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Totem Animals are much more than an animal you like or admire
the attributes of. They can come to you in your sleeping or waking dreams.
If you will listen, they are here to guide and help you. Totem Animals are
also known as Power Animals or Familiars. |
If you talk to the animals they will talk with you
and you will know each other.
If you do not talk to them,
you will not know them.
- Chief Dan George |
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Watch any animals so that you may learn
from them. Each animal has much to teach. They have four blessings
to give.
1. Study the life cycle rhythm of the animal to learn the times it is
more active, the times it is leased active, the time when it's more procreative
2. Study the adapt to behaviors of the animal. Some have physical attachments,
some have behavioral attachments.
3 study the basic potentials and skills of the animal. It has shown a
veneer like to say you have the same potentials and abilities, in these
are well were best for you at this time
4. Teaches something about the relationships within our lives. Take a
look at the other mammals with which shares for a particular environment.
Does it in antagonistic relationship, visit to tolerate one, with a completely
nor each other, Do not just take these meanings
as absolute truth for you.
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| Symbols
and meaning have been taken from Animal Speaks by Ted Andrews. Medicine
Cards by Jamie Sams, and other sources.
Alligator - integration, primal energies
of birth, motherhood, and initiation
Ant - patience
Antelope - action
Armadillo - boundaries
Badger - aggressiveness,
perseverance
Bat - rebirth
Bear - strength, introspection,
the power of the soul
Beaver - builder, strong
sense of family and home
Black Panther - embracing the unknown
Blue Herron - self reflection
Buffalo - prayer, abundance, endurance to overcome one's
weakness
Butterfly - transformation
Chameleon
- clairvoyance and auric sensitivity
Coyote - trickster, laughter, humor
Crow - keeper of the sacred law
Deer - gentleness, the power of gentleness
Dog - loyalty
Dolphin - manna of the universe
Dragonfly - illusion
Frog - cleansing, transformation through water and sound
Eagle - spirit, a connection of the Divine
Elk - stamina
Fox - camouflage, protection
Frog - invokes the spirit to bring rain
Goose - Call of the Quest and travel
to legendary places. The use of stories to take you on journeys.
Grouse - sacred spiral
Hawk - messenger
Horse - power, has the possession
of healing powers
Hummingbird - joy,
protects the child within
Jaguar - integrity, impeccability
Lizard - dream time
Lynx - secrets
Moose - self esteem
Mountain Lion
- leadership, resourcefulness
Mouse - scrutiny
Otter - woman medicine
Opossum - diversion
Owl - deception
Prairie Dog - retreat
Porcupine - innocence
Rabbit - fear
Raccoon - generous provider, protector
Ram - seeking new beginnings
Raven - magic
Salmon - wisdom, inner-knowing
Skunk - reputation
Snake - transmutation, life
death, rebirth
Spider - weaving
Squirrel - gathering
Swan - grace
Turkey - give-away
Turtle - longevity, a symbol
of Mother Earth
Weasel - stealth
Whale - record keeper
Wild Boar - confrontation
Wolf - teacher, pathfinder
on the journey of survival
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