EARTH HARMONY

THE WHEEL SHAPE REPRESENTS MANS HARMONY WITH NATURE.  IT RADIATES GENTLE PEACE AND POSSESSES SOOTHING QUALITIES.  THE CIRCLE IS THE SPIRIT OF EARTH HARMONY.

PROTECTION

THE CELTS BELIEVED THAT KEY PATTERNS, LIKE THIS, PROTECTED AND GUARDED AGAINST EVIL.  THIS SYMBOL REPRESENTS PROTECTION FROM EVIL. 

SPIRITUAL REBIRTH

THE CELTIC PATTERNS OF FIVE KNOTS REPRESENTS THE ENDLESS JOURNEY OF LIFE FROM BIRTH THROUGH SUCCESSIVE REBIRTHS.

VISION

THE CELTIC CROSS OF ST. BRYNACH, WHOSE TIME WAS SPENT AS A SOLITARY HERMIT AND WAS GRANTED ANGELIC VISIONS

WELL BEING

THE SIMPLE SINGLE LINE WEAVING OVER AND THROUGH ITSELF, WITH NO BEGINNING AND NO END TO FORM A CROSS, REPRESENTS SIMPLICITY THROUGHOUT LIFE, FREE OF COMPLICATIONS OF BODY AND MIND.

COMPLETION

CELTIC KNOTS ARE GENERALLY FORMED OF ENDLESS LINES SIGNIFYING THE BINDING OF THE SOUL TO THE PHYSICAL WORLD.  THE 10 POINTS SURROUNDING THE KNOTWORK ARE SYMBOLIC OF COMPLETION WITHIN LIFE.

SEXUALITY

TO THE CELTS THE TREE WAS THE SYMBOL OF SEXUAL POTENCY, THE FERTILITY INNATE IN ALL NATURE

SPIRITUAL AWAKENING

CELTIC SPIRALS REPRESENT BEGINNINGS AND BIRTHS AS IN FLOWERING BUDS.  THE CROSS WITH SPIRALS SYMBOLIZES NEW SPIRITUAL AWAKENING

SPIRITUAL STRENGTH

CELTIC KNOTS ARE FORMED OF ENDLESS LINES SIGNIFYING THE BINDING OF THE SOUL TO THE PHYSICAL WORLD.  THE 4 POINTS REPRESENT A SQUARE, SYMBOLIC OF SPIRITUAL STRENGTH AND STABILITY.

UNITY OF LIFE

THE CELTIC CROSS REPRESENTS THE WORLD AXIS, SPIRITUAL BRIDGE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH.  THE CIRCLE PLACED AT THE CROSSBAR REPRESENTS THE UNITY OF ALL LIFE.

VIRTUE

THE POINTS SURROUNDING THE CENTER SYMBOLIZE THE FIVE VIRTUES OF THE PENTAGRAM - GENEROSITY, COURTESY, CHARITY, CHIVALRY, AND PIETY.  SIR GAWAIN WAS SAID TO HAVE THESE INSCRIBED IN GOLD ON HIS SHIELD.

UNITY OF MALE AND FEMALE

THE CELTIC CROSS REPRESENTS WORLD AXIS, SPIRITUAL BRIDGE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH.  THE CROSS WITHIN THE CIRCLE UNITIES THE PRINCIPLE OF MALE AND FEMALE, YIN AND YANG.