Medicine Wheel

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We journey with the Medicine Wheel as our sacred map. For millennia, Indigenous earth-based cultures around the world have turned to the Medicine Wheel - a living spiritual technology that is directional, elemental, seasonal, psychological, and animistic in nature. It guides us not in a straight line, but in a circle. There is no one way to work with the Medicine Wheel. The way we orient to the Wheel comes through the teachings of my mentor, Kedar S. Brown of Rites of Passage Council, and is rooted in deep listening to land, lineage, and life itself. 

The wheel helps us remember our place in the whole. It reminds us that healing is not linear. That transformation moves in cycles. That we carry all seasons within us. Each direction of the wheel offers wisdom and medicine. At the threshold of each direction stands a gatekeeper - often a survival strategy or inherited story that once protected us but now longs to be honored and transformed. These patterns are not enemies to be vanquished, but elders bearing lessons. When we meet them with reverence, we reclaim the energy bound within them and continue the spiral of growth.