Spirit Guides/ Totems

[Sanguina Cruenta]

Excelsior, if I remember my comparative Latin adjectives, simply means "higher".

Compare:
Excelsus, "high"
Excelsior, "higher"
Excelsissimus, "highest".

Ever is "unquam" but I think always is implied here and would be a better word, so "semper excelsior".

3nodding

Plant totems are interesting though. Why don't you start a thread on them?  

[-MysticCherri-]

ah..thanks -facepalm-


well, i dunno. i'd have to look up what the white lotus meant...it's been stuck in my head for a good while.  

[Lady Keigh]

Well, certain plants and flowers have different meanings in different cultures. I guess it just depends on what culture you can relate to the most, then look up what the plant's meanings and properties are. For example, you say you've been thinking about a white lotus. If I'm correct, white lotuses are native to Asia and is used in tea to induce feelings of tranquility and calmness. Also, they signify peace and serenity. (I could be wrong, I researched this a while back.)  

[Esiris]

Sanguina Cruenta

Could be. I don't really know anything about wolves in confinement vs wild.

Here it is!  

[Lady Keigh]

Last night, I decided to meditate and try to talk to my spirit guides.. And it worked! My guides are amazing! One's name is Nicholas, and he's an all black wolf with beautiful green eyes. Another is Analisa, and she's a blue monarch butterfly. My other guide is a garden spider who wanted me to call her Madame. When we finished, I was so excited! blaugh  

[Morgandria]

I have plant totems. Mostly the thorny trees: buckthorn, hawthorn, blackthorn.
I have some close relationships with others, though - Cedar and I get on very well, as well as white pine.

I'd have more plant allies if I wasn't allergic to so many things, I think.  

[Morgandria]

Rose Singato

Last night, I decided to meditate and try to talk to my spirit guides.. And it worked! My guides are amazing! One's name is Nicholas, and he's an all black wolf with beautiful green eyes. Another is Analisa, and she's a blue monarch butterfly. My other guide is a garden spider who wanted me to call her Madame. When we finished, I was so excited! blaugh

Any reason they're not 'standard' animals, do you think?  

[Esiris]

Morgandria

I have plant totems. Mostly the thorny trees: buckthorn, hawthorn, blackthorn.
I have some close relationships with others, though - Cedar and I get on very well, as well as white pine.

I'd have more plant allies if I wasn't allergic to so many things, I think.

I think I have only heard of one other person like that. It's really cool to find out they aren't alone!  

[Lady Keigh]

Morgandria

Rose Singato

Last night, I decided to meditate and try to talk to my spirit guides.. And it worked! My guides are amazing! One's name is Nicholas, and he's an all black wolf with beautiful green eyes. Another is Analisa, and she's a blue monarch butterfly. My other guide is a garden spider who wanted me to call her Madame. When we finished, I was so excited! blaugh

Any reason they're not 'standard' animals, do you think?

I really don't know. It's just what I saw.  

[Sanguina Cruenta]

I didn't know monarchs came in blue.

Plant totems... I don't really know for totems. I know what I like and what I get along with. Pohutukawa and Weeping willow feature.  

[TheStarlessSkye]

When I meditate, I see it as a gust of wind. And it has helped me.  

[pompoennetje]

I have no idea if I have one, or two. Or more.

The only animals I dream about is the dog of my parents and my two cats.

I feel close to a few animals. But that might be because they are just my favorite animals?

I don't know how to figure out what your totem is either.  

[Morgandria]

Sanguina Cruenta

I didn't know monarchs came in blue.

Plant totems... I don't really know for totems. I know what I like and what I get along with. Pohutukawa and Weeping willow feature.

That's it. Monarch butterflies are not blue, ever. Down your way there's a white variation in the species, but not blue. Which is why I asked if there was a reason her animal guides all had funky colouring. Occasionally spirits appear 'different', and there's usually a reason for it - but it also often means that they weren't ever real living animals on the physical plane. There's also a chance they could be personal energy constructs, for whatever reason.

Of course, it could be a blue butterfly that she hasn't properly identified for species. Wolves can be black and have green eyes, but green eyes are fairly rare unless we're talking arctic wolves. (I'd be even more curious if she'd said blue, since blue eyes don't occur naturally with wolves, and means they're a wolf-dog hybrid.)

I just find it weird since my guides are all normal colours for their species. But they're not my guides. Que sera sera.  

[Morgandria]

Dianda Panda

I have no idea if I have one, or two. Or more.

The only animals I dream about is the dog of my parents and my two cats.

I feel close to a few animals. But that might be because they are just my favorite animals?

I don't know how to figure out what your totem is either.

Totems are typically based on family or clans, where they occur. One doesn't get to choose a 'totem'; you pretty much get what you get. Totems are the archetypal spirits of a particular living thing: they are the sum of all that is for those creatures. You can sometimes make acquaintance with totems and work with them, if they desire, but others will want nothing to do with you, and be very clear about that.

Spirit guides (or helpers, or allies) are typically individual spirits of one kind or another. They might be a once-living animal, a person, a particular tree you know, an extinct species - there's lots of possibilities here. I don't think everyone 'has' a spirit guide, really, any more than I think everyone has a patron deity, but it's possible to meet helpful spirits as you go, and make friends and allies.

It's a lot easier to meet a spirit guide than it is a totem. Spirit guides can usually be sought through simple Middle-world journeying, or through guided meditation, in a way that allows them to appear to you of their own free will. Totems may or may not answer any sort of appeal you put to them for their attention - they're much larger in scope than a single spirit, and frankly sort of view us as 'small'.  

[Lady Keigh]

Morgandria

Sanguina Cruenta

I didn't know monarchs came in blue.

Plant totems... I don't really know for totems. I know what I like and what I get along with. Pohutukawa and Weeping willow feature.

That's it. Monarch butterflies are not blue, ever. Down your way there's a white variation in the species, but not blue. Which is why I asked if there was a reason her animal guides all had funky colouring. Occasionally spirits appear 'different', and there's usually a reason for it - but it also often means that they weren't ever real living animals on the physical plane. There's also a chance they could be personal energy constructs, for whatever reason.

Of course, it could be a blue butterfly that she hasn't properly identified for species. Wolves can be black and have green eyes, but green eyes are fairly rare unless we're talking arctic wolves. (I'd be even more curious if she'd said blue, since blue eyes don't occur naturally with wolves, and means they're a wolf-dog hybrid.)

I just find it weird since my guides are all normal colours for their species. But they're not my guides. Que sera sera.

UPDATE: I was wrong in identifying the butterfly species, ; It wasn't a monarch, but a blue morpho butterfly (I hope I spelled it right) Sorry for the confusion! (I do a lot of research , I typed that as soon as it happened and didn't look further into it)