Category: Animal Symbolism
Ground the Medicine in Your Body - Snake Medicine
Author: Denise Grobbelaar
Date Published: 2024-09-29 18:18:49
This message came to me during a medicine hike, after spotting a snake—a Puff Adder!—crossing the road. Snake medicine teaches us how to attune to the earth’s vibrations. Unlike humans, who hear through the air, snakes hear primarily through the ground.
Move inside your own skin – Amphibian medicine
Author: Denise Grobbelaar
Date Published: 2024-08-22 19:33:18
Recently, at the Louvain Burn Festival, a frog found its way into our tent—a ‘Platanna’, also known as the African clawed frog or claw-toed frog. The son of the guest farm’s owner showed us how this frog moved inside its own skin, and I recognized this unique feature as its medicine.
Black Sun Bird: Powerful symbol
Author: Denise Grobbelaar
Date Published: 2024-06-27 20:49:25
In some traditions, black-colored birds are revered for their spiritual significance and are seen as powerful symbols of mystery, the unknown, transformation, and connection to the divine.
Essence of the Orca: An Archetypal Understanding of Dreams
Author: Denise Grobbelaar
Date Published: 2024-02-22 18:18:20
Animal visitations in our dreams represent archetypal patterns and qualities unique to their species; thus, each animal carries an essence that we need to inquire about to understand the dream's message beyond our personal associations...
Waking dreaming: Visitations by Dove
Author: Denise Grobbelaar
Date Published: 2022-11-28 17:16:41
An ancient symbol for humanity, doves represent peace, love, gentleness, and serenity. Dove encounters such as these may represent joy, happiness, calmness, hope and healing...
Spider: Master weaver
Author: Denise Grobbelaar
Date Published: 2022-03-07 19:25:53
The spider is the master weaver. It weaves an intricate web with such a subtle fabric. As energetic beings, we too weave subtle energies to create our lives. “We are the keepers and writers of our own destiny, weaving it like a web by our thoughts, feelings, and actions”.
Butterflies: Transformation & Metamorphosis
Author: Denise Grobbelaar
Date Published: 2022-02-01 19:52:25
Butterflies have long been associated with the process of transformation and metamorphosis - a powerful representation of the soul and its journey through life. This intense transformation process can be equated to the alchemical stage of Solutio. Solutio is the root of alchemy, where one form disappears and a new revitalized form emerges.
Symbolism of Horses
Author: Denise Grobbelaar
Date Published: 2021-11-24 17:38:00
Horses represents freedom, movement and power. If a horse appears in your life, it may be time to free yourself from constricted views and limiting beliefs. A question to ask yourself is “Where am I stuck?”...
Soul retrieval & the white horse
Author: Denise Grobbelaar
Date Published: 2021-11-22 18:15:01
After the appearance of a white horse in a soul retrieval dream, I attended an “Art, Horses and Constellations” workshop run by animal communicator, Anthea Myburgh of @UbuntuHealing. Horses are acutely sensitive to the resonance within the ‘field’...
Crow: The secret magic of creation is calling you
Author: Denise Grobbelaar
Date Published: 2021-10-14 17:25:04
Crow is legendary for its intelligence, watchfulness, adaