Most people spend years trying to fix their life from the outside. New job, new routine, new mindset book. And still, things feel inconsistent. One week everything flows, the next week it all falls apart.
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David Bayer has spent a lot of time on this exact problem. In one of his recent talks, he walks through a personal experience he had years ago, a vivid dream where he says he watched the universe form. Not as a metaphor, but as something he actually saw play out in front of him. Two arcs of energy expanding outward, hitting a boundary, and reflecting back inward. Where they crossed, they created a shape.
He woke up the next morning and saw that exact shape on a bumper sticker. Two arches, overlapping. The Christian fish symbol, or ixthus.
That one detail sends the whole talk somewhere interesting. Because that shape isn’t just a Christian symbol. It shows up, in one form or another, across nearly every culture and every era of human history. And once you start looking for it, you start seeing it everywhere.
Sacred Geometry The shape that keeps showing up
The two overlapping arcs Bayer describes have a name in geometry: the vesica piscis. It’s one of the oldest constructions in sacred geometry, going back to Euclid around 300 BC. Two circles, same radius, each one passing through the other’s center.
From that simple overlap, you can build out something much bigger. Keep repeating the pattern and you get the Flower of Life, a grid of overlapping circles that shows up carved into temple walls, palace stones, and religious sites all over the world, long before anyone had a way to compare notes across continents.
If you’ve ever been drawn to a Flower of Life design without quite knowing why, you’re not alone. A lot of people describe it as calming to look at, almost like the eye recognizes something familiar in it. It’s become a popular choice for wall art precisely because of that, especially rendered in metal, where the clean overlapping circles catch light and shadow in a way that flat prints just can’t.
Two halves, one whole
Bayer’s dream also touches on something older than any single religion: the idea that creation happens through two equal and opposite forces meeting. Male and female. Light and dark. Expansion and contraction.
You can trace that same idea through symbol after symbol. The yin and yang, where two halves curve into each other, each one holding a small piece of its opposite. The Star of David, an upward triangle and a downward triangle locked together. Even the cross, in Bayer’s reading, represents that same crossing point between outward and inward energy.
None of these symbols were designed by committee. They emerged, independently, in cultures with no contact with each other, all pointing at the same underlying idea. That’s part of why they hold up so well as art on their own. A metal star of David or yin yang piece on a wall isn’t just decoration, it’s a small daily reminder of balance, which is a nice thing to have in a room you spend a lot of time in.
Nature’s own signature
Bayer connects his dream to another well known pattern too, the golden ratio and the Fibonacci sequence. This is the spiral you see in a nautilus shell, in the seed pattern of a sunflower, in the proportions of the human face.
Leonardo da Vinci was fascinated by it. So were the builders of ancient temples, who used it in their layouts long before anyone had formalized the math behind it.
It’s one of the few patterns that shows up equally in biology, architecture, and art, which is probably why a golden spiral piece feels so natural hanging in a home or office. It’s not an abstract shape someone invented. It’s closer to a signature nature leaves on almost everything it builds.
Why any of this matters
The geometry isn’t really the point of Bayer’s talk. It’s the setup for a bigger idea: that we’re constantly broadcasting a frequency through our thoughts and emotions, and life organizes itself around whatever we’re putting out. He gets into a practical framework for noticing unhelpful beliefs and shifting them, which is worth watching in full if that part interests you.
But the symbols themselves are worth sitting with too. Each one carries centuries of meaning behind it. The vesica piscis and the fish, representing creation itself. The Flower of Life, representing everything that grows from one starting point. Yin and yang, representing balance between opposites. The golden spiral, representing the order hidden inside growth.
If one of these has stuck with you while reading, that’s worth paying attention to. A lot of people find that when a particular sacred geometry symbol keeps catching their eye, it’s not random. Whether it ends up as a small reminder on your desk or a larger metal piece on your wall, having a symbol like this somewhere you see it daily is a simple way to keep the idea in front of you, long after the article or video that introduced it is gone.
Julianne, with a bachelor’s in communication and journalism.
As a communications liaison and editor at Hiddennumerology. With an interest in crystal energy healing, mental health, and psychology, she brings a holistic approach to her work, fostering strong partnerships and delivering high-quality content.
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