turtle totem
Turtle is the oldest symbol for the Earth. She is the personification of goddess energy and the
eternal Earth itself. If you have a
Turtle totem, you must be mindful of returning to the Earth what she has given you.
Honor the
creative source within you. Use water and earth energies to create a harmonious
flow in your life.
Turtle is fine teacher of the art of grounding, she
can be a reminder to connect to Mother Earth and to bring your spirituality
into physical manifestation. When you learn to ground yourself to Earth's power
and strength, you place focus on your thoughts and actions and use the Earth's
limitless energies rather than your own to accomplish your will.
She is also a powerful totem for protection as
withdrawing into her shell is an amazing self-defense mechanism. The turtle has
few predators, which gives her an innocent energy.
Because of her seemingly wide-eyed, long-lived,
carefree attitude the turtle is often thought to be the wisest of souls among
the animal kingdom. We would all do well to take this as a lesson and move at
our own pace as the turtle does.
Turtles share an association with water, which lends
meanings of motion, intuition and emotion to the myriad of more symbolic
meanings of the turtle.
Divination or foretelling has been known to be
conducted by reading a turtle's shell and underbelly. These parts of the turtle
are said to depict a map of the stars and sacred writings. Furthermore, most
turtle shells are divided into thirteen sections which is associated with the
thirteen phases of the moon in a year. There are thirteen moons in a calendar
year. As such, the symbolic meaning of number thirteen deals with moon
associations such as:
Femininity
Magic
Psyche
Emotion
People I've known with turtle totems have been very
connected to earth energy. Their medicine is extremely complex, embracing the
mystery of our origins. In his book Animal Speak, Ted Andrews describes Turtle
as the "keeper of doors," explaining that her association with shore
areas connect her to the portals of the "Faerie Realm", into which
Turtle is one of the ways.
Sea Turtle (Totem)
Each month experiences one full moon (sometimes two).
That full moon within the month you were born expresses certain aspects of your
personality. Native Americans assigned
attributes to each of the full moons according to the seasonal characteristics. The Symbolic Native American full moon name and attribute for the full moon of April (April's Full Moon) (my birth month)
are as follow: Egg Moon. Also known as the Pink Moon. Both names indicate the
sprouting of seed and the explosion of bright beauty found in the phlox (pink)
and other flowers rising for the spring debut.
April : Seed Moon SignYou are known as the Seed Moon if you are born in April because you represent the promise of new growth. You are a league of people who are determined to be seen and heard in your own special way. You have likely seen a great deal of struggle in your childhood, and as you grow into maturity you become adamant about establishing yourself righteously within the community. You have a need to feel deep connections with others, to root yourself within the tribe. Your integrity and honesty is immense and you cannot tolerate injustice. Your sign indicates you are full of potential. That means you will uncover special gifts and aspects about yourself all throughout your life - even in your elderly years. Your life lesson is about gaining perspectives from other viewpoints (not just your own).
Friday, April 6, 2012.
According to the Moon Calendar, on Monday 4 April 1977 there was Full Moon.
- Waning Moon:
Symbolic of letting go, surrender, release, quiet time, contemplation, and a time of incubation. - New Moons:
Symbolic of new beginnings, a fresh start, rebirth - Waxing Moon:
Symbolic of growth, manifestation, attainment, gravidity (heavy with child – both philosophical and literal). - Full Moon:
Symbolic of the height of power, the peak of clarity, fullness and obtainment of desire.
"I had forgotten about turtle. Turtle was the totem that crawled into my life almost 20 years ago, teaching me to understand the times when I needed to declare my boundaries, making myself safe by going within for security. Turtle reminds me to balance intellectual knowing with intuition. Turtle also reminds me to honor my need to slow down, be patience and trust in moving at my own pace."
The following words were written by my sister on July 23, 2012, when she was four months pregnant, and depict how intimate and powerful she felt. I have just asked her for permission to reproduce this piece of womanly soul-making writing in here as part of this article, The Ancient Totem Turtle, which I feel so special... though don't know why very well yet. Her writing seems to me so wonderful, visionary and placid, that I melt every time I read it. Thank you, sistah, for letting me carry your words with me deep through my journeywork. There was something premonitory about it:
Tonight I was thinking about my yet unborn baby and then the idea of the Discworld depicted by Terry Pratchett on his fantasy novels hit my mind.
In this universe the Earth is a large disc (complete with edge-of-the-world drop-off and consequent waterfall) resting on the backs of four huge elephants which are in turn standing on the back of an enormous turtle, named Great A'Tuin (idea very similar to Hindu, Chinese, and Native American mythology) as it slowly swims through space.
If you think about it, this must not be so far away from the sense of how the universe works for my baby right now ... He is surrounded by a water bubble (close to a disc) and being carried by a turtle (me) that swims through space very slowly and gently ...
Just a thought I wanted to share with you!
Quoting Mr Pratchett:
“The place where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the shell of a giant turtle. That's the advantage of space. It's big enough to hold practically anything, and so, eventually, it does.
People think that it is strange to have a turtle ten thousand miles long and an elephant more than two thousand miles tall, which just shows that the human brain is ill-adapted for thinking and was probably originally designed for cooling the blood. It believes mere size is amazing.
There's nothing amazing about size. Turtles are amazing, and elephants are quite astonishing. But the fact that there's a big turtle is far less amazing than the fact that there is a turtle anywhere.”
In this universe the Earth is a large disc (complete with edge-of-the-world drop-off and consequent waterfall) resting on the backs of four huge elephants which are in turn standing on the back of an enormous turtle, named Great A'Tuin (idea very similar to Hindu, Chinese, and Native American mythology) as it slowly swims through space.
If you think about it, this must not be so far away from the sense of how the universe works for my baby right now ... He is surrounded by a water bubble (close to a disc) and being carried by a turtle (me) that swims through space very slowly and gently ...
Just a thought I wanted to share with you!
Quoting Mr Pratchett:
“The place where the story happened was a world on the back of four elephants perched on the shell of a giant turtle. That's the advantage of space. It's big enough to hold practically anything, and so, eventually, it does.
People think that it is strange to have a turtle ten thousand miles long and an elephant more than two thousand miles tall, which just shows that the human brain is ill-adapted for thinking and was probably originally designed for cooling the blood. It believes mere size is amazing.
There's nothing amazing about size. Turtles are amazing, and elephants are quite astonishing. But the fact that there's a big turtle is far less amazing than the fact that there is a turtle anywhere.”
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