Fire

To Native peoples, Fire is life. It is representative of the womb of the Earth mother and in our warm mother’s womb, renewal, purification, light, a keeper of warmth. It is the life force and central to all our ceremonies. It is present in nearly every significant event from pow wow to birth, and even death.

It is a guide, and yet fire can mean different things to different clans,
communities, and so on. Although we share commonalities -still- each direction
of the medicine wheel can carry different symbols according to the traditional
teachings of certain native clans. For my clan, fire resides in the south
direction, the road of the ancestors and reminds us of our family relationship
to the sun. A little light by day and the sun’s family…a little light by night.
These are our Grandparents that give us wisdom and knowledge.

The sacred fire burns deep within all us of in the form of our spirit. It
blazes brightly and may ebb at times but never goes out. In many of our
ceremonies, the sacred fire is used to help in our healing and carries many
teachings to help us humans in our personal growth while we walk on Mother
Earth.

*Three Feathers*