geometry, rhythm, and harmony
the patterns that shape us and the call to realign
This is the final piece in a series of essays that spoke on the underlying connection of the universe and how you can understand that connection and integrate its teaching into your life. Today, geometry, rhythm, and harmony are the name of the game that will guide us to the end of this journey.
Let’s start connecting the dots…
My story started as young man that saw geometry, rhythm, and harmony in all aspects of life. At some point in my adolescence, I lost that youthful vision and fell deep into a life of materialism, existential dread, and egotism.
It wasn’t until a few years ago that I was again revitalized and reborn into a world of harmonic resonance. Since that sacred day, my life has forever changed, and I have again gained the youthful spirit that transforms chaos into harmonic beauty.
In the text below, I share the natural phenomenal truths that brought me out of the shadows and into the light.
Starting with the unseen and the unknown, we look beneath the surface where there is an underlying, ultimate array of chaotic beauty. Not laws of enforcement or control, but of quiet guidance. These are subtle forces that shape reality without force or command.
This is where light shines on geometry, rhythm, and harmony, and shows that they are not just found in music, mathematics, or design but form the underlying structure of existence itself. They are the silent patterns woven into the fabric of life.
It is a universal language that all people and all religions understand. The divide of language is overcome through the teachings and comprehension of sacred geometry.
When you begin to look closely, you start to see them.
In the spiral of a shell.
In the rhythm of your breath.
In the balanced lines of ancient temples, and even in the improvisation of jazz.
“The human brain only needs 50 milliseconds to detect the presence of fractals,” says Richard Taylor from the University of Oregon.
This instant detection attracts us to symmetry and form. The fractals created by nature are a sign for us to incorporate more fractals and geometric symmetry into our towns, buildings, and inner lives.
Nature is inviting us to come back into alignment.
“Humans experience less stress and better well-being when looking at nature, and this is driven by fractals. Taylor’s research has found that fractals can reduce stress and mental fatigue for the observer by as much as 60 percent.1”
Take a second to observe the fractals below and see if you to experience a harmonizing effect.
the geometry of the divine
The ancients didn’t build in straight lines by accident. They encoded meaning into every measurement.
The Egyptians used the Golden Ratio before it had a name.
The Greeks designed their temples with perfect proportions, not just for function but for resonance.
In the East, mandalas capture the structure of the cosmos in a single, centered frame.
They believe that form can be a mirror of the cosmos. That the body, the temple, and the world can all be aligned through design.
To them, geometry isn’t just about structure, but an expression of the creator spirit.
It is the visible expression of the invisible order that man manifests into the world through her own creative powers.
the rhythm of life
Rhythm lives in more than music. It lives in the pulse of our blood. The cycles of sleep. The orbit of the moon. The rise and fall of breath and tide.
Everything moves in rhythm. Even when we forget to.
Indigenous cultures dance in rhythm to stay in sync with the seasons. Farmers planted by the phases of the moon. Gregorian chants were designed not just for worship, but to entrain the nervous system into stillness.
When we lose rhythm, we feel scattered. When we rediscover it, we begin to remember who we are.
harmony is not sameness
Harmony isn’t about everything sounding the same. It’s about different elements finding their place within a greater whole.
Think of how a choir harmonizes its differing vocals. Or how a forest is its healthiest when biodiversity reaches its zenith. Or how a well-balanced life takes into account the mind, body, and spirit.
Da Vinci didn’t aim for flat consistency. He aimed for integration and balance between forces that create beauty from contrast.
Harmony is what happens when complexity is coordinated and movement has meaning. When every part plays its part without drowning the others out.
Pythagoras2 discovered that music follows simple mathematical ratios, like 2:1 for an octave or 3:2 for a fifth. Revealing that sound itself is rooted in order.
He believed this same harmony existed in the cosmos, with planets moving in rhythm like notes in a grand, inaudible scale. To him, music wasn’t just art but a window into the hidden structure of reality.
modern misalignment
In the modern world, we’ve drifted from these principles. We move too fast to notice the pattern. We fill our ears with noise, not rhythm. Our spaces are functional, not meaningful, and our schedules ignore the natural cadence of the body.
