The Medicine Wheel: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Seekers

The Medicine Wheel: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Seekers I first encountered the Medicine Wheel not in a book, or a workshop, but in the vast, windswept plains of South Dakota. I was ther...

I first encountered the Medicine Wheel not in a book, or a workshop, but in the vast, windswept plains of South Dakota.

I was there for a Sun Dance ceremony, a guest of my Lakota friends, and the raw power of that land, the sky, the people, it was… humbling.

One of the elders, a man with eyes that held the wisdom of a thousand years, took me to a place where stones were laid out in a great circle on the earth. He didn’t say much. He didn’t have to.

The silence, the circle, the four lines radiating out from the center… it spoke a language older than words. It was a map of the universe, and a map of the soul.