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The Medicine Wheel is a universal source of power
- available to anyone regardless of race or heritage who wishes to study it and implement it
into their lives. It is to be approached with humbleness, a
great sense of purpose - and a willingness to "do the work"
necessary to take the knowledge to the core of your self. First
of all - let us take a look at the term Medicine Wheel. In this
application, Medicine means power - a vital energy force that
can be drawn from and directed, and wholeness. The Medicine
Wheel is the circle of knowledge that puts our lives back into
balance - that gives us the power of choice and direction. The medicine wheel is a symbol for the
wheel of life which is forever evolving and bringing new lessons
and truths to the walking of the path. The Earthwalk is based on
the understanding that each one of us must stand on every spoke,
on the great wheel of life many times, and that every direction
is to be honored. Until you have walked in others' moccasins, or
stood on their spokes of the wheel, you will never truly know
their hearts.
Within the Medicine Wheel are The Four Cardinal Directions and
the Four Sacred Colors. The Circle represents the Circle of Life
and the Center of the Circle, the Eternal Fire.
The medicine wheel teaches us that all lessons are equal, as are
all talents and abilities. Every living creature will one day
see and experience each spoke of the wheel, and know those
truths. It is a pathway to truth, peace and harmony. The circle
is never ending, life without end.
In experiencing the Good Red Road, one learns the lessons of
physical life, or of being human. This road runs South to North
in the circle of the medicine wheel. After the graduation
experience of death, one enters the Blue or Black Road, that is
the world of the grandfathers and grandmothers. In spirit, one
will continue to learn by counseling those remaining on the Good
Red Road. The Blue Road of the spirit runs East to West. The
medicine wheel is life, afterlife, rebirth and the honoring of
each step along the way.
And so, we begin our adventure on the Medicine Wheel!
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