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Tannim's Religion
Black Panther
GUENWHYVAR
The Black Panther has perhaps the greatest mysticism associated with it. It is the symbol for the life and the power of the night, but it is most often a symbol of darkness, death, and rebirth from darkness. The Black Panther helps us to understand the `dark' and `death' and the inherent powers associated with them: thus by acknowledging them, we eliminate our fears and learn to use our own powers.
The Black Panther reigns in the north with winter being its season of greatest power. The Black Panther, after all is of the feminine, in all of her beautiful aspects, mother, child, virgin, seductress, and warrioress. As a totem, the Black Panther awakens the inner passions, which can most often manifest in unbridled expressions of baser powers and instincts. It can also reflect an awakening of the kundalini, signaling not just a time of coming into ones own power, but reclaiming ones true power. The Black Panther always brings a guardian energy to those to whom it comes.
The Black Panther often signals a time of rebirth after a time of suffering and death on some level. This implies that an old issue may finally begin to be resolved. It also signals a time of imminent awakening.
The Black Panther is a symbol of awakening to the heroic path. When the Black Panther enters your life, your path back is on the brink of return. Usually with those with Black Panther as a totem, there either already exists or will soon arrive upon the scene, an individual who will serve as a teacher or mentor, as well as nurturer, and guide upon the heroic path. They symbolize the alternate realities that do exist around us and have an increasing ability to view them at will, as we become the initiates of the heroic path. These alternate realities will begin to open up to those with Black Panther as totem. These alternate realities and the beings within them, and the energy with the Black Panther totem, have very strong ties to powerful sexual energies. It may herald a time of resolving old sexual issues, or it may simply reflect learning to embrace those energies as a true power without being judgmental.
We must learn the transforming nature of the sexual energies and how to direct them consciously. The Black Panther reflects a coming time of opportunities to become twice born ourselves, this often means we may have to face offending malignancies of our own life: a process similar to what has come to be known as “Meeting the dwellers on the threshold,” Those aspects of ourselves or our life that we have painted over, or covered up to be forgotten. Sometimes, this means we must first suffer the loss of something we love most. Like the Black Panther, who can blend into its surroundings with ease and to whatever degree it desires, one must use their own abilities to blend in. Being one with the Black Panther totem is a symbol of the mastery over all dimensions.
The Arawak Indians say that all things have the spirit of the Black Panther, all things contain Black Panther in some way, and that nothing exists without Black Panther. It is the tie to all life and all manifestations of life.
(Is this not true of the Goddess?)
Thus ties to the eternal feminine within all life. To them becoming one with the Black Panther, was the ultimate shape shifting ritual.
It truly reflects more than just coming into ones own power, rather it reflects a reclaiming of your true inner power and balance that's always been there. It gives an ability to go beyond what has been imagined, with opportunity to do so with discipline and control.
“IT IS THE SPIRIT OF IMMENENT REBIRTH, THE SOUL OF THE GODDESS WITHIN.”
Panthers are solitary creatures, although they are associated with others, they are often drawn to those individuals who are likewise often solitary. They can be absolutely silent when stalking their prey: with a Panther totem, you will find your greatest power in silence and stealth, as you pursue your goals and aspirations. Black Panthers also have binocular vision, each eye being able to move independently providing greater depth of vision: Thus, anyone with a Panther as a totem can and will begin to develop more than just psychic sight, but an inner knowing.
To those with whom Panther decides to link, comes the ability to develop clairaudience, clairvoyance, to hear the communications of other dimensions and realities of other life forms.
Those with Panthers as totems should pay very strong attention to how they feel when someone touches them or when they touch someone else. It is in the hours of darkness that Panther finds its greatest element of power. The season that rules the Panther is the season with the longest nights, winter. Panther's lunar cycle is that of the New moon, also known as the black moon.
The Black Panther is a very powerful and ancient totem, it is the symbol of the Goddess, ferocity and valor, it embodies aggressiveness and power: and the Black Panther is of a lunar significance, the Panther has within its body over 500 muscles that it can move completely independently and voluntarily at will.
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