medicine wheel

In the medicine wheel of th first peoples WEST represents where I am now = Later adulthood Autumn, the time of the setting sun - twilight.
This is seen as a time of gradual change. When the darkness comes we must look inward to find the light and have courage. To understand what we see in the darkness may not be real but only shadows.
This is the emotional part of ourselves, like the flowing water we must learn to go with the flow of life. The time of the West is when we learn that we are responsible to all things and to each other. It is the time to prepare, to finish things for the time of Winter is coming. We gather ourselves and family, working together to prepare for what is to come.
It is hard work and team efforts. Black symbolizes change from this life.
I have to learn to go with the flow of my emotions, to listen to the voices and not block them out, to explore the past and my part in it. Why I am such a bad person and what made me so.
I must look at the aging process as a time to reflect and change and to embrace that change brfore the coming of the night of WHITE NORTH time.