Jaguar
Jaguar is a fire animal totem of the south in the Folk Western tradition. It is associated with shamanic power, night sun and seeing. Its medicine is shamanic journey, night sight and fearlessness, and its shadow aspect is predatory control and ruthlessness.
Modern Western animal-totem reading (Andrews, Animal-Speak, 1992) of the jaguar as night sun and shamanic animal in Mesoamerican (Olmec, Maya, Aztec) tradition; the medicine here is not a Mesoamerican transmission.
Correspondences
Practice
- Magical Uses
- JourneyingDivinationProtectionTransformation
Nature and meaning
- Shadow Aspect
- Predatory controlRuthlessness
Details
- Keywords
- Shamanic powerNight sunSeeingFearlessness
- Medicine
- Shamanic journeyNight sightFearlessnessTransformation
- When Appears
- The night sun seesShamanic call
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