Draw a square on a piece of paper. Now draw another square over this square, rotating it at a 90-degree angle. You will get an eight-pointed star, pointing to the four cardinal and four ordinal directions.

In tantric yantras, this represents the lotus, which simultaneously symbolises nature, womanhood and material reality, full of the nectar of wisdom sought by the bumblebee. Every chakra of the tantric physiology located along the spine is visualised as a lotus flower; the topmost in the head being one with a thousand petals, which reveals cosmic awareness when unfurled.