05-12-2012, 02:24 PM
Ted Andrews is a great author!
When my Mom was working with her first high priestess when she was getting in to wicca her high priestess came over one night and observed and told us the animal guides which were hanging around each of us.
For myself, there was a cougar (I ironically got chased by a cougar a few years later but was unharmed), a hawk (whom is quiet and doesn't connect with me much but I can tell is always watching), a wolf whom is part of my masculine spirit, wolves are something many males have as guides naturally. The last one we could actually identify at first, the name that came was "Mynx", but of course we discovered that's not the name of any type of cat. Said it kind of looked like a lynx, crossed with a manx, but it was when I came upon an image of Bastet in cat form that we realized that my guide is an essence of Bast. This blew open a whole slew of memories regarding life as an egyptian pharaoh (Akhenaten is the life I remember, and my ex even spontaneously channeled messages from Nefertiti to me) and I have always felt that Bast is a very close guardian to me who has been with me for many lives.
Oh, also I know the spirit of the bear is present with me, my nickname as a child was "baby bear", and I did an awakening of the bear ceremony this year. It has also been suggested to me recently that the Owl may be working with me as a totem animal, whereas the bear is more of a guide.
When my Mom was working with her first high priestess when she was getting in to wicca her high priestess came over one night and observed and told us the animal guides which were hanging around each of us.
For myself, there was a cougar (I ironically got chased by a cougar a few years later but was unharmed), a hawk (whom is quiet and doesn't connect with me much but I can tell is always watching), a wolf whom is part of my masculine spirit, wolves are something many males have as guides naturally. The last one we could actually identify at first, the name that came was "Mynx", but of course we discovered that's not the name of any type of cat. Said it kind of looked like a lynx, crossed with a manx, but it was when I came upon an image of Bastet in cat form that we realized that my guide is an essence of Bast. This blew open a whole slew of memories regarding life as an egyptian pharaoh (Akhenaten is the life I remember, and my ex even spontaneously channeled messages from Nefertiti to me) and I have always felt that Bast is a very close guardian to me who has been with me for many lives.
Oh, also I know the spirit of the bear is present with me, my nickname as a child was "baby bear", and I did an awakening of the bear ceremony this year. It has also been suggested to me recently that the Owl may be working with me as a totem animal, whereas the bear is more of a guide.
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