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Bear as an Animal Totem connotated being vigilant in protecting family belongings, conserving the beneficial communal kinfolk resources, and ensuing that the rights of others were upheld. Possessing great strength coupled with great endurance, Bears hibernated for months during the wintertime, making them a Power Totem for safe and productive Dreaming. One of the most complex of Animal Totems, denoting death and rebirth, depictions of the Ravens speaking to humans have been found on the walls of ancient caves. The most common characteristic of Ravens, as Power Animals over the ages, has been as prophetic, truth speaking, Otherworld messengers. Often portrayed in this guise on coins and statuary, they acted as benefactors bringing beneficial and fruitful gifts, like insightful discrimination and truthful prophecy. The lasting beauty and noble carriage of the Mare stood for the possibility of joyful revival and renewed wholeness. The Mare was an Animal Totem lamppost, shining healing hope into the darkness of hurtful abandonment, traumatic betrayal, dangerous indignities, and hurtful wounds.
Many magical tales focus
on the ability to Shapeshift (Shapechange) or to morph or phase from the shape
of a human into that of an animal, bird, or fish for purposes of knowledge,
initiation, training, travel, reconnaissance, or escape.
The magicians believed that it was possible to shapeshift back and forth between the human and animal realms of existence. To them the ethers and dimensions were fluidic and malleable. If one could cognize the underlying matrix and reason for being of the hare, then one could become the hare at least for as long as one could hold the focus of "hareness". Even if one did not want to experience being a particular animal, acquiring some of the attributes of the animal might be desirable such as the swiftness of the hare. The magical transformation of the caterpillar to the butterfly attests to both the possibility and probability of the globally linked human being morphing into a cosmically resonant harmonic Being. Magical practitioners often forms close relationships with the spirit of one or more animals who instruct, protect, and guide them. As the unique bond between the magician and the power animal continues to grow the magician often takes on the spiritual attributes associated with that power animal to the point where the power animal almost becomes an alter ego. Magicians that shapeshift will often assume the shape of their primary power animal. Each power animal has distinctive traits which it embodies, for instance, the butterfly is identified with transformation, the bear with introspection, and the mountain lion with leadership...Continue on Go back
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