Notes:
Lesson 2 Medicine Wheel
South
6 Fox: Feminine
• Shape shifter
• Feminine magick
• Camouflage
• Encourages invisibility
• Nocturnal
• Its strongest energies are at dawn and dusk
• Fox is versatile
• Represents the world card in the Tarot Deck
o A new world
o Meditation
• Reveals what is changing in your life
• Knows how to move between time-likes to go into the past and bring up important things that have happened to you in the past. Important great healthy things that will help you remember the experiences and your emotions and your choices to cause that to happen.
• Represents the border areas of space and time.
• Guides you into the fairy realm and could be a signal that the fairies are waiting to reveal themselves to you.
• The Cherokee Nation involves fox medicine in::
o Their protector of family unity
o Foxes hair is associated with physic energy because of its color and how it moves in the wind
• Fox is an excellent swimmer yet hates getting wet
• Fox represents the creative force within us
• Fox is discriminating
• Knows how to discern
• Fox is crafty, yet patient and at the same time avoids trouble at all costs
7 Ant: Warrior Medicine
• Shows discipline
• Shows order
• Fosters community or social ability
• Hard worker
• Wisdom and Intellect
• Gather and hunter and grows things
• Skilled architect
• Construct your dreams into reality
• Persistent
• Recognizes causes and effects that relates to success
• Ask yourself:
o Are you neglecting something important? An activity? A person? Family?
• Lays good foundation
• A new structure that is coming into your life. Have you created or are you going to help someone else create a new structure? Or find a new structure?
• Fosters a person to be patient with self and with others
o Are you making things greater or more difficult?
• Harnessing your own power to create your own life. Not allowing others to create your life.
• Represents a promise of success through much effort is coming down your path.
8 Butterfly
• Brings Joy, Dance and transmutation
• Shape Shifting
• Process of metamorphoses
• Butterflies arrive when children call them in spirit
• Look for change – pay attention to colors and their vibrations
• Look to the fairy realm
• Don’t take things to seriously
• Dance through the issues
• Brings movement in our lives. Life is a dance
• Taste life
• Lighten up
• Questions:
o How much joy do you have in your life? Begin to mover and find out how much joy you have.
• Choose to move through life with gentle grace
9 Spider – Grandmother Medicine
• Creativity
• The fate – the weaver of all
• 8 legs of the spider represents infinity
• A rhythm of nature and honor
• A little fame will enter into your life
• Encourages you to know thy self
o “Know thy self and thou shall know the universe”
• We are the writers of our own destiny
• We are the weavers of our own destiny, feelings, thoughts and actions
• Represents assertiveness and strength
• The guardian of ancient languages and alphabets and geometric patterns
• All primordial is found with the spider
• Represents death and rebirth
• Represents lunar energies
• The primordial Wisdom
• Write with power and creativity
10 Snake – Spirit Keeper
• Represents Resurrection
• Rebirth
• Initiation
• Wisdom
• Snake is healer
• Transformation
• Sexuality
• Brings clarity in thought
• Primal energies
• Opens new dimensions
• Opens new levels of awareness and creativity
• Represents and gives compassion and clairvoyance
• It is a charm in itself-yet it gives more power with we seek charms
• Questions:
o Do we need to learn about forgiveness or possessiveness? Do we need to look inside ourselves?
• Represents inner sight or 2nd sight
• It sheds its skin so it asks the questions: Is it time to shed what we have out grown and move on from that? Are we ready for a new perspective on life? Do you need to make a change or exploration?
• Pay attention to what is going on around you
• Be discriminating about what you say and to whom you say it
• It represents change
• New powers are waiting for you
West
11 Skunk
• Sensuality
• Give respect
• Self esteem
• Being misunderstood, need to be self-assured
• Gives warnings/chances
• Don’t blow your own horn, it only pushes people away from you
• Being adaptable
• Shows you how to be noticed in an effective manner
• Helps you to spiritually grow while looking for opportunities to be aware to be in control
• Strive to show kindness to everyone
12 Frog – Associated with both water and land
• Linked to elves and fairies
• Rain in weather
• Lunar energy
• Attributed to the Egyptian Goddess Herrect
• Represents abundance, growth
• Teaches us how to clean our waters of life, to pay attention to our emotions
• We should be sympatric or more sympatric
• Defines our territory
• Is metamorphosis - always changing
• A symbol of coming into your own creative powers
• Strong ties to sound energy
• Represents a voice to stir the call, to call forth change that you have a capacity to be the one, to be the voice to call forward change.
• The duality of life and death
• Hecate is associated with frog
13 Otter – Brings us Joy, Sharing, Playfulness and curiosity
• Its seasons are Spring and Summer
• Everything is interesting to Otter
• Know how to size up a situation from every angle
• Homes built close to the water
• Their love of water links them to primal life energies
• Claims a large territory around their home and play areas
• Creation and imagination
• Otters become fast in water, if threatened they swim away, they teach their young to swim
• They teach responsibility
• Teaches to find time to play in your life
• Questions:
o Are you playing too much or not enough?
14 Turtle
• Motherhood
• Longevity
• Awakening to opportunity
• Heaven and earth lessons are about to pour upon you
• Welcomes you to the fairyland
• Tells you to slow down, to look at your perceptions about time and our relationship with it
• Represents survival skills and strategies
• Tells us to listen
• It stimulates clairvoyance
• It’s discrimination and opportunistic in a good way
• Represents Mother Earth
• Heightens sensibilities
• Questions:
o Are you sometimes a hard head? Why do you feel we still need this protective hard shell around us?
15 Rabbit
• Fertility
• New life
• Season is – all seasons
• Associated with the Goddess Hecate
• Represents fortune, ambition, and virtue
• Its essences lives on the moon
• Procreation
• Tells you to leap – leap for life, go look, go find in places not so obvious to people
• When opportunities present, think of the number 28 – 28 days of manifestation
• Represents decent and rest
• Possibilities are endless
• Questions:
• Do you need more planning or not enough planning? Should you avoid not being seen at this time? Are you eating the right foods that honor your body?
• The rabbit can help you see the signs all around you
• Symbol of the Goddess
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