The Tree Calendar & the Wheel of the Year

‘This article has been borrowed from Anna Fraser”s writing for the series of Mother Nature”s Celtic Tree Remedies, which Anna created. the Celtic connection

There is a healing tradition, once practiced widely in the Northern hemisphere, both by native Americans, as well as by the Celts and other people of Northern Europe.

The core of this therapeutic tradition was simply to stay in tune with the whole of our extended body, mind, and spirit, in other words: Nature. The way people did this was by observing, what they called ‘The Wheel of the Year’.

Staying in tune with the cycles of the seasons equals harmonizing with the ebb and flow of life itself and was said to prevent “power-loss”. The power spoken of was not the power of control over others, but the power that rises from deep within, from the very source of our being. It is the power of spontaneous flow and renewal because it resonates in harmony with the life-force itself.

The tragedy of so many modern human lives is, that we are particularly susceptible to lose sight of our unity with the rest of creation, through deep hurts, fears, anxiety, disappointments, conditioning, insecurity and lack of self-worth. And when we are vulnerable, we protect ourselves by closing off, so we end up feeling alone, alienated, and separated.

Separation and disharmony with our ‘extended‘ body-mind-spirit ultimately create chaos, pain, misunderstanding, disorder, and destruction. Harmony and ‘atonement‘ create joy, health, beauty, peace, and vitality.

Our range of Tree Remedies is based on the time-honored tradition of the Wheel of the Year and the Celtic Tree Calendar. It offers modern people, wherever they live, a chance to connect and work, on a deep level, with natural cycles.

We value voices singing in harmony for the pure beauty of it. We know a well-tuned car engine gives the greatest economy. We see a soaring seagull adjusting its wings in tune wit air currents for ultimate efficiency. All resonating energy systems have immense power, which can be used to enhance our lives, energize, and heal us.

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Working with Mother Nature”s Celtic Tree Remedies and the wheel of the year provides us with the greatest and most natural of all the energy systems with which we can resonate. The eternal (e-turn-all) cycles of Nature give us an endless circular reservoir of energy, which is lacking in our linear mode of measuring time. For example: instead of our physical and mental abilities increasing in youth and then declining steadily into old age (“It’s downhill all the way from here onwards…”), we can resonate to Nature’s cycles of constant renewal and then withdraw to nourish our inner world, in an ever-maturing richer landscape. An old tree may lack the flexibility in its trunk which the sapling had, but it makes up for it in many ways with a different sort of beauty. Aligning with the ebb and flow of Nature throughout the seasons enhances healing on a deep level and can enrich our lives in a multitude of ways. the Celtic tree calendar

The wheel of the year illustrated here is based on the tradition of the Celtic Tree Calendar. In the Celtic Tree Calendar, the year is divided into 13 months (or ‘moons’) of 28 days each. That leaves one day to make up the 365 days of a year. This special day is the Winter Solstice, which was seen as the pivoting point, or the center, of the whole cycle. On the Winter Solstice, the Sun is as far away in the Northern hemisphere as it will go. From now onwards the days will start lengthening again. The light is returning and a new year is “˜born’.