About
Curator and creator of the Wisdom Circle, Cathy, was born in Denver, but raised in a military family so she traveled all over the world. She grew up in Hawaii, went to high school in Spain, eventually landed in Colorado and somewhere in between, she became the person she is today.
She is a grandmother, great grandmother and an incredible chef. Her passion for cooking professionally stems from her love of people and wanting to share with them.
Her motive behind the Wisdom Circle is the same.
The Wisdom Circle ties in to how people relate to their environment and each other and just like food, she wants to share it in a way that can bring people together.
“I think that people can come together around food the same way that people come together around a campfire.”
Coming together and making those connections, creating a community and “breaking bread together” is the exact sentiment Cathy hopes can be derived from the four directions within the Wisdom Circle--
The Wisdom Circle began with the idea that connection could be brought together
in one small object.
It was created during a search for Christmas ornaments; a time in Cathy’s life where her love for her family and her love for collecting ornaments matched.
Ok, she most certainly loved her family more, but she loved giving them little trinkets for their annual Christmas trees and soon her search was falling short.
Cathy wanted ornaments that had more significance to her and held a message that was unlike others.
Stores didn’t offer anything and local artists didn’t have quite what she was looking for and so she did what anyone would do; she made one herself.
Geometric designs and circles that have no beginnings and no ends were what Cathy was pulled to. She’s always like the idea of symmetry and the concept of eternity. So, as the information hound that she is, she feverishly started researching symbols that lead her to ancient alchemy’s four directions.
The four directions have been popular in alchemist’s science since around the 9th century and still hold relevance to indigenous cultures which Cathy purposefully incorporated because of her Southwestern roots.
In all of her research, Cathy began making ties between Alchemist’s science and indigenous culture. Incorporated colors and meanings of the directions were all similar between the two, but the only thing missing was a shape.
So, Cathy took unique bits from indigenous cultures; totems, gems and minerals, and bits of alchemists’ science and she created individual shapes that fit all within one circle. The messages of each shape weave together stories that are filled with personal connection and wisdom.
