A few weeks ago my totem revelled itself to me and I have many good conversations with her but I'm not really sure on what I'm suppose to do to work with her. From my understanding she is here to help me but I'm not sure how. I feel like I'm ranting, maybe we are just getting to know each other and eventually she will show me things as time passes. I just feel like I'm in a rut, that's all. How do some of you work with your totem?
you just go along with your life, and if something tells you to stop, don't go there, about something, then maybe it's your guide protecting you. or again, if something gives you strength to go on, when facing the impossible for what you know to be right, then again, it is your allie, lending you strength from within. more then that is a matter of traditions and perception and each and every indiginous society has and or had their own unique details of doing so. what next might be to make try and make friends of tribal elders and listen to them. to all the stories funny and sierios, trivial and pretient. check arround the people you know or grew up with, you might find a connection there if you go about it right. and go to 'pow wow's (big times) and, without making yourself a pest about it, actually get to know idividual persons on their own terms. this is the same dangers as getting to know anybody, but also the same and possibly greater rewards. your life is your own, as is that of your allie. 'now what', is time to do your thinking. always it is, other then when it is time to have already done so. i don't know what you mean by "doing some work with your totem". if you mean learning how to know them better, well that is up to them. you don't own them and they don't own you. you just kind of help each other out and each keeps helping the other out, as best each of you can. just like with any other kinds of friends and associates. you might go off by yourself in the woods and meditate some times, or sometimes when you are dreaming you will meet them and go off and do things togather, and learn from each other, that sort of thing. 'now what' is personal and up to each of you. there's no one size fits all formula, although different traditions may have or have further things to do and go about it. diciplining yourself and being honest with yourself and seeking always to not harm others is always the 'now what' too. =^^= .../\...
