What Are Animal Totems ? by Jan Toomer

These are our animal guides in this lifetime; and just like our guides, we usually have at least one that is with us through out this entire lifetime.

We also have ‘specialty’ animal totems that show up during different times in our life to help: lend us support; bring inspiration, or a message; or lend energy.

For example: Big cats (ie the Mountain Lion) and Dolphin have been with me for a very long time. These are the types of energies I needed in this lifetime; they help support and guide me.

Giraffe came through once during a reading I had received from a psychic; its message was for me at that time in my life.

What are some ways for you to find out about your animal totems?

1. You can have a reading done by someone who can ‘see’ animal totems.
2.You can use ‘Medicine Cards’ – or go to someone who uses these cards.
3. (This is my favorite!) You can discover it yourself!

Life totems:
Think back over your life. What is one animal (can include insects, etc) that has captured your attention (or imagination) throughout your life?

For me, I could never wait to see the mountain lion or dolphin at the zoo or aquarium. The anticipation of seeing them made my whole body buzz – and when I finally got to see them, I was totally at peace and could spend hours just sitting and watching them.

Do you collect statues, statuettes, figurines or pictures of one particular animal?

Or do you repeatedly dream of one animal?

These could all be clues.

‘Specialty’ totems:

Today, as I drove out to the dentist’s, I saw Lizard. He was animatedly racing across a street.

When I was returning home, a Rock Dove literally flew around my car – as in encircling - as I was driving down the road.

I do not see both of these out and about on a regular basis, so I know to pay attention and find out what messages they carry.

When I came home, I pulled out my trusty “Animal-Speak” by Ted Andrews (love that book!); and found that Lizard’s “Keynote” is “Subtlety of Perception”. Andrews writes that one Lizard message is to listen to my “own intuition over anyone else’s”; very apropos for me at this time.

As for Dove – “Feminine Energies of Peace, Maternity, and Prophecy” – and Andrews writes “mourn what has passed, but awaken to the promise of the future.”

Now, I have only shared a tiny bit of each animal’s entry – (Andrews writes a lot more on each animal) – sharing what parts ‘spoke’ to me.

My husband and I keep this book handy and whenever we have an encounter with a critter, we look it up to see what message it has brought to us.

So, as you go through your day, watch to see what animal brings you a message. Thank them, and look that animal up to see what it means to you today.

June 13, 2009

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URGENT - HELP NEEDED my sister Magdala Ramirez (Mayan Priest) under attack from KKK (KuKluxKlan)

Dear Ones ,

I send this letter from Magdala to you in request for support in whatever ways you are capable...

prayers are needed , as much as they can get,

and if you know someone in that area ( Arkansas-Harrison and surrounding), please get the word round , so that

we can help practically with this as well.

Please help...

Love Always,

Dagmar


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Beautiful Ones

The temple of the feminine and the Great Mother is under attack and I need your help.

Here is the situation:

As soon as the temple 12+1 was finish, the temple of the feminine, in the place where the waters comes out in ARK, we were cleaning outside of the temple when this woman in horse and dog appeared, (never seen her before) she had a gun in her hand and treating to kill me. My reaction came out from my heart, I stand up to her, and I told her out loud, this is a sacred land! If you want to shoot me, Shoot!!! I am ready! But you are not welcome in here! The woman begin to shout, nerves and crazy like, still pointing at me, when I repeat again, Shoot! I am ready! This temple is sacred! In that moment my wolf went after her dog and that created a distraction in the woman, so I told her again “ if you are going to shoot, shoot! I am ready, if you are not going to shoot, get out of here! The woman, crying and cursing, left…..

But… she has friends… politician and money powerful friends, who hate what I do in here in the spiritual work with women and men, he hates that I am a woman and not white, a man that owns a lot of properties where he cut the old trees and take them into a big saw mill. he came shouting to me and one of my sisters, angry, rude, cursing,…etc… he convinced the judge, the Newton county judge his name is John Griffin, with lies that this was a county road, and that everyone is welcome to come in into our ceremonial grounds, the road that enters into my property where the ceremonial places and the temples resides.. Where now, we have many people passing shouting f….. Indians! Shooting to the temples, passing with alcohol, drunk, saying all kinds of things …about the work that I do with the women…. (sisters took pictures)

John Griffin came before, and told me, you are right, your paper work that shows the road that you made, as well as the maps, are right, is just that you have a powerful enemy…. I thought truly that the judge will be honest and not allow that injustice of the man and lover to happened, but I was wrong, he did declare this road a county road (a road that does not go to no place) based on a lie, saying that they “the county have always maintain this road” which is not true, and the evidence is everywhere, that the same judge saw, even the ditch where my phone was put underground still is open, it was a friend that opened that ditch, the Judge even add, at the bottom of his letter “call the sheriff if you have any problem”… which he knows about the woman with the gun and all the people passing shouting, cursing and shooting to the temples, that was a bad sarcasm, for the sheriff already knows what is going on, and nobody did anything, because this man is involve in it… In this town the KKK is very strong….

I have try to appeal the judge decision, but the lawyers are 175 an hour, that I do not have, or, they do not want to fight a case of Magdala Ramirez versus Newton County….they are afraid to do it, … I only have until July 2 to appeal.

