vertical circle layouts

[haptalaon]

Toying with placing my circle layout vertically, like being in a hamster wheel. I have a sort of standard layout for the universe now (on my fencraft.leprd.space, but placing it "flat" on the floor isn't feeling right. Possibly because, unlike the elements, they don't really balance one another or form subcomponents of the same category; each is a wildly distinct landscape and mood. So trying to have them all present,even in the symbolic level of a candle, a shell, a feather, brings too much mixed imagery to the rite.

But I woke up with a sense of, and ive read before abour people conceptualising their magic circles as protective spheres; so what If the placement of the motion of this surrounding wheel was "vertical" - more like the stars wheeling overhead or the motion of the sun and moon. When you imagine a cosmic hamster wheel rotating through a space, it brings that sense of landscapes set in a ring with in between landscapes joining them together. Everything in your sacred space is that landscape, at the bottom of the hamster wheel; but as you start moving forward you stay in one place, within your protective space, and the landscape gradually shifts as you move across it until you're at another place.

I can just feel that working conceptually for me, in a way that "now walk to the NE corner" isn't. This opens up a new question about what the concept of that protective space would be - probably still circular. But it could be imagined as a container that the infinite was welcomed into, maybe.