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It's the symbol of the Perfect Red King, which (to me) means Transformation; I relate the three arrows to be Man, Woman and God (or Spirit, in the Center). Fire is Purification, and, by which, we are Transformed into what you are finally meant to Be.
The Red King and White Queen are alchemical allegories, and their union represents the process of uniting opposites to create a greater, fully unified product of that union.
The symbols used in alchemical writing and art to represent this red stage can include blood, a phoenix, a rose, a crowned king, or a figure wearing red clothes. Countless sources mention a reddening process; the seventeenth dictum of the 12th century Turba Philosophorum is one example:
This simple symbol of a fire triangle with three radiating arrows below represents the “Perfect Red King,” the Sulfur of the Philosophers.” symboldictionary.net (see also sulphur).
3 lip 2019 · In alchemical illustrations, the red king and the white queen also sometimes represent sulfur and mercury. Sulfur and mercury are described as originating from the same original substance; one might even be described as the opposite gender of the other--for example, sulfur is the male aspect of mercury.
The filius philosophorum (Latin for "the philosophers' child", i.e. made by the true students of philosophy) is a symbol in alchemy. In some texts it is equated with the philosopher's stone (lapis philosophorum), but in others it assumes its own symbolic meanings.
14 paź 2016 · In alchemical ideology, the Red King represents the masculine – fire, the sun, sulfur. He is active and volatile. In his quest for a stabilizing, balancing energy he seeks the White Queen. She is represented by water, the moon, mercury, receptive and fixed.
