Let's talk Totem's
relationship with Animal grace
Here are a few of our Animal Totem / Medicine’s to brighten your weekend. Learning about our animal sisters and brothers is a commitment to the true qualities of living. We are nature. I’ve seen so many videos of the animal kingdom reaching out to humanity for help lately; more than just assistance, it’s a plea for greater relationship. As we come through the veils into a new eon one of the evolutionary marks we will make is in our renewed ancient walks with the many kingdoms of intelligence we have forgotten. The last six thousand years should be called “the forgetting”. The old Egyptians knew this. The mother Goddess, Auset, followed the Nile re member ing Ausar. Thank all goodness for myth, without it we would be in such mired darkness… it might take Great Yeas(S) to get us back home again (as Joni Michell observed). Such grace, lets begin with Swan.
Swan belongs to all three realms; water, air, and earth, making Swan a master of thresholds. Spiritually, Swan guides transitions between emotional healing (water), soulful expression (air), and embodied presence (earth). Swan medicine is particularly potent for those of us crossing initiations: grief into peace, loss into direction, remembering into becoming. Some ancient Egyptian wisdom.
Swan softens and opens the heart body. Her power is not fragility, it is emotional sovereignty through tenderness. Swan teaches how to hold feeling without drowning in it, how to let grief, joy, devotion, and longing flow cleanly through the heart without hardening or collapsing.
Swan reveals beauty as a sacred frequency; not aesthetic vanity, but the soul’s natural radiance when aligned with truth. Her medicine reminds us that beauty is a healing vibration capable of restoring harmony to wounded nervous systems and fractured emotional fields.
Swan is the totem of soul-mating, not merely romantic partnership, but alignment between:
human self and Higher Self
heart and voice
spiritual yearning and earthly embodiment
Her teaching is fidelity: devotion to your soul path and to those who walk it with you in mutual recognition.
Swan awakens lyric frequency; the use of voice to transmit emotion as medicine. This medicine opens the pathways of song, poetry, blessing speech, lament, devotional chant, and intuitive writing. Under Swan totem, expression becomes spellwork woven from feeling rather than intellect. In many traditions, Swan is associated with the cosmic soul flight … wings carrying consciousness between worlds. She retrieves soul pieces from dream realms and star lineage states, gently rethreading lost aspects of self back into embodied memory. Swan leads you to your astral self and guides you through the adventures of psychedelic medicines. Swan does not avoid darkness, she glides across it. She teaches us to transform sorrow into luminous depth, not bypassing pain, but dignifying it so it becomes wisdom rather than wound. Her medicine is alchemy through softness rather than force.
“Grief and beauty are one river.
When you let yourself feel both, your wings remember.”
Wolf cares and is committed to the pack.
Wolf carries the spiritual medicine of the bridge-walker, the being who moves between wild instinct and conscious wisdom, between lone seeker and devoted kin. Wolf teaches us how to belong without losing the wild self, and how to follow our deepest inner knowing while still honoring the pack.
Wolf awakens the primal intelligence within; our ability to trust gut knowledge and ancestral memory. Wolf teaches us to listen to the voice beneath thought: the deep knowing that comes from soul and bloodline rather than logic.
A Wolf is the master of unseen trails. Spiritually, a Wolf guides initiations and times of transition, helping us find our way through the unknown. Wolf medicine supports those walking new spiritual territory, forging personal paths, or stepping out of inherited stories to claim authentic destiny.
Though fiercely independent, Wolf honors pack consciousness. A teaching about alignment rather than submission, healthy community built on mutual protection, loyalty, and respect for each individual’s role. Wolf shows how to create spiritual family without hierarchy or domination. Rare and evolved.
Here is the medicine of clear energetic borders, teaching when to stand guard, when to walk away, and when to protect what is sacred. This is powerful medicine for empaths, healers, and mystics who must learn sovereign containment.
Wolf moves along the ley lines of ancestral memory. Numerous cultures recognize Wolf as a carrier of ancient teachings tied to lineage, clan systems, and star connections. Spiritually, Wolf activates remembrance of who you are beyond personal identity, a call to your soul’s deeper origins.
Wolf teaches us to reclaim the lost or exiled self, the misunderstood parts torn away by shame or suppression. His medicine is about standing whole in your truth, integrating light and shadow rather than hiding instinct or emotional truth.
The howl is sacred sound, a vibrational offering sent across worlds. Wolf medicine awakens voice as the call between worlds and beingness, teaching how to speak one’s truth without apology while also calling the soul-family home. In this way, Wolf is our guidance into the multiple dimensions.
“Trust the wild language of your bones.
You were born to walk your own road and to gather only those who honor your footsteps.”
Whales sing across thousands of miles, long, evolving chants that influence migration paths and emotional coherence of entire pods. Spiritually, this makes Whale the totem of Sound Medicine:
Chanting
Toning
Drum journeying
Mantra or sung prayer
Voice under Whale power is not entertainment, it is a cosmic stabilizer. Song becomes a bridge between dimensions. Speaking or singing while aligned with Whale allows you to transmit healing frequencies into memory fields and shared psychic waters.This is why people with Whale medicine often become storytellers, ceremony leaders, sound healers, lullaby singers, or guardians of oral tradition.
