The Yin Yang represents ancient Chinese understanding of how things work. The outer circle represents the interaction of two energies "Yin" dark and "Yang" light, which cause everything to happen.  Each beautiful piece of wood was handcrafted and then lovingly rubbed with with an organic wood wax revealing the distinctive colour and grain found only in our west coast wood. This unique and elegant candle holder was created from trees that have fallen naturally from the force of our west coast winter winds. No live tree was harmed in the creation of this product.