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July 4, 2015
Spirit Animals: LOVELY LADYBUG
The name “ladybug” is actually an American name for members of the insect familyCoccinellidae. Ladybugs also known as ladybird beetles or lady beetles. There are over 5,000 species of these typically red beetles often with black spots found around the world.
Ladybugs are Good Luck for FarmersThe meaning of ladybug spirit animal is closely associated first and foremost with good luck, but where does this idea come from?Ladybugs are well known amongst farmers and gardeners for their preference...
Spirit Animals – LOVELY LADYBUG
The name “ladybug” is actually an American name for members of the insect familyCoccinellidae. Ladybugs also known as ladybird beetles or lady beetles. There are over 5,000 species of these typically red beetles often with black spots found around the world.
Ladybugs are Good Luck for FarmersThe meaning of ladybug spirit animal is closely associated first and foremost with good luck, but where does this idea come from?Ladybugs are well known amongst farmers and gardeners for their preference...
June 26, 2015
The Pope and Our Sister, Mother Earth
Pope Francis is making newsby acknowledging that climate change is an urgent situation we must all face. The bigger breakthrough that news stations and bloggers are missing altogether is the way the encyclical, and thus the Pope, personifies the Earth. The Earth is called “Mother Earth,” “sister”, and “she”. I don’t know enough about the Catholic church to know if itis standard procedure to speak of the Earth in this way at the highest levels in a worldwide edict (please use the comments belo...
June 19, 2015
Spirit Animals: EAGLE, YOUR GRACE
The meaning of eagle spirit animal remains the same no matter where we look. Eagle spirit animal is the messenger of the gods and the lord of the birds. There are sixty species of eagles around the world and copiouslegends in every culture to match. Eagle is synonymous with the freedom, vision and enlightenment.
Eagle EyeEagle has a number of adaptations to hisvision that allow himto see anywhere from 4 to 8 times better than humans. He hasfive times more light-sensitive cells in his eyes,on...
June 15, 2015
Archetypes: THE SABOTEUR
The Saboteur archetype is one of the four survival archetypes identified by Caroline Myss in her work on Sacred Contracts. Each of us embodies the four essential survivor archetypes from birth to death. They are the foundation of what it means to be human. The survivors tend to matters of, you guessed it, our survival, but also our evolution. The lessons we gain from survival archetype struggles are what bring us into our divine nature, our authentic selves.
To Deliberately DestroyThe defini...
June 6, 2015
Spirit Animals: MYSTICAL WHALE
When exploring whale meaning it is important to understand that there are two distinct suborders of whales. There are the toothed whales (Odontoceti) and baleen whales (Mysticeti). There are 26 species of toothed whales including the famous orca (or killer whale), beluga, narwhal, and sperm. The 10 species of baleen whales includes the humpback, gray, blue, right, and bowhead whales. Determining if your whale spirit animal is toothed or baleen will help immensely becausethey carry differingsy...
How to: Summer Solstice Ceremony
The Summer Solstice happens every year on the 20th or 21st of June. For those of us in the northern hemisphere, it is the one day with the most daylight of all other days of the year. The sun is at its peak, the highest point in the sky. The rays of the sun are the brightest and warmest. The earth is tilted in a way that her face is aimedat the sun, basking in the heatlike an open sunflower. The word “solstice” comes from the latin words sol(sun) and sistere(stand still) because the sun appea...
May 29, 2015
Spirit Animals: MOTHER BEAR
There are 8 species of bear around the world that live in everything from tropical toarctic habitats. Bear behavior varies from aggressive, as with the grizzly and polar bear, to passive, i.e.the panda bear. The meaning of bear spirit animal is closely tied with the archetype of the cave. Every species of bear uses a cave or den during their lives be it for hibernation, bearing young, or retreatingfrom stormy weather.
Introspection in the CaveA naturally formed cave or den dug in the ground...
May 19, 2015
Spirit Animals: SUPREME SNAKE
Every single culture of man has more than onemythabout a snake and most societieshave a creation mythincludinga snake. Snakes and us, we go way back. Few animals reign supreme likethe snake in man’s psyche. To complicate things further, there are nearly 3,000 species of snakes in the world. They live in a wide variety of habitats from jungle to desertand can offer helpful pest control andcarry deadly venom. The symbolism of snake is considerably different depending on the species.
If you’ve d...
May 18, 2015
Archetypes: THE DETECTIVE
We often think of archetypes as careers at first, but they are actually bigger in that they are ways ofviewing and ways of being in the world. There aremore armchair detectives thanprofessional detectives. Any one of us can act like a detective and be under the influence of this way of thinking. Many people were born with the detective archetype and never literally become a detective, but they can’t help but investigate the people and situations in their lives.
Light Side of the DetectiveThe...
