In case you missed it.....

...in yesterday's last post, my new round bread board, made of European hardwood, I found it on clearnace at the local home center. I am so excited about it. I have coveted a round one for years, the circle being a symbol of the Goddess and life. Life is a circle. We are born, we grow up, and we die. But death is a part of the circle, not a final end. When we die, we are told, our spirit goes to a place where we can rest and grow young again, and be with the Goddess and the old Gods. When we are ready, we are reborn in some new form. The moon, too, is born as a silver crescent, grows to be round and full, and wanes away to darkness only to be born again. The seasons change from warm to cold and back to warm again, or from rainy to dry to rainy. Baby plants grow up as green shoots from the earth, grow tall, blossom, set seed, and die. The seed falls to the earth and goes underground, only to rise again in the spring. The circle of life. The circle is sacred in many cultures. In the book Sacred Woman, Sacred Dance, author Iris Stewart writes, “The circle is perhaps the most ancient of mystical symbols and the most universal of all dances. It is the earth and the sun in eternal movement, an unbroken, unbent line symbolizing continuity and eternity. The circle dance represents wholeness. The dance brings life full circle.”