The Logo
The logo is an image that represents many concepts to many people, including:
1. The Four Elemental Materials: Earth (mountaintops, valleys, fault lines), Air (convection patterns of air currents), Fire (a flame, a sun flare), and Water (a river, a waterfall, a wave, a snow bank).
2. The Elements of Life: Plants (a root system, a sprout, a young plant, a tree, tree bark, a seed pod), Fungi (the mycelium, which is the main body of fungi), and Animals (nerve endings, capillaries, a hydroid, branches of coral, a wing, a claw, the burrow of a creature, or even a giraffe!).
3. The Four Seasonal Elements: Summer (a river flowing through a lush valley); Autumn (a fallen and folded leaf); Winter (a barren tree or branch, or snow banks); Spring (a plant sprout reaching for the warm sun).
4. The Spiritual Elements: When certain lines are modified, the logo becomes stylized male and female anatomy, for God and Goddess. Some have perceived the lines to represent the flowing form of a dancing God or Goddess. Additionally, the three curves merging to one are designed to represent the three elements of the Goddess: Maiden, Mother, Crone. They also represent the three elements of God: Father-Son-Spirit. The three lines merging into one also symbolize the body-mind-spirit composition of each individual. These same three lines can represent the ego, id and superego of each personality, or any trinary system of spirituality (such as Creator-Nurturer-Destroyer; etc).
5. The Fork: a symbol of procuring, of sustenance, and of civilization, while also being a symbol of choices, decision-making, and thus, contemplation.