Power Animal of the Week – Alligator

Power Animal of the Week – Alligator

Intuitive Message – This is a week in which much ancient and buried wisdom and knowledge may come to the forefront.  This also includes the resurfacing of deeply buried pain that you have held onto for far too long now.  Allow these feelings and emotions to surface.  Do not judge them or yourself and allow yourself to release and feel all that you must.  Allow the ancient wisdom and knowledge within you to come to the surface in order to help you move forward however slowly on your healing path.  With Love and Gratitude, Lisa

Message from the guidebook –

#50 – ALLIGATOR

Alligator….Let me drop my judgements,

Accepting life with grace,

So that forlorn care and worry

Will vanish from my face.

Let me integrate each moment,

Digesting life with ease,

Counting all my experiences

As equal opportunities.

ALLIGATOR – INTEGRATION

The powerful gift of Alligator medicine is to fully appreciate and integrate all that life offers.  Gator show us the value of thoroughly digesting both the pleasures and pains of life.  In many ways, Alligator’s medicine is reflected in it behaviour.  When Gator rolls under the water with its prey, its message is to roll with the punches when being attacked by life’s circumstances.  Carefully storing its prey under a log until the meat is tender teaches us about patience and proper timing.

Choosing to laugh when tangled in your own seriousness can immediately diffuse the stranglehold of anger and judgments, self-importance and inflexibility.  Once your rigidity is removed, you are free to again integrate the present set of circumstances, finding what you may have formerly overlooked.  Then you can learn Gator’s lessons on how to digest the value of any life lesson.

Gator medicine people refrain from passing judgment until they have examined all the facts and seen all sides of any situation.  It may be time to drop opinions and judgments so that the present situation may be fully understood.  Gator might have surfaced in the river of your life to tell you to digest the situation at hand before making any rash moves.  You could also be dealing with someone who is too serious or rigid.  If this is the case, embrace your flexibility, knowing that you are expanding beyond your former limits, even if others are wallowing in their self-created quicksand.

Have you been rushing through life and not taking the time to count your victories or to digest your Rites of Passage?  If so, it could be time to honour your progress, mindful that quick-fix solutions do not support long-term goals.  Avoid getting stuck in the duality and quagmire of the human judgment game.  Use calm resolve, review your healing process and life lessons, integrating the growth you have attained.

In all cases, Gator is telling you that something may have escaped your perception.  Ask yourself what viewpoint or possibility did not get factored into your assessment.  Did that missing piece of the puzzle keep you from having an accurate overview of what is now occurring?  If so, it is never too late to reevaluate the situation from a more integrated and flexible point of view.  Remember, Gator’s eyes and nostrils are often the only parts of its body above the water while it senses its surroundings.  Gator integrates all probabilities before making its move.

Message from Guidebook from the Medicine Cards by Jamie Sams and David Carson….http://www.amazon.com/Medicine-Cards-Discovery-Through-Animals/dp/093968053X