Isolation, vulnerability, separation from Spirit. These are sources of great suffering in our time, great anguish. Yet each moment, we are surrounded by Spirit-force ready to support, heal, nourish and transform us. We need only engage our relationship with spirit to receive a rich flow of blessings.

A powerful pathway to relationship with Spirit is through the Incan medicine wheel. To enter a medicine wheel is to enter a microcosm of all creation. As we stand in the center of this wheel of Life, we come into alignment with the forces that framed our cosmos. 

When we enter the Incan medicine wheel, we turn to the four cardinal directions (beginning in the South) and connect with the primordial archetypes of Creation: South ~ Serpent, West ~ Jaguar, North ~ Hummingbird, East ~ Eagle/ Condor. We touch the earth beneath our feet, Mother Earth. We raise our arms, our eyes and our hearts to the sky, Father Sun, Grandmother Moon, Great Spirit.

When we call with love, respect and clear intention, these energies respond. They arrive and sacred space is formed. In this safe and hallowed place we can connect to the Divine, embrace our vulnerability, deepen intimacy, heal old wounds, welcome new energies, receive aid from luminous beings and ancestral helpers, taste infinity. This is not the privilege of a elite few, but the birth right of every human. 

“Serpent represents the binding principle;
jaguar is the renewing force; hummingbird represents the epic journey of evolution and growth; and eagle or condor stands for the self-transcending principle. Heaven is the creative force; Earth is the receptive force. When you summon them, you align yourself with the forces that animate all life.” 

Alberto Villoldo, Shaman, Healer, Sage

South ~ Serpent

To the Winds of the South! 
Great Serpent, Mother of the Waters!
 Come, teach me your ways. 
Wrap your coils of light around me. 
Teach me to shed my past 
as naturally & easily as you shed your skin.

West ~ Jaguar

To the Winds of the West! 
Sister Jaguar! 
Tracker in the Darkness! 
Come, teach me your ways. 
Help me to move beyond fear, 
to welcome renewal!

North ~ Hummingbird

To the Winds of the North! 
Hummingbird! 
Sweet celebrator of the Joy of Life. 
Come, teach me your ways. 
Help me to embrace each step of 
my journey nourished by the sweetness life.

East ~ Eagle & Condor 

To the Winds of the East! 
Eagle and Condor! 
Come, teach me your ways. 
Help me to glide with joy & beauty 
on the changing currents of life.

Below ~ Mother Earth

Mother Earth, 
thank you for your sweet generosity, 
which nourishes me each day. 
Help me to live in harmony with all your children, 
with all my relations.

Above ~ Celestial Energies

Father Sun, Grandmother Moon, 
Divine Source flowing through all things! 
May your light and blessings flow 
down upon me each moment!