The Ecologo is, in the Jungian sense, a symbol of the Self, the Whole, which can be either of the Macrocosm, or of the Microcosm. But the Ecologo is specifically symbolic of the Ecological Self, in which Micro- and Macrocosm are two aspects of the whole of Life on Earth, which is why it is colored green.
The form of the Ecologo suggests the planet Earth, but more specifically it symbolizes the Biosphere, the Life-World, and this is our Macrocosm. But it also represents the Microcosm of Man, and his psyche. Since the horizontal of the Ecologo divides this mandala in two, it can contain relevant pairs of opposites, such as Biosphere and Man.
The Biosphere's numinous aspect is Feorgen, the Life-God, Nature-Mind.
The Biosphere implies the scientific study of it, Ecology. And the effect of ecological knowledge on Man is the Ecology movement, or culturally normative 'Ecology'. This implies the Menning, the ecological culture-civilization. Man has a psyche, consisting of the ego-mind and the unconscious mind, another dyad symbolized by the Ecologo, and thus their systemic wholeness together. When the psyche is ecologized by the Ecological Self, we have the Menning-mensch-- Man psychically integrated and integrated with the Biosphere.
Numinously, on a Mesocosmic level, we have the god of the Menning, the Drygand, who in his head carries the Lodestone, which when bestowed on men, creates the Mensch. Analogous to the Drygand on the microcosmic level, and sort of the god of the Lodestone, is the Indryg, the personal guardian and advisor of a mensch.
This scheme is all rather complicated, but it might simplify things to see the Ecologo as symbolizing -- the Biosphere (and Feorgen), normative Ecology, the Menning, the Lodestone, and the microcosmic integrated mind of the Mensch-- all of which add up to the Ecological Self.
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