The Twisted Trefoil

A Living Symbol of Beauty, Pain, and Divine Continuity

I’ve always been drawn to shapes that tell a deeper story.

There’s something about a knot that feels so human to me. It holds tension and memory. It carries both a struggle and a design. When we chose the ‘Twisted Trefoil’ as our logo, I didn’t just see a mathematical form. I saw a mirror of the journey I’ve lived.
Maybe you’ll see yourself in it too.

What is a Trefoil Knot?

Let me start with the basics, because part of the magic is in the math.

Unlike a simple loop or a curve that can be untangled, the trefoil cannot be undone without cutting it. Once it’s knotted, it stays knotted. That’s what makes it so special. It is a shape that remembers.

The trefoil is also chiralChirality /kaɪˈrælɪtiː/ is a property of asymmetry important in several branches of science. The word chirality is derived from the Greek χείρ (kheir), "hand", a familiar chiral object. A More, which means there’s a left-handed version and a right-handed version, and no matter how you flip or rotate them, they will never be the same. This idea of chirality speaks to something deeper than geometry. Spiritually, we often get caught in dualisms – light or dark, good or bad, red or white.

As if one must win over the other. Others swing to the opposite extreme and blend all tension into a kind of neutral middle, like turning red and white into pink. But chirality offers a third way. It says that both poles are needed. Not to blur each other, but to dance in tension. Like the red and white stripes of a barber pole that spiral upward only because they remain distinct.

The movement of life comes from this tension between mirrored truths. Not collapse, not fusion, but a kind of sacred asymmetry that drives the spiral forward. Our lives are like the trefoil, they loop in forms that reflect others but never fully match them. Your journey is not mine, though we may mirror one another. And that difference is not a flaw. It is how the pattern unfolds.

The Distorted Loop: A Mark of Becoming

Most importantly, our version of the trefoil knot is not the textbook kind. We didn’t keep it perfectly symmetric. The loops are stretched, twisted, even flattened in places. Our ‘Twisted Trefoil’ has a point.
To me, that distortion is life.

Because living doesn’t hand us clean symmetry. It hands us loss. It hands us transformation. And yet somehow, through it all, we remain whole in ways that transcend the surface. That’s the mental message of topology. That even when a shape is pulled or bent, certain truths remain intact.

That’s the message I hold close in my own story. As a mathematician and a woman of faith, I have known what it means to be beautifully undone and slowly rewoven. The ‘Twisted Trefoil’ reminds me that the journey itself is sacred. That pain is not the opposite of beauty. It is often the shadow that gives beauty its depth.

The Thread of God and the Language of Math

This is where the deeper thread comes in. To me, God and math are not separate languages. They speak the same truth in different tongues. In scripture, the word Logos is used to name the divine ordering principle. It means word. It means pattern. It means the eternal logic that undergirds everything.

To me, the ‘Twisted Trefoil’ lives right in that space. It holds the tension between form and freedom, structure and surrender. It’s not perfect in the way textbooks demand, but it is deeply, achingly perfect in the way life actually feels.

And that is the synergy I keep returning to in my work. The logic of God, the continuity of the soul, the hidden math of healing. Not formulas to memorize, but truths that spiral through us like breath.

A Map of the Inner Journey

When I look at the ‘Twisted Trefoil’ , I also see a map. I see the path of the Lover, the Warrior, the Seeker. I see the deep work of the Mystic, the vision of the Creator, the steadiness of the Sovereign, the wild transformation of the Alchemist. These inner archetypes aren’t static. They live and loop through us, sometimes rising, sometimes resting. The ‘Twisted Trefoil”s distorted curves reflect that journey. Every loop holds a moment of growth. Every twist, a season of becoming.
Yet it has a point.

Even when we feel tangled, there is continuity beneath the surface. That’s the beauty of topology. It teaches us that what we are at our core does not disappear in the distortion. It is preserved. It is held.

A Living Symbol

So this symbol, this ‘Twisted Trefoil’ , is more than design. It is a witness.

It remembers that we are not ruined by life’s stretchings. We are shaped.

It speaks of a love that holds steady through every warping.

It honors the mystery that what looks chaotic might actually be an unfolding order, a divine recursion playing out over time.

This knot is not about being stuck. It is about being connected.

If you are walking through a season where your loops feel uneven, where the symmetry you hoped for has collapsed, I want you to know this: your shape is still holy. You are not off the path. You are the path, being lived into its next loop.

And the ‘Twisted Trefoil’ will keep reminding us. Of continuity. Of sacred shape. Of the beauty braided into even the hardest turns. Of finding the point.

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