The Scope, the Earth Glyph and the Bullseye, the Sun Glyph
- Bill Dandie
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Two Ancient Symbols, and the Geometry of Liberation
Ancient symbols survive because they continue to reveal meaning. Not because they explain everything—but because they orient us.
Two of the oldest planetary glyphs still in use today are deceptively simple:
Earth: a circle with a cross
Sun: a circle with a dot
They appear in astrology, alchemy, sacred manuscripts, and esoteric diagrams. Often explained mechanically, they are rarely contemplated relationally.
But what if these two symbols are not separate ideas at all?What if they form a single system?
I. The Earth Symbol: The Scope
The Earth glyph—a circle bisected by a cross—is traditionally described as matter, manifestation, or the material world. All true. But incomplete.
Visually, it resembles something else entirely:
Crosshairs.
A circle defines a field.A cross defines orientation—up/down, left/right, above/below.
Together, they form:
coordinates
perspective
location
measurement
Earth, symbolically, is the place where awareness takes aim.
It is where:
perception is localized
polarity is experienced
choice becomes possible
The Earth symbol does not imply mastery.
It implies position.
To incarnate is to stand at the scope—to inhabit limitation, gravity, time, and identity. Earth is not the target. Earth is the instrument.
This reframes incarnation not as punishment, but as precision.
II. The Sun Symbol: The Bullseye
The Sun glyph is even simpler: a dot within a circle.
In sacred geometry and alchemy, the dot is never decorative. It represents:
the Monad
the seed
the unmoving center
consciousness before division
The surrounding circle is wholeness, radiance, coherence.
This is not a body in motion.
It is the still point everything moves around.
Seen this way, the Sun is not merely a star—it is the point of alignment.
A bullseye.
Where the Earth symbol defines where you are,the Sun symbol defines what you are aligning with.
III. The Dot as Christ Consciousness
Across mystical Christianity, Gnosticism, and esoteric art, Christ is not presented primarily as a ruler of systems—but as one who is no longer governed by them.
Consider The Last Supper:
Christ sits at the center
The apostles form a ring of motion, emotion, and reaction
He is still while everything around him moves
This mirrors the Sun glyph exactly.
The dot does not orbit.
The dot is not pulled.
The dot is present, but not entrained.
Christ consciousness, symbolically, is:
awareness centered within form
coherence within chaos
stillness within the ring
Not outside the world—but no longer controlled by its cycles.
IV. The Ring and the Lord of It
Ancient cosmologies spoke of spheres, rulers, cycles, and forces that govern motion—what later traditions would call archons, systems, or powers.
These forces rule the rings:
repetition
fear and desire
time-bound identity
But none of them rule the center.
The secret was never to escape the circle.
The secret was to find the dot.
When consciousness centers, the ring loses authority.
V. One System, Not Two
Seen together, the symbols form a complete map:
Earth (crosshairs) — where consciousness is aimed
Sun (bullseye) — what consciousness aligns with
Incarnation becomes the act of learning to:
stand in the field
steady perception
align with the center
Liberation is not departure.
It is coherence.
Closing Thought
The ancients didn’t leave us answers.
They left us instruments.
Perhaps the invitation is simple:
Hold the scope steady.
Let the rings spin.
Aim for the center.
The dot has always been there.
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