What is the meaning of the lunations?
The general wisdom is that the lunations symbolize a lunar calendar. There are 112 of the partical circles, which is four times 28. The number 28 is also important in that there are 28 180-degree turns in the labyrinth. A lunar calendar is important because the date for Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. There are those, however, who question this meaning. Jeff Saward, for example (see: http://www.labyrinthos.net), includes this matter in his list of “myths” about the labyrinth, meaning erroneous interpretations. Jeff and others, such as Jacques Hebert in Canada, point out that the lunar month is actually 29.5 days. Jeff won’t even concede that 28 could be a symbolic number, pointing out that he can find no other instances of such symbolic use. (If I were to investigate this further, I would look into such lunar events as menstrual cycles, tides, etc.) I believe, however, that the lunations do represent the moon. The cathedral is full of sun
