Grandfather Winter

Grandfather Winter represents the North direction on the Medicine Wheel. He symbolizes patience, courage and transformation. It is during the “winters” of our life that we must process and integrate the healing lessons from the West, for patience and courage are the roads that lie between humility and transformation.

Grandfather Winter comes with red ceremonial paint, which symbolizes that the “battle within” has been fought and defeated in a Sacred Way. He is also decorated with various beads (red theme) and a hand painted eagle plume to acknowledge the sacred medicine of the North.