15 - Wolf - Teacher - ' flew out while shuffling' ; Doubling animal medicine with - # 6 - Snake - Reversed - Transmutation

15 

Wolf

Teacher

Wolf . . . 

    Teacher,

          Pathfinder,

                Moon-dog of my soul.

Howling,

     Singing,

          Teaching how to know.

Wolf is the pathfinder, the forerunner of new ideas who returns to the clan to teach and share medicine. 

Wolf takes one mate for life and is loyal like Dog. 

If you were to keep company with Wolves, you would find an enormous sense of family within

the pack, as well as a strong individualistic urge. 

These qualities make Wolf very much like the human race. 

As humans, we also have an ability to be a part of society and yet still embody our individual dreams and ideas.

In the Great Star Nation, Wolf is represented by the Dog Star, Sirius, which legend tells us was the original home of our teachers in ancient times. 

Sirius was thought to be the home of the gods by the ancient Egyptians, and is still considered so by the Dogan tribe in Africa. 

It stands to reason that Native American peoples would formulate this same connection and adopt Wolf people as the clan of teachers.

The senses of Wolf are very keen, and the moon is its power ally. 

The moon is the symbol of psychic energy, or the unconscious that holds the secrets of knowledge and wisdom. 

Baying at the moon may be an indication of Wolf's desire to connect with new ideas which are just below the surface of consciousness. 

Wolf medicine empowers the teacher within us all to come forth and aid the children of Earth in understanding the Great Mystery and life.

If you have drawn Wolf's card, you may be able to share your personal medicine with others. 

Your intuitive side may also have an answer or teaching for your personal use at this time. 

As you feel Wolf coming alive within you, you may wish to share your knowledge by writing or lecturing on information that will help others better understand their uniqueness or path in life. 

It is in the sharing of great truths that the consciousness of humanity will attain new heights. 

Wolf could also be telling you to seek out lonely

places that will allow you to see your teacher within. 

In the aloneness of a power place, devoid of other humans, you may find the true you. 

Look for teachings no matter where you are. 

Wolf would not come to you unless you requested the appearance of the tribe's greatest teacher.

Contrary:

If Wolf is reversed, you are being asked to expand you limited view of the present situation. 

Doing this may entail a great deal of courage and willingness to look at new ideas. 

It could also required that you delete some old ideas to make room for the expansiveness that always comes when you are willing to learn. 

The gift of wisdom comes to you when you have walked enough pathways and found enough dead ends truly know the forest. 

In the discovery and rediscovery of every inch of ground comes the knowledge that nothing ever remains the same.

Contrary Wolf may also be telling you that stagnation or fear of asserting your viewpoint has bogged down the flow of change in your life. 

Wolf reversed is always urging you to seek the teachers of pathfinders that will show you the way to new life experiences. 

Remember, the teacher or pathfinder may be the small still voice within, as well as a person, a leaf, a cloud, a stone, a tree, a book, or the Great Spirit.

To live is to grow, and growing comes through accepting all life forms as your teachers. 

Become Wolf, and take up the sense of adventure. You may just stop howling and learn to become the moon.

Overview:

In American Indian cosmology, Wolf is not regarded as a lethal animal but as a teacher and pathfinder - one who leads the way. 

The Wolf has highly developed senses: its nose, for instance, is a hundred times more sensitive than the human's. 

It can sense the difference between real and imagined dangers.

The confrontation of Wolf as a power animal is an indication of being taken to meet your inner  Teacher and to receive direct, personal teaching. 

Wolf will reveal to you that anyone and anything can be a teacher. 

You can learn from trees, plants, animals, birds, rocks, and stones, and even from the wind and the rain. 

You just need to be alert and learn to listen.

Wolf thus indicates a coming forth of knowledge that is beneath the level of consciousness and within the unconscious. 

Be teachable. 

Find new paths and options. 

Break through. 

Be a role model. 

Share your inner knowing.

6

Snake - Contrary

Transmutation

Snake. . . come crawling,

      There's fire in your eyes,

             Bite me, excite me,

                         I'll learn to realize,

The poison transmuted,

       Brings eternal flame.

            Open me to heaven,

                  To heal me again.

Contrary:

If you have drawn this symbol in the reverse, you may have chosen to mask your ability to change. Look at the idea that you may fear changing your present state of affairs because this may entail a short passage of discomfort. Does this discomfort keep you from assuming the viewpoint of the magician within? Is the old pattern safe, reliable,and a rut? In order to glide beyond that place which has become safe but nonproductive, become Snake. Release the outer skin of your present identity. 

Move through the dreamlike illusion that has insisted on static continuity, and find a new rhythm as your body glides across the sands of consciousness, like a river winding its way toward the great waters of the sea. Immerse yourself in that water, and know that the single droplet which you represent is being accepted by the whole.  Feel Snake's rhythm and you will dance freely, incorporating those transmuting forces of the universe as a part of your sensual dance of power.

Overview:

Snake is a reptile that is able to shed its skin and live through a traumatic life death-rebirth experience. 

So as life and with transmutation from one experience to another, and from one level of existence to another.  

Snake teaches you to recognize that you are an eternal being experiencing mortality, you are constantly shedding anything that has served its purpose, in favour of something which is of greater value.

Snake has transformational ability and supplies the power to use Fire energy in a correct way.

Continuity Transmute all poisons.  

Shed the skin of the past.  

Honour the change in progress.

Snake medicine people are very rare. 

Their initiation involves experiencing and living through multiple snake bites, which allows them to transmute all poisons, be they mental, physical, spiritual, or emotional.  

The power of snake medicine is the power of creation, for it embodies sexuality, psychic energy, alchemy, reproduction, and ascension (or immortality).

The transmutation of the life-death-rebirth cycle is exemplified by the shedding of Snake's skin.  

It is the energy of wholeness, cosmic consciousness, and the ability to experience anything willingly and without resistance. 

It is the knowledge that all things are equal in creation, and that those things which might be experienced as poison can beaten, ingested, integrated, and transmuted if one has the proper state of mind.

Thoth, the Atlantian who later returned as Hermes and was the father of alchemy, used the symbology of two snakes intertwining around a sword to represent healing. 

Complete understanding and acceptance of the male and female within each organism creates a melding of the two into one, thereby producing divine energy.

This medicine teaches you on a personal level that you are a universal being.

Through accepting all aspects of your life, you can bring about the transmutation of the fire medicine. 

This fire energy, when functioning on the material place, creates passion, desire, procreation, and physical vitality. 

On the emotional place, it becomes ambition, creation, resolution, and dreams. 

On the mental place it becomes intellect, power, charisma, and leadership. 

When this Snake energy reaches the spiritual plane, it becomes wisdom, understanding, wholeness and connection to Great Spirit.

If you have chosen this symbol, there is a need within you to transmute some thought, action, or desire so that wholeness may be achieved. 

This is heavy magic, but remember, magic is no more than a change in consciousness. 

Become the magician or the enchantress: transmute the energy and accept the power of the fire.

Source: 

Sams, Jamie and Carson, David. 
Medicine Cards
Santa Fe: Bear and Company, 1988