Medicine Wheel Native American Teachings Explained?

The Life Cycle.

One of the many medicine wheel teachings talks about the cycle of life from when you were a baby to a little child to a young adult to an elder when you pass over.

Like the sun rising from the east to mark the beginning of the day, the infants are placed onto the east or yellow side. Following the direction, the sun travels every day (Clockwise) the next would be the youth, then the young adults and parents, followed by the grandparents and elders then return back to the spirit world at the end of the cycle.

The elements of the Medicine Wheel

The number again pop us up but this time in the elements which are Air, Fire,Earth, Water.

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