December 4, 2015 Totem Card of the Day – Jaguar

The Jaguar steps up with all the strength and old wisdom it carries and says today it is time for people to start owning their own stuff, stop putting off onto others what you should be doing yourself… More importantly stop enabling others who are not doing what they need to do. We all have them in our lives at some point, the people who just don’t step into who and what they are or need to be. But we have to remember doing for them is not what is meant to happen…how will they ever learn responsibility and balance their own lives ni a healthy productive manner if we are continuously stepping in. Like a child learning to walk, or a person learning to ride a horse…falling is part of the experience…once you overcome that obstacle you are stronger because of it. This may sound harsh, but it is probably the most loving and helpful thing you can do for another and yourself. How do we learn except by doing?

It is time to draw from that inner place of knowledge and encourage others to be who they need to be without doing the work for them. Often times we as human get stuck in cycles, sometimes those cycles begin to define who we are and if we do not get the opportunity to change the cycle, reset the path and right it… and then the soul winds up not reaching its full potential. Life isn’t always easy, sometimes we stumble and then we learn to stand up and begin again in more positive steps. Yet we will never do this if we do not try. So today …help someone to try to become the most positive they can be… allow them room to become and grow, balancing their own in the process.

Jaguar/Black Panther comes in to ease burdens of the negative side of our human nature. He will not tolerate poor behavior against humans, creatures, or the great Mother Earth, the Jaguar Medicine is very strong and very ancient. For those that walk with high integrity and honor the Sacred, he will bestow rewards of insights and old knowledge in order to assist us as we walk with positive steps. Jaguar/Black Panther speaks to us of always walking in a way that is with highest intent for good, that we need to remember compassion, dignity, respect and gratitude, to walk strong with resolve, no matter what surrounds the outside of our Sacred Hoop.

Mistakes can occur, but they are but lessons for us to learn and then with that knowledge help us to attain balance once again… remain humble. It shares Ying and Yang…and in understanding this that power is not aggressiveness, but rather the ability to control what kind of strength is needed in situations. They teach us to hear the unheard, to listen with our soul to other dimensions; to life around us for it all has voice. It is here to teach and share knowledge of old, so remain open to it. It teaches us to walk under the dark of Grandmother Moon sensing the life and energy that flows and then balancing it with the light from Father Sun.

Balance and Own Your Own Power….

“I am Dedicated to Educating and sharing the Native culture with the World. It is not enough merely to teach the ways of our Elders. We must honor those traditions by sharing and educating the World. Inspiring others …Inspiring our Youth. Through the Music… the Arts…the stories…”
Mitakuye O’yasin
~bear Medicinewalker

“When Is Enough Enough” from No Static by Kellin Watson. Released: 2007.  Available on I tunes and at http://www.kellinwatson.com/