Wow sounds like you had a beautiful time out in nature, soothing to the soul! It looks like a beautiful spot. The water would have been so calming and tranquil.
Yeah it was a lovely day out.
I always believed that one couldn't find a Crow feather, crows never dropped them. I haven't ever found one either I don't think. That's something I heard in the schoolyard when I was little. [emoji4] I think it adds to my respect and awe of them, and their mysteriousness.[emoji6] I've heard it said that they have the most annoying sound, but I love the call of a crow. One of my favourite birds. They are also one of the most intelligent!
I never knew that about crows, but I've found them in three different spots now.
I love the sound of their caw caw, wake upto it every morning, even find myself answering back sometimes lol.
I was doing some reading up on my spirit animal yesterday, the jaguar. I used to obsess over the wild cats, so I was surprised to find out some things I didn't know about this magnificent cat, things that have blown my mind and given me a new respect for this amazing creature.
(Admittedly the jaguar was my least favourite of the big cats, being harder to watch documentaries on this elusive creature, and also its stocky broad headed appearance wasn't as elegant or 'feline' as the leopard of similar appearance.)
So, humbled and somewhat embarrassed, I feel more connected to my spirit animal now, and more understanding of a rare and amazing big cat living in a beautiful part of the world that is sadly at risk of being destroyed by humankind. This awareness is amazing!
And when I connect with my spirit animal, I feel so grounded, he takes me out of my head (I'm an Airy Gemini) and into my body. And he's just so suited to be my teacher and guide, I can't believe it.
I could almost cry with joy that he is what he is, and is my animal spirit guide! [emoji4]
I enjoy meeting with my animal guides it's a very surreal experience sometimes, I have a black panther as my shadow animal ( I'm really not sure if black panther and jaguar are classed as the same) but I prefer referring to him as my black panther, he only shows up when I need to face fears that I'm not dealing with, I'm in the mind know that I have around 5 power animals, and the others that make them self known I like refer to them as my animal messengers, they will just come and go with a specific message, most of the time they like to be cryptic and I have to figure it out by what there doing what it is there trying to tell or show me, my black panther is the only one that actually speaks.
I'm a libra so an air sign aswell, the big cats are amazing creatures and such a shame that alot of their habitat is being destroyed, my lifelong animal guide is a tiger, I'm more drawn to snow tigers, interestingly though I have never seen my Tiger in any meditations, but he's always been with me since a child that's something I just know, alot of my messages come from the sense of knowing, getting a lot of visual messages is just a new thing for me over the last couple of years.
Its an interesting concept to meet with your 'perfect' self, Tigerangel.
I can't imagine meeting myself any different to what I am now, as I think I am how I am now on my journey just as its meant to be. The Universe is perfect and, although I aim to better myself for sure, and develop many and all aspects of myself, integrate shadow aspects and emotional charges, be less angry and more calm etc I essentially am perfect now for this moment, if you can understand what I mean. Which I think changes the meaning of perfect and so that might be all null. Because I certainly don't think I'm any image of perfection! [emoji4]
But of course I could meet my perfect self from the future, when I've sorted more of my stuff and am more complete.
I hope I haven't offended or said the wrong thing. If you could expand on the concept I'd like a better understanding as I've only given my limited opinion on the matter. Perfection was something I didn't think really existed.
Shamanic journeying and other shamanic spiritual stuff really interests me and I wish I had courses like what you are doing available to me (and I could attend them!)
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I think you've kinda misunderstood what I was saying about the perfect self thing, I didn't go into much detail about it, it's more being true to yourself, and I don't think I remembered the proper names when I posted it.
Your actually meeting with your true self and that is basically you going into a mediation and meeting who you where meant to be without any negative feelings, I don't for one second think that people are perfection, but if you try this mediation for yourself you might see that it is hard to actually do, as I did have to keep telling my ego self to shut up, before I could actually meet with my true self, sometimes people will meet with an image of their self or they can meet someone who is completely different for their physical appearance, my true self was different from me and I was going to say she, but that's wrong as it's actually an embodiment of myself without negative emotions, basically it's our true form of love, so I told myself 4 qualities that I have, other peoples true self's may just show them who they are it's different for everyone.
With the powerstack meditation it's to bring you into a energetic place where you are vibrations are of love, and the second stack is your protection animal which you never reveal to anyone, and the third one is the gate keeper animal who will regulate your energetic vibration for your best interest, so the gate keeper animal will either pull down you vibration if your in the company of energy vampires or negative people, or app it up if you giving out love to someone who needs it, I hope I'm explaining myself ok, it's kind of hard to explain properly.
So once you've meet with all three and merged them into you energy, that's you got your power stack on and if it done right it makes you feel more confident and able to deal with difficult situations that might come up, my teacher also says that you will also start to notice people reacting to you differently aswell, even strangers.
I'll try to explain the best I can on how to do the mediation, you can do it without drumming as all we used was our rattles, I have my own rattle that I made, but you can even use a box of tic tacs, or anything that makes a shaking sound.
So you would start by doing your rattling standing up and dance around to your rattle beat, then when you feel ready to journey you can either sit or lie, I prefer to sit in the lotus position or I fall asleep lol.
True Self Journey
You would go into a nature setting where you have only experienced positive emotions, or a nature sanctuary that you have created for yourself.
Once your comfortable in you nature setting and have took in everything that is around you, you can then ask for your true self to make herself/himself known to you.
If you start saying negative things to yourself that's your ego trying to get in the way, so you need to tell your ego to be quiet and go back into the calm peaceful state and ask again and wait for whatever guidance comes to you.
Once you have met your true self you finish by hugging her ( you) and merge the energy into your own body and sit for a few minutes with your eyes closed and just feel the energy in you then you can slowly come back out of the mediation and ground yourself again.
Protection Animal Journey
You repeat the rattling and dancing again and when ready you either lie or sit and go back to your nature place.
This time you find an entrance to the lower world, you can enter anyway that makes itself known to you, could be a entrance in the trunk of a tree, a cave, anything that leads down into the earth, when you are in the lower world you ask your protection animal to make itself known to you ( mine appeared at my feet, then during the dance stayed behind my head) so one the animal is revealed, you stand up and start dancing with your protection animal, when your ready to come back from the journey thank your animal and ask for it to drop it's form and merge in with you energy.
Then you can come back from the journey and ground yourself again.
Gate Keeper/Guardian Animal Journey
You repeat the rattling and dancing steps for getting into the journey and go back to your nature setting and travel to the lower world again and ask to meet with your gate keeper animal and just wait for the animal to make himself known.
(my gate keeper animal showed me how he would regulate my energy vibrations by using a circular disk.)
Then thank your animal return from the journey when your ready and ground yourself and just sit for a few moments taking in the new vibrational energy that you should have now.
Once you have met with all three you can use call on them either separately or together when ever you feel the need for them to be around you, you just quickly go back into the merging part of the mediation and remember to thank them.
Also if you ever let your protection animal slipout by mistake, you should redo the animal protection journey again to see if you have been given a new protection animal.
But, I came on and read your post, Calayvie and I'm so glad that you posted your experiences!
I'm OLD and contemptuous I guess. 