Cross Cultural Shamanic Self-Healing Medicine Wheel
FIRE: East Realm of passion, desire, kundalini/sexual fire, spirit vision.
• Seeing; being able to envision. Catalyzes; inspires,
• Enables one to identify a new start; to initiate an IDEA for a possible ‘Plan’.
• Element of transmutation. Brings about change in point of view. Essence of spontaneity.
• Provides direction, will to be. Relates to one’s spirit as different than soul.
• Expresses itself through our enthusiasm, inspirations, motivations and drives.
• Works through our creativity. Expresses through intuition, clairvoyant.
• Helps us give life of a VISION: EMPOWERS your ideas, desires, intentions, talents.
• Ties into your destiny and Higher Self through spontaneity.
• Expresses as chi. Related to the immune system and the nervous system.
• Spiritual love and the instincive, knowingness, intuitive & spiritual expression of being.
EARTH: South Realm of Relationship, Multiple Forms, Abundance & Prosperity.
• Blankets fire to create forms planned in through
• Provides patience, and persistence to act. Takes responsibility.
• Maintains intention. Grounds ideas. Provides support.
• Expresses through organization and orderliness.
• Initiates work, changes ways things are done, completes things.
• Correlates to planned changes, seasonal cycles,.
• Gradual opening, gradual change.
• Realm of holding: Conservative, even stubborn. Provides rest.
• Relates to caution, diligence, discrimination, judgement.
• Too much leads to stuckness, stagnation and eventually death.
• Is Yin/- and active: fertile, provides nuturing for growth of forms.
• Physical love and the physical and anatomical /categorical expression of being.
WATER: West Realm of the Teacher & Student:
• Expresses through all emotions: love, kindness, generosity, fear, guilt, etc.
• Expresses through ones values and principles of relatedness, of relationship.
Helps you to recognise life dramas & how to step out of addiciton to ‘dramas’.
• Is changeable, unpredictable, and not easily controllable without discipline.
• Hard to pin down, constantly changing: Flexible, mutable. Open to outcomes.
• Emphasises Dreams, imagination and emotionally charged fantasies. Astral realm.
• Linked to the clairsentient ability to feel, to use the senses to express emotion.
• Provides sensitivity, patience, tolerance-going with the flow. Is protective.
• Wears things away through persistance and usually creates change slowly.
• Creates tears, blood, all bodily fluids. Detoxifies through cleansing emotions.
• Expresses more through movement and feeling: Less verbal/non-verbal.
• Introverted: absorbs & germinates. Primordial, pre-verbal knowingness.
• Relates to digestion & assimilation-Yin/-.
• Related to the sublte energy emotional body and the soul as different from one’s spirit.
• Sexual love and the emotional/ feeling expression of being.
AIR: North Realm of Mind: Planning, Scheduling, Organising & Manifesting
• Stimulates; provides impetus; can be clear and uncluttered.
• Provides expression for mental and verbal communications.
• Realm of ideas, theories, hypothesis, plans, thoughts. Realm of sound, music, math.
• Brings possibilities. Timeless.
• Provides ability to learn through knowledge, logic and discrimination.
• Arena for Social Popularity, social interaction and interpersonal outflow.
• Creates space. Constant movement: Hard to pin down. Easily bored.
• Is Yang/+ and is both active, and expansive. Making things happen with vision.
• Platonic love and the mental expression of being.
• Platonic love and the mental
expression of being.
