Composition refers to the organization, arrangement, and combination of objects within the borders of a drawing space. For a great drawing, you want to bring the eyes of the viewer toward your center of interest within an aesthetically pleasing composition.
The idea that clockwise motion represents the forward motion of time so powerful that it's hard to look at such a watch or clock without having the slightly unsettling feeling that time is running backwards.
Viewed from the far south, the Earth seems to rotate clockwise. My answer: So if you view the north star, standing anywhere from the northern hemisphere on our earth, the entire celestial sphere (with stars) appears to move in counterclockwise.