Wolves Coyotes Shamanic Animal Connection & The Magic It Can Bring
Wolves coyotes and all other animals have been near and dear to my heart for as long as I can remember.
I saw the following quote on Facebook and just had to share a few things.
“I played Dungeons and Dragons with my daughters. They were supposed to fight the wolves surrounding the town. Instead, they fed the wolves and turned them into their friendly wolf army. Girls, man. They’ll take over the world.” – James Breakwell
It made me laugh. And I thought, “Girls indeed! and the magic of wolves and coyotes and other powerful animals.
I’ve felt a special connection with wolves and coyotes for ages.
The first charity I ever supported after getting a corporate job with my new engineering degree was the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone project. And now they make documentaries about what a profound positive impact wolves being there has made.
I was at a workshop one weekend in Idyllwild California with my then boyfriend (later to become husband). There were about 60 presentations being given that weekend.
We decided to each go and “do our own thing” so we could share what we had learned with one another afterward. We could learn twice as much that way was our thinking at the time.
I had chosen a particular lecture and was seated there attentively listening. My boyfriend ended up showing up for the same lecture after it had started. He sat down next to me. Because the lecture was already underway and I was sitting in the front row, we didn’t really acknowledge one another as he sat down to show respect to the teacher.
About halfway through the class, the teacher (Kat Cunningham) stopped and looked right at us. She asked if we were in some sort of relationship. We smiled, laughed, and nodded. One of Kat’s gifts is that she sees a person’s guides as animals. She told us that there was a wolf and a coyote, and they kept jumping back and forth between our energy fields (auras). She said she had never seen that before in all her years of seeing auras and animals.
As many of you are already aware, when I first woke up spiritually, I was deeply drawn to Native American spirituality. It began innocently enough. I turned my second bedroom into a meditation space and built my very first medicine wheel.
It wasn’t just any medicine wheel either.
It was a crystal medicine wheel based on the work of Sun Bear and Wabun Wind. The wheel was made using 36 different semi-precious stones. This was back in 1993 … before Amazon, before Etsy, before Google even. Rather than ordering crystals online, I went to New Age stores and lapidary shows to get each one. It took several months.
Things started getting interesting when I finally had all the crystals and built the medicine wheel. I burned sage to clear the space. I had a recording of Native American drum music playing on the stereo. Then I spent the next 2 hours doing an invocation, bringing in the energy of each crystal and dedicating each one to its intended purpose in the wheel.
I was really in an altered state by the time I sat down to do a meditation. I walked the medicine wheel in my mind, greeting the animals of the 4 directions as I reached each direction.
Each one seemed so intensely real. I could literally feel the buffalo’s breath on my face. When I got to the south direction, the animal there was coyote.
Coyotes are tricksters, and this one began running around in circles as if it was chasing its own tail. Before long, it morphed into a dolphin swimming in circles.
Suddenly the room was flooded with dolphin healing energy and joy. I began to cry buckets of tears because of the intensity of the love I felt from them.
After that, dolphins began appearing whenever I closed my eyes for meditation. The coyote introduced me to my main animal totems / guides, the dolphins and orcas.
That one meditation changed the entire trajectory of my entire life. I soon went from the corporate world in Pennsylvania to an island in the Northwest surrounded by waters filled with orcas. I developed such a deep connection, I could literally feel when they were near.
Next, I moved to Southern California, where I saw dolphins practically every day.
A couple of years later, I was living just north of Santa Fe, running a shamanic healing center and spending lots of time hiking and communing with nature.
Late at night, when we heard the coyotes begin to yip and howl, we’d turn all the lights off in the house and make our way to the bedroom closest to the neighbor’s field. When we aimed a flashlight at the field, we often could see a pack of coyotes running around. Sometimes they were very, very close. It was always very thrilling when that happened.
Raven, my then husband, used to take long walks with my son along the dirt roads and along the stream. All the neighborhood dogs would go with them. They made quite the pack. Our two dogs, Moochie the 1/2 wolf, 1/2 husky and Spirit the mix of Shar-pei and Pitbull, along with a hodge podge of other dogs of every size. No one had their dogs in a fence, including us. The dogs were all pals and hung out together all day playing here and there, getting treats from one of the neighbors. They all went to their respective homes for the night.
One day as they made their way along a particular dirt road, they heard yips in the distance and all the dogs took off at top speed. Raven and my son ran toward the sound as fast as they could … hoping to save the dogs from disaster, terrified of what they might find.
Rather than blood and guts, they found a pack of dogs and a pack of coyotes playing and chasing one another through a field. Clearly, they had done this before.
It’s hard to put into words how much I love coyotes, wolves, and all the animals of the world.
Developing a deep connection with the nature kingdom can enrich your life beyond measure.
I hope you enJOY their blessings as much as I do.
P.S. If you’d like to learn a less elaborate, easy to build medicine wheel that you can either build at your home or create one to travel with you, check out my book Peering Through the Veil at Amazon.
Author~Speaker~Engineer~Mystic at Magnificent U
Takara is a 4-time bestselling author, award-winning speaker, engineer, and mystic. Channels call her the Chalice of Divine Frequencies and Queen of the Dolphins. She's known as The Spiritual Treasure Hunter and for three decades, she's helped thousands of people from over 100 countries discover their diamonds and gold within. That means their unique gifts and talents, their intuitive and healing abilities, their passion, purpose, and joy. Experience powerful healing energies and deep relaxation with 2 free transformational meditations as her gift to you! Get the meditations here. Enjoy Takara's Magnificent U Bestselling Author Blog: Magnificent U
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