Whale dives deeper than nearly any other mammal, to the lightless ocean depths. Spiritually, this translates to the courage to descend into emotional darkness and return with wisdom intact. Whale people are natural space-holders for grief, trauma, shadow work, and soul retrieval.
Its lesson:
Nothing in the emotional depths is dangerous when it is witnessed with reverence.
Whale teaches that tears cleanse timelines. Emotional expression becomes holy work rather than something to master or suppress.
The paradox of Whale medicine is vast power held with tenderness. Whale is immense yet gentle, dominant yet nurturing, embodying sacred matriarchal energy. It teaches:
Strength without aggression
Authority without domination
Protection without control
This is ancient mother-medicine, slow, steady, protective, reminding us that true power does not rush, threaten, or need to prove itself.
Whales travel vast distances across invisible migration lines, oceanic ley lines. Spiritually, this situates Whale as a bridge-walker between worlds:
Life ↔ Death
Ancestor ↔ Incarnate
Dream ↔ Wakefulness
Star origin ↔ Earth body
Those who resonate with Whale often dream vividly, walk easily between states of consciousness, and act as mediators between emotional and spiritual realms.
This is mediumship medicine … calm, compassionate, grounded transmission without overwhelm.
Whales navigate by listening, not seeing. Their echolocation echoes into the unseen. Spiritually, Whale teaches the art of soul navigation:
Trusting subtle inner signals
Feeling truth rather than proving it
Following emotional tides as guidance
Whale medicine tunes intuition into a radar system, discerning between what’s true resonance and what’s merely surface-noise.
Can you remain vast without becoming heavy?
Can you hold sorrow without drowning?
Can you sing even while submerged in feeling?
Horse is first and foremost the totem of personal sovereignty. Not escape, not rebellion, but true freedom: the ability to move in accordance with one’s own spiritual rhythm. Horse medicine awakens the knowing:
I choose my path. I carry myself forward.
Those drawn to Horse are natural explorers of land, ideas, art, or consciousness and often uncomfortable with constraints, hierarchy, or systems that dull the soul’s instinctual brilliance. Horse restores trust in movement as medicine: sometimes you don’t analyze the road you ride it.
Horse breath is legendary: lungs larger and more efficient than almost any land mammal. Spiritually, Horse governs prana, the breath of creation.
Horse medicine brings:
Re-oxygenation of the spirit
Removal of stagnation and depression
Activation of courage through breath and motion
This is why Horse energy often arrives during periods of exhaustion or emotional confinement. It asks you to move your body, breathe deeper, reclaim vitality to run reality back into your nervous system.
Historically, Horse was humanity’s first bridge between distances carrying communications, medicine pouches, warriors, shamans, and tribes across immense territories. Spiritually this evolved into Horse’s role as a psychopomp and dimensional courier:
Carrying messages between soul-states
Bearing dreams into waking life
Transporting spiritual initiations into embodied action
Those with Horse medicine are natural activators, visionaries who don’t just dream or philosophize, they bring Spirit down onto the ground where hoof prints become real-world pathways.
Horse embodies tremendous strength without the predatory instinct to dominate. Its power comes from cooperation, presence, and sensitivity.
Horse feels emotions immediately:
A tense rider equals a frightened animal.
A calm rider equals a steady companion.
Spiritually this teaches:
Power harmonizes, it does not overpower.
Horse medicine initiates the leadership style deeply aligned with the matriarchal or Earth-based traditions influence through alignment rather than control.
Horse runs not as an isolated being but as part of a herd, each member sovereign yet synchronized. Spiritually this teaches how to balance:
Individual freedom
Collective belonging
Horse people often serve as community catalysts, able to unite groups without extinguishing individuality. They instinctively understand energetic boundaries: when to run, when to rest, when to separate from the herd to answer a deeper call. To bond with Horse is a sacred initiation. No horse is truly “broken;” one is invited into partnership.
Similarly, Horse medicine asks humans:
Can you meet power without needing to dominate?
Can you build trust without fear?
It initiates self-mastery, learning how to lead our own wildness into creative rather than chaotic expression.
Horse works directly with the autonomic nervous system:
Fight/flight transmuted into purposeful action
Freeze converted into motion
Anxiety recalibrated into alert presence
Simply envisioning horse energy supports trauma healing which is one reason equine therapy is so effective: horses naturally regulate emotional coherence through heart-field entrainment.
I run with the wind of my soul.
I breathe life into action.
My power moves in cooperation, not conquest.
I ride forward in freedom and trust.
***During this time of transition and deep clearing for the whole of humanity; being with nature and all the relative kingdoms residing therein, making friends to share the changes with should include our animal beings most especially. We need to depend on each other for fullness of life, fullness of heart.***