44 deg 49.6' N; 107 deg 55.3' W Elev. 9,642 ft.

I put this page together in 1999 or so. Been a while...

The Bighorn Medicine Wheel is located in Wyoming in the Bighorn mountain range on the edge of a cliff overlooking the Bighorn Basin. I had a chance to visit it in July of 1995. It is quite a remarkable place to visit. When I was there I ran into a severe blizzard and there was still quite a lot of snow on the ground in places from the previous winter - in July!

Like others, I thought that it in some way it may be some kind of astronomical observatory and thought along those lines when I was investigating it. Before I went there, I had a chance to look at it from an astronomical program and found some very interesting things about the location of the wheel.

This is what I have Discovered:

July 20th 1995 standing at the center of the wheel and looking east at dawn you would see the following image.

The star Mintaka is dead on at 90 degrees on the East Horizon - (Hor I Son--Horus Rising).
Mintaka corresponds to the smallest of the three Giza Pyramids known as the Pyramid of Menkaure. Above it, at 35 degrees perpendicular to the horizon is the Pleiades star cluster.

Below Mintaka, is the star Sirius at 25 degrees perpendicular to the horizon.
The Latitude placement of the Wheel on the Earth makes a 90 degree cross that sits perpendicular, or, 90 degrees with the Horizon with Mintaka as the fulcrum or, center.
When I was there, Mercury and Venus were in conjunction with Wasat.

If you follow the horizon to the left (North), you will see the star Wasat as the heart star of one of the twins in the constellation Gemini. It is 35 degrees North of East on the horizon.
This alignment is most interesting when we consider that Orion, Sirius, and the Pleiades all have a connection to myth in many of the worlds cultures.
But what is the connection to the star Wasat, or the constellation Gemini?

The Bighorn Medicine Wheel lines these up at 90 degrees on the horizon. At Dawn.

The main spoke of the wheel is 57 degrees West of South.
This spoke points to a trail that leads down the canyon.
This spoke points to a hole in the ground that must consume a lot of run-off water in the spring thaw.
This spoke points across the wheel in the direction of the rising sun on the summer solstice.

On July 11, 1991 at Mexico City (19.5 North), a total solar eclipse darkened the city while many people video taped the event. Later on, it was discovered that at least 6 video tapes had captured a hovering silver disk during the eclipse. From this point on, literally hundreds of video tapes of these objects have been filmed in the skies around Mexico City.


On this date in Mexico, the Sun and moon are in conjunction with the star Wasat in the constellation Gemini.

In the next few pages I will attempt to uncover some of the code hidden into the wheel as it pertains to myth, starmaps, the global grid, and the significance of it today.

First let us take a closer look at the wheel.

	Here is the bare bones wheel with an obvious 5 and 6 sided geometry built into it. It is interesting to note that the typical medicine wheels that are built today, are based on 4 fold symmetry. The linking of 5/6 sided geometry together, is similar to the D&M Pyramid on Mars.
	Normally, Five sided geometry describes the world of living organic things. And Six sided geometry describes the world of non-living inorganic things. But here they are combined
For more on the structhres on Mars, see www.enterprisemission.com,www.psrw.com/~markc/marshome.html www.well.com/user/etorun/pyramid.html

I considered the fact that at least a handful of cultures have known and tracked the precessional cycle of time, a period of around 2600 years. The zodiac is based on this idea where each "sign" lasts approximately. 2160 years. I then applied it to this picture of the wheel. The image was taken at an angle so I have skewed the image slightly to correct for this. Also, notice that the zodiac is backwards. Precession of the planet moves us through the zodiac backwards over a 26 thousand year cycle.

I laid the zodiac wheel down on top of the Bighorn wheel and rotated it so that that the four corners corresponded to the four directions. Leo - North; Taurus - East; Aquarius - South; and Scorpio - West. This is one meaning that can be generally accepted to be the meaning of the symbology behind the Shpinx in Egypt. The combination of a Lion, Man, Bull, and an Eagle (Scorpio). If we take the Hermetic philosophy further and recall "As above, so below", and apply it the the Bighorn wheel, an accurate Constellational map of the heavens is laid out at the moment of Sunrise (Dawn). On the summer solstice of 1999 the main spoke points across the wheel in the direction of the rising sun. It lines up the sun between the constellations Taurus and Gemini (see large image below). This alignment of the sun also occurs at the intersection of the ecliptic plane (the path of the sun - in red) and the galactic plane (the purple line running up and down - 0 degrees). Image borrowed from StoneWheels And Dawn Stars Rising It is interesting to note here that this alignment occurs at 57 degrees South of East as can be seen by the control panel of my Redshift 3 program. 57 degrees is 180 over Pi or, approximately 1 radian. Were the people who laid down the wheel aware of what a radian is? Now, if we turn our attention 180 degrees on the horizon, and look out we will come very close to the center of the Galaxy. The central point being between the arrow of Sagittarius and the tail of Scorpio. This was also know as the central sun, or Tula by the ancients. Near Mexico City there is a huge megalithic site called Tula. It also is arranged to track the sun. Tula is also associated with the word BALANCE. Let us turn our attention back to the zodiac over the wheel. Note that the top of the pentagram is the sign Libra, the scales, or what is known as a balance. It is the only sign of the zodiac that is not an animal or a human. Which makes it unique in it's own right. The scales or balance is associated with... The Judgment The sign for Libra is associated with the rising sun. It is a semi-circle (the sun) with a line under it that represents the horizon (Hor I Son--Horus Rising). It is also very similar to the Greek letter omega, which means "The End". In astrology, Libra is represented by a pair of scales or what can be called a "Balance". The scales, or "balance" is also very connected to the beginning of Egyptian Mythology. When a person died, they were lead to the "Hall of Maat" where their heart (conscience) is weighed against the feather of Maat (truth and justice). The Egyptian believed the heart was the center of all consciousness, even the center of life itself. When someone died it was said that their "heart has departed." It was the only organ that was not removed from the body during mummification. In the Book of the dead, it was the heart that was weighed against the feather of Maat to see if an individual was worthy of joining Osiris in the afterlife In the "Hall of Maat", Anubis appears on behalf of the diseased. It was Anubis who saw that the beam of the great scale was in the proper position as he supervises the weighing of the heart of a deceased person against the feather of Maat. Now, if we look even deeper into the meaning of the heart and feather, some interesting facts emerge. The heart IS the gateway to the universe. See www.danwinter.com. But what about the feather? And why the feather? Maat (truth). In Egyptian mythology, goddess of truth, daughter of the sun god Ra. Her name is represented by an ostrich feather. Her presence is indicated in "The Weighing of the Heart" in The Book of the Dead in which the feather of truth is usually found over the balance scales and also appears as the weight against which the heart is weighed. Egyptian judges in Ptolemaic and Roman periods were often portrayed wearing an amulet of Maat around a cord on their necks as emblems of their office. One text describes the goddess: "Great is Maat, the mighty and unalterable." The feather from an Ostrich, it is a twin feather. It has two feathers coming out of one quill. Today we are all aware that the symbol for Law and the courts (where all the "judges" hang out) is a balance. Think about it, law and order has always been associated with the scales. But in ancient times, the scales were also associated with "The Harvest". The end of the growing season, and time to "reap" the eternal bounty of the land. In a spiritual tone, the harvest represents the harvest of souls into the kingdom of God. This happens to be what Christians call "Judgement Day". There is another symbol for Maat. It is a horizontal bar with the left end cut in a wedge shape. Deities are often seen standing on this symbol, as if standing on a foundation of Maat.

Sunrise Solstice