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CREATE YOUR OWN PRAYER

When opening a circle or Medicine Wheel it is vital to call in the seven directions. This allows you to tap into the power of the wheel for reverent and focused communion with Spirit. The directions will always respond when you call them, which may feel like energy coming into your hand or arm or showering down through your crown. People often report feeling "chills" and "goosebumps". Sometimes it is just a knowing that Spirit, your ancestors, animals and guides are now surrounding you.

When you address the Directions, you call into wakefulness and watchfulness those particular aspects of Spirit reflected in yourself. You participate more fully in your life. By asking for blessings from the Directions you begin to explore what these realms really mean to you and to the Universal order of things. You deepen your understanding of these realms and thus your relationship with the forces of life they embody.

When your prayers and practices come from your own sense of right relationship, the wheel becomes a true spiritual locus for you. Working with the wheel is a way of remembering the sacred circle of life and utilizing it to help you create sacred space in your life and in the world. Whatever you do for yourself, you do for all.

It is important to really feel the power behind prayers of invocation. Click here to see some time honored prayer invocations and then try creating your own!

CREATE YOUR OWN PRAYER