We set alarms to wake up and suppress our natural circadian rhythm that connects us to the cycle of day and night. For me, man’s reliance on alarms to decide when to start the day is the point in time that we gave power to the machines that have since slowly gained control over our lives.
A great philosophical question to ask yourself is: What percent of my life is being steered by the technology that I have unknowingly made my master?
We’ve replaced harmony with efficiency, Sacred Geometry with simple grids. Worst of all, we have replaced Rhythm with repetition. A good rhythm is not monotone but adds a little spice every now and then.
And we’re paying for it, with burnout, disconnection, and a deep sense of spiritual flatness.
In my own life, I have put upon myself periods of strict discipline, with no room for spice or spontaneity. Although I learned to develop my will power, I lost a lot of the emotion and play that give excitement to life and keep me moving forward at a quicker pace than if I were always strict and restraining on my thoughts and actions.
the call to realignment
But the patterns haven’t gone anywhere. They’re still speaking.
In every tree ring, in the harmonic overtone produced by D-Wil3, in the way your breath steadies when you’re in nature or in the presence of beauty.
Realignment doesn’t require perfection.
It requires attention.
You don’t need to redesign your life overnight. But you can start to tune your own cosmic instrument.
Build your day around natural energy peaks and valleys, not artificial ones
Bring intentional geometry into your space through the use of symmetry, curves, and proportion
Listen to music that regulates, not just stimulates
You can try to walk in a new rhythm, or eat and speak with long pauses of contemplation.
The patterns you form ripple across your life. All you have to do is notice, and you learn to control your patterns.
This reminds me of Nepsis, which means “Sober, watchful awareness of the patterns shaping your life”.
creating habits around sacred geometry
You can learn to use Sacred Geometry in your everyday life to align yourself with a greater purpose. Below are a few examples.
Every night, I use the mathematics behind the Fibonacci sequence to center myself and fall into deep rest. The protocol starts with 13 second breath in and 13 second breath out. 8 seconds in and 8 out. 5 seconds in and 5 out. 3 seconds in and 3 out. 2 seconds in and 2 out. 1 second in and 1 out. 1 in and 1 out. Hold. After you have mastered this technique, you will learn to fall asleep within minutes.
Get out of your head and into nature. Immerse yourself in the patterns that are always in front of you but that you constantly overlook.
Yellow chamomile head showing the arrangement in 21 (blue) and 13 (cyan) spirals. Such arrangements involving consecutive Fibonacci numbers appear in a wide variety of plants.
Vitruvian closing: living within the pattern
To live the Vitruvian Life is to see through the surface. To recognize the invisible structure beneath experience and to slowly, patiently align with it.
Geometry, rhythm, and harmony are not just aesthetic ideals, but invitations to explore and understand the universe. They are the fingerprints of something ancient and intelligent moving through everything.
The Vitruvian Life focuses on harmonizing; mind, body, and spirit. The Fibonacci sequence speaks again to us with the number 3. Interesting how, if you have the right understanding that synchronicities start to happen more frequently.
The journey towards a unified world starts from within.
Thank you for reading.
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The article was written by Halnon, Emily. "The Human Brain Would Rather Look at Nature than City Streets." Oregon News, University of Oregon, 9 Mar. 2022, https://news.uoregon.edu/content/human-brain-would-rather-look-nature-city-streets.
“Pythagoras is attributed with discovering that a string exactly half the length of another will play a pitch that is exactly an octave higher when struck or plucked. Split a string into thirds and you raise the pitch an octave and a fifth. Spilt it into fourths and you go even higher – you get the idea. This concept is known as the overtone series or harmonic series and it is a feature of physics, affecting waves and frequencies in ways we can see and hear and ways we can’t.
Pythagoras believed that the planets themselves, all heavenly bodies, rang out notes of vibration based on their orbit and distance to each other. We humans simply lack the ability to hear this music of the spheres.
These mathematical ratios helped to define every system of intonation throughout history. In other words, we tune our modern-day instruments using the mathematics that Pythagoras discovered almost 2,500 years ago” - James Stewart from the Vermont Public
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