29 - Badger - Aggression

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Badger

Aggression

Badger . . .

      Badger . . .
            Badger . . .

Until you reach your goal,
       Know the inner power,
              That lives in your soul.

Badger is vicious, and attacks with powerful aggression. 

Badger is quick to anger and quicker to pounce. 

The power of Badger's medicine is aggressiveness and the willingness to fight for what it wants.

The very thought of facing Badger makes other animals run for cover. 

Like Skunk, Badger's reputation precedes it. 

It's hissing fangs will tear less aggressive opponents to shreds.

Badger is the medicine of many powerful medicine women, for Badger is also the keeper of the medicine roots. 

Badger sees all the roots of Mother Earth's healing herbs hanging in its burrow home. 

These roots are a key to aggressive healing.

Roots can ground negative energy into the Earth by allowing illness to pass through a body into the ground as neutral energy. 

Badger medicine people are quick to act in a crisis, and they do not panic.

If Badger medicine is part of your medicine, you are quick to express your feelings, and you do not care what the consequences are. 

Badger people oftentimes insist on carrying the ball for the touchdown. 

This attitude, however, does not endear them to

their teammates.

Badger medicine may also point to the aggressive healer who will have the courage to use unconventional means to exact a cure. 

Like the mother who sits for days nursing a child with high fever, Badge is willing to persist.

Badger people can be vicious gossips, or may exhibit a chip on the shoulder, if they are out of balance. 

You can be sure that people with Badger medicine will be aggressive enough to make it to the tops of their chosen fields, because they do not give up. 

They are also the finest healers, because they will use any and all methods to ensure healing, and will not give up on the critically ill.

A Badger person is often the boss, and the one what everyone fears. 

That same boss will surely keep any company afloat. 

Badger gets the job accomplished. 

Badger is certainty is a source of strength.

If Badger has pushed its way into your cards today, it may be telling you that you have been too meek in trying to reach some goal. 

Badger asks you how long are you willing to sit and wait for the world to deliver your silver spoon.

In this medicine, the key is to become aggressive enough to do something about your present state of affairs. 

Badger is teaching you to get angry in a creative way and say, 

"I won't take it anymore." 

You must follow-up by keeping your eye on the goal.

Honour the healing process as you express those inner feelings.

Be aggressive, but do not cut others to ribbons on the way-that is too much aggression. 

Use your anger to stop your lolling around, so that your doldrums of apathy are a thing of the past. 

Badger is powerful medicine when properly used for self improvement.

Remember that Badger may be signalling a time when you can use your healing abilities to push ahead in life. 

Heal yourself by aggressively removing the barriers that do not grow corn. 

Cut away the dead wood and use Badger's aggression to seek new levels of expression. 

Use Badger's medicine roots to keep grounded and centred in the process.

Overview:

Badger is a quick and aggressive animal which will fight ferociously for what it wants. 

It lives in burrows and feeds of the roots of plants. As a power animal, Badger teaches the need to fight for your rights and to defend your principles against any attack.

Badger emphasizes that you should take the initiative in any difficult situation, and not just accept it meekly. 

If the problem is an emotional one, Badger encourages you not to keep your feelings bottled up inside but to let off steam. 

Have a good cry. 

Blow your top. 

You will feel better afterwards.

Badger is helpful in healing and harmonizing, encouraging you to look for unconventional means if necessary to effect a cure or result. 

Roots and herbs can help to restore your health. 

If the problem lies in a work situation, or is one concerning human relationships, the solution can be found at the roots.

Take charge of your life. 

Go for it. 

Trust your abilities.

Contrary:

Oops! Here comes Badger upside-down and fuming! 

This could mean that you are being chewed out by someone else, or that you have expressed your anger in an unhealthy way. 

If this applies to you, remember that all anger stems from anger towards the self. 

It is an anger of helplessness that is misdirected towards others.

If you are angry at a co-worker for telling the boss that you were looking for another job, you are really angry at yourself for not keeping your own secret. 

