Musings on Animality
“My Personal View of Deities” (10/8/2009) This is one of those spiritual topics that I tend not to talk about much at all, and to the extent that I basically just end up telling people that I’m a polytheist (agnostic one on top of that). However, part of the reasoning for
Reflections: Personal Guidance from Mongoose (12/18/2008) Discovering and Embracing My Personal Niche: Although it may seem somewhat odd that specifically Mongoose would be the main one so far to aid in teaching this lesson of ‘finding my niche’ in life, there has nevertheless been something about him that has allowed
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“The Watch-Guardian: Mongoose Energy and Symbolism, Part II” (11/8/2008) Part II: (Link to Part I) Group Strength, Personal Responsibility, and Dedication: Mongoose energy resonates with symbolism of courage, as relates to their feeding and defensive behaviors I previously explained. Even though mongooses are prey animals as well as predators, numerous
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“The Watch-Guardian: Mongoose Energy and Symbolism, Part I” (11/8/2008) Part I: (Link to Part II) As I’ve mentioned before in another writing or two, I feel that I have spent years now subconsciously putting effort into keeping my therianthropy separate from my totemism, but have this year tried to tear
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“Oryx and the Desert” (5/5/2008) Oryx is one of the most intriguing and enticing guides I have had personal experience with. Many aspects of him speak to me, most especially in regards to this basic point in time and my life, of which he stepped up and directed my attention
“Guiding Black Wings: Essay on Crow” (February 2006) Crow is an important part of my life, and I feel drawn to writing about him right now and the parts he has played in my life. I’ll backtrack over some things involving crows earlier in my life, leading up to late
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“Skin Deep: On Being Animal and Human” (11/24/2008) Although I have written some on this subject before, primarily in my essay “Sanctuary of the Catatonic Soul”, further thought about the topic leaves me feeling that there’s more I could and want to say on it. It’s a concept so often
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“On Wings of a Living Past” (8/1/2009) I suppose some people would wonder and want to pose questions to me about what it is like to have an extinct theriotype, and to be honest, at this point I must say that I don’t know what it feels like to “be
“Designing a Theriotype” (8/1/2009) One of the difficult and tricky things to identifying myself as having a non-extant theriotype is trying to figure out what that animal was—what it looked liked, how it behaved, what type of environment(s) it may have lived in, and so forth. There’s of course some
“Domestic and Wild: Spectrum of Diversity” (4/4/2008) This is a subject I have thought about numerous times and sought to eventually describe some of it in words and always came up short on that until now. Me pondering it probably came about initially from me identifying as a domestic cat
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