19 - Buffalo - Prayer and Abundance Contrary - and 23 - Opossum - Diversion - Contrary - Wednesday, November 26, 2014

19

Buffalo - Contrary

Prayer and Abundance

Buffalo . . .
     

       You bring us the gift of life.

Hear our prayers,

            

              Smoke rising,

                   Like Phoenix,

We are reborn,

      

         Within the sacred words.

Contrary:

To receive Buffalo upside-down is a signal that you have forgotten to seek help when it has been needed. 

If your hand is closed in a fist, you cannot receive the bounty of abundance. 

In understanding the significance of the reversed Buffalo, you may well ask yourself. 

(1) Have I forgotten my eternal partner, Great Spirit? 

(2) Am I pushing myself too fast in the physical world and keeping myself from seeing the importance of reunion with the Source of all life? 

(3) Have mI forgotten to honour the ways of others and to afford them the same respect that I wish to receive for myself? 

(4) Am I feeling like my life is being used for the highest good at this time? 

(5) Have I forgotten to be grateful for my life, my possessions, my talents, my abilities, my health, my family, or my friends?

(6) Is it time to make peace with another, or to make peace with some inner conflict I have so that I may walk in balance again?

Become Buffalo. 

Feel the smoke of prayer and praise change your Buffalo robe to white so that you may be an answer to the prayers of the world.

Overview:

The Buffalo was the most sacred of all animals to the American Indian because it gave entirely of itself providing not only food, but also materials for clothing, housing, cooking utensils and equipment, and weapons. As a power animal, 

Buffalo is thus concerned with provision and abundance, with sustenance and sharing. It stresses the importance of being prepared to share one's energies with others, and to recognize other

people's needs.

Buffalo is also symbolic of Wakan-Tanka - the Great Spirit in manifestation, who was also referred to as the Great Everything - and is a reminder that whatever talents and abilities we may have they all derive from the source of the Great Provider. 

So Buffalo as a power animal serves as a reminder that everything we possess is but temporary, and that true happiness can never be attained alone; it comes through sharing what one has, and what one is, with others. Sharing and caring.

Make way for abundance. 

Release fear of lack or scarcity. 

Open yourself to receive.

23

Opossum - Contrary

Diversion

Opossum......

Roll over !

Are you really dead? 

Or just playing Possum?

Was it something I said?

Contrary:

In the reversed position, Opossum may be warning you against getting caught in the high dram of your life s present scenario.

"Close your eyes and dramatize," may keep you from seeing the truth of a situation.

You may buy into melodrama in yourself or others.

You might as well play dead if you are justifying what you are doing with a tragic victim routine.

If this concept does not apply to your situation , take a look at the possibility that you may have recently been giving excuses for why you don't want to do something instead of telling the truth.

In fearing to hurt someone s feelings you may have trapped  yourself in a justification pattern:

"I m too sick, 
I'm too poor , 

I'm watching my weight, 

I'm too 
short,  
tall ,
mad 
sad 
busy, 
tired, 
etc.

"In having to defend yourself with excuses, you may have lost the point.

"You don't' have to defend your right to be!"

The exercise is in learning to politely say that something would not be appropriate for you at this time.

That's all!

You owe  no one an excuses.

Learn to imitate Opossum and play dead in the sense that the best strategy is no defence.

In assuming the viewpoint of no defence, you have chosen the right to be who and what you are with no games involved.

The proper use of diversion is to know when you do not need to use diversion at all.

You owe no one an excuse for how you feel or what  you choose to experience.