Totem Animals

My spiritual quest as drawn me down the Native American trail and I am feeling very much at home *grin. One of the things I feel a connection to is my Totem Animals. I didn't realize until I began studing more about them, that I actually have 9 Animal Guides. I have known for many years that Red Tailed Hawk was my right-hand and Main totem animal but I now realize that Giraffe is on my left-hand side and guides my feminine energy. Now I understand why I am so drawn to them.

Anyway I asked the spirits for guidance and they revealed to me my other 7 Totem Animals. They are:
Badger to the East
Spider to the South
Raven to the West
Armadillo to the North
Dog - Above
Wild Boar - Below
and Coyote - Within.

I was pretty surprised with some of these results, but it is about what they have to Teach Me, not whether I like them or think about them much. In time though I feel I will draw closer to them in some ways, if I leave myself open to what they have to show me.

Spider is one of the interesting ones because I am somewhat afraid of Spiders. However the South protects the Child within and helps to balance out your personality. Spider's strength as a totem is creativity and she represents infinite possiblities with her body shaped like an eight and her legs representing the 4 directions and the 4 parts of the wheel of time.

So in honor of this guide of mine, today I wrote a poem. I call it

ArachnoLove ( a play on acrachnophobia hehe)

Spider came to me
on a tangled web of words.

Now my head is full
of sticky threads.

8 pen strokes later,
I am no closer,

But my heart sings
with freedom.



~Caly D 2007


And so I create with Spider's help. 8-) I truly feel that if I walk this Path sincerely, I will find the balance in my life that I seek. In the weeks and months to come I hope to explore each of my Animal Totems fully and will certainly write about what I find.

For those that read this blog, Enjoy