MEDIZINRAD: Cangleska Wakan

Medicine wheels are Stone circles which have been used for thousands of years by various Indian tribes in North America as traditional places of worship and sacred places for "medicine" for healing and meditation, prayers and ceremonies, representations of life and cosmic cycles or astronomical instruments.

For Indians, everything that exists contains a SpiritThe power of the spirit of creation and every plant, every animal, even the soil and stones have a soul that is connected to all souls and the Creator. Everything in nature and in the cosmos is round or spiral and so our lives also run in cycles. The medicine wheel is the Life path of the human being. It is a way of understanding the universe. The universe is the mirror of man. All things in the wheel of the universe have spirit and life.

It consists of 36 stonesthe Creator in the centre, Earth, Sun and Moonthe four element clans (Earth-Turtle, Water-Frog, Fire-Thunderbird, Air-butterfly) in the inner circle, the four guardians of the cardinal points as guardians of the spirit, the 12 moons and their totems and the four soul paths as spokes of the wheel. Each stone is individually assigned the properties of elements, minerals, plants, animals and colours, which are observed by people for their life and spiritual development and are intended to guide them towards the higher self during meditation as an aid to life.

This medicine wheel represents the Knowledge of the Lakota-Indians, our Celtic ancestors and stargazers Egyptian important cosmic cycles of the earth, sun, moon and planets, star constellations, the Celtic annual cycle, signs of the zodiac, etc.         

In the centre as "Mer-ka-ba" a six-pointed star the Forces from Mother Earth and the Cosmos, Sun and Moonwhich 7 continentsand 1st circle of stones for the 24 Hours and times of day.

At the 2nd circle the 8 Planets and Celtic annual festivals, Weekdays, Precession the earth's axis and Milky Way. On the 3rd circle the Zodiac sign and Moon phasesand at the outermost circle the holy Star constellations of the Lakota.

As a connection to the southern starry sky, which is not visible to us in Europe, the double star Alpha Centaurus and the five stars of the Southern Cross added. These stones symbolise the astrology of the Zulus in South Africa, the Incas in South America and the Aborigines in Australia and New Zealand.

For the Lakota and other Natives, the stones of a medicine wheel are the Mirror-like representation here on earth of all the visible and invisible forces that exist in the heavens. They used particular star constellations as markers for their nomadic migration to the summer or winter camps, their sacred animals, mountains and ritual sites as exact reflections of the Black Hills in the "Sacred circle" in the centre of the Milky Way.

We show you how you as a visitor can also use the medicine wheel Use yourself for healing can:

Lying down in the medicine wheel or sitting and meditating, holding a small ceremony with prayers using drums and rattles, connects us with Mother Earth and the forces of the cosmos and the high energies of the power mountain Mirnock, harmonises and cleanses our own energy field with the chakras in our bodies, relaxes our mind, activates our sensory perceptions and strengthens the self-healing powers in our body.

Many hikers and those seeking healing have already experienced and learnt to appreciate these effects. Knowledgeable dowsers and measurements with modern magnetic field measuring devices also confirm the high Harmony of the energy field on this power place at the medicine wheel and the sweat lodge. 

Wopila tanka unci maka

(Many thanks to Mother Earth)