This week, a spiritual friend introduced me to mandalas. The chapter containing the mandala had an introduction entitled "Entering the Circle." I enjoyed this origin story:
"Before the beginning of time, the Uroboros, a great snakelike dragon, floats in the formless void. In this pace that is no place, everything swirls together, entangled in confusion. All is gray because dark is intermingled with light. There is nothing to drink because water is buried in dry earth. There is no comfort because softness is laced with prickling sharpness. Moving within this muddle, the Uroboros slowly, majestically arches back and bits its own tail, thus creating a circle. As the myth relates, with this act, primordial chaos is transformed. The circle formed by the Uroboros sets in motion the separation of the opposites. Light emerges from darkness, water flows away from dry earth, and the touch of softness can soothe because it is freed from hardness. All is put in order, with each having its own time and place to be."
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