AARDVARK: prolonging life

ANTELOPE: grace, readiness, and taking action

ARMADILLO: how to keep the feelings and troubles of others out of their Sacred Space by using boundaries, nocturnal, protection

BADGER: taking charge and aggressively showing competence

BAT: rebirth, guardian of the night

BEAR: reflecting and introspection, power, strength, hunter

BEAVER: how to keep busy by being productive, builder, gatherer

BOBCAT: fierce, loner, intensity

BUFFALO: sacredness, life builder

BULL: strength, warning

CAMEL: conservation and proper use of resources, enduring

CAT: independence, grace, healing

CHEETAH: accomplishing tasks with sped and agility

CHIPMUNK: respecting the smallest parts of Nature through equality and interrelationship

COW: patience, stoicism

COYOTE: prankster, insightful, playful

DEER: tender and sensitive gentleness, love

DOG: the value of serving humankind loyally

DOLPHIN: how to use the breath in order to tap available energy, life force, or manna, playful, kindness

DONKEY: shouldering his load of responsibility

DRAGON: wisdom, nobility

EEL: conducting love

ELEPHANT: long life, self-preservation

ELK: stamina and persistence, freedom

FERRET: ferreting out answers by using reason and deduction

FOX: cunning, provider, intelligence

GAZELLE: surefootedness

GIRAFFE: watchfulness, mobility

GORILLA: communication and teaching through actions, brute strength, adaptability

HIPPO: linking water and earth, survival

HORSE: the proper use of gifts, talents and abilities; will, endurance, authority and talents in a proper manner without abuse or misuse, stamina, mobility, strength

JAGUAR: secular and spiritual leadership potential

KANGAROO: feisty

LEOPARD: understanding the patterns that lead to self-mastery

LION: power, grace, respect

MANATEE: peaceable, unassuming

MOLE: see in the dark and travel under the Earth

MONKEY: playfulness, agility

MOOSE: self-esteem, headstrong, longevity

MOUNTAIN RAM: tenacity and the willingness to meet challenges head-on, new beginning, hoarder

MOUNTAIN LION/COUGAR: leading through example, courage

MOUSE: how to pay attention to detail and how to keep from being overwhelmed (by completing one task at a time), secretive

OPOSSUM: planning and strategy

ORCA: focus, power

OTTER: being an adult who was young at heart, playing or working, with the same innocence and delight, curiosity, laughter

PANTHER: leaping fearlessly into the Void of the Unknown

PEGASUS: carrier of lightning

PIG: using intellect and reasoning ability

PORCUPINE: faith and innocence

RABBIT: lesson of not listening to unrealistic fears, resourceful

RACOON: protectors of the underdog, the weak, the frail and the elderly, determination

RHINO: durability, strength

SEAHORSE: confidence, grace

SEALS/SEALIONS: riding the waves of their emotions and feelings in order to discover all facets of themselves

SHARK: hunter, survival

SKUNK: reputation, and the ability to attract or repel what you need in your life

SQUIRREL: gathering energy and saving a little extra for lean times, innocence, trusting

UNICORN: redemption, salvation

WALRUS: altering actions and feelings in order to interact with the changes life offers

WATER BUFFALO: enormous strength, hard working

WEASEL: guile, stealth, ingenuity, and observing the obvious

WHALE: wisdom, power, eternal knowledge

WOLF: the ability to create new paths for learning and teaching, loyalty, perseverance, guidance

ZEBRA: nothing is final or absolute, nothing is black or white, alert
 
 

First Opened: November 13, 2000
Revised: June 2004