If you are angry at your children for disobeying, it is usually anger that stems from fear for the

children's well-being. 

This self-anger condition is usually present when you have "silly accidents," falls, cuts and scrapes, or when you find yourself bumping into furniture.

Badger in the contrary position can issue in a time of reflection on what you feel helpless about. 

Is it your lack of aggressiveness or initiative? Is it your fear of being blasted or belittled if you present a new idea? 

Maybe it is a time when you need to get in

touch with your own jealousy or envy of others who are willing to put themselves on top

through hard work.

In the reverse, Badger teaches you the pitfalls of shyness and insecurity as well as of misused or vicious aggression. 

Go to your feelings - maybe you just need to let off

steam. 

If so, scream into a pillow and then punch it a few times. It will surely put Badger back into balance. 

Badger can be difficult medicine, and learning to use it properly is a rare gift.

In another context, contrary Badger could be calling you to use herbs and roots to heal

your body. 

Badger reversed may also be putting you on notice to be aware of those areas of your life that need the input of someone else's aggressive creativity to spark your own.

In any case, contrary Badger speaks of a need for more aggressive action in life. 

No more inactivity can prevail without creating pain of some kind.

"Owl Flipped up in the deck while shuffling pairing up with Badger, who returns and who jumped out  and Doubled Animal Medicine of that day."

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Owl  

Deception

Owl...

     Magic,

          Omens,

Time and space.

Does the truth emerge?

      

Casting out deception,

           Silent flight, 

Sacred Medicine Bird.

Owl medicine is symbolically associated with clairvoyance, astral projection, and magic, both black and white.   

Owl is called Night Eagle on several medicine wheels used by Amerindian teachers. 

 Traditionally, Owl sits in the East, the place of illumination.  

Since time immemorial, humanity has been afraid of the night, the dark, and the unseen - waiting fearfully for the first crack of morning light.. 

Conversely, night is Owl's friend.

Owl hunts its prey at night.  

Not only can Owl see in the dark, it can also accurately pinpoint and identify any sound.  

This gives it a great advantage when seeking food. 

Owls are the night hunters.  

Some native people are fearful of Owl 
and call its feathers 

"deceiver feathers."  

An Owl feather is silent.  

You cannot hear Owl when it flies, but it's prey definitely knows when it strikes, for its beak and talons are razor sharp.

Owl is oftentimes the medicine of sorcerers and witches.  

If Owl is your medicine, you will be drawn to magical practices and perhaps explore the dark arts.  

You should resist any temptation to practice black magic or any art that takes energy away from another person or being.

If you have Owl medicine, these night birds will have a tendency to collect   around you, even in the daytime, because they recognize a kinship with you.

It is any wonder that in many cultures Owl is a symbol for wisdom.

Where others are deceived, Owl sees and knows what is there.

Athena,  the Greek goddess of wisdom, had a companion Owl on her shoulder which revealed unseen truths to her.

Owl had the ability to light up Athena's blind side, enabling her to speak the whole truth, as opposed to only a half truth.

If Owl is your personal medicine, no one can deceive you about what they are doing, no matter how they try to disguise or hide it from you.

You  may be a little frightening to be around since so many people have ulterior motives which you see right through.

If you are unaware of your medicine power, you may take your keen insights and abilities for granted.

Others never do.

You may frighten them and reflect their blindness, for you cannot be fooled.

Owl medicine people know more about an individual's inner life than that person knows about herself or himself.

If you have pulled the Owl card, you are being asked to use your powers of keen, silent observation to intuit some life situation.

Owl is befriending you and aiding you in seeing the total truth.

Owl can bring you messages in the night through dreams or meditation.

Pay attention to the signals and omens.

The truth always brings further enlightenment.

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, Owl 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.

Contrary:

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

Perhaps witchcraft 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?"

Source: 

Sams, Jamie and Carson, David. 

Medicine Cards

Santa Fe: Bear and Company, 1988