Taoist Medicine Wheel: (Tao of the Shaman Book1) by Kris Deva North

Author:Kris Deva North [North, Kris Deva]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Universal Tao Publications UK
Published: 2010-09-19T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Spirit Guides

Using the Medicine Wheel to access Spirit Guides

Shared Guides and Personal Guides

The Nature of Spirit Guides

The Mundane Dimension

Mapping the Way to Spirit

Journeying to meet new Spirit Guides

The Higher Dimension

World of Spirit

Using the Medicine Wheel to access Spirit Guides

There are more ways to Spirit than buses to Trafalgar Square, limited to tradition or adaptable to your own practice, sitting cross-legged in cross-eyed meditation or googling the divine (12,200,000 results). Guides in different forms appear in different sectors of the Medicine Wheel. Fusion of the Five Elements introduces Children who keep the Animals as their daemon-spirits, like Lyra and Pantalaimon.

The Child of the East is in green, the color of the Wood Element. East is the place of the sunrise, the place where things begin. The Animal of the East is Dragon and we have already learned the origins and power of Dragon.

The Child of North has two, Turtle and Deer, for North's dual role in Conception and Death, guarding the Ancestral Chi. The season is Winter, when we tend to stay indoors, nights are longer and the things to do are to do with conception. With weather at its most harsh and food harder to come by, elder folk suffer and often choose this time to go to the Lord of the North and their journey beyond. Turtle being one of the slowest creatures and spending much time in stillness is an obvious candidate to represent Death. We tend nowadays to look upon death as undesirable, don't talk much about it and often do little to prepare for it but it is perhaps the only event in life we can count on with certainty. Let's make friends with Turtle. Mindful that 'Your mood at the moment of death determines your next life,' it is wise to stay cheery.

Deer's quick movements show life. The horns remind us of readiness to create - not that we want to conceive every time we feel horny but when we do, we must.

We muse over the different shamanic perceptions of the directions. In the Native American tradition death is in the West. The sun goes down at the end of the Good Red Road turning day into night. Suns when they set rise again, turning night back into day in a moment of celestial alchemy. For the Taoist the West represents the element of metal that, shaped into a weapon, can bring death, and its creature likewise. Tiger's courage, speed, flexibility and power give it dominance over all but Dragon. The two promote peaceful coexistence because if they fight, one dies, the other is crippled. Tiger is the spirit of the Child in White.

In the South flies the Firebird and the Red Child, Spirit of Love. The south is warm, friendly and gracious. In ancient Sanskrit the South is Dakhin, root of the word Dakini, the rainbow-clad love-sprite of the Tantrikas.

The Golden Phoenix and the Child in Yellow mystify us with their power to rule the center, to appear between each season and to sit in the southwest.

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