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Bear is an earth animal totem of the north in the Folk Western tradition. It is associated with strength, introspection and grounding. Its medicine is courage, healing and solitude, and its shadow aspect is aggression and isolation.

Cobra is a fire animal totem of the south in the Egyptian tradition. It is associated with kundalini, sovereignty and venom. Its medicine is rising power, royal protection and precise strike, and its shadow aspect is vengeance and seduction.

Crab is a water animal totem of the west in the Folk Western tradition. It is associated with protection, home and emotion. Its medicine is protection, home and emotional truth, and its shadow aspect is defensiveness and sidestepping.

Dog is an earth animal totem of the north in the Folk Western tradition. It is associated with loyalty, protection and companionship. Its medicine is loyalty, protection and service, and its shadow aspect is codependency and blind loyalty.

Hedgehog is an earth animal totem of the north in the Folk Western tradition. It is associated with boundary, self protection and domestic luck. Its medicine is knowing when to curl, home protection and small courage, and its shadow aspect is defensiveness and fear of contact.

The five-pointed star traced by joining every second vertex of a regular pentagon. Because the diagonals cut one another in extreme and mean ratio, the pentagram is the golden ratio drawn rather than computed, and it was the Pythagorean sign of recognition. In the Western magical tradition it is the figure of the five elements and the standard mark of a consecrated space.

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.

Dragon is a fire animal totem of the center in the Folk Western tradition. It is associated with power, magic and treasure. Its medicine is elemental power, ancient wisdom and protection, and its shadow aspect is hoarding and destruction.

Badger is an earth animal totem of the north in the Folk Western tradition. It is associated with tenacity, defence and digging. Its medicine is tenacity, defence and digging in, and its shadow aspect is aggression and entrenchment.

Boar is an earth animal totem of the north in the Folk Western tradition. It is associated with confrontation, provision and courage. Its medicine is courage, provision and confrontation, and its shadow aspect is aggression and pigheadedness.

Bull is an earth animal totem of the north in the Folk Western tradition. It is associated with strength, fertility and stubbornness. Its medicine is endurance, fertility and steady power, and its shadow aspect is obstinacy and violence.

Infinite line with no beginning or end, representing unity, wholeness, and the divine

Crocodile is a water animal totem of the west in the Folk Western tradition. It is associated with ancient power, patience and guardianship. Its medicine is ancient power, patience and guardianship, and its shadow aspect is cold rage and devouring.

Twelve regular pentagons on thirty edges, three meeting at each vertex. Plato does not give it an element: he says the fifth construction was used for the whole, to embroider the universe with figures. The tradition afterwards filled the gap with aether, or with the zodiac, since the faces are twelve and five-sided. It is the solid of the whole rather than of a part.

Donkey is an earth animal totem of the north in the Folk Western tradition. It is associated with endurance, stubbornness and humility. Its medicine is endurance, humility and service, and its shadow aspect is obstinacy and self neglect.

Goose is a water animal totem of the west in the Folk Western tradition. It is associated with vigilance, migration and fertility. Its medicine is vigilance, migration and fertility, and its shadow aspect is warning too late and restlessness.

Six squares on twelve edges, three meeting at each vertex. Plato gives it to earth, because the cube is the stablest of the solids and the hardest to move, and earth is the element that holds. Of the five it is the one that sits flat, which is why the tradition uses it for foundation and for the built world rather than for anything that moves.

Jackal is an earth animal totem of the north in the Folk Western tradition. It is associated with death work, guardianship and scavenging. Its medicine is death work, guardianship and guidance, and its shadow aspect is grave robbery and loneliness.

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.

Lynx is an earth animal totem of the north in the Folk Western tradition. It is associated with secret knowledge, night sight and silence. Its medicine is seeing in the dark, keeping secrets and solitude, and its shadow aspect is paranoia and isolation.

Star tetrahedron representing light body, spiritual vehicle, and ascension

Complex sacred geometry containing all five Platonic solids, representing creation matrix

Moose is a water animal totem of the west in the Folk Western tradition. It is associated with primal power, solitude and browsing. Its medicine is primal power, solitude and dignity, and its shadow aspect is loneliness and unapproachable.

Panther is an earth animal totem of the north in the Folk Western tradition. It is associated with shadow, stealth and reclaiming. Its medicine is shadow work, stealth and reclaiming power, and its shadow aspect is repressed anger and hidden agenda.

One of the fourteen principal nadis, assigned by the handbooks to the right ear. The name is that of the Vedic nourisher Pushan, the god who knows the paths and guards the road, and the channel is read with the nourishment that comes in through hearing.

Root Chakra (Muladhara) is the 1st chakra, at the base of spine, of earth, ruled by Saturn.

Scarab is an earth animal totem of the east in the Egyptian tradition. It is associated with rebirth, sun and transformation. Its medicine is rolling the sun, patient repetition and self renewal, and its shadow aspect is stagnation and obsessive repetition.

Scorpion is a water animal totem of the west in the Folk Western tradition. It is associated with defence, transformation and boundaries. Its medicine is defence, boundaries and transformation, and its shadow aspect is vengeance and poison.

Seven equal circles: one at the centre and six around it, each outer circle passing through the centre of the middle one. The figure is the core of the flower of life, and in modern sacred-geometry teaching it is read as the pattern of creation, the six days of making around a still centre.

Shark is a water animal totem of the west in the Folk Western tradition. It is associated with primordial fear, focus and survival. Its medicine is focus, survival and relentlessness, and its shadow aspect is ruthlessness and obsession.

The simplest of the five regular solids: four equilateral triangles on six edges, meeting three at a time. Plato gives it to fire, on the argument that fire is the sharpest and most penetrating of the bodies, and the tetrahedron is the sharpest solid, with the smallest volume for its surface. It is the only Platonic solid that is its own dual.

Tiger is a fire animal totem of the south in the Folk Western tradition. It is associated with power, passion and solitude. Its medicine is power, passion and will, and its shadow aspect is cruelty and isolation.