Power Animals & Our Connection to Mother Earth
by Donna Thomson
One of my guides is a Native American named Red Eagle. Since I became aware of him I would feel drawn to feathers and especially eagles, soon realising that the eagle was my totem animal. At times I would also see visions of other animals while meditating, such as the bear, wolf and kookaburra. I would feel that Red Eagle was showing me these animals because they represented qualities I could use at that time. As I considered the idea of what I refer to as 'power animals' one evening, I was able to channel the following insight from Red Eagle, including the need for balance in all of nature and how we can learn from the ways of animals...
Donna: Power animals - Red Eagle, can you tell me more about this concept and how I might come to understand it and use it in my life?
Red Eagle: As part of this interconnectedness, animals offer something that man can utilise. Animal offers man food, but he also offers much more. Symbolically, an animal has a range of characteristics that are individual/unique to that creature. These are the 'power' of that animal - its 'medicine'...even its 'lesson'. Animals can teach us what we are lacking. They can bring us insight, protection, wisdom, and beauty due to the instinctive meshing of animal with nature. Animal knows its place in nature. It understands its duties. It acknowledges its threats and learns to give and take - to live in balance. Watch the animal. Learn.
To work with an animal is to acknowledge its beauty - its strength - its power. Even the weakest, slowest, most ugly and cunning animal has beauty. Its beauty is in knowing its place in the universe and living its truth - no more, no less. Animal knows where its food can be found - within nature. Animal knows where its home is - in the surroundings of nature. Animal knows who comes after it and how to avoid that predator to its best ability. Animal seeks peace to get on with its daily duties. Animal knows how to survive within the wilderness because, to the animal, that is all there is. That is food, home, life. Animal does not seek to separate itself from that which it uses to survive. Man does. Animal is instinctive and pure. Man fears such acknowledgement of natural instincts. Man forgets his connections to his life force. Man thinks his own creations help him to survive. He could not be more wrong, I'm afraid. These 'creations' take man further and further from his truth. They create sickness; they pollute; they destroy; they create death, not survival. Such is the effect of man's ignorance. Such are the reasons that the minority of 'enlightened ones' must re-teach the majority the ill of their ways.
Any way you can bring a part of nature into your life, is to acknowledge and pay respect to the one who keeps you alive; who nurtures you; who forgives time and again the pain and destruction caused upon her. She is your Mother Earth - the beauty that stands within creation to help you survive. She is your planet, your life force on the physical plane of existence. Such disrespect and ignorance - it causes great disgust. It will not be tolerated for much longer. The ways of the people must change. They must wake up to themselves and see what they are living - for many are living a lie - a false reality.
'Causation' (karma) is always in play within the Universe. This is part of one of the greater lessons for all of humanity. Consciousness must change and many must work long and hard for these changes to come about. Too many walk blindly. It is time for them to re-awaken, to accept what they have created for themselves, and then work to pay their debt back to Mother Earth.
It is all about acknowledgement. Man must harness the gifts that Mother Earth provides and use those gifts to heal all - all of man, all of consciousness, and planet Earth herself. Remember give and take. Give and take in balance helps all to survive in harmony. There is enough in the way of resources to see all function as it should if used in moderation and for pure purposes. If man pays acknowledgement and respect to what is provided for their survival, their nurturer responds in kindness. Disharmony creates further disharmony. Harmony creates more harmony.
Donna: How can we, as individuals, make a difference and change people's ways?
Red Eagle: Awareness. Create awareness. Carry forward a message with a pure heart and a connection to the realities. You will not change all. No one man or group of men can change all. Such efforts would be fruitless and wear you to the bone. You acknowledge that each person that awakens and starts to live by their own truth, live by their own power, and pay respect to what they are given, will also carry forward their vision to more and more people. So the ripple goes. So the tide reaches out, so the tide comes back in.