Today’s Animal Medicine Card: Butterfly 9/28/08

B U T T E R F L Y
~Transformation~

Butterfly… that flutters
In the morning light,
You have known many forms,
Before you e’er took flight.
The power that Butterfly brings to us is akin to the air. It is the mind, and the ability to know the mind or to change it. It is the art of transformation.
To use [...]

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Today’s Animal Medicine: Weasel, Contrary 9/23/08

~ Weasel ~
S T E A L T H

Weasel…
Weasel…
Weasel…
Who’s in the hen house now?
If I were to ask you,
You’d say it was the Cow!!
Weasel has an incredible amount of energy and ingenuity, yet it is a difficult power totem to have. It is not without significance that ermine or weasel pelt is worn by royalty. [...]

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Today’s Animal Medicine: Crow – (9/21/08)

 
Well, now – doesn’t this feel fitting? I actually made an audible “hmm” when I flipped this card.  Crow has been extremely present in my life lately, particularly in the writing of The Void.  Crow is also one of my personal animal totems, dominating the realm of “Below”, wich assists with inner earth and grounding.  [...]

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Today’s Animal Medicine Card: Opossum, Inverted – 9/19/08

Opossum…
Roll over!
Are you really dead?
Or just playing Possum?
Was it something I said?
D I V E R S I O N
Opossum’s greatest form of protection is to play dead. In doing this Opossum confuses many a predator into believing that the game is over. Oftentimes the confused rival walks away or looks the other direction for [...]

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Today’s Animal Medicine Card: Turtle, Contrary – 9/18/08

This made me giggle.  Remember the other day when I said I couldn’t sleep because the dogs were barking like mad? I went out to see what they were all up in arms over, and it turned out to be a turtle.  Normally, when I encounter a critter like that, I’d come right in and [...]

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Today’s Animal Medicine Card: Lizard – September 17, 2008

 

Lizard… will you dream with me?
Travel across the stars?
Beyond the place of time and space,
There live visions from afar.
Lizard sat lolling in the shadow of a big rock, shading himself from the desert sun. Snake crawled by, looking for some shadow to coil up in and rest. Snake watched Lizard for awhile as Lizard’s eyeballs [...]

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Today’s Animagick: Eagle, Contrary – September 16, 2008

I have an instinctive and involuntary reaction to this card that should be noted.  Eagle is T’s most significant animal totem, and every time I see one, I reflect on him.  This card showing up inverted today triggers an awareness of the loss… That’s not to say it has anything to do with the card’s [...]

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NEW!! – Today’s Animagick: Coyote – September 15, 2008

Months ago, T had taken me to do a reading for a friend of his.  As a gratuity, she gave me a new deck of cards: Medicine Cards: The Discovery of Power Through the Ways of Animals by Jamie Sams & David Carson, Illustrated by Angela C. Werneke.  While I adored and connected with the [...]

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