Monday, April 18, 2016

A Jewish Medicine Wheel

I recently learned that each of the sephirot in Kabbalah was originally a direction or an element. In some early depictions of the "Tree of Life," the sephirot are arranged in a circle instead of in three columns.

"Visualize up and down, east and west, water and air-- and if
you visualize them in the right place, you'll be in the Temple."

(Rabbi Kohenet Jill Hammer)

I've created the following wheel (gilgal) using correspondences found on the internet:

The stones in this image were taken from Sun Bear's Medicine wheel on this page.  Some of my Hebrew labels may be flawed; please feel free to correct me.

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