A Timeless Star Circle: The Bighorn Medicine Wheel

A night cloak of piercing stars lashed by frigid wind isolates a circle set in stone high in the Bighorn Mountains. Quiet to the night yet loud to the spirit, this ancient wheel holds the stories of those now gone from these mountains. Not just a stone circle but a star circle, it has held knowledge of Earth-Sky relationships for millennia while those who travel to visit it, have changed in form and culture. It has been 45 years since John Eddy’s research confirmed the solstice alignment at the Bighorn Medicine Wheel, launching this stone circle to global status as an archaeoastronomical site. In the 1980s, Jack Robinson refined Eddy’s work. Astronomy research then went silent for over thirty years until 2008 when Ivy Merriot began an odyssey that transcended science and culture. She discovered this high altitude stone circle can act as a mnemonic device capable of transmitting ancient sky knowledge by mirroring the sky itself as the language of translation.

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What a wonderful presentation.