Symbols - What does heaven look like
Wheel
Wheels symbolise cycles of change. They are a symbol of evolution. There are a large number of alternative views that one can take of the change process each represented by a different type of wheel.
See also all the different types of wheel for their individual meanings.
- Wheel of fire- Nataraja
- Wheel of fortune
- Wheel with 5 spokes
- Wheel with 8 spokes
- Wheel with 8 spokes based on the Zodiac
- Wheel with 6 spokes
- Wheel with 12 spokes
Observations
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- Atharvaveda - XIX 53 from Prayer to Kala [Time]
- Bhagavad Gita - Destiny
- Blake, William - And the North Gate of Golgonooza toward generation
- Blake, William - Around Golgonooza lies the land of death eternal
- Blake, William - We reap not what we do not sow
- Boehme, Jacob - Aurora - The music of the spheres
- Brian Boru's harp
- Carl Orff - Carmina Burana - The wheel of fortune
- Cirlot on chariots and reins
- Cirlot on islands
- Cirlot on the levels and layers
- Cirlot on the Ouroboros
- Cohen, Leonard - The Future
- Corbin, Henry - Qazvini
- Cowper, William - The Winter Morning Walk - The soul that sees him or receives sublimed
- Crowley - 07 The Chariot
- Daniel 07
- David Lewis-Williams - the Xam and the Unmoving mover
- Dickinson, Emily - Ideals are the fairy oil
- Dickinson, Emily - Like rain it sounded till it curved And then I knew ‘twas wind
- Dickinson, Emily - My wheel is in the dark
- Dickinson, Emily - The lonesome for they know not what
- Dickinson, Emily - The Outer from the Inner Derives its magnitude
- Dionysius the Areopagite - Celestial Hierarchy - Fire
- Dowden, Edward - The Secret of the Universe - I spin, I spin, around, around
- Duchamp, Marcel - Wheel
- Dürer, Albrecht - Religious works - Adoration of the Magi
- Dürer, Albrecht - Symbolism - Melencolia
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 02 Burnt Norton II
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 07 East Coker V
- Eliot, T S - Four Quartets - 12 The Dry Salvages V
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo - Circles - The life of a man is a self evolving circle
- Evelyn Underhill - Describes what happens on annihilation
- Ezekiel - Ezekiel 1 - Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year
- Ezekiel 1 and 2
- Flamel, Nicolas - from Alchemie de Flamel by D Molinier 1772
- Frost, Robert - One of my wishes is that those dark trees
- Frost, Robert - They spoke of the sun and moon and stars
- Frost, Robert - Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
- Gaudi - Professional work - 10 Casa Milà La Pedrera
- George Harrison - Any Road
- George Harrison - Circles
- Guthrie, Woody - Wheel of Life
- Hafez of Shiraz - Thirty Poems - I stood on the edge of things
- Hafez of Shiraz - Thirty Poems - I went into the garden at dawn
- Hugo, Victor - A Villequier
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - Flying Chariot
- Indus valley - Dholavira - 02 Sign board
- Indus valley - Dholavira - 05 The Wheel
- Indus valley - Dholavira - 07 The ‘Hemispherical Constructions’
- Isidore of Seville - Etymologiae
- Jeans, Sir James - The Mysterious Universe - Threads and the loom
- Kabir - The woman who is separated from her lover
- Kepler, Johannes - Epistola ad Maestlinum - The Sun and the Moon
- Khan, Hazrat Inayat - The Mysticism of Sound and Music - On levels and layers
- Krishna - Arjunas charioteer in the battle-field of Kurukshetra
- Lalla - The mill goes round and round in slow circles
- Legrand - Windmills of your mind
- M A Czaplicka - Siberian shamanism - Symbolism
- Masefield, John - Shakespeare and spiritual life
- Mircea Eliade - The Moon, Spiders, Fate and Destiny
- Miro - Ladders Cross the Blue Sky in a Wheel of Fire
- Mundaka Upanishad
- Myths and legends - Mug Ruith
- Oliver Sacks - Little Devils on a bicycle
- Ovid - Metamorphoses - The Transformation of Ino and Melicerta to Sea-Gods
- Parmenides - On Nature - 01
- Paul McCartney - Fool on the hill
- Pauli, Wolfgang - The World Clock Vision
- Petrarch – The Triumph of Eternity
- Plato - Republic X - 02 Tale of Er
- Plato - Republic X - 03 Tale of Er
- Poetic Edda - Song of Grotti
- Poussin - Dance to the music of time
- Rig veda - Chariots
- Rosary of the Philosophers - 04 The Bath
- Sacred geography – Picts – Wheelhouses 01
- Sacred geography – Picts – Wheelhouses 02 - A’ Cheardach Bheag South Uist
- Sacred geography – Picts – Wheelhouses 03 - A’ Cheardach Bheag South Uist
- Sacred geography – Picts – Wheelhouses 04 - A’ Cheardach Bheag South Uist
- Saint-Yves d’Alveydre – The Archeometer – Revelation 02
- Samavedas – 01 Book 05 Chapter 01, DECADE III Indra [extract verses 8-10]
- Samyutta Nikaya - Wheel of life
- Schulz, Charles - Change
- Socrates - Plato Euthydemus - Vault among swords, and turn upon a wheel
- Spencer, Stanley - Symbolism 17 - Marsh, meadow, wheel
- Spenser, Edmund - After that they againe retourned beene
- Sri Aurobindo - Musa Spiritus
- Sri Aurobindo - Savitri - In Absolute Silence
- Sri Aurobindo - The Ascent
- Ssu-Kung Tu - Motion
- Sting - The Lowest Trees have Tops
- Svetasvatara Upanishad
- Svetasvatara Upanishad
- Symbolism - Korean mystic shamanism - Wheel and Unmoving mover
- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre - Phenomenon of Man - Wheel of evolution
- The Kabbalistic Tradition: An Anthology of Jewish Mysticism - Alan Unterman
- The Lotus Sutra - 02 Expedient Means - 1 The net of doubt
- The Wheel of life
- Thomas Keightley - Sami and Finnish Rune
- Tibetan Book of the Dead - Wheel of life
- Tirgereh - Prayer to the Celtic goddesses
- Tirrukural, the - Book 1 In Praise of God
- Tranströmer, Tomas - from Along the Lines (Far North)
- Tzu, Lao - Thirty spokes converge upon a single hub
- Vast luminous wheels seen at sea
- Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry - Rain in Summer
- Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry - Thus the Seer
- Waterhouse, John William - Destiny
- Watson, Sir William - Epigram - In mid whirl of the dance of Time ye start
- Wirth, Oswald – 07 The Chariot
- Yeats, Georgie - A Vision - The Phases of the Moon