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The Medicine Wheel The Medicine Wheel is a powerful metaphor for the totality of life. All aspects of creation and consciousness, inclusive of the mineral, plant, animal, human and spirit realms, are contained within the center and eight directions of the medicine wheel. They overlap and interweave to form the whole. It is in the center of the medicine wheel that we find the void, black hole, sacred zero, the chaos at the source of creation, containing all possibilities. Each of the elements - air, fire, water, and earth - is guided and molded by the sacred life force energy contained within the void. It is the source of chi, which is the driving force of all sacred sexuality. Through sacred sexuality, all forms of all things within the mineral, plant, animal and human kingdoms, have been and continue to be created. Life could not exist without the sexual life-force energy of the void, which is the catalyst for all the powers that are found within the 360 degrees of the medicine wheel. Honor the Earth - - - our Mother. Honor the Elders. Honor all with whom we share the Earth: Four-leggeds, two-leggeds, winged ones, Swimmers, crawlers, plant and rock people. Walk in balance and beauty." Anonymous Native American Elder To learn more about the medicine wheel and its components, scroll down this page. First click on the center to connect with the void and sacred sexuality, the life-force energy within chaos. Then click on each of the directions to experience the energies making up the substance of the medicine wheel. In the cardinal directions are: East - Fire, spirit, human kingdom; West - Earth, body, mineral kingdom; South - water, emotions, plant kingdom; North - air & wind, mind, animal kingdom. In the non-cardinal directions are: Southeast - self-concept, ancestors; Southwest - dream, symbols; Northwest - cycles, patterns, rules and laws; Northeast - choreography and design of energy. |