The Mandala Lady Arts Center

Inspiring and Encouraging Creativity, Curiosity, and Play Through the Art of Mandalas

Traditional Mandalas

By “traditional” I mean mandalas stylized in the ancient traditions, in particular the mandalas of Tibet.

In 2015 I received guidance to start creating traditional-styled mandalas. Since it intimidated me at first, I created “The Gatekeeper” first…and to me it truly feels like The Gatekeeper. Once I created it I felt like I “passed the test” and would be “allowed” to make them more full sized.

That’s when I received the guidance to create a series of Archangel Mandalas. My sense is that there will be 7 of them. I’m only to give the name “Archangel” and the number of the order they were/are created. They basically said, “no names, please”. They want to be know by their energy and not some preconceived idea of them based on the more traditional Archangel names.

It took my seven years to finish the “Archangel 1”. Three of those years I was on hiatus from it. I finished “Archangel 2” in 18 months…so I’m getting faster at this. My plan is to finish them 2026. We’ll see.