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Entering the Incan Medicine Wheel
by Ananaia O'Leary
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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. |
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“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
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| To build relationship with the archetypal
energies of the Incan Medicine Wheel, call them to join you in the creation of sacred
space. Calm & center yourself. Be clear in your intention. Invite the archetypes with
love & respect. Begin in the South calling upon the power of Serpent, continue West,
North, East. Then honor Mother Earth & the sacred Sky energies. Below are simple
prayers to get you started. As you deepen relationship, open to your own words, your own
prayers. Open to connection ... |
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South
~ Serpent
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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.
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West ~ Jaguar
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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!
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North ~ Hummingbird
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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.
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East
~ Eagle & Condor
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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.
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Below ~
Mother Earth |
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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.
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Above
~ Celestial Energies
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Father Sun, Grandmother Moon,
Divine Source flowing through all things!
May your light and blessings flow
down upon me each moment!
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