Turtle
Turtle is an earth animal totem of the north in the Folk Western tradition. It is associated with patience, protection and longevity. Its medicine is patience, protection and earth, and its shadow aspect is slowness and withdrawal.
Modern Western animal-totem reading (Andrews, Animal-Speak, 1992) of Turtle Island, a Haudenosaunee and wider Indigenous North American name for the land; the slow-down and patience medicine here is the modern Western frame.
Correspondences
- Element
- Earth
- Direction
- North
- Chakra
- Root Chakra
Practice
- Magical Uses
- PatienceProtectionGroundingLongevity
Nature and meaning
- Shadow Aspect
- SlownessWithdrawalRigidity
- Deities
- Gaia
Details
- Keywords
- PatienceProtectionLongevityGrounding
- Medicine
- PatienceProtectionEarthLongevity
- When Appears
- Slow downBe patientProtect yourself
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