What is it about Medicine Wheel?

I question the astronomical alignment of these stones. At the same time I strongly encourage lodge visitors to make the trek to the wheel. I’ve always felt different during and after my visits and just could not adequately explain it. Fern found a passage in “Deep Play” by Diane Ackerman. I find it most appropriate to include here.

“Our world is well stocked with sacred places: Mecca, Delphi, Bighorn Medicine Wheel…….Niagara Falls……. The great Pyramids, Mount Fuji, Mesa Verde and Canyon de Chelly, only to name a few. Many of them were built on [or located] high, beyond ordinary life, and out of most people’s reach. Climbing to those lofty playgrounds one’s perspective, even one’s physiology change. Self exile accompanied by blood pressure and breathing stresses, a different visual field in a novel terrain, may well awaken insights or inspire visions. “

Rock cliffs just west of the wheel

“Sacred places have traditionally been atop of mounds or mountains, as close to heaven as possible. Mountains are symbols, reminders, visual mnemonics for the transcendental.”

Thanks so much Fern, you found the words I’ve been looking for. For me the above just about sums it up. The lodge sits less than 2 miles from the wheel, maybe that explains why people visiting the lodge remember it as some type of magical place.

I’m wondering if a wheel is necessary. I feel transcendence can be found on most any Mountain View Can you find the lodge?