I had the Dream of Four Circles in July of 1996. In August of 1996 I began to draw a series of pictures depicting the configuration I had seen in my dream. Then I began incorporating it into mandalas. Late in the summer of 1996 I drew this mandala, which incorporated images from four dreams I had over the eight year period of 1988-1996:

This mandala differs from the 1995 mandala in one interesting respect. In this mandala the four gates, through which the radiating lines pass, are illumined. In the 1995 mandala the doorways and gates were dark.

Here are the other three dreams:

October 1988: Standing in a small round plaza in the center of encircling, connected buildings. Columns run along the front of the buildings, there are many doors, the buildings are two or three stories high. I think of them as a small city which has everything one needs.

This dream is represented in the mandala by the circle of columns. This dream is also represented in the dream mandala I drew in 1995.

January 1990: People standing in a circle and interlocking their hands in a special way to generate power. As I saw two hands interlock, I was reminded of an interlocking spiral design, and I thought of the circle of people as including this design.

The outer ring of the mandala represents this dream. It also appears in the 1995 dream mandala.

October 1995: I stir molten metal in a crucible. As I do this, someone explains that this is molten gold which has been separated from the ore and from the copper and other metals that were in the ore through a refining process which involved several steps. Now I stir the cooling gold so it coats the inside of the crucible. This way it will form a malleable sheet instead of a solid lump. I picture the gold being shaped into a mask shaped like the sun.

This dream was anticipated, in a way, by the dream mandala I drew in the summer of 1995. I associate the dynamism of the center of that mandala with my stirring of the gold in the crucible. Here the dream is represented by the gold circle inside the circle of columns.

Going back through these images I found a second four circles mandala:

I modified the design to include imagery from another dream.

Dream from June 1995: I see four rainbows, each with a luminous orb just below the apex of it's arc. I clearly sense the sun behind me creating the rainbows.

I've noticed that the color of the wall behind the columns changes to green in these two mandalas. For me, this transforms the mandalas into a space for healing--for making whole.