The Sacred Circle: Sept. 9, 2010
The Sacred Circle is one of the most primal of sacred images, one of the most profound and ancient. It describes totality and wholeness and is the sacred mirror of the universe. This sacred circle should be understood as a circle that is "Like a circle whose bound is never known". The sacred circle describes the wholeness of all things. The heart of the circle is it's center, The Self, The Holy Everliving Self beyond self, the Sacred Mysterious, the Source, The Ever Becoming One, The Sacred Ecstasy that brings All things into Being and is the center of all things.
The Sacred Circle is then subdivided in various ways. Each a specific mirroring of the universe that delineates the wholeness of being in various ways and for various uses.
It may be subdivided into the "Two" as in the Chinese Yin and Yang, the three as in the Quabalistic "Supernal Triad" which exist "above the abyss." More incompletely in the Christian "Father, Son and Holy Ghost (or Spirit)." Most often it is divided quaternary as in the Medicine Wheel of American Indians (and usually designating the four directions), the four arms of the cross (which has various interpretations of varying degrees of "truthfulness" (truthfulness equalling usefulness) and found in Karl Jung's noting of its appearance as of being of an archetypal nature. The quaternary division of the Sacred Circle is also used in Western (hermetic) ceremonial magick and Wiccan Circles where it is often associated with both the four directions *and* the four "elements" of life--air, fire, water and earth (more correctly the four "states of matter" in Newtonian physics).
In the "heavens" the circle is divided into the twelve, the signs of the zodiac which is of itself a further reflection of the four elements ramified by the three principles of cardinal, fixed and mutable.
In all these cases the Sacred Circle is an attempt to "map wholeness" in various spheres.
In the Dreamer Wheel it is given yet another multiple meaning quaternary significance.
What is of the uppermost importance is that the various divisions of the Sacred Circle are "Whole" and not unbalanced. This is why I wrote earlier "More incompletely in the Christian "Father, Son and Holy Ghost (or Spirit)." For what is missing? The very word "father" implies it's opposite (which is in this case the "mother") and this missing component is a serious breach of the Sacredness of the Sacred Circle (for it's roots lie not in the Center), breaking it's balance and therefore reflecting an aberration of truth and of Great Nature, the very purpose of the Sacred Circle and it's ability to reflect sacred truth.
This is not to belittle Christ but more to show the incompleteness of the whole Judaic-Christian-Islamic lineage of dogma, and it's insistence on patriarchy, is a fundamental breach of the Sacred Circle's revelatory truths.
For any Sacred Circle that violates wholeness becomes incapable of reflecting "truth" (usefulness) and thereby become no longer sacred.
