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Corn Planting Moon (Deer) May 21- June 20 People born under the Cornplanting Moon, which falls between May 21 and June 20, have the moss agate as their totem in the mineral kingdom, the yarrow as their totem in the plant kingdom and the deer as their totem in the animal kingdom. Their colors are white and green, and they are of the Butterfly elemental clan. Their stone, the moss agate, is a fibrous form of chalcedony, or cryptocrystalline quartz. In all agates the colors of the stone are distributed either haphazardly or in curved bands. In the case of moss agate, the bands of color are distributed in such a way that the stone looks as though it contains preserved moss. Until this century people believed that the patterns were caused by moss. Scientific analysis showed the "moss" to be manganese oxide, iron or other minerals. The most common form of moss agate now is translucent white quartz with green moss within or whitish or bluish quartz with black moss. Moss agates are found in most parts of the country and in other places in the world. They are most commonly found in the beds of streams and rivers. The moss agate is a healing stone. It used to be considered most beneficial for the eyes, but it has also been used, in pendulum style, to heal other parts of the body. Some people have carried moss agate in their pockets or on their persons in order to experience its healing properties. Since the stone appears to contain delicate vegetation, it has been considered to be a link between the mineral and plant kingdoms, enabling its owner to have a better understanding of both of these. The ancient peoples believed that keeping moss agate pebbles in the mouth would allay thirst. They also felt that, because of the stone's ability to connect the mineral and plant kingdom, it had particular powers for helping rain to come when the plants were in need of it. For this reason, they used the stone in some of their ceremonies to invite rain. Like their stone, Deer people have particular healing abilities, if they learn to develop them. People in this totem can have abilities in almost any field if they are willing to work at getting them. These folks, like the moss agate, are beneficial to the eyes of those around them. Deer people like beauty, and they like to make their environments beautiful. They are often capable of creating things of beauty out of very ordinary materials. With these abilities, homes, offices or other places that Deer people go will become more attractive places to be for anyone involved with them. People of this totem, like their stone, have special abilities to link up their minds with their relations in the mineral and plant kingdoms. They are usually attracted strongly to both plants and minerals, and they have the talent for bringing representatives of these two kingdoms together in many attractive ways, whether in a terrarium or in a garden. People of the Deer are most comfortable when they can spend at least part of their time in the mountainous or hilly country where the Earth Mother has joined together the other elements with which they feel a special closeness. |
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Yarrow, the plant totem for the people of the Deer, is a beautiful, useful and versalite plant. It is very prolific. Yarrow can be found in almost any exposed area, be it in the city or the country. It has a strong scent and a sharp, astringent taste, due to the tannic and achilleine acid it contains. It is a perennial, with leaves that are finely divided into numerous narrow divisions making it almost look like a fuzzy fern on a stem. Its leaves are one of the first ones out during the spring, and, by summer, it can grow to three feet tall. Its white flowers bloom most of the summer. They grow on top of the stalk in small, numerous heads which from a flat-topped arangement. The flowers can measure up to one foot across. Yarrow, in the European tradition, is called Achillea millefolium, after Achilles, of Greek history, who is credited with discovering the medicinal values of the plant, though it is likely people in this country knew of them quite some time before. The Ojibwa people called yarrow wabeno-wusk, herb of the dawn or herb of the East Wind. The whole part can be used medicinally. Native people here used it as a tonic for those who were run-down or had problems with their digestive tract. Yarrow will keep up your strength while cleansing your blood, opening up your pores to allow for elimination of toxins through the skin, and soothing your mucous membranes. Because of these qualities, yarrow is very useful for colds, flu and related diseases. Taken when you first get a cold, yarrow can sometimes rid you of it within twenty-four hours. Yarrow will also work as a diuretic, if you are in need of one, but it will not have this effect if you are not. It is also useful during pregnancy and at birth to prevent hemorrhage. Externally, yarrow acts as a local anesthetic and disinfectant. If you chew a leaf and put it on a mosquito bite, it will soon relieve the itch and discomfort. It is purported to help relieve toothaches when chewed. Achilles said that the juice put in the eye will relieve redness. People from the Orient use the stalks of the yarrow when they cast their I Ching. The yarrow can be useful to people of the Deer, as they are often prone to diseases of the lungs, glands and bronchial tubes. While Deer people are in good balance, these diseases will usually not be more serious than colds or flus that strike them in their respiratory system. Yarrow is excellent in helping to cure these. Externally, yarrow is also good for them in helping to anesthetize and disinfect the bumps and scratches they sometimes get when they loose control of their energy and jump too quickly, often bumping their bodies into things that hurt. |
