But from a dev perspective, it’s basically hardwired compression. Our visual cortex is optimized to find order in noise. I’m not saying there’s some cosmic Wi-Fi signal broadcasting sacred geometry across the solar system. That’s not my take. I do think it taps into something Carl Jung wrote about with archetypes—these universal structural templates that show up across cultures and contexts. Not because of magic, but because they reflect how human consciousness processes wholeness. The hexagon is just the most efficient way to tile a plane, but psychologically, it reads as stability. Grounding.

It’s weirdly similar to how the Star card works in tarot. You’ve got that central eight-pointed star surrounded by seven smaller ones, all floating in this open, unstructured sky. The symbolism isn’t about predicting weather; it’s about recognizing a coherent pattern when everything else feels fragmented. When I zone out during a code review and suddenly see those Martian polygons, it’s the same mental state. The noise drops out. The system resolves.

I’ll admit I’m skeptical of the whole “ancient astronauts left geometric markers” crowd. I’ve got enough data to trust peer-reviewed geology. But I also don’t dismiss why these shapes feel heavy. Maybe it’s just pareidolia dressed up in better lighting. Or maybe the boundary between geological stress patterns and psychological resonance is thinner than we like to admit.

Does anyone else get that same mandala-like stillness from planetary geology shots? Or is it just my backend engineer brain finally learning to sit still long enough to notice?