Once the vesicae sailed from the center and became mandoorla openings, the quatrefoil became a quiet pool of blue. On April 28, 1998 I drew this mandala, which reminded me of the quatrefoil windows introduced in the Temenos Mandalas:
This was the last mandala I drew in the journal I started drawing in on June 6, 1995. (The last page is the mandoorla drawing in the background of this page.) In this image I do see the quatrefoil as a window, an open space (as in the Quatrefoil Mandala) from which new images can arise from the unconscious, a deep blue pool. And encircling this I drew the white, red, yellow, and black which have come to represent the unity of the world for me.
On February 14, 2000 I dreamt of people dancing in a circle in a round sacred space. There was a blue round opening in the roof. I was reminded of my previous dream of people holding hands in a circle. The energy passing around the circle has become a celebratory dance--a celebration of the opening of the temenos space by the mandoorlas. The drawing of the Mandoorla and Sunrise Mandalas followed this dream.
I did have one more mandalic dream on April 18, 2001. I dreamt a woman showed me a round handleless cup. She is gong to serve me green tea. This process of serving and drinking the tea relates somehow to me becoming a writer. In the cup I notice something green (herbs or some other edible plant cuttings used to season food) and as I look the cup seemed to grow bigger, more like a bowl.
On March 26, 2001, I dreamt of a door opening into a long dark passageway or tunnel. (Where, I now realize, I spent the next few years.)
Toward the end of 2003 I drew this mandala:
Something new emerges from the deep blue of the quatrefoil--two overlapped diamonds create a third golden diamond--and, perhaps, hope for a light at the end of that long dark tunnel.