The inspiration for this mandala comes from Celtic tree horoscopes and entanglement patterns.
The tree horoscopes arose in the course of neopaganism, neo-paganism. Knotted patterns, on the other hand, existed as early as the third and fourth centuries AD where they were considered an art form and found use in Byzantine architecture, Celtic, Coptic and Islamic art. They exert a special fascination on the artist, because of the entanglements there1