Medicine Wheel Ceremony & Flag Offerings for the West Direction

The Medicine Wheel I go to is located in Stoney Park, 30-45 minutes outside of Calgary, Alberta... It was laid out in 1987 under the instruction of Albert Lightening, a respected Elder from Hobbema, Alberta. My husband helped make the Medicine Wheel... We had just been married the day before in a traditiional wedding ceremony... Each time I go do ceremony at the Medicine Wheel site, I am so greatful that we have something so sacred as this to go to... to talk to Creator.. I go at each changing of the seasons to honor the Four Directions.. This is the time that I take whatever tobacco offerings people have given me for prayers or songs and leave them at the Medicine Wheel site.. the altar of the Medicine Wheel is covered with offerings from people who all came to the site for different purposes.. It lightens my heart to know that people have been helped by the Medicine Wheel.. Next to the Medicine Wheel site is the place we leave our flag offerings tied to tree branches of Mother Earth...

I had said goodbye to this medicine wheel in November of 2005 when I left Alberta to move back to Saskatchewan... I fought back tears as I realized how important this Medicine Wheel was.. I was married here in June 1987, so it has been in my life for 22 years... I thought that I would never see it again.. and here I am again sitting near its altar thinking this may be my final visit... I may be moving to British Columbia, something I have been wanting to do for a long time.. and yes, it will be sad to leave the medicine wheel and all my flag offerings that hang in the trees...
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