Fertility symbols have been found in almost nearly all cultures all over the world for many hundreds of years. From Native American fertility symbols, Celtic and Chinese fertility symbols these societies have long surrounded themselves with images, carvings, pictures and fertility jewelry just to celebrate and boost their own fertility levels. As a way to commemorate and celebrate the renewal of life these ancient symbols of fertility have long been thought to possess the energy to guarantee the continuation of generations to come.

For centuries countless cultural societies have prayed to their fertility god or goddess hoping the women of child-bearing age within the village were fertile enough to bear the fruit of many children. Fertility symbols and fertility stones adorned women’s garments, gardens and bedrooms in the hopes that the power held deep within the symbol would transform her body using its restorative energies. The belief was that the symbols could improve the overall quality of her reproduction health and well-being, increase her level of fertility and encourage a quality environment perfect for conception.

In many ancient drawings and carvings the symbols of the spiral and double spiral are demonstrative as a means to describe the entire cycle of life, from the beginning, all the way to the end and to the renewed beginning again. Modern day symbols of the spiral and double spiral include snails and shells.

Nowadays we still surround ourselves with these fertility symbols. Of the many symbols, some of these symbols would include the cats, rain, the moon, lotus flower, terra-cotta elephants, peacocks, parrots, frogs and eggs. Most symbols such as a lotus flower and rain are about the oncoming growing seasons and how fertility levels rise with the beginning of the rain season bring the earth back to life and make the plants grow which provides a bounty of food for the community and guaranteeing its survival.

For over 5000 years, cats have been a fertility symbol for the Egyptians who even went to the point that they mummified the owner’s cat to be buried alongside their master with the hope that it would provide both of them a renewed birth. Egyptians also held frogs in high regard a fertility symbol. Once the rains along the Nile would begin at the start of the spring season it would wake the sleeping frogs who would begin to increase in numbers.

Using frogs as a positive symbol for fertility must have worked out pretty well because it caught on in several cultures of South and Central America including the Aztecs. Often in drawings and carvings of the Aztec frog, or towed, was represented in a squatting position which was to symbolize the rebirth of a ” new world “. Everybody saw the frog as symbolic of the oncoming rain and the plentiful response the rains brought on through the excitement of fertility all around them.

Of the celestial world, the moon has been a symbol of fertility in that it coincides with a menstrual cycle. It represents the timely reassurance that fertility is always around us and should for some reason it doesn’t have a positive reaction during this cycle, the opportunity will present itself again soon.

The main link that all fertility symbols have got in common is a sense of people survival in the overall confidence that their culture and people would continue to thrive. Fertility has been connected as the symbol of exactly how we came to be and how we’ll remain here.