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Waldorf Family – Wheel of the Year – Southern Hemisphere
Our beautiful wooden Wheel of the Year displays all the months and the beauty of the seasons as the year passes. The illustration includes many traditional festivals, animals, wild plants and flowers.
Why do we, across all religions – from ancient to modern – celebrate the turning of the wheel, the changing of the seasons? Apart from being traditions, they are a wonderful way to renew and refresh ourselves. It’s a great way to ‘touch base’ with Mother Earth. I consider the Earth, our home, as more than just a lump of rock and all her peoples can be united by the same truths. Divided languages, culture, religion but united and bound together by our common birth place. We are all human. We can all see harsh winters and glorious springs, play-filled summers and reflective autumns.
The Wheel of the Year is visual journey through the seasons.
In today’s world we can choose to ignore these basic human truths: living outside of nature, inside technology. However our lives are richer and our children’s lives filled more deeply when we connect to these intuitive cycles:
“We need to find festivals at once religious and united with the life of nature which can also unite us simply as human beings†(John Davy – Lifeways).
When we begin to connect with our celebrations as more than merely traditions we naturally turn to festivals that came before and feel that connection to the past. It is then we can see how religious festivals were woven into the rhythms of the year, and how the rhythm of the planets and cosmos still beat now guiding us like heartbeat and leading us through each year. We hope that this wheel of the year will help you to connect whilst also being a beautiful addition to your home.
Measures 26.2 cm in diameter
Made using sustainable wood.
About Waldorf Family:
“Filled with wonder, creativity and colour Waldorf Family resources help children play + learn with their hands, hearts and minds: and nurture a place for nature in the modern home.
We are inspired by nature: we want to help families thrive. We aim to nurture connection with nature and ignite wonder. We connect deeply with natural rhythms and are still head over heels in love with nature. We want to help improve play and learning for children and nurture a place for nature in the modern home.
Waldorf Family homewares and toys are manufactured in England by highly skilled trade and crafts people. We use materials sustainably sourced from the earth because they are handled with care and do no harm. Everything we create, from the box to the products, can be returned to the earth or recycled.
We are inspired by the principles of Waldorf education and other educational approaches, such as Montessori.”
About the Artist, Stephanie Green:
“I am inspired by nature: if I can help children in the built environment connect with nature and help those who do not find a good fit in the educational system find wonder in learning then I will be doing what I was put here to do.
I believe we are all here to serve – our society, our purpose. It is our job to dig deep and discover what lights our fire: for me that is drawing, painting, my family and homemaking. These personal passions were what firmly led me to create for children.
I still remember a painting that I had when I was about 6 or 7. In each corner it had so many details I remember staring at this whole other world for hours – not really sure if it was a real world – existing in that flat paper space.”
Made in England
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