Medicine Wheel
The Soulcentric Wheel is an insight tool that provides an organizing map of the psyche and illuminates facets of Nature, Self and Wholeness. The Wheel assists us in restoring contact with our "inner council" to create balance within and without--between Body, Soul, Mind and Spirit.
BODY
SOUTH-SUMMER
INNER CHILD
- Medicine: Restoring connection with body wisdom, wild aliveness, and a sense of belonging. Re-centering in the heart.
- Doorway: Discharging trauma, metabolizing anger for self and others
- Shadow: Difficulty confronting one’s deep feelings or pain
- Sub-personalities: Wounded Children--conformist, victim, rebel, prince(ss)
- Archetypes: Wild Woman, Green Man, The Wild Indigenous One
SOUL
WEST-FALL
INNER ADOLESCENT
- Medicine: Shifting depression and stuckness, releasing self/other judgment, discovering our authentic gifts, initiating ego to serve as agent for soul.
- Doorway: Cultivating relationship with love and fear—accepting, understanding, and welcoming feelings without judgment.
- Shadow: Inability to release pain, attachment to darkness, projection
- Sub-personalities: Shadow Selves, Monsters, Heroes
- Archetypes: The Wanderer, Soul-Guide, Muse-Beloved
MIND
NORTH-WINTER
INNER ADULT
- Medicine: Embodying self as leader and steward, finding fulfillment in relationships and work, initiating care for self and others.
- Doorway: Reclaiming one's own inner will, re-parenting inner child, growing self-nurturance, being in service to others
- Shadow: Lack of self-empowerment, codependency, authoritative abuse, workaholism
- Sub-personalities: Rescuers, Pseudo-warriors, Loyal soldiers (Inner critics, Inner flatterers, Lion tamers)
- Archetypes: Parent, Healer, Elder
SPIRIT
EAST-SPRING
BIRTH AND DEATH
- Medicine: Connecting with inner knowing, guiding vision, and presence. Developing clarity, flexibility, and expansiveness.
- Doorway: Growing capacity to be with self, slowing down and going in, developing our presence through practices like mindfulness and meditation.
- Shadow: Spiritual bypassing, dissociation, escapism, addiction
- Sub-personalities: Escapist and Addict
- Archetypes: Sage, Innocent, Trickster