The Mark

Three dots at the base. A crescent at the middle. Three dots at the top.

Each one is the mark on the larger bead of a mala. Together they make the triangle on every box.

It was designed that way. It has never been said out loud.

Three dots at the base

Steadiness

The body, the mind, and whatever you believe outlasts both. They sit at the base because that is where stability starts.

A crescent at the middle

The beginning, the barely visible sliver before anything else takes shape.

What you want and why are yours to decide. How and when it arrives is not.

Three dots at the top

Asking for it, becoming it, and staying open to how it arrives.

Be it so you can become it.

The amulet carries the mantra. The larger bead carries the mark. Same idea, two ways of saying it.