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From: searcher  (Original Message)Sent: 8/1/2001 1:29 AM
  I have been reading a lot on animal totems.  I began searching on this subject because of a couple of persistent dreams.  The dreams are of squirrels and I always hear crickets in the background.  The main theme is of the squirrel in the role of a teacher or a leader of sorts.  I prefer not to go into the rest of it here.  Anyway, I think it is pertinent to where I am in life today as she is comforting to me.  I moved into a house May 1st and spend many hours teaching my grandaughter of the squirrels in our yard and the neighborhood, so I don't know if this has any thing to do with the dream.  I am searching for the answer of animal totems, How do we choose them or they us? 


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From: Creesong ManitouSent: 8/1/2001 3:22 AM
Searcher......... I pray this helps you.  If you  have questions feel welcome to ask.
 
  • Every animal has a powerul spirit.
  • This spirit may be its own or that of a being who uses the animal image to communicate messages of the world to humans.
  • Every animal has its own talents. A study of its talents will reveal the kind of medicine, magic, and power it can help you to develop within your own life. {every animal has its speciality}
  • Lifelong power animals are usually wild not domesticated, animals.
  • The animal chooses the person, not the other way around. Many believe that they can just choose an animal and start communicating with it. Usually ego gets in the way at these times. The individual chooses the animal he or she believes to be most glamorous and powerful, rather than what is harmonious to the individual. The results are ineffective and often frustrating. No animal is worse than any other. Every animal's medicine is unique. You will find the greatest success in the animal that comes to you.
  • You must develop a relationship with your totem. To communicate with them demands respect. You must learn their point of view. Animals won't just warm up to you immediately. They must learn to trust you and your limitations, and you must learn to trust them and their limiations. This takes time, patience and practice.
  • You must honor your totem for its medicine to be effective in your life. The more you honor them-the more significance you give them within your life-the more powerful and effective they become. {your imagination is the real link to your totem}
  • Once you learn to work with the medicine of your power animal, it then becomes a doorway to connecting with others of the animal relm. You are not limited to just one totem. Each can teach or add something to your life that that others can't. Working with your power animal will help teach you how to align with others. Through your power animal, you learn to align with and shapeshift to the energies of other animals and beings.
  • Although there are one or even several totems that are the strongest in you rlife and remian with you through most of it, others do play a role. You may have a totem for a day. You may have a totem that assists you through a particularly rough period in your life.You are likely yo have different totems for different areas of your life. There's no limit to the totems you can work with. The key though is to connect strongly and fully with at least one. This expands the consciousness and opens the bridge to others more easily.
  • I also have animal listings and they tell of the totem animals..........

    Peace and love ................

     

     


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    From: Creesong ManitouSent: 8/1/2001 3:29 AM
    Searcher .......... here is the animal totem squirrel....... what its powers are and its power time.........
     

    Squirrel:

    • Activity and Prepaaredness
    • Cycle of Power: Year-Round

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    From: searcherSent: 8/1/2001 3:22 PM
    Thank you, Cree.  It seems that no matter what I read I learn more.  What you gave me here has a few things I had not read.  I am going to take my self teachings to one of the wise teachers from my past.  I believe the answer will be in his questions of me.  To go to him has been part of this dream. I have been to filled up in my own ego to make the amends necessary to do this.  Somehow my short contact with the readings on this site and a few others has cleared the shadows around this subject for me.  I thank you so much for the wisdom shared here and in other places.   searcher

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