Celtic Circle and CrossCeltic Circle and Cross. The Celtic Cross is defined by it's containing circle, which confronts the ordinary with the sacred. Ordinary time is linear and rational, sacred time is both stillness and movement, meditation and dance. The union of the two dimensions represented by the cross within the circle, becomes the soul and the fulfillment. With faith, hope, myth, ritual, imagination and love, ordinary events become part of the sacred and imbued with