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North is the place of the hereafter death. North is winter where everything lies still and dormant, where all life and knowledge exist in a state of suspended animation awaiting the hand of the Great Spirit to push forward to a new beginning. North is the place of knowledge, teaching, balance, abundance, sacred vision, thankfulness, drawing forth inner treasures, empathic intuition, trust, alchemy.

Gifts of the North:

Elders
Wisdom
Thinking
Analyzing
Understanding
Speculating
Calculation
Prediction
Organizing
Categorizing
Discriminating
Criticizing
Problem solving
Imagining
Interpreting
Integrating all intellectual capacities
Completion
Fulfillment
Lessons of things that end
Capacity to finish what we begin
Detachment
Freedom from fear
Freedom from hate
Freedom from love
Freedom from knowledge
Seeing how all things fit together
Insight
Intuition made conscious
Sense of how to live a balanced life
Capacity to dwell in the center of things, to see and take the middle away
Moderation
Justice

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