[quote="Feralygn"]One of the things Joseph Campbell and other such writers have encouraged in recent times is the creation of a personal mythos with a personal interpretation of symbols. Many poets have such symbolic systems. W.B. Yeats used a castle/tower which he actually lived in to portray an altered state in his work. Robert Graves has his "white goddess" symbolism. The interesting thing, though, is that people seem to be a lot more comfortable with symbols that have been around for a while. Especially basic ones. Can you think of any more comforting and yet powerful symbol than a simple circle?[/quote]

A spiral or a fractal, since you ask.

I think many symbols depend on accurate interpretation to be efficient. For example you may not notice it but most people interpret undefined symbols simmilarly, like your circle. To you and to many people around it's probably something infinite, but to a nepalese it is a shape without corners, that symbolizes nothingness, emptyness and nonexistance. And like this, the same set of symbols probably won't make much sense at all unless the symbols are interpreted just right.

[quote="Feralygn"]My symbology (sp?) is based on German paganism (not Asatru!) but I try to keep it fairly broad. Oak trees, the moon, the sun, certain stones, and the North are all sacred to me. Horses and wolves appear in my dream symbolism a lot. 

There are a lot of great books on symbolism out there. The most interesting thing to me is how different everyday things such as colors and shapes can appear to different cultures. In Africa, white means death. In America, purity! (Could the two be the same? Hmm...)[/quote]

I have read that in Slavic paganism, white is representative of light, which is representative of fire, where fire is representative of warmth and the energy of life (if I understood it correctly) and as such is the most holy of the symbols.

Those three are not the same, they only share the same symbol. Probably not without a reason tho.