The Geometry of Light: Why My Photoshop Skills Fail Here
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Look, as a graphic designer living in Lubbock, Texas, I spend my days obsessing over vectors and color spaces. So when people start talking about the "geometry of light," my first instinct is to open Photoshop. But here's the thing: you can't vectorize enlightenment.
I learned this the hard way during a three-month backpacking stint across Asia. I was staying in a quiet ashram in Rishikesh, trying to meditate on the literal geometry of light—how photons behave, how perception shifts. My designer brain kept trying to map it out. It was maddening. It reminded me of what Carl Jung wrote about the shadow self: you can't logic your way out of the unconscious. The mind wants to categorize, but spiritual experience defies the grid.
There's a moment in tarot that captures this perfectly: The Star. On the surface, it's about hope and guidance, but look closer at the symbolism. The cup pouring water represents the fluid nature of intuition, which resists hard geometry. When I finally stopped trying to "design" the light and just let myself sit in the dark, the experience shifted. It wasn't about angles; it was about surrender.
Now, back in my Lubbock studio, I still doodle light rays, but I laugh at my old self. The geometry of light isn't a technical problem. It's a psychological one. If you're trying to force the universe into a grid, you're just reinforcing confirmation bias. The tarot card The Hermit holds a lantern, not a laser pointer. It's about inner illumination, not outer measurement.
So, what's your take? Do you think spiritual geometry is a metaphor, or is there a literal physics to it? I'm curious how others bridge the gap between hard science and soft intuition.
(There's a deeper dive on this in our wiki: Hexagrams 1-32: The First Half of the Book of Changes | Mystic Wiki.)
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