15 - Wolf - Contrary - & - 22 - Beaver - Builder

Your Daily Dose Doubles with Wolf falling out of the deck while shuffling followed by todays pick Beaver.

15 

Wolf - Contrary

Teacher

Wolf . . . 

    Teacher,

          Pathfinder,

                Moon-dog of my soul.

Howling,

     Singing,

          Teaching how to know.

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.

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.

22

Beaver

Builder

Beaver . . .
      Teach me to build my dreams,
            Including others too.

One mind,
       One thought,
            Heart as one,
                  Lessons learned from you.


Beaver is the doer in the animal kingdom. 

Beaver medicine is akin to water and earth energy, and incorporates a strong sense of family and home. 

If you were to look at the dams that block woodland streams, you would find several entrances and exits. 

In buildings its home, Beaver always leaves itself many alternative escape routes. 

This practice is a lesson to all of us not to paint ourselves into corners. 

If we eliminate our alternatives, we dam the flow

of experience in our lives. 

A doer is characterized by industriousness, and Beaver knows that limitation cancels productivity.

Beaver is armed with very sharp teeth that are capable of felling whole trees. 

Imagine what those teeth could do to the limbs of predators. 

From the rear, Beaver is armed with a paddle-like tail that aids in swimming as well as in guarding its behind. 

This tiny mammal is well equipped to protect its creation.

To understand Beaver medicine, you might take a look at the power of working and attaining a sense of achievement. 

In building a dream, teamwork is necessary. 

To accomplish a goal with others involves working with the group mind. 

Group mind constitutes harmony of the highest order, without individual egos getting in the way. 

Each partner in the project honours the talents and abilities of the others, and knows how to complete the piece of the puzzle that belongs to them. 

In working well with others, a sense of community is achieved and unity ensues.

If Beaver has appeared in your spread, it may be time to put your ideas into action or to complete some project that has been neglected. 

The Beaver card could also be asking you to

settle differences with fellow workers or friends. 

Beaver tells you to look for alternative solutions to life's challenges and to protect the creations which you put your love and energy into.

Sometimes Beaver brings you a warning to watch your back. If this is your message, you will know it by the position in which the card falls in your spread. 

If the card falls in the South position, it is to remind your child-self that trusting is okay but caution is necessary.

Use discernment and all will be fine.

Contrary:

If Beaver has dunked its head under water and is contrary, you are being asked to open new doors to opportunity and to stay aware. 

This could also usher in a time of laziness or

apathy. 

Find what is damming the flow, and remove the impasse. The questions that may arise when Beaver is contrary are: 

(1) Have I forgotten to allow room in my life for new experiences? 

(2) Am I willing to work with others? 

(3) Am I resentful of having to work?

(4) Do I express my creativity by doing, or just be dreaming about it? 

(5) Has my mind created so many obstacles to productivity that I feel like a failure before I begin?

Meditate upon Beaver's determination and willingness to work. 

Visualize the goal you wish to accomplish, and be willing to work with others to achieve that end.

Overview:

Beaver is the construction worker of the animal world and its dam-building methods characterize its industriousness and productivity. 

As a power animal, Beaver stresses the power of work, and especially of teamwork, to accomplish what is necessary and obtain a sense of achievement.

Beaver as a power animal can help you to develop more harmonious relationships with others, and acquire a sense of involvement in any project.

Beaver's practice of providing alternative ways of entering and leaving its home is a reminder that there is more that one way of solving your problems. 

Beaver is also cautioning you to protect what you have achieved or acquired through your own efforts.

If you are currently engaged in any creative endeavour, Beaver is encouraging you to put

your ideas in practice. 

It is not enough to be a dreamer: you need to be a doer if you want your dreams to become practical realities.

Be constructive in all your endeavours and look for ways of providing alternatives.

Work at it.

Make today count. 

Build toward manifesting your dreams and goals.

Source: 

Sams, Jamie and Carson, 

David. Medicine Cards 

(Santa Fe: Bear and Company, 1988).