Compare with the diagram of formation by Tommy Borms

The solid core of our Earth is an iron crystal of the hexagonal close-packed type.  It is about 1,500 miles in diameter. The extreme conditions of pressure allow the iron to exist as one solid crystal 3,000 miles down from the Earth’s crust. It rotates in an eastward direction, contrary to the Earth’s tectonic plates, and 100,000 times faster than the movement of the plates. More information about the centre of our Earth can be found at www.crystalinks.com/corecrystal.html . 

I imagine that the ‘heart’ of Earth is like a huge magnificent dynamo generating life up from Her core and holding all in place and correct relation by Her tremendous force of gravitational ‘love’. 

If this is not enough, the further symbolism of the honeycomb, with its hexagonal segments and the honey produced by bees has implications in the mythic/religious dimension of human life.

The honeycomb, honey, and the bee have long been associated with the Goddess, –Demeter/Ceres, Aphrodite/Venus, Deborah, and Melissa.  As a preservative, honey in the hexagonal cells of the honeycomb, came to represent rebirth through the influence and power of Mother Nature. Chinese tradition associated honey with the element Earth and with the concept of the Centre.  As the Cosmic Egg, the Great Mother is described: “Mother Earth lies in the world’s midst rounded like an egg and all blessings are there inside her as in a honeycomb” (Walker   5). 

The bee as a member of its hive is a loyal worker, fulfilling its individual role within an orderly collective, devoted to the queen bee.   It is therefore a symbol of a prosperous civilized state, ruled by means of wisdom and devotion as opposed to force of arms.  The bees organize their activities by orientation to the Sun, just as our life on Earth is organized into seasons, and day and night because of the Earth’s orientation to the Sun. 

The hexagon itself is a symbol revealing the underlying symmetry of the cosmos according to the Pythagoreans.  They perceived the endless network of equilateral triangles as a result of extending the sides of the hexagonal cells in the honeycomb pattern.  The crop circle at Avebury Trusloe, near Beckhampton, Wiltshire reported June 23, 2005 is an example of this kind of symmetry. 

The hexagon also contains the two equilateral triangles joined to form the Sri Yantra of the Hindu tradition and the later named Seal of Solomon/Star of David of the Jewish tradition.   This symbol represents the union of opposites, e.g. Fire/Water, Male/Female, Light/Dark, etc. It is the sacred marriage between Heaven and Earth and within each human being, the reconciliation and resolution of conflicting tendencies and interests.

Both crop formations at: Avebury Henge, near Avebury, Wiltshire, reported July 24, 2005, and Woolstone Hill, near Uffington, Oxfordshire, reported August 13, 2005 display examples of the interlaced triangles. 

The Juggler’s Lane formation near Cherhill is an elegant and ingenious combining of scientific, metaphysic and mythic symbols to give us a hint of the New Cosmos and what it may mean to us–it must be holistic at the very least!  It is one of community and reciprocal interaction, as the design in itself implies through the connecting lines.  It is, by extension, a paradigm in which there can be no exploitation of one element for the benefit of the other, since the structure depends on the integrity of the individual components.  Finally, this hexagonal symbol, like the symbol of the scarab, indicates a kind of ‘death’ to an old pattern of managing on Earth.  However, the death required is none other than a confident surrender to the benevolent forces that are already sustaining every form of life on this planet.  We are invited to welcome the ‘New’ with curious and participatory anticipation. 

Many thanks to the Circlemakers for this year of abundant beauty and information!! Many thanks to Mark and Stuart for the great work they do with The Crop Circle Connector!! Many thanks to those who volunteer and share their knowledge and research to further insight into this amazing miracle of the crop circles!!!