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How much like Deer people their herb is! They, too, are useful and versatile people, concerned with bringing beauty to the world that they inhabit. They can be found all over the place, in just about any exposed area, doing any variety of work or play. Like yarrow, they are easy to spot because of their versatility. Deer folks, like their plant, can be astringent. They sometimes have a cutting edge to their humor, especially if they feel themselves cornered in any way or if they have ventured into a field with which they are not quite comfortable. While their outsides seem made of honey, they are quite capable of having a stream of vinegar running through them. Deer people, like yarrow, are a tonic to those around them. Usually, their energy is so high that it can float a couple of other people along in its wake. Deer people make good friends who will help you to keep up your strength through any problems that you encounter. They will encourage you to open yourself up to them and to life and to let out anything that is bothering you. As long as you do so in an interesting way, they will be more than happy to listen to all you have to say. But don't get repetitious with your Deer friends. Their minds race around too fast to allow them the natural patience to listen to the same problems over and over again. When you finish, sometimes before, they will start to soothe you with their real concern and various charms. Deer folks really like people, and they will sincerely try to make any of their friends feel better, no matter what the problem. They do get a little nervous, though, if you get into any area that they consider too personal or too deep. They feel that if they listen to you open up in such an honest way, you will expect them to do the same. And Deer people, for all their gregariousness, are very slow to open the depths of their beings to any other person. Deer people do have the gift of gab. They like to talk about any subject, with anyone, unless the subject is too personal, at which time they will change the topic of conversation so easily and charmingly that you won't even notice they forgot to answer that question about themselves and their lives. |
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Like yarrow and their stone, the moss agate, Deer people can be healers fairly easy. Like both of these totems, they have a special gift for helping to clear up and heal the eyes of people they work with, enabling them to see things more clearly. Yet they frequently don't have the ability to see clearly themselves because their eye is so busy roving from one idea to another that they don't take the time to really know the truth of any one thing. Being of the Butterfly clan increases this tendency of Deer people to jump quickly from one thing to another. All Butterfly people tend to spend a lot of time fluttering through the air, examining one thing after another and never really being quite ready to settle into anything. However, the moon of Deer people, the Cornplanting Moon, being the last moon of spring when things have settled into their pattern of growth, does help to bring them a bit of stability and imparts to them some of the wisdom of Wabun, the Spirit Keeper of the East. At this time during the season of Wabun the seeds are in the ground, having germinated and begun to take on their proper shape and form. Wabun's gift of illumination comes to Deer people most easily when they have learned what their proper shape and form are. The colors of the Deer people are white and green. Their white is the translucent white of formlessness, of the space where anything seems to be possible. It is the white of a child coming into the world in perfect purity and innocence. As this white contains within itself all of the other colors, Deer people tend to contain myraid possibilities in themselves. Their green is the green of nature, of healing and restoring. However, their green can turn into a color of self-righteousness, of a person who wants his own opinions always to prevail. The animal totem of those born during the Cornplanting Moon is, of course, the deer, that sensitive, graceful and alert creature who brings beauty and joy to all who see him. In this country we have three main species of deer: the mule deer, the white-tailed deer and the black-tailed deer. Each tends to inhabit a separate area, with the mule deer living in all western states and Canada; the whitetail mainly living in the East, although some, mainly transplants from eastern herds, are in California and the Northwest; and the blacktail living in the Cascades and the Sierra Nevada. All of these deer are fairly adaptable, although the blacktail has a decided preference for forested areas. While there are some differences in sizes and habits of these three types, they all tend to range between two and four feet at the shoulder and between fifty anf four hundred pounds. The whitetail is the smallest, and the mule is usually the largest. The whitetail is named that because it has a tail white on the underside, which it raises and uses to flash signals to its compatriots. The blacktail has a black tail, and the mule deer has large ears, which look almost like those of a mule. Deer have a bleating voice, sometimes resembling that of a sheep. They snort when excited, squeal when under attack or in pain, and do sometimes have a special bleat with which to call their fawns. Black-tailed and white-tailed deer move in a series of graceful bounds, while the mule deer has a kind of stiff-legged jump. The basic body color of the white-tailed deer and mule deer is reddish brown in summer, becoming gray in winter. Black-tailed deer are dark brown or dark gray, with white underparts. The fawns of all deer are spotted when they are born, as a measure to protect them while they lie in camouflage for the first six to eight weeks of life, until they are able to run with their mothers. Fawns are born without a scent, in order to afford them further protection. |
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Bucks have sets of antlers which they loose every year and then regrow. It is said that they loose them to keep them weak while the fawns are young so they will not bother the does or fawns. They loose their antlers in January or February and don't have a full set back until the mating season in late fall. While the antlers are growing and are in the soft, velvet stage, the bucks have to be careful, as the growing antlers are full of blood and very delicate. The growth process saps some of their physical vitality. Deer live in herds, or small groups with others of their own sex, except for the mating season. During this time bucks are very single-minded in their activities. Unlike other members of the deer family, they don't try to attract a harem. They bound from doe to doe, depending on the interest of the females. During this season bucks who have been great friends during the early part of the year often enter into combat with their now fully grown antlers. Usually the combat is not fatel, unless the