Creating your own Medicine Wheel

What does it mean to “Call the Directions”?  How might the directions be helpful to us?

“Calling the Directions” is really about opening our awareness to our environment. Inside and Out.  It is about our willingness to be engaged and participate with life itself.  To live life fully Alive!

Medicine Wheel - Sacred Hoop

The Sacred Circle/Hoop

Inclusion of all life. Everything in the universe is “related”. (Family)

                  The Cross

Good Red Road. A deep commitment to living life in the best way possible with an intrinsic respect for others, oneself, and creation, and a dedication with Great Mystery/Beloved Creator.

          (horizontal flow, East to West)

Blue Spirit Road of Grandmothers/Grandfathers

Spirit/Ancestors guidance (North to South)

Big Picture and Clarity of sight……

Sacred Mystery - God/Creator Channel

Cardinal Directions Basic guidance

East: Rising Sun, shining light on intentions, new beginnings, projects, goals

Overview, the “winged-ones” (birds) as Ally Guides

*I am curious and inquire about more than what my culture has taught me about life and I'm open to receive something new.

South:  Divine Feminine -Creativity, passion and joy, feeling empowered, ignites us or can disrupt us, also a place to mother our inner child/vulnerabilities

*I allow vulnerable aspects of myself to come forward freely and am open to experience a healing of harmed places or wounds.

West: The Setting Sun, letting go, releasing, journeying inward to what is hidden, shadow self (unseen/unheard)

*I relax and let go of things that no longer serve my truth and am willing to overcome my resistance with curiosity, Allowing that which I have not yet seen to arise.

North: Divine Masculine, Place of action. Practices that develop healthy habits and create and develop Strength and Courage.  What planning and attention is needed to support self/family/community?

*I discover how my attempts to control and protect my life do not work, as I move up the spiral in the circle that is my life, I find new practices and develop new habits, providing enough time for this important journey to unfold.

Center: I rest in this place of stillness -to steady and ground and listen to my Light-filled Mystical Self

*I take time to integrate and to be with myself, to know my own truth.