MEDICINE WHEEL
EAST
Element: Air – Grandfather sky / divine masculine
Colour: Red
Totem: Eagle (spirit, mental/psychic clarity, command of your environment)
Values: Arrow of purpose
Creative seed / new beginnings
Change, innovation
The visionary
Question: What is in my heart?
What change is coming?
NORTH
Element: Water
Colour: Black
Totem: Goanna / lizard (surrender / letting go)
Value: Stillness and watchfulness
Patience and determination to overcoming obstacles
Surrender to your path / healing journey
The peaceful warrior energy / taking responsibility and accountability
Questions: What is my obstacle?
What is my strength?
WEST
Element: Earth – Earth mothers / earth grandmothers / divine feminine
Colour: White
Totem: Snake (healing / sexuality)
Value: Allow snake to guide you to the centre of Mother earth to shed your skin
Humility
Compassion
The healer
Question: What no longer serves me?
What needs healing?
SOUTH
Element: Fire
Colour: Yellow
Totem: Dingo / Whale
Value: Connecting with the ancestors / guides / wisdom / knowledge
Intuition
Place of teaching and learning
Place of the trickster energy / stealth
The sage / teacher / elder
Question: What is the next step?
What wisdom is here for me and how do I embody it?
CENTRE
Element: Tree / web of life (axis mundi)
Colour: Blue over green
Value: Unity
Connection
Place of Oneness
Overcoming separation
Source energy
East : Wakan Encasa(wah cahn enca shah)
North: Tsi tsi encase (si si enca shah)
West: Kawas sinawa (Kah wahs shina wah)
South: Owaca encasha (oh wah kah enca shah)
PROCESS
A few key things to creating the right space for you:
I) You need to find where the directions are in the space that you want to set it up in
II) Always start in the East and end in the centre
III) Always enter the wheel in the East when beginning
You can then set up the wheel in two ways;
I) Find where the directions are in the space that you want to set it up in
II) Stand in the East and call in the direction, element, totem, values associated with that direction. Then move to the North, West, South and Centre
III) Go into meditation and imagine yourself standing in the directions invoking as in option I
If you are in need of any the energy of any of the values, have challenges, questions or need guidance you can also go into meditation, set up the wheel and imagine yourself sitting in the direction that you are drawn too or feel most at home in i.e. if you need healing you can sit in the West and allow the energies of the earth mothers to heal and nurture you.
