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Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 1:53 am
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Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 11:55 am
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Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 12:11 pm
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Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 1:24 pm
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Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 1:52 pm
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Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 2:01 pm
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Dianda Panda I have no idea if I have one, or two. Or more. The only animals I dream about is the dog of my parents and my two cats. I feel close to a few animals. But that might be because they are just my favorite animals? I don't know how to figure out what your totem is either.
Totems are typically based on family or clans, where they occur. One doesn't get to choose a 'totem'; you pretty much get what you get. Totems are the archetypal spirits of a particular living thing: they are the sum of all that is for those creatures. You can sometimes make acquaintance with totems and work with them, if they desire, but others will want nothing to do with you, and be very clear about that.
Spirit guides (or helpers, or allies) are typically individual spirits of one kind or another. They might be a once-living animal, a person, a particular tree you know, an extinct species - there's lots of possibilities here. I don't think everyone 'has' a spirit guide, really, any more than I think everyone has a patron deity, but it's possible to meet helpful spirits as you go, and make friends and allies.
It's a lot easier to meet a spirit guide than it is a totem. Spirit guides can usually be sought through simple Middle-world journeying, or through guided meditation, in a way that allows them to appear to you of their own free will. Totems may or may not answer any sort of appeal you put to them for their attention - they're much larger in scope than a single spirit, and frankly sort of view us as 'small'.
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Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 11:29 pm
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Morgandria Sanguina Cruenta I didn't know monarchs came in blue. Plant totems... I don't really know for totems. I know what I like and what I get along with. Pohutukawa and Weeping willow feature. That's it. Monarch butterflies are not blue, ever. Down your way there's a white variation in the species, but not blue. Which is why I asked if there was a reason her animal guides all had funky colouring. Occasionally spirits appear 'different', and there's usually a reason for it - but it also often means that they weren't ever real living animals on the physical plane. There's also a chance they could be personal energy constructs, for whatever reason. Of course, it could be a blue butterfly that she hasn't properly identified for species. Wolves can be black and have green eyes, but green eyes are fairly rare unless we're talking arctic wolves. (I'd be even more curious if she'd said blue, since blue eyes don't occur naturally with wolves, and means they're a wolf-dog hybrid.) I just find it weird since my guides are all normal colours for their species. But they're not my guides. Que sera sera.
UPDATE: I was wrong in identifying the butterfly species, ; It wasn't a monarch, but a blue morpho butterfly (I hope I spelled it right) Sorry for the confusion! (I do a lot of research , I typed that as soon as it happened and didn't look further into it)
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