The answer lies in what happens when we experience the energy of the golden mean first-hand in the body. Why would this happen to a house designed with so-called divine proportions? It was so alarming that it became necessary for the couple to actually be extracted from their home. Their friends began to notice that the couple started losing weight and within two years they wouldn’t leave their home at all. He created a beautiful home and the couple who bought it loved it, but as time went on, they began leaving their house more infrequently. But what about the energetics behind the golden mean and Fibonacci spiral?ĭo they have special qualities because of this link to life and the divine? To explore this question, we need to make some experiments. One current example of the use of the golden mean in architecture is a home designed by Spanish architect Angel Martiñez. Our perceptions of beauty support that phi is a factor in what we find attractive. They can be found in nature in the number of petals of flowers, the way the tiniest stem unfurls, in spirals in seashells, and more. The golden proportion of 1.618 is found in key proportions of the body in humans, animals, insects, and in DNA. Why is this?Īs we can see in any search on the internet, the golden mean and the Fibonacci spiral are connected to life, even spiritual life. Only in modern times can we find a few examples of architects using it in their designs of homes. In more modern times, Matila Ghyka wrote a book called Le Nombre d’Or in 1931 and because of this, the fascination with the golden mean and Fibonacci spiral was rekindled. Even though the golden mean has been used throughout history, its architectural use has been reserved for tombs and sacred buildings such as cathedrals, never for homes. He used the solar measurement of the place, something very common for builders and carpenters of this time to use (described a bit later in this article) and multiplied it by the golden mean (1.618) to construct his famous instruments. The golden mean can also be found in the design of string instruments by the famous Stradivarius. The proportions were said to be aesthetically pleasing, balanced, and spiritual. During the Renaissance, artists and architects were inspired to use the golden mean in their paintings, sculptures, and sacred buildings. Leonardo da Vinci studied under Pacioli and used “divine proportions” in many of his paintings. The Greeks also knew about the golden mean. Euclid wrote about it in his book Elements and linked the golden mean to the construction of the pentagram, and Plato described the golden mean “as the most binding of all mathematical relationships and the key to the physics of the cosmos.” In the 1500s, Luca Pacioli published a book called Divine Proportions. It is important to note that pyramids were built for several known purposes to be initiatory places and tombs. In Egypt, it was used to build Cheops’ pyramid. The history of the golden mean starts much earlier. The Fibonacci sequence starts looking like phi by the time you divide 34 by 21 to get 1.619 and becomes more precise as the numbers get larger. It is also known as the divine proportion, golden section, and phi. Illustration #1 The Fibonacci sequence and the golden mean became linked together in the 1750s when Robert Simson realized that the ratio of each number sequence of the Fibonacci sequence approached with greater and greater accuracy the Golden Mean ratio of 1:1.6180339882. The longer part is divided by the smaller part and is also equal to the whole length divided by the longer part. 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377… The golden mean or the golden ratio is a special number found by dividing a line into two parts. Starting with 0 and 1, each new number in the sequence is the sum of the two before it. He introduced a number sequence that became known as the Fibonacci sequence. In the 13 th century an Italian mathematician, Leonardo de Pisa, better known today as Fibonacci, published a book called Liber Abaci. In this article, I’d like to explore how the Fibonacci spiral and the golden mean energetically work in structures.
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