The awen sign is three rays falling from three points of light. /|\ The bards used it as a shorthand for inspiration—the flowing spirit that makes the singer a conduit rather than a source. I have been sitting with it for several years now, and I am not sure I have exhausted it.
What strikes me still is how little it insists on itself. Three lines. Three dots. It does not demand interpretation. It waits.
In the Orthodox tradition, the halo is often rendered as three rays in the oldest iconography—before it became the solid gold disc we recognize now. The theologians say the halo represents the uncreated light of Tabor, the same light the disciples saw at the Transfiguration. Three rays. Three disciples. The coincidences accumulate.
I am not making a claim. I am marking a coincidence I find difficult to ignore, and I am sitting with it in the fog.