The stars atop the tree are the four grand trines of CCC…TTT…GGG…AAA…creating a star of David pattern, showing the two colours most associated with this tree and the stems coming out of the bottom of the red plant pots are imagined as going all the way up the centre to the stars. Most of the codons appear in a clockwise direction of movement on the tree but 10 of them are made with a retrograde motion or reverse motion to the other 54. So clockwise dominates but 10 of the codons are anticlockwise in their motion.
Each branch holds an I Ching Hexagram number for each of the baubles and a tinsel effect connects each Hexagram to its partner e.g. Star of David blue and yellow are Hexagrams 1 and 2 so pair up. On the trees the tinsel connects them e.g. 47 and 48. They start with an odd number 47 and pair up with the next even number 48.
Notice how the Water Blue and Air Yellow tree swings its tinsel from branch to branch but also in a vertical line from branch two to three. The Earth and Fire Tree does the same except for the connections between branch two and three and here they meet at the middle of the tree in diagonal lines.
The gift boxes below the tree are cubes that can be turned over and over to create a face of three colours which will also create all 64 codons of DNA. Dog is added as I am having this made in an applique design and the dogs will appear on it then but as its not being made until next year now I am unable to show you once its made I will list it in all its glory. So when you look at your Christmas tree think about just what those baubles and tinsels really mean and why the gifts are really the gift of life hidden away.
So have fun and a very Merry Christmas. X
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