Thread: What's Your Totem

Wonderful. My husband has a panther and the other day I got up to put the coffee on and tripped over the darn thing. Got a nice scratch for that one. Lately I have been surrounded by a white wolf and think it is time to commune with it.

I can't touch mine. He only shows up in the back of my eyes when I close them. But I gave him a hug once and I can feel him when I concentrate.

SWM that was me you were hugging LOL !

cool reread Redhand's post suggestions and it will come don't be surprised if you have more than one

Originally Posted by SWM

I can't touch mine. He only shows up in the back of my eyes when I close them. But I gave him a hug once and I can feel him when I concentrate.

Have patience. All will come in good time.

I remember reading somewhere when I was younger that a totem may desert you if you tell them to someone.
I now think differently but I still ask them for permission to tell.
The wolf is proud to be named but the others from the small menagerie like being anonymous.

I don't think my totem would like me mentioning anything if he wasn't so sleepy all the time. Its winter you know. The more I try to interact with him the sleepy I get. Comes with the territory I guess. I guess I'll ask him if he minds me talking about it...

Originally Posted by SWM

I don't think my totem would like me mentioning anything if he wasn't so sleepy all the time. Its winter you know. The more I try to interact with him the sleepy I get. Comes with the territory I guess. I guess I'll ask him if he minds me talking about it...

They do not mind, but just ask them if it is okay. They usually love the attention they get. Sensitive people will see them anyway and some will be too scared or embarrassed to mention they happened to see a five hundred pound grizzly bear looking out your window.

For a long time I've always thought myself to be akin to the element of fire. But a friend of mine explained to me in detail why I would be of the element of air. So likewise I always thought myself akin to the Wolf but I think I am more akin to a Peregrine Falcon. No other animal stands out in my mind as being more majestic. The way it attacks, quick & hard, the path it knows it must take or die trying, the verge of seriousness yet the carelessness and boundlessness of being free and limited only by the boundaries of the sky itself. It is for that reason I think I am akin to the Peregrine Falcon.
I do notice that it isn't on their little list of Totems though.
Such is my way...

Originally Posted by agedone

For a long time I've always thought myself to be akin to the element of fire. But a friend of mine explained to me in detail why I would be of the element of air. So likewise I always thought myself akin to the Wolf but I think I am more akin to a Peregrine Falcon. No other animal stands out in my mind as being more majestic. The way it attacks, quick & hard, the path it knows it must take or die trying, the verge of seriousness yet the carelessness and boundlessness of being free and limited only by the boundaries of the sky itself. It is for that reason I think I am akin to the Peregrine Falcon.
I do notice that it isn't on their little list of Totems though.
Such is my way...

I have a question. What makes you think you can not also be akin to the element of fire, you can have more than one totem although there are some who are happy to deal with the one. I have as I said a spider for the strength of her web and the hawk for the keen eye, strength and lightening fast abilities and the compassion to make the kill quick. You may find one day without knowing why, another totem will make itself known.

I think things of that nature are less encouraged to open up to me than they ought to be. I guess you could say I have something of a "Stand Alone Complex" but I am trying to change my ways as of late and open up to my higher self.