There's been several indications that my spirit animal is a wolf. (My crainosacral therapist did not know that, yet she saw it today.)
And today I had a vision of a wolf running through the forest.
He is going somewhere, but he is not rushing, and he does not have a target or goal. He is completely present.
Thinking about it later, I realized the difference be goal-oriented living and goal-free living...
Goals make complete sense... when you know exactly where you're going... and you know every feature of the landscape ahead!
Which is why goal-free living is becoming more popular and much more sensible in the past decade or two: We are clearly "not in Kansas any more" on this planet. And those of us who have noticed the landscape change on us every minute have slowed a bit, and we are going along on intuition day by day, for it is the only thing that works.
A wolf has his own concept of goals, very different, but perfectly meaningful nevertheless.
ReplyDelete"Intuition is the intelligence we don't know we possess."
Say, Eolake, does that mean that deep inside, you are a predator? ;-)
Well, my witch says I'm a hunter.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to find a positive spin on that.
... Well, she didn't exactly say that, she was just riffin' on the wolf thingy.
ReplyDelete"My witch says I'm a hunter."
ReplyDeleteSounds as if you spend too much time in RolePlaying conventions. The funny thing is, we know this has nothing to do with make-believe! Who said you couldn't joke seriously?
"Lucid Twilight"... sounds like a poetic indian name. :-)
Regarding intuition, I believe animals usually do not have the equivalent of "our" word-formulated thinking, so their inner world must be much closer to a universe of "intuition", in which instinct takes part.
And we can only find harmony if we acknowledge and accept our animal part as well as our "purely human" intellectual part. ("Purely human" being open to debate.) Just like our body and mind are a unity.
The deep harmony between my cat and me, in spite of the great difference in what we are, convinces me that the only thing keeping us from co-existing with our fellow humans is a huge unwillingness to open up. (This includes common selfishness, naturally.) Me, I feel I must be a feline, but I'm not sure yet. I couls also be a usually lone black-and-white wolf roaming a vast planet where there are no cities, only peaceful people living close to nature. Perhaps a tiger?...
Notice how very few people ever perceive themselves as being a snail, a jellyfish or a dung-beetle? We're always something kewl in our own eyes. :-)
L.T., it is very important to be able to laugh at oneself, even for being a fool. It's a mark of harmony.
Humor is always a very serious thing. ;-)
"Notice how very few people ever perceive themselves as being a snail, a jellyfish or a dung-beetle? We're always something kewl in our own eyes. :-)"
ReplyDeleteWell, I know a guy whose spirit animal is a frog.
Some frogs are so pretty and colorful... and toxic, too, that they can be dead kewl. Look at an Amazonian fauna atlas...
ReplyDeleteI always wonder ... are the people living in Kansas still in Kansas?
ReplyDeleteThey think they are, but they're really not.
ReplyDeleteI think my spirit animal is a deer. Their litheness, agility, grace, they are all around our house, and when they leap through the woods, amazingly they are silent. So beautiful. I want to be a deer.
ReplyDeletere. goals. My goal is to establish myself in the new dimension. It has to do with the power of abiding in the place where I've found myself to be free, and holding fast, despite all forces that would pull me off.
From this place, life is always so new and charged with .... understanding. And humor.
It's a fulltime occupation, holding fast to this place in the face of (at times) immense pressures.
Eolake, in this dimension the wolf plays with the deer and both finds its food source elsewhere :)
laurie
O deer.
ReplyDeleteYou sure you wouldn't enjoy being mauled a little?
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