horns get locked and the bucks starve. After mating, deer herds are usually led for the winter by an older doe. In the spring the does give birth, often to twins or even triplets. These multiple births sometimes cause overpopulation, and then in lean winters, when the leaves, shoots, buds, roots and grass are scarce, many deer die of starvation. Their predators are cougars, coyotes, dogs, bears, bobcats, forest fires, humans and automobiles. It is estimated that over 400,000 deer are killed annually on highways and other roads. Like their totem, Deer people are sensitive, graceful, fast-moving and alert. They are by nature intuitive, and this helps them to sense easily the feelings of other people, at least those on the surface. Since their own feelings move so quickly, they have usually experienced most of the moods that others can be in. This helps to give them their ability to listen, even with only one ear, and still understand what their friends and associates are feeling. They frequently find it difficult to listen fully to others because their own thoughts and feelings are sparked by what the other person is saying. Their own thoughts begin to move by them so quickly that they feel they just have to express them before they get away completely. Yet Deer people are usually so graceful in the way they bring their own feelings into the conversation that you often don't even realize you are being interrupted. Because of their alertness, Deer people will sense when they are interrupting too much and will stop and listen more closely, so that you don't ever go away with the feeling that you haven't been given their best attention. The need for beauty around them really runs deep within Deer people. They like to be surrounded by beautiful scenery or homes and by people that they sense are beautiful on some if not all levels. This does not mean that they will only have physically beautiful people around them. These folks are intuitive and sensitive enough to know that beauty can be within as well as without. And, like the deer, these people do often bring joy to those who know them. They want to be able to do this for others, since they understand that joy is necessary in order for people to appreciate the beauty of the world. |
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Deer people are clever, resourceful and creative. They know how to make something beautiful out of the most simple materials, both on a physical and an emotional level. They are often artists in some medium, or musicians, and this art brings a real sense of fulfillment to their souls. Sometimes this will be manifested in unique ways. Perhaps they will create culinary works of art, perfect herbal tinctures or magnificently conceived theories, rather than oil paintings or watercolors. The medium doesn't matter to them as long as they can create and as long as the result is something of beauty. Emotionaly, Deer people are able to draw the beauty out of those around them, by their true concern, their sensitivity, and their cleverness. They really see the beauty in other people, and they always try to find ways to reflect this to the other. Like the Deer, these folks have a wide range of sounds they make, and they usually voice themselves in an enthusiaastic way. This enthusiasm is contagious. When a Deer person starts laughing, often everyone in the room is in stitches. Sometimes Deer people share another trait with their totem that does not always have positive results for them. Because they like so many people so much, they often find it difficult to settle in one relationship. There are so many people they find attractive that it is sometimes almost impossible for them to choose just one. This is true of both men and women of this totem, although it is often more pronouncedin the male. Like the deer, these folks also enjoy being with people of their own gender, sharing the special qualities that they have in common with them. Deer people have lessons that they must learn about being able to find a relationship in which they can be comfortable enough to open up the parts of their beings that they usually try to hide from others. They also need to learn to value some consistency in their life, or they can spend all of their time jumping from one idea to another, without ever really accomplishing what they want to. They find it difficult to balance their time and their energies and to organize their lives in an effective manner. If they don't learn how to do these things, they can make themselves prone to diseases that will slow them down forcibly or to conditions in which their bodies become as jumpy and nervous as their minds can be. If they don't learn to find people to whom they can open, they may also become prone to blockages in their systems. Deer people make loving parents, although they sometimes have quite an adjustment in matching their pace to that of a child. Like does, Deer people may want to leave their babies in a safe camouflage while they go about the business of their life, coming back only when it is time for nurturing and loving them. Deer men have more of a problem with parenthood than do the women. It seems foreign to them and they have to make a real effort to involve themselves with the process of a babie's growth. When the child is older and able to run with the parents, both are happier with the situation. Deer children, being sensitive and intuitive, as well as creative, are usually able to amuse themselves a good part of the time. They also like to amuse others and give them joy, much as older Deer people do. Like fawns, they can easily blend with their surroundings and keep themselves quiet so that no harm comes to them from any quarter. Since they are often quiet, easily amused and amusing, Deer children make the model children that all parents wish they had had. While people of this totem find it easy to get along most with other people, they are particularly compatible with Raven and Otter people, their Butterfly clan relations, and with Red Hawk and Sturgeon people, of the Thunderbird clan. Their complement is the other of the Thunderbird clan, Elk people. When people of other moons find themselves in this position, they will discover something of their own abilities to be more sensitive, fast-moving and appreciative of beauty in all of its forms. They will also discover the strengths and weaknesses that come from having life's energy run through them so quickly. |
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