Category: Animal Energies
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Lessons From the Ants – Today’s Animal Medicine
One of my cats is a food monitor. He lets me know whenever the food in their bowls gets below a certain acceptable level, or if the food has been out too long and has gone stale. When this happens, he’ll mew pitifully (which is so cute because he’s 18 lbs and has a kitten…
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Today’s Animal Medicine – Fox
Fox medicine is full of cunning and ingenuity. The fox is a very unique animal, combining canine and feline traits, as well as masculine and feminine traits, in the same animal. It’s adaptability is one if its strongest traits and in many cultures, fox is considered a shapechanger, often taking the shape of beautiful women.…
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Today’s Animal Medicine – Rabbit
Rabbit has played many roles in several different cultures. It’s better known qualities include it’s power of fertility. While Rabbit does have a speedy reproductive cycle, every 28 days, it has other associations as well. It is one of the 12 sacred animals of the Chinese zodiac and is considered a very auspicious sign. The…
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Today’s Animal Medicine – Meadowlark
Birds have a special place in animal medicine. They are denizens of the air, and, thus, often point to mental journeys that we’ll be taking, since mental activity belongs to the element of air. Their ease of motion and dominion over this element inspire us and spark in us creativity, long have human dreampt of…
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Today’s Animal Medicine – Spider
Okay, even though spider isn’t technically an animal, birds, insects, arachnids, reptiles and fish all have medicine too! Today we’re looking at arachnidae, the spider. While a lot of modern culture focuses on fearing spiders, they have long held a sacred and honored place with ancient cultures. Spiders have the unique trait of spinning and…
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Shapechanging – How to Part 2
In part 1 of this post we explored more earthly ways of connecting with animal energies. We talked about researching out animals, learning all about them, and bringing physical images of them into our lives through pictures and representations. Now we’re going to move into a more cerebral/mystical level. These techniques take time to master…
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Today’s Animal Medicine – Lion
Lions are hugely iconic animals in our modern society, often symbolizing nobility, majesty, pride, and ferocity. This is in keeping with more ancient associations of the lion with the sun and sun energies. Lions are unique in the cat world in that they live and work in family groups, referred to as prides. Another trait…
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Shapechanging – How To Part 1
Shapechanging is an ancient art originating with ancient peoples all over the globe. As such, there are a lot of different ways that you can learn to shapechange. Ancient rituals would sometimes include elaborate costumes, dance, and ritual but we’re going to concentrate on simpler and more every day methods that you can easily work…
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Today’s Animal Medicine – Badger
For this week’s animal medicine, we’re walking the thin line represented by badger. There’s a reason we say that some people can ‘badger’ you and become a nuisance, and we’re going to look at both the positive and the negative side of Badger medicine. Badgers are notoriously aggressive, often taking on predators that are traditionally…
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Shapechanging – What is it?
Long ago, our ancestors believed that people could change the shape of their mortal form into those of animals, plants, and even other people. Unfortunately, if ever that was true, those techniques have been lost to us and in modern usage, ‘shapechanging’ refers instead to the ability to change your energy form/aura/medicine into something different…
