Living Cycles
Living Cycles
  • Home
  • About
  • Calendar
    • The Solar Year
    • The Seasons
    • The Annual Festivals
    • The Lunar Month
    • Selene and Triple Goddess
    • The Zodiac
    • Nature as a Colour Wheel
    • The Night Sky
  • Shop
  • Contact
  • More
    • Home
    • About
    • Calendar
      • The Solar Year
      • The Seasons
      • The Annual Festivals
      • The Lunar Month
      • Selene and Triple Goddess
      • The Zodiac
      • Nature as a Colour Wheel
      • The Night Sky
    • Shop
    • Contact
  • Sign In
  • Create Account

  • Orders
  • My Account
  • Signed in as:

  • filler@godaddy.com


  • Orders
  • My Account
  • Sign out

Signed in as:

filler@godaddy.com

  • Home
  • About
  • Calendar
  • Shop
  • Contact

Account


  • Orders
  • My Account
  • Sign out


  • Sign In
  • Orders
  • My Account

Nature as a Colour Wheel

The artists' colour wheel is a chart representing the relationships between colours and shows hues arranged in a circle. Most colour wheels are based on three primary colours, three secondary colours, and the six intermediates formed by mixing a primary with a secondary, known as tertiary colours, for a total of 12 main divisions. The gradation of these colours reflect our temperature cycle when divided into the warm and cool halves of the classic colour wheel - Warm being yellow, orange, red and Cool being violet, blue and green.


In areas of Australia where there is greater seasonal variation, we experience the peak times of the hottest and coldest times of the year after the solstices, and not when we experience the most or least sunlight of the year. This is known as seasonal lag and is due to the time it takes for the Earth’s seas and land to warm up or cool down. These extremes occur around a month or so after the solstices, which are roughly at the times of Lughnasadh and Imbolc. Beltane and Samhain subsequently become the thermal turning points of the year. 


On the Southern Hemisphere Wheel of the Year Calendar ten months are represented by Australian natives. Early evening in March, Orion sinks low in the north western sky. July shows the Jewel Box, a beautiful little cluster of more than 100 orange, yellow and blue stars, situated to the left of the Southern Cross. Each of the native flora appears in the same month it blooms and the same colour that corresponds to the colour wheel. The warm and cool colours of the natives simulate the progressive and subtle changes occurring throughout the year.


This slideshow includes the native flora and star groups selected for our 2022 calendar:

Living cycles artists' colour wheel

NATIVE FLORA & NIGHT SKY GALLERY

JANUARY

YELLOW - ORANGE

Oxylobium ellipticum

Native to NSW, ACT, Victoria, Tasmania


Raffi Kojian, Gardenology.org-IMG 8436 rbgc10dec, CC BY-SA 3.0 

    Back to top

    FIND OUT MORE in the Southern Hemisphere Wheel of the Year Companion Guide

    Take me there

    Copyright © 2022 Living Cycles - All Rights Reserved.

    • Privacy Policy
    • Shipping & Returns