This degree speaks of the understanding that life moves in circles and that all paths eventually return to their beginning.
"All paths circle home"
Circular paths offer no destination but themselves — the walk is the purpose. This understanding of cyclical movement contains profound wisdom: that forward progress is often an illusion and that the deepest journey is the one that returns us, transformed, to where we started.
The unintegrated expression of this degree presents as the cycle that becomes a trap, or the belief that the return is a failure to move forward.
Going in circles can still be getting closer, if you keep your eye on what's in the middle.
An inexhaustible inner well of wisdom — depth that has been accumulated through patient, intuitive study. This knowledge is freely available but requires others to recognize its value to be drawn.
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