In terms of the Wheel of the Year, the Exaltation of the Queen of Heaven represents the final and culminating festival of the quarter-year Eastre Cycle. It is also the final High Feast of the Daughter Half of the year. However, while the Eastre Cycle ends on this day, the Daughter Half continues for another six weeks until the High Feast of Rosa Mundi, the first festival of the Mother Half. Like the period leading up to Nativity (the Festival that ends the Mother Half), this final phase of the Daughter Half is seen as a Mother/Daughter period. The Daughter is now reunited with Heaven (and therefore with Her Mother) after Her descent to Earth at Nativity. The parallel early winter festivals that come at the end of the Mother Half, while centering on the Mother, are concerned with the coming of the Daughter.