The Medicine Wheel: A Helpful Healing Tool

The medicine wheel is a representation of the universal law of balance. The medicine wheel is a circular layout of medicine, or powers, that operate within each of the four cardinal directions. The medicine wheel is a helpful healing tool that helps us understand the intrinsic balance that exists between us and the world around us.

The Medicine Wheel is a representation of the universal law of balance. The medicine wheel is a circular layout of medicine, or powers, that operate within each of the four cardinal directions. The medicine wheel is a helpful healing tool that helps us understand the intrinsic balance that exists between us and the world around us.

What is the Medicine Wheel?

The Medicine Wheel is a circular layout of the powers that operate within each of the four cardinal directions, with each power balancing the powers of the other three directions.

The four directions, shown in blue on the medicine wheel below, are North, East, South and West.

North is the power of creation, life, and health.
East is the power of giving, compassion, and home.
South is the power of feeling, love, and attraction.
West is the power of thinking, communication, and logic.

The Four Medicine Wheels

Each medicine wheel has four quarters. The quarters are North, East, South, and West. Each quarter is represented by an animal. While the exact animal is up to the practitioner, the general quarters are Hawk, Owl, Buffalo, and Bear.

Medicine wheel healing

Medicine wheel healing is a foundational practice that activates the four powers of nature and draws from the four directions to facilitate healing. Our body, our emotions, our home, and our work all have power that can be activated and used to facilitate healing. By activating and using these powers we can bring ourselves into balance and harmony with ourselves, others, and the world around us.