The Medicine Hoop

Healing Circle Pilliga Push Camp

I am born on the lands known today in the world as Australia.  I have connections to the four directions.  Yesterday I spent the afternoon creating with circles which I had created from Wisteria canes I had cut and soaked a couple of weeks ago. 

I wove a beautiful wheel and wove three Australia Eagle feathers to the bottom. These feathers were a gift from Merve who I met a few years earlier at the Glenugie No CSG Protest.  I was so pleased with how it turned out and I hung this on the end of the front awning of my house to blow in the wind and to speak to all the people who pass by under this wheel and to heal those who gaze upon it, it is a symbol of the All.   It encourages us to take care of the Hoop of Life as well as our own personal hoop.  I believe this hoop is known as our Merkaba in other ancient cultures.  

Medicine wheels represent the alignment and continuous interaction of the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual realities.

 

The medicine wheel has four divisions and four colors. Those colors symbolize the four sacred directions, the four seasons, the four stages of life, and the four colors of the four original races of people.  

The center is spiritual life, the tree growing from there is the tree of life, the green trees growing are to represent the Mother Earth, the sky is a thunder bird to represent the rain and water. The Medicine wheel is circular because everything in the universe moves in a circular motion. 

Posted by Humano / Human on Tuesday, 8 July 2014

Images @ Eminpee Fotography

Making a circle of Life

I like to call them sharing circles, a place where all sorts of things are shared.  Talking and discussing issues.  Telling stories about the journeys we have been on and the people we have spoken to and what they have taught us.  Teaching circles where gifts of craft can be shared and taken home and made into something beautiful, basket making, mat making. 

 

I made a talking stick at a woman's sharing group I was apart of many years ago, I have never forgotten the gifts that were shared with in that circle.  I would very much like to pass on the knowledge that was shared with me during that precious time.

I told Uncle Tom that we would try to get a circle built down at the water near the foot bridge in Urunga and so we have to place submissions with council to get approval for the structure to be built there on the foreshore where Uncle Tom loved so much.  Sadly Uncle passed away earlier this year before he could see the circle built. I hope to make it a reality.