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Aboriginal Medicine Wheel
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Aboriginal
Medicine
Wheel
Created By:
Shianne Bottineau
Renee Olivier
Nicole Levinski
NORTH
North
White for North representing Preservation
- Element: Air
- Aspect of Life: Mental - mind
- White skinned people
- Stages of Life: Elderly
- Death
- Winter
- Animal
- Ceremonial Plant: Sweetgrass
PRESERVATION: BODY - Skills - Maintaing the positive patterns as a view of life as an ongoing system. Recognizes that Aboriginal people are spirit heart, mind and body.
EAST
East
Yellow for East representing Awareness
If we start in the East, this represents our physical birth. We are babies then. The sun begins its new day in the direction of the east. That is where the sun rises, as the sun gives birth to a new day, we think about birth. We can also think of birth as a season, which is spring. When you think of spring you think of growth and new beginnings, new life.
- Element: Fire (or sun)
- Yellow skinned people
- Aspect of Life: Physical - Body
- Stages of Life: Birth
- Dawn
- Growth
- Spring
- Mineral
- Ceremonial Plant: Tobacco
AWARENESS: ATTITUDES & INSIGHTS into behavioural patterns, ever-increasing understanding of one's self and the world.
SOUTH
South
Red for South where you pray for your struggles
- Element: Water
- Aspect of Life: Spiritual-Heart
- Stage of Life: Youth
- Red skinned people
- Moon
- Birth
- Noon
- Season of Year: Summer
- Plant
- Ceremonial Plant: Cedar
STRUGGLE: HEART - feelings about self and others and how we interelate - efforts and attempts to change negative life experience to positive feeling and believing that behaviours influence all of our relations.
WEST
West
Black for west building on your life lessons
- Element: Earth
- Aspect of Life: Spiritual
- Black skinned people
- Stage of Life: Adults
- Dusk
- Maternity
- Season: Autumn
- Human
- Ceremonial Plant: Sage
BUILDING: DEVELOPING THE MIND - gaining knowledge, developing positive life experiences into continuous patterns and change the view of life which includes integrating strengths already aquired.
Conclusion
- There are several variations of the Aboriginal Medicine Wheel, which changes based on the tribe of each Aboriginal. (ex. Cree, Blackfoot, Mohawk, Ojibwe etc). The Cree Medicine Wheel is the most well know.
- The wheel can be used to help an individual understand and deal with specific life circumstances (ex. jobs, relationships and illness).
- Medicine wheel is experienced in a "natural" way, hollistic approach
- Working the Medicine Wheel empowers the individual, gives new tools to embrace the chaos of life.
- The Medicine Wheel teaches us that we have 4 aspects to our nature;
- Physical
- Mental
- Emotional
- Spiritual
Each of these aspects are equally developed in a healthy, well balanced human being through the development stages of life.
- Equal emphasis needs to be given to each of the directions of the wheel. This can be accomplished through sheer will power and action.
- If the wheel is not followed, Aboriginal people believe that we are not walking in a balanced life.
References
https://www.ictinc.ca/blog/what-is-an-aboriginal-medicine-wheel
http://www.dancingtoeaglespiritsociety.org/medwheel.php