Journeying around the Sacred Wheel of Life
Made of star dust, we are the universe, inseparable from its marvelous patterns. Our lives are governed by the same eternal forces that rule the cyclic rhythm of nature.
In Chinese philosophy, the deep structure of the cosmos finds its metaphor in the annual cycle of seasons: “The pregnant emptiness of Absence in winter, Presence’s burgeoning forth in spring, the fullness of its flourishing in summer, and its dying back into Absence in autumn.”
According to Native American traditions, our journeys start in the East as the sun rises and the spark of light enters the darkness. The moon is on its waxing journey. East is the place of birth and rebirth. It is spring in the grassland. After the culmination of light at full moon, the moon empties into darkness. The crescent of the waning moon symbolizes the time to withdraw. We are in the West where the sun sets. The season is autumn followed by winter.
In sync with the moon, the seasons, we are journeying around the wheel… connected (oneness/darkness/Paradise), disconnected (duality/light/Fall), reconnected…
In the backdrop of this Journey are landscapes: grasslands and deserts, mountains, forests and oceans… Each landscape is associated with a natural element, with a chakra, with an archetype…
In this circle, through stories and art, we will discover:
- how humanity’s journey from Stone Age to Info Age is in sync with this grand cyclical narrative of the Universe;
- how our own personal journeys from birth to life to death and to rebirth follow the same cycles that we see repeated in the phases of the moon, in the seasons;
- how the teachings of the Great circle can help us live in the flow and cross those difficult periods of transition from light to darkness and darkness to light, and grow in awareness.