💚🍀🌈HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY! 💚🍀🌈

👀 A NEW DESIGN My first St. Patrick's Day design I thought it was about time!

⚜️ Ceaseless Celtic Connection ⚜️ - The Celtic Knot is an infinite loop there is no beginning or end. This endless loop symbolizes eternal loyalty, faith, friendship and/or love and how we and all life are connected to eternity.

☘️ The shamrock’s 3 leaves in Christianity was used to explain the holy trinity the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and this is why St. Patrick is depicted driving the snakes out of Ireland with a sprig of shamrocks in one hand and a cross in the other.  Prior to the introduction of Christianity to Ireland the three leaves symbolized faith, hope and love with the fourth bringing good luck. 🍀

☘️The Celts revered the number 3 as sacred.   Gods were displayed in threes representing the core categories fire, breath and water also the fold of 3 division of the universe, earth, sky and sea. The number 3 is infused in Celtic lore.

☘️The Druid people had a strong knowledge and relationship with nature. They had a plethora of passionate philosophies founded on triads, as we see in the triskelion, triple spiral, triquetra, Druid marks, and numerous knot-artworks. An incident of a threesome represented characteristics of gods/goddesses, time and the balance of energy. 

Did you know:

☘️The word shamrock is derived from the Irish shamróg which in turn comes from seamair óg and this translates into English as: “young clover.”

☘️That the shamrock has been trademark by Ireland and can only be used for items of Irish origin

☘️The shamrock has been used as a symbol of Ireland since the 18th century

☯️ Symmetry is another manifestation of the balance of Yin and Yang, of the unimpeded flow of ch'i. ☯️

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