21 - Owl - Deception - Contrary - & - 23 - Opossum - Diversion - Contrary

Owl Contrary flew out Doubling your Animal Medicine Dose today.

21

Owl - Contrary

Deception

Owl...

     Magic,

          Omens,

Time and space.

Does the truth emerge?

      

Casting out deception,

           Silent flight, 

Sacred Medicine Bird.

Contrary:

If you have Owl upside-down in your cards, you have been greatly deceived by either yourself or another. 

Perhaps witch-craft or black magic is being used against you, or maybe you are using witchcraft or sorcery to aid you when you should be praying and asking the Great Spirit for guidance. 

The message is to befriend the darkness inside

yourself. 

Look deeply, and soon the bright light of dawn will illuminate you. 

Then ask yourself what you are in the dark about. 

How and by whom are you being deceived? 

Are you being greatly deceived, or just slightly deceived? 

Owl tells you to keep an eye on your property and your loved ones. 

Remember that Owl is always asking, "Who?"

Overview:

Owl is a creature of the night and has been symbolically associated with wisdom

because it can see what others cannot. It is the only bird that flies in total silence.

As a power animal, Own encourages you to develop your intuitive abilities and

inner senses, and to seek the knowledge that is hidden from most people. Owl is a

protector and will help you to discern more readily the motives and intentions of others,

especially those who may attempt to deceive you or take advantage of you in some way.

Owl also helps you to recognize that there is a dark side to your nature that should not be

ignored or repressed. You need to see that it is there so you can come to terms with it.

Owl is symbolic of discernment and the need to look out for deception. You have

to see to know. You have to know to see.

Honour intuition. Use discernment. Outsmart deception. Trust your first impressions.

23

Diversion

Opossum - Contrary

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.

Source: 

Sams, Jamie and Carson, David. 

Medicine Cards

Santa Fe: Bear and Company, 1988