Medicine Wheel

1.    Plains Indians' way of life symbolizing a dynamic, spirallic understanding of the universe.

2.    An ancient stone circle that has been used for thousands of years by Native people as a place for prayer, ceremony, and self-understanding

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prayer wheel

A spiritual tool of the Buddhist tradition wherein a container with many prayers in it is spun while in a prayerful state of mind, activating the prayers within for a time and for the intention of the one praying

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Wheel of Life

Incessant wheel of karma whose twelve links are represented in Indian and Tibetan art

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Wheel of Fortune

Tarot #10a destiny

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Beltaine - May 1

Beltaine is the fertility sabbat. It celebrates live above all. This is the final planting time. This is the time when the Goddess and the God mate to spread fertility all over the earth. On this day, many Pagans celebrate the marriage of Goddess and God, and the sexual union of the God with the Goddess, who will later be reborn as her son. Beltaine is a very sexual sabbat, as well as being joyous and carefree. It is a time for feasting, rejoicing, frivolity, and celebration. It is the time to look forward and is a yearly reenactment of the primal joy all creatures and plants of the earth feel. It is a time to celebrate the final ending of the long winter.

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Lughnasadh - August 1

Lughnasadh is the first of the three harvest Sabbats. It is also know as Lammas and is a time to give thanks to the God and Goddess for all that they have brought to us thus far. The Goddess is still pregnant with the future harvests, and is honored and revered as the new mother. This is the time of year for rededication, or rekindling of sacred fires. This is the time to be thankful for all that you have.

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Samhain (sowen) Oct. 31

Many know this day generically as Halloween. This day was a celebration traditionally of the end of summer. It was said that the dead walked on this day, and was a day to revere and remember those who had passed. Samhain is the end of the traditional year, and marks the beginning of winter. It is said that on Samhain, the God dies, and the Crone Goddess mourns him for six weeks until he is reborn on Yule.

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Yule - The Winter Solstice Dec. 21

Yule is the darkest night of the year, and marks the beginning of the new year traditionally. It is said that after this night, the God that had died at Samhain is reborn of the Mother Goddess, and being the day he is most powerful he will bring fertility into the land. This is also a time for getting rid of weaknesses.

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Ostara - Eostre - The Spring Equinox - March 23

Ostara is the name of the Virgin Goddess of Spring in ancient Germany. Eostre is the name of the Teutonic Goddess of Spring. This is a day for feasting and ritual. Many equinox myths tell of the deities struggle in the underworld, and their return from the Land of the Dead back to the Earth. This is the time of planting, and a celebration of the renewel of life. Eggs, a symbol of fertility, are frequently painted with different colors and symbols in representation of the things to come in life, as part of the renewel celebration.

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Midsummer - The Summer Solstice - June 22

Also known as Litha or Vestalia, Midsummer marks the longest day of the year. It is the time when the sun is strongest, although we know that many more long hot days of summer are ahead. This is the point we enter the waning year, and each day gets shorter and shorter. This is the time to nurture new plantings, both in ground or person. Here we celbrate the coming fatherhood of the Sun God, who mated with the Goddess at Beltaine. This is the best time for protection spells and amulets to be done. This is the time of Fire, because the Sun God is at the pinnacle of his life. This is also a prime time to gather wild herbs, as they are mature enough to do so. This is also a good time to make wands or staves.

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Mabon - The Autumn Equinox - September 23

This is a day of balance between light and dark.  The Goddess and the God are thought to have equal power on this night, and all the forces of good and evil as well. This is a good time for divination and marks the end of the second harvest. By this time most the crops were gathered. Mabon begins the season of autumn, when we go into the dark season where most life sleeps for a short time. This is nearing the time when the God dies and goes to the underworld.  The old God is preparing himself for his sacrifficial death at Samhain, and the Goddess is entering her Crone aspect, storing her wisdom that she has learned over the years. Yet she is still pregnant with the seed of the God who she will birth at Yule.

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KURGASIAX

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sansara:

sansara - the wheel of reincarnation

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chakra:

chakra - a wheel or vortex of energy

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chakrasana:

chakrasana - the wheel posture

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Kala chakra:

The wheel of time.

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samsara:

The wheel or ocean of life and death. Wheel of time. Combinations of shiva's 3 Shaktis which create diversity in the cosmos. 'All together flowing

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Kuklos (Greek) A circle, wheel; in philosophy, a cycle. The ancients divided the duration of our world or universe into a large number of cycles, the small within the great, somewhat after the fashion of the vision of Ezekiel who saw wheels within wheels, cycles within cycles.

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WHEEL OF FORTUNE

Destiny and Karma. The 10th and central Arcanum, circumscribed by the tetramorph and lettered Caph. It is the pathway between Chesed and Netzach. The wheel is a mandala, enabling the magus to master the polarities within himself. It may also be equated with the wheel of Samsara (birth, death and rebirth). Fortune tellers assign great happiness to this card (presumably because it is ruled by Jupiter).

It also represents the Wheel of the Tarot itself. Caph is "the palm of the hand" and the number ten refers to the ten fingers, leading some interpreters to conclude that the wheel is really a potter's wheel (in the hands of the Creator). Others interpret this as meaning that our fortunes lie in the palms of our hands. Clearly, the meanings of the wheel spin out in all directions.

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Samsara Chakra - Wheel of death and birth.

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SAMSARA: the wheel of transmigration, cycle of birth and death

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