A week ago I was asked what my animal totem was...I said I wasn't sure. The horse? I am definitely a horse lover, but I felt my totem needed to be a wild animal and probably a bird. So I wrote last week in Morning Pages about wanting an animal totem that I related to. Yesterday I took the dogs for a walk and saw a photographer with the largest lense on his camera which was mounted on a tripod. "That's a serious lens," I say. And he asks me if I would like to look. He had a very large male bald eagle in his sights. The magnificent bird sat high in the bare cottonwood, seeminly posing as he turned his head from side to side. "Look at this profile!" the eagle seemed to be saying. After watching him for quite a while, I decided to continue on my walk. Not very far along, a large female bald eagle shot out of the bushes and banked in a swoop across the river! The wing span seemed at least 4 feet. The female flew high up into two intertwined pine trees. I couldn't see her, so kept walking and studying the tree. Then movement. I spied her in her nest. Called to the photographer who was able to set up his camera and we could see the female with his highpowered lens. Click, click, click..."I have already taken 300 shots!" says the photographer. Just then the female flew out of her hiding place and joined the male in the cottonwood. There they both were - it seemed - just for us. And I thought, "The eagle, of course." Free and strong and independent - my totem.
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There's an eagle nest near my parents, and I watch the eaglets every summer as they grow through my dad's binoculars. Such amazing creatures. I can't decide what my animal totem would be....
Posted by: Amy | April 11, 2006 at 09:51 PM
Wow. What a great experience.
Posted by: SB | April 12, 2006 at 01:34 AM
i think you're expierence was very representative. i was wondering if maybe you and this photographer were suppose to be like the two eagles? just a thought!
Posted by: Dreja | April 12, 2006 at 04:24 PM
Wow, Dreja, I hadn't thought of that! But we also went apart and came together.
Posted by: Niki | April 13, 2006 at 10:32 AM
excellent choice of totem! i have a deck of cards, an oracle of sorts, called "medicine cards." there are 44 of them, and they each picture a different animal. in the companion book, the eagle is number one, and it represents "spirit."
here's a link to the full text:
http://www.serenityhealth.com/medcard4.html
Posted by: eliza | April 17, 2006 at 10:31 PM