The Wheel of the Year as a Spiritual Psychology for Women
Valeire Kim Duckett
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies July 1, 2010 DOI: 10.24972/ijts.2010.29.2.137 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Proposes that the Wheel of the Year can serve as an earth-based psychology for women, providing a psychospiritual framework to understand and respond to life experiences through engagement of body, mind, emotion, and spirit. |
Abstract
The Wheel of the Year is a name used to describe the cyclical progression of the seasons through time and most often described as part of Pagan, Goddess, and women’s spirituality and/or Wiccan magical traditions. This article introduces the author’s conceptual model of the Wheel of the Year as an earth-based psychology for women, one that is inherently feminist and also based in transpersonal psychologies. Women explore the turning points, or holydays of the Wheel, on both spiritual and psychological levels through a wide range of modalities that engage body, mind, emotion, and spirit. The Wheel provides an overarching psychospiritual framework for recognizing, understanding, and responding to experiences and processes that may occur over the course of a woman’s life.