The Sacred Fire Circle
Passage from Chapter Five Is There More To Life Than What We Know? Learning the Medicine Wheel
On the first night after dinner, Margaret Seven Feathers had our group of twenty-four form a circle so she could teach us the four directions of the medicine wheel: North, South, East, and West. The medicine wheel is an ancient and powerful symbol of the Universe. Our life travels the wheel in the same way as the earth travels around the sun, from east to west. It is a way of measuring our own progress and development and a means for assessing what we must work on next in our journey through life.
The medicine wheel is a symbolic tool that helps us to see the interconnectedness of our being within the rest of creation. The direction East on the wheel is where our life journey begins; it is learning to be in the here and now. The South is a place of summer and fullness of youth when we have physical strength and vigor for testing the physical body. The love learned in the South is the love of one person to another. The West is the direction of the unknown and of going within and of dreams. It is a place of testing, where the will is stretched to its utmost limit. The North is the place of winter; the dawning place of true wisdom. The North is seen as the direction of completion and fulfillment. There is no ending to the journey of the four directions. The human capacity to develop is infinite. The medicine wheel turns forever. "Is there More To Life Than What We Know?" It will change your life Forever!
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