Working With The Animal Totems
SEA HORSE
Spirit of the Seahorse: Chivalry, Protection, Camouflage, Confidence
http://funkman.org/animal/fish/seahorse.html
http://www.whats-your-sign.com/symbolic-meaning-of-the-seahorse.html
http://www.linsdomain.com/totems/pages/seahorse.htm
http://www.starstuffs.com/animal_totems/dictionary_of_wateranimals.htm
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/sea-horse/
*Patience
*Friendliness
*Protection
*Inflexibility
*Perspective
*Generosity/Sharing
*High-Perception
*Persistence
*Contentment
*Freedom
*Fatherhood
*Masculine Energy
*Nonconformity
*Confidence
*Caution
*Grounding
*Emotional Clarification
*Male/Female balance of duties and responsibilities
The Sea Horse
The sea horse is an amazing creature. It lives in sea grass beds, mangroves and coral reefs. They consume up to 3000 brine shrimp daily. Because they don't have teeth they swallow food whole. Many people regard the sea horse as mythical creatures perhaps because of their odd form. They have a horse like head, bony plated body, brood pouch and a prehensile tail. Sea horses have been credited with potent magical and medicinal qualities. Chinese and other asian cultures have been using sea horses in medicine for 400 to 500 years. Believed to cure impotency and asthma, lower cholesterol, treat thyroid and heart disorders and prevent arteriosclerosis the sea horse is widely hunted. Those with this medicine are often prone to one or more of the above ailments but also have an uncanny ability to heal them.
A slow swimming fish the sea horse must rely on camouflage to escape capture from humans. It can change its color to match their background and grow long appendages so they blend in better with the algae. Storms are also a threat because they tear them from their holdfasts to be cast ashore or die from exhaustion. The sea horse teaches the art of camouflage and energy management. Because it is used in healing it also holds the energies of service and sacrifice, giving up its life for the sake of another.
One of the most fascinating aspects of the sea horse is that the male becomes pregnant when a female deposits her eggs into his pouch. The male provides oxygen through a capillary network in the pouch, transfers nutrients and controls the pouch environment to ensure that the young are born healthy. In nature the single parent family is the overwhelming rule and that parent is usually the female! This act by the male indicates a gentle strength combining both feminine and masculine characteristics When the sea horse swims into our life it asks us to examine and then balance those components within ourselves.
Another interesting fact about the sea horse is that each eye moves independently giving it a broader range of vision. It sees things differently than other creatures and offers us the gift of clear sight. Those with this medicine usually have good peripheral vision and need to honor what they think their imagination is seeing!
This fascinating creature teaches us a variety of skills that are necessary to perfect our imperfections. When we open up to its teachings we return to the creative source of all that is.
http://funkman.org/animal/fish/seahorse.html
http://www.whats-your-sign.com/symbolic-meaning-of-the-seahorse.html
http://www.linsdomain.com/totems/pages/seahorse.htm
http://www.starstuffs.com/animal_totems/dictionary_of_wateranimals.htm
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/sea-horse/
*Patience
*Friendliness
*Protection
*Inflexibility
*Perspective
*Generosity/Sharing
*High-Perception
*Persistence
*Contentment
*Freedom
*Fatherhood
*Masculine Energy
*Nonconformity
*Confidence
*Caution
*Grounding
*Emotional Clarification
*Male/Female balance of duties and responsibilities
The Sea Horse
The sea horse is an amazing creature. It lives in sea grass beds, mangroves and coral reefs. They consume up to 3000 brine shrimp daily. Because they don't have teeth they swallow food whole. Many people regard the sea horse as mythical creatures perhaps because of their odd form. They have a horse like head, bony plated body, brood pouch and a prehensile tail. Sea horses have been credited with potent magical and medicinal qualities. Chinese and other asian cultures have been using sea horses in medicine for 400 to 500 years. Believed to cure impotency and asthma, lower cholesterol, treat thyroid and heart disorders and prevent arteriosclerosis the sea horse is widely hunted. Those with this medicine are often prone to one or more of the above ailments but also have an uncanny ability to heal them.
A slow swimming fish the sea horse must rely on camouflage to escape capture from humans. It can change its color to match their background and grow long appendages so they blend in better with the algae. Storms are also a threat because they tear them from their holdfasts to be cast ashore or die from exhaustion. The sea horse teaches the art of camouflage and energy management. Because it is used in healing it also holds the energies of service and sacrifice, giving up its life for the sake of another.
One of the most fascinating aspects of the sea horse is that the male becomes pregnant when a female deposits her eggs into his pouch. The male provides oxygen through a capillary network in the pouch, transfers nutrients and controls the pouch environment to ensure that the young are born healthy. In nature the single parent family is the overwhelming rule and that parent is usually the female! This act by the male indicates a gentle strength combining both feminine and masculine characteristics When the sea horse swims into our life it asks us to examine and then balance those components within ourselves.
Another interesting fact about the sea horse is that each eye moves independently giving it a broader range of vision. It sees things differently than other creatures and offers us the gift of clear sight. Those with this medicine usually have good peripheral vision and need to honor what they think their imagination is seeing!
This fascinating creature teaches us a variety of skills that are necessary to perfect our imperfections. When we open up to its teachings we return to the creative source of all that is.
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