posted June 30, 2007 02:04 AM
PANTHER!!!!Keynote: Reclaiming One's True Power
Cycle of Power: Dark of the Moon-New Moon-Winter
The panther is a very powerful and ancient totem. As with most of the large cats, the panther is a symbol of ferocity and valor. Like the tiger and the lion, it embodies aggressiveness and power, but without the solar significance. In the case of the black panther, there is definitely a lunar significance.
As with any totem, a study of the individual characteristics can provide much insight into the energies being awakened within those who align with this animal.
The panther, in general is smaller but more fierce then lions or tigers. They have over 500 volunary muscles that they can use at will. This reflects a lot about an individual who has such animals as a totem. It reflects an ability to do a variety of tasks as he or she wills. It is simply a matter of deciding and putting to use those particular " muscles "--be they physical, mental, psychic, or spiritual.
As a whole panthers are loners(solitary) although they do associate with others, they are most comfortable by themselves or within their own marked territories. They are drawn to those individuals who are likewise often solitary.
The panther is an enchanting combination of beauty and utility. They have a wonderful gracefulness, with an ability to move with ease or freeze entirely. They are quiet when they are stalking, hunting, or pursuing. Those who have a panther as a totem will find their greatest power in silence as goals are pursued. Revealing too much or speaking too much about pursuits can counteract some of the effectiveness.
Panthers are excellent sprinters, but they are not great long distance runners. From a health perspective, those with a panther totem must learn to pace their work. allowing time to rest and to play. they must not push too far or too hard on any one task. If they do, they are more susceptible to imbalances. In times of trouble--in any environment--those with panther totems are often the first and the fastest to respond, and especially in the work environment they respond effectively to deadlines and to pressures.
All cats have binocular vision. Each eye can work singly, providing greater depth of vision, magnifying images, and facilitating judgement of distances. Thus anyone who aligns with the panther will begin to develop greater depth of vision-- of their life, of events, or people. This is more than just psychic sight. Itis an inner knowing.
Oten people enter the metaphysical field, taking up exercises and meditions to have their inner lights " clicked on ". Individuals with panthers as totems are usually individuals who came into the world with the lights already on. Thus they should not be discouraged when they do not experience what others describe when their lights turned on. They should trust their thoughts and their inner visions ( imaginings)for there is probably a strong foundation in reality.
To those with whom the panther links comes the ability to develop clairaudience, to hear the communications of other dimensions and other life forms. The panther has very strong hearing. It can move its ears to locate the direction of sounds.
It is in the hours of darkness that panthers find its greatests element of power. This is even more true of those who have as a totem a black panther. The season in which which their power is greatest is the winter. The lunar cycle most powerful is the dark of the moon through the new moon.
To be continued............. Tired!!!!!
Panther:
Of all the panthers, probably the black panther has the greatest mysticism associated with it. It is the symbol of the feminine, the dark mother, the dark of the moon. It is the symbol for the life and power of night. It is a symbol of the feminine energies manifest upon the earth. It is often the symbol of darkness, death, and rebirth from out of it. There still exsists in humanity a primitive fear and of death. The black panther helps us to understand the dark and death and the inherent powers of them; and thus by acknowledging them, eliminate our fears and learn to use the powers.
This is the totem of greatest assertion of the feminine in all her aspects: child, virgin, seductress, mother, warrioress, seeress, old wise woman.
When the black panther enters your life as a totem, it awakens the inner passions. This can manifest in unbridled expressions of baser powers and instincts. It can also reflect an awaking of the kundalini, signaling a time of not just coming into one's own power. More so, the keynote of the black panther is RECLAIMING ONE'S TRUE POWER.
Usually, in the lives of those with a panther totem, there either already exists or will soon arrive upon the scene an indivdual who will serve as teacher and nurturer and guide upon the heroic path. For Dionysus there was the centaur Silenus and the satyrs. They symbolize the alternate realities that do exist around us and the increasing ability to view them at will as we become the initiates of the heroic path.
These alternate realities will open to those with panther totems. These alternate realities, the beings within them and the energy of the panther all have ties to the powerful sexual energies. It may reflect a time of resolving old sexual issues, or it may simply reflect learning to embrace these energies as a true power without being judgemental, We must recognize and learn the tranforming nature of the sexual energies and how to direct them consciously.
The panther holds the promise of rebirth and guardianship throughout. It is the extra protection we need in those times. It is the symbol of power reclaimed from whatever darkness within our life has hidden it. The panther is the promise that whatever is lost will be replaced by that which is greater, stronger, and more benefical.
The Arawak Indians say that everything has jaguar. Nothing exists without it. It is the tie to all life and all manifestions of life (thus ties to the eternal feminine within all life). To them, becoming the man-jaguar was the ultimate shapeshifting ritual. The Olmecs created monuments to the jaguar, and the Aztecs and Mayans spoke and taught about the power in becoming half-human and half-jaguar. One who can become jaguar is shorn of all cultural restrictions. The alter ego is free to act out desires, fears, aspirations.
The Indians shamans would perform rituals to borrow jaguar power. One who could do such could do great good or great ill. Stories abound of revenge, aductions, and great cures of disease throught use of jaguar power amoung the Latin-American Indians.
Nietzsche once said that " that which does not kill us makes us stronger." It is this same idea that is awakened in the lives of those who open to the power of the panther totem. Those things of childhood and beyond that created suffering and which caused a loss of innate power and creativity are about to be reawakened, confronted and transmuted.
The panther marks a new turn in the heroic path of those to whom it comes. It truly reflects more than just coming into one's own power. Rather it reflects a archetypal force behind it.It gives an ability to go beyond what has been imagined, with opportunity to do so with discipine and control. It is the spirit of imminent rebirth.
Taken from the book " Animal-Speak " By Ted Andrews
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posted June 30, 2007 02:04 AM
posted June 30, 2007 02:11 AM
. I wrote about a very powerful dream I had about the panther in Astral Realms a few years back. I will have to find the post.
posted June 30, 2007 03:26 AM
posted June 30, 2007 10:24 AM
Can't wait to read the rest!! 
posted June 30, 2007 10:57 AM
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