Eternal Recurrence, Will to Power, Circularity

Interpretations of Nietzsche that attempt to reconcile the seeming inconsistency between the concepts of Will to Power and Eternal Recurrence--the former produces novelty, the latter precludes it--by attributing a circular pattern to the Will to Power, founder on his concept of 'willing backwards' that he presents in 'Of Redemption', in Zarathustra.  For, there, Circularity serves as a heuristic device in which the Past can be conceived as the Future, thereby transforming the obdurate "'It was' into an 'I wanted it thus.'"  The concrete result of this transformation is restoration to Will to Power of healthy functioning, i. e. the Past is appropriated as a potential prelude to present creativity, thereby overcoming a powerlessness in the face of that obduracy that, on his diagnosis, degenerates into Ressentiment, i. e. "the spirit of revenge".  In less arcane terms, the process enables the possibility of treating an adverse circumstance as if it were an 'opportunity'.  Thus, the affirmation of Eternal Recurrence interacts with Will to Power only contingently, i. e. as a cure for a specific malfunction of it, so, the Circularity that it entails is not an inherent property of the Will to Power.