The Celtic Wheel of Life: A Path to Health, Happiness and Fulfllment

by Andy Baggott

The Celtic tradition is a living, vibrant and practical guide to modern life, rooted in the natural world and in a respect for creation. Understanding the philosophy and practice of this ancient tradition can help every one of us to lead a happier, more fulfilled life. 'The Celtic Wheel of Life' shows how we can use the Celtic wheel, a cycle of seasons and related celebrations that is the blueprint for spiritual growth throughout the year. Following the wheel, we learn to reconnect with nature, releasing the old and embracing the new, to achieve harmony of mind, body and spirit. Focusing on solutions, not problems, this inspiring book teaches us to use an ancient way to restore a common-sense attitude to living and a natural energy to our lives.

192 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2001

About the author

I am a writer, life guide and practicing shaman of the Celtic and pre-Celtic tradition and have also spent much of the past thirteen years working as a complementary medical practitioner treating patients with a wide variety of ailments. I have been practicing Tai Chi and Chi Kung for fifteen years and currently teach Yang Family Long Form and various Chi Kung forms running weekly classes, individual sessions and workshops. I endeavour to live in harmony with nature so eat a largely macrobiotic-style diet of organic grains and locally grown vegetables. Spiritually I follow a Celtic shamanic path whilst embracing many of the ideas of various traditions including Taoism, Buddhism, Native American spirituality and Christianity.

Reviews

[Simone · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very inspiring book about Celtic traditions and knowledge. Andy offers specific details of how to live more in harmony with nature, yourself, and your environment. He has a lot of knowledge about the symbolic meaning of elements, trees, food, animals, etc. He is romanticizing Celtic society a little bit in my eyes, or maybe they actually were very peaceful and open minded.. Anyway, they definitely had a different view of life and death that in this time it hard to relate to. My life changed after this book, eager to learn more about the celts!

[Vicky · Rating 2 out of 5]

I DNF this book. I really enjoyed the first few sections, but when I got to the bit about eating like the ancient Celtic people I lost interest. It just didn't resonate with me. For some people eating food from their own country and only in season and everything is probably fine. But I don't eat red meat and I don't enjoy eating wheat either and because I live in England my Celtic diet would probably consist mostly of turnips and not much else and as much as I like the idea of being Celtic I really can't eat this way. Honestly I found this chapter to be kind of preachy and so I put the book down after that.

This book is pretty informative and I really wanted to love it because I'm totally into Celtic stuff right now, but also, I'm into eating banana smoothies and not eating deer so yeah. Also, I wonder if Celtic people were eating like this because they knew it was awesome for their digestion, or if it was because they had no choice. Yes, yes the health benefits would have been great I'm sure, but also didn't they have an average life expectancy of like 30 in those days? I think their lifestyle was a lot to do with the fact that there were no pineapples, it's not that they actively didn't eat pineapples, they just didn't have pineapples. I bet if those Celtic people time travelled to now they'd be eating pineapples.

I love learning about the Celtic way of life, but I think we need to bring it into the now you know? Otherwise it's just dogma, and if the Celts were anything, they were pretty anti-dogma, hence why the never wrote anything down.

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