Living tradition
Medicine wheel
Plains peoples; today across North American spirituality.
A circle of stones with four directions, four seasons and four animals; your place on the wheel speaks of your stage and lesson.
How it's done
- 01Place your birth in a season.
- 02Take that season's direction and animal.
- 03Ask which direction you still need to walk.
With your own tools
You can lay the wheel on the ground with stones and sit in your season to reflect.
With Ocluna
With your date I tell you your totem animal, your door on the wheel, your plant and your stone, and what the moon you were born in teaches.
Your reading
Grandmother Xóchitl does your Medicine wheel reading
What Grandmother Xóchitl tells you
- There are over 70 stone wheels on the prairies of Canada and the United States; the Bighorn wheel in Wyoming marks the summer solstice.
- The version with twelve animals and stones was spread by Sun Bear in 1980; First Nations use the wheel more as a map of balance than as a horoscope.
- The version with twelve moons, animals, plants and stones was popularized by the writer Sun Bear in his 1980 book 'The Medicine Wheel'.
- The four colors of the wheel, yellow, red, black and white, are linked to the four directions, the four seasons and the four stages of life.
This reading is symbolic self-knowledge and entertainment content based on folk traditions. It does not predict the future, is not medical, legal or financial advice, and does not replace qualified professionals.