Many cultures and spiritual traditions honor the four directions, each with special qualities and animal totems. The animals are often from the area in which the spiritual tradition originates. The Inca Medicine Wheel is from Peru, and it has four animals in the four directions. After being introduced to this system, I am greatly inspired with new information for me. Humbly sharing what has come to my understanding through meditation, I honor the indigenous sacred culture of the Q'ueros. The Q'ueros hold Mother Earth and all life sacred, seeing the Apus which are Mountains in the Andes as sacred sentient beings.
Please take what resonates with you from within this writing. Be inspired. Tune into your own information on this and other medicine wheels. Research the Q'uero Inca Medicine Wheel further to learn about this path. You can work with this as if the animals and what they represent are energies to integrate, as if they are messengers or guides, or as archetypes.
The Value, and Ways to Work with the Medicine Wheel
In meditation, I was seeing and feeling a process that represents what we are going through, in my own experience, in any case. I sense we are going through the birth of a new age, an age of co-creation. It is a time in which new is possible. New combinations. With that, there has been this planetary alignment before the equinox, the equinox day solar eclipse, and then leading up to the Full Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse. The process was this: it was an experience of feeling myself as the sun. It was seeing the serpent rise, and I imagined it up the spine. In fact, I saw Ishtar the goddess with the two snakes place two snake in the spine as the masculine and feminine channels of kundalini rising. The two snakes merged into one. There is a symbol that came which is like an egg shape and the sun. We are the sun and we are also like an egg. The serpent is the kundalini rising of the masculine and feminine as merged. It is rising up the back of the head which is the special place in the lower back of our skulls. It is the Jade Gate, also called the mouth of the serpent. It is where the kundalini rises and awakens us, and brings enlightenment or triggers the process beginning. I see this for the whole planet, that kundalini is rising in so many people. We are wired for this physiologically and energetically, so this is an energetic shift.