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.

The Kabbalistic Wheel

Occasionally, you'll come across a depiction of the ten sephirot arranged in a circle rather than in the three columns that make up the more common image of the Tree of Life. In her audio presentation, Shekhinah as Mourner, Jill Hammer mentions that early Jewish mysticism was architectural, an attempt to figure out how the Temple could be rebuilt internally. Originally, the sephirot represented directions and elements.

This intrigues me. The Tree of Life may be a Medicine Wheel!

A quick internet search lead me to an article about the directions associated with the various sephirot:

East  Mizrach	Tiferet "Beauty"	6
South  Darom	Chesed "Kindness"	4
West  Ma'arav	Yesod "Foundation"	9
North  Tzafon	Gevurah "Strength"	5
Up  L'maalah	Netzach "Victory"	7
Down Metachat	Hod "Splendor"	8
Holy of Holies  Merkaz	Da'at "Knowledge"	0
Beginning (Fire) Reishit	Chokmah "Wisdom"	2
End (Water)  Sof	Binah "Understanding"	3
Good (Air)  Tov	Keter "Crown"	1
Evil Ra	Malkuth "Kingship"	10

One obvious difference between Kabbalah and Native American beliefs regards the sanctity of the world. The Creator Stone is in the center of Native American medicine wheels. Ayn Sof is outside of the Jewish medicine wheel. The Kabbalists posited that God contracted to make an empty space in which to create the world. While there are divine sparks in the world and there is a Divine Presence who has gone into exile with us; the sacred, in Jewish belief, is primarily transcendent, not immanent... well, except for the Shekhinah...