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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 pure inspirational wisdoms and the joyful magnificence of the Natural World were embodied in the Salmon Animal Totem, who acquired knowledge about everything by feeding on Rowan Berries. By partaking of the essential magic of the Salmon, the magician gained mystical learning, magical understanding, and sublime expressive abilities in the creative arts of drama, poetry, prose, and song. 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. 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.
When some magicians travel in their spirit form,
they often have the ability to shapeshift, to change their shapes, and to make
themselves visible to others. Since their spirit bodies are malleable to their
thoughts, they often shapeshift into other forms such as birds, cat, dogs,
wolves, or the facsimile of another person.
Everyone has the ability to shapeshift when they travel in their astral bodies while their bodies are sleeping or at rest. Some magicians exercise this ability when they consciously journey about in their astral (spirit) bodies and use their mental focusing power to downstep their vibrations enough to be perceived visually by others in the third dimension who are in the waking state. Rarer still are magicians who actually assume the form of an animal, bird, or other creature by temporarily rearranging their molecular structure and shifting their shape. Many magical tales focus on the ability to undergo metamorphosis, to shapeshift 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...Go back
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