All this looks like the story wants to be repeated, in the ancient temples of the feminine, where the women became the holy spirit, and the woman that wasn’t accepted in the temple, brought her friends to destroy those temples and massacre the women. It is not that time anymore, For the Great Mother is talking out loud, and cannot be silence, cannot be hidden anymore, The great mother is standing and bringing the teachings of the new world just unfolding… everywhere!

Many ceremonies we have made asking for protection…

I am calling to all the light workers to help, I have no idea how to do this, no idea who is the Senator of ark, of Newton County, to whom to speak, to whom to defend the ways of the mother, or how to do this, we need a lot of prayings…

… the only thing that I am sure, is that mama will never stop singing, the ceremonies will go on, and I will stand up and say it again to the people “This land is sacred, in here many people have found their sacredness, and the voice of the mother, I am woman and I am sacred!

…They really do not know what they are doing…

In lakesh

I am your other you

Magdala

Awakening The Feminine , message from my dearest sister Magdala Ramirez

Beautiful Ones

I want to share with you what happened in the priestess hood awakening, It happends at the temple 12+1 in the fist awakening of the school of enlightenment of the feminine

Bringing back the teachings of the ancient school has been so powerful and challenging, for we are again in the time where the cycles is being accomplish, one ending and another one beginning. The time has come to awake those teachings inside of the human being… and women, as it was in the ancient times are leading the way…
But we are not in the same conditions as it was before, in the ancient times women grow up knowing the way for the abuelas make sure to hold on into the teachings, teachings that pass on generation to generations for they teach the girls, and through their wombs, hidden in the mother, the teachings were able to be maintain and sustain, in order to be able to awakened now, when those teachings have became very powerful.

The ways of the feminine, is not given only for a tribe, for the feminine is able to bear this knowledge all over the world. We have come here not to destroy any religion or tradition, but to consummate them, for the feminine knowledge is not bounded into the male ways. For long time people have use tradition and religion to separate and create wars and create more separation of the separation, now, human being is able to understand that unity comes from within, through an integration of the self, for this is happening all over the world, the entering into the world of the enchanted flower is through embracing who you are….

So, what happened in the priestess hood awakening, in the remembering the ancient teachings of the feminine? Well, beautiful 12 women came into the land where the waters comes out from the womb, 5 days took us to enter into the world of the fifth, five intensive days that felt in some days slow as the intensity was happening…. For they have come with their stories, with their bondaries and perceptions, with their backgrownd hanging, big bag of things, but also the intent of awake a powerful being, the woman-hood in the perfect expression, and they did, here is a picture of them…


The path was tuff, it was hard to get there, there were sisters that opened the doors for the other sisters, and trust was everywhere… for the journey was long, it took around 500 hundred for some or 1000, 2000 years… for others…

But the temple was accomplish, and waiting for them…

As all the sisterhood became integrated, the work became much more intense, the place of the mirrors began to make roots for the integration was taking place, by the second day at the temple…

Tree ceremonies in the kiva took place to complete, the rain began, and didn’t stop until was accomplish, but the sisterhood hold it together, and they learn to dance in the mudd, for they needed to learn the place where they were standing…. This is a pictue of the kiva ceremony…
Spirits were everywhere, for so mannnny women have been waiting for this moment, so we have a big big big crowd of spirits, as the ceremony got more and more powerful the spirits began to arraive to the land, My sister, my witness, took many pictures during that time, the temple of the union of polarities, the mama’s garden, all were full of beautiful spirits, (you can see them at the web site too) …

But anyway, as it was in my tribe, many of the teachings were done in the kitchen, there, where the tamales were done, and here is our kitchen….

As the third day entered, the new shift came with it, for the sacred dance was awaken and the many faces were recognize…. Integration was taking place, was so needed for the entering into the fifth world, the world of the enchanted flower is through using the unique key, the perfect tunning, the perfect alienation of where the heart is, for divine order is everywhere….

The forth day, the awakening of sacred geometry, and the bridal chamber took place, frustration came into the sisterhood, and the embracing the frustriacion and confusion took place… All were prepare for our last kiva, the purification of the third masculinity, for now, was the time to jump, into the world of the enchanted flower, and the knowledge of the tree of life had been awaken, and the creation and recreation, alredy into that new world, the roots were planted in the new world, and the teachings, were done, in the temple 12+1, kiva, and of course, the kitchen… and the fulfillment, the accomplishment of the teachings, in the world of the enchanted flower… We overcome, everything that was stopping the women to get it, for in the world of the enchanted flower is the realm of the absence of fear, the total entrega was taking place, nothing could stop the warrioress, the holy ones, to enter, for they needed to became a bridge, a living bridge for the many, it was intense, and so powerful, the seed was place in this new world, and most of the women, were ready. The sky finally clear, and mama moon came to great us, joy and purity was the door keepers, and witnessing the mama giving birth to the new women, and taking care of the seed…

That night, was so sacred, for the calling back to the temple of the 12+1 was in silence, the whole place was into ascension, as the sacred dance was made with the moon…. I call upon my witness, for this needed to be shone to the world, people is ready, and do not need to wait for anybody, as people embrace their own ascencion, the new world is waiting in ceremony and celebration of life….

This are som

Thank you sooo much my sisters, Trisha, my witness, Patty Walker, Cherry, Sallie, Cory, Barb, Patrice, Cathy, Jaky, Joy, Elantra, Annie, and Nana!



In lakesh

Magdala