{"id":13207,"date":"2013-02-26T03:33:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T03:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stillbirthday.com\/?p=13207"},"modified":"2013-06-18T01:17:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T01:17:00","slug":"womandalas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillbirthday.com\/2013\/02\/womandalas\/","title":{"rendered":"Womandalas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The symbol of stillbirthday is the burning zero candle.\u00a0 The original photo was taken at my son&#8217;s funeral, after a doctor called my baby debris, and after a popular babyloss\u00a0bereavement photography organization told me that my baby was too young for their services.<\/p>\n<p>The burning zero candle represents the heart of a stillbirthday.\u00a0 When our children die, at any age (before birth or after), we do not forget the value of their life.\u00a0 We do not forget that they were and are a part of us.\u00a0 Monumental events, such as their birth date or death date, become significant to us.\u00a0 Oftentimes, long after our loved ones move on and forget, stillbirthday parents quietly observe the anniversaries of these sacred, special, painful days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zeroes are placeholders; they hold value.\u00a0 They are intrinsically significant.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stillbirthday&#8217;s Zeroes Count project\u00a0is a call to invite stillbirthday family and friends to craft art pieces that integrate an image of a zero within the piece\u00a0&#8211; the way this is done is totally up to the artist and the spontaneous inspiration that prompts them.<\/p>\n<p>These art pieces are collected\u00a0with the goal of piecing them together in\u00a0a book; a colorful, beautiful, powerful collection of womandalas and mandalas.\u00a0 The funds of this book project will help our <a title=\"SBD Palliative Birth Center\" href=\"https:\/\/stillbirthday.com\/2013\/01\/19\/stillbirthday-palliative-birth-center\/\" target=\"_blank\">Palliative Birth Center<\/a> project, and the inspiration for this project came from <a title=\"The Invisible Pregnancy\" href=\"https:\/\/stillbirthday.com\/invisible-pregnancy\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Invisible Pregnancy<\/a>, a collection of beautiful challenges for bereaved mothers.<\/p>\n<h2>About Womandalas<\/h2>\n<p>&#8220;Mandala&#8221; is loosely translated from Sanskrit\u00a0to mean &#8220;circle&#8221;, a shape entirely similar to the zero.\u00a0\u00a0More than\u00a0simply a\u00a0round\u00a0shape, a mandala represents wholeness, a collection of integrated parts gathered around a central source.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Awareness of the mandala may have the potential of changing how we see ourselves, our planet, and perhaps even our\u00a0own life purpose.\u00a0 ~Bailey Cunningham, Mandala: Journey to the Center<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A mandala is&#8230;an integrated structure organized around a unifying center. ~Longchenpa<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>How to make your womandala \/ mandala:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to create a piece for our Zeroes Count project, your only instruction is to allow yourself to freely create an art piece with two things in mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an intentionally contemplative\u00a0state on your womanhood, incorporating your motherhood, which\u00a0may include\u00a0your pre-conception,\u00a0\u00a0pregnancy, birth of your baby, death of your baby, your grief, and your journey to healing, and allowing these feelings to prompt spontaneous, authentic art.\u00a0 For stillbirthday fathers or other loved ones,\u00a0translate this instruction as appropriate to you.<\/li>\n<li>a desire to include a circular or zero shape, drawing upon the value of the unifying stillbirthday zero.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can email your piece directly to <a href=\"mailto:heidi.faith@stillbirthday.com\">heidi.faith@stillbirthday.com<\/a>, or use our <a title=\"share your story\" href=\"https:\/\/stillbirthday.com\/your-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\">share your story<\/a> link.\u00a0 By sharing your photo with stillbirthday, you agree to release copyright permission to include your photo in our Zeroes Count project\u00a0art collection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stillbirthday.com\/category\/mothering-mourning\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13209\" title=\"tree\" src=\"https:\/\/stillbirthday.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/dynpicwatermark\/DynPicWaterMark_ImageViewer.php?path=2013\/02\/tree2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"359\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The jar is a circle.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"kk-star-ratings kksr-auto kksr-align-left kksr-valign-bottom\"\n    data-payload='{&quot;align&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;13207&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;valign&quot;:&quot;bottom&quot;,&quot;ignore&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;reference&quot;:&quot;auto&quot;,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;count&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;legendonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;readonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;score&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;starsonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;best&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;gap&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;greet&quot;:&quot;Rate this post&quot;,&quot;legend&quot;:&quot;0\\\/5 - (0 votes)&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Womandalas&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;_legend&quot;:&quot;{score}\\\/{best} - ({count} {votes})&quot;,&quot;font_factor&quot;:&quot;1.25&quot;}'>\n            \n<div class=\"kksr-stars\">\n    \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-inactive\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"1\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; 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