The Turning Wheel
Understanding that all things cycle, nothing remains static, and change is the nature of existence.
The Celtic year is a wheel that turns without ceasing. Each festival flows into the next, light gives way to dark and dark to light. Understanding this cycle brings acceptance of change and trust in the eternal return of what seems lost.
The wheel turns ever on; what falls shall rise, what rises shall fall.
The wheel concept encapsulates Celtic understanding of cyclical time and eternal return.
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- What the Celtic wheel of the year actually means
The framing idea is that no point in the year is a destination. Every position is already on its way to its opposite, which is why the shape is a wheel and not a line.