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More recently, numerous New Age authors have interpreted it as a yonic symbol and claimed that this, a reference to the female genitals, is a traditional interpretation.
(On second thought, maybe the vowels aren't excessive, considering that vowels do possess a decidedly yonic quality, particularly when contrasted with the testosterone flavor of most consonants.)
Lilly's Web page for Sarafem features a strikingly yonic sunflower - half blue and half yellow, to signify mood change - and a copy line, "More like the Woman you are."
The left side of the altar is considered the Goddess area; feminine or yonic symbols such as bowls and chalices, as well as Goddess representations and statues and the Goddess candle are normally kept to the left side of the altar.
As we all know, abacinate means "to blind cruelly," and yonic is the female equivalent of phallic (a doughnut, Sheidlower notes, is a yonic symbol), but the primary meaning of fix is "to repair"; where did the sense of "to prepare to" come from?