The original name for Medicine Wheels was Sacred Circle. Though they are used primarily in North American Aboriginal Medicine, they are found all over the world in many forms. Their use and purpose  are culturally specific.

Medicine Wheels represent the power of the circle and peaceful connectivity to all beings. Primarily a metaphor for life and an internal mirror reflecting back to us, the Medicine Wheel is many things….

Sacred Circle, Circle of Life

Wheel of Life, Wheel of the Year

Map of Life, Self

Healing tool, Teaching tool

Metaphor and Mirror

…allowing us to achieve interconnection with all life spirit and restore balance in the aspects of our nature the physical, the mental, the emotional, and the spiritual.

Now we are fully in the South On the Medicine Wheel. Summer Solstice celebrates the Sun at the height of it’s power, the element of Fire and the promise of the harvest. All life flourishes and Earth Mother is resplendent. For us, her Human Children, it is a time of progress, creation, passion and personal expression. With the mental and emotional balance between Air and Water on the Wheel, it is a time of health, vitality, strength and potency.

Breathe, Believe, Receive ~ The Wheel turns

The Power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round….The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours….Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.      

Black Elk