – a loop and a cross.  Holistically its design is a union of these two parts.

union of physical & non-physical

The ankh may symbolise the union of physical and non-physical, of mortal and eternal.  A symbolic representation of the merging of mortal human life/man/woman (the cross) and eternal life (the loop with no beginning or end).

I liken the shape of the ankh to that of a hand-held mirror...  a mirror to reflect and remind me that ultimately, here on Earth, I am a union of the physical and non-physical. I am all of the multidimensional facets of mySelf.

The ankh reminds me that my physical body is an anchor|ankhor,
ankhoring the non-physical aspects of mySelf here on this planet.
I am an ankhor.
I ankhor mySelf here on Earth.

Ultimately the ankh reminds me that any and all keys
to unlock any and all mysteries of life
are within mySelf, for me;
and within yourSelf, for you.

art & words by me, Katrina