The wheel of the sun
The sun has always fascinated people. In ancient civilizations, it is represented by a circle with a dot in its center. This symbol recalls the cycle of the sun, from sunrise to sunset.
The sun wheel comes from the wisdom of the ancients. It represents the two universal principles of masculine and feminine, yin and yang: the man and the woman who unite and become androgynous, that is to say, creators by thought, feeling, will and act. And by their act, they bring love, goodness, dignity or else stupidity, destruction, nothingness.
For our ancestors, the sun was the symbol of life, of the higher consciousness: when it is no longer there, everything disappears, nothing exists because we can no longer see anything, and when it is there, everything appears and we can direct ourselves.
The sun was the symbol of consciousness and the absence of the sun was the symbol of the man who is not fixed, who dreams, who does not see the reality of things, bathing in illusions.
This is the wisdom of the wheel of the sun, which awakens man to higher consciousness, and the wheel of illusions, which locks him into a dead world.
The four-pointed wheel, known in the Mystery Schools as the Sun Wheel, is one of the oldest and most widespread universal symbols. Since prehistoric times, it has been alive in many peoples and traditions.
This wheel of the four elements is found in the medicine wheel of the Amerindians, which is a circle with a cross inside.
We also find the solar wheel among the Celts, through the Celtic cross, as well as among the Basques, in the lauburu, the cross with curved branches which represents the solar God Egu.