One detail I might have missed: nothing in your first three steps suggests any way to determine which corner of the grid to start the inward spiral, nor which direction (clockwise or counterclockwise) to go from that corner.
Changing those choices produces reflected and/or rotated versions of the Seal. This doesn't matter for some of the meanings you've read into it, but it does for others. For example, in six of the eight possibilities, the Y shape you describe in step 5 does not resemble a Hebrew character, nor a woman's womb, as the Y shape ends up on its side or upside down. Many of the other pictorial meanings (rivers flowing in certain compass directions, shapes of testicles and so forth) also depend on that orientation.
Did you choose the orientation (starting corner and direction of the inward spiral) before or after you started ascribing meanings to features?
Respectfully,
Myriad
These are all fair questions to ask, but the answer will take more than a couple of sentences. In fact, it took me longer than I care to remember to put everything together the way you see in my illustrations.
At the start, I inserted the Hebrew text of Gen 1:1-2 into a square of horizontal rows and vertical columns. I also started in the top right, and inserted the top row from right-to-left, the way Hebrew is normally written. The most prominent feature was a linear group of three letters
vav, with two more so that they seemed to hug the central 2x2 cluster. Not particularly impressive.
Next, I noticed two emergent copies of the word for 'light'. So, I thought:
"Let there be light," and there was light. Then I noticed that the two lights (3 letter each) both had valid 3-letter words crossing through them, like pairs of diagonals in 3x3 square clusters. One of the other diagonals was a word for 'thick darkness', which impressed me somewhat; and the two copies of light have the word 'darkness' bracketed between them. This darkness exists in the source text as 'darkness was upon the face of the deep'.
In those days, my knowledge of Hebrew was quite shaky, so progress was slow. However, as soon as I recognised the two 3x3 squares, five letters apart as a 3x3x5 box, I quickly noticed the emergent 4-letter word for 'tablets' mostly within the box. This immediately gave the impression of the Ark of the Covenant. And, of course, the orientation of the square made no difference to that conclusion.
When I noticed that all nine copies of the letter
vav are confined to one triangular half of the square, that was another Eureka moment that led to another tranche of discoveries. It led to me rotating the original square a quarter turn to the right, which felt right in terms of a potential water metaphor. But that also resulted in one copy of 'light' and an emergent copy of 'gold' intersecting in the Eastern corner, where the word for 'In the beginning' is found. So, there was an immediate, and unexpected bonus of a 'golden sunrise' .
As you can see, the meanings that may be ascribed to various features can be affected by orientation, but by no means all of them. I'm certainly not over-excited by the fact that the word for 'womb' in the G2 Square occupies a 'V' shape. At least, not in relation to questionable fiction such as Dan Brown's
The DaVinci Code. However, I would be ecstatic if it turned out that his inspiration had come ultimately from some historical figure's knowledge of the Genesis Seal. This word for 'a womb' or, equally valid 'damsel' would be just as meaningful for some purposes in any orientation. By the way, did you remember that there is an additional 4-letter '
the womb' in the G3 Square? These letters are in corner positions of a 3x3 group, precisely where the G1 Square has 'for a root', and an emergent linear 'fruit'.
The shapes of testicles etc are not always dependent on orientation, as will be understood by anyone who has read the Karma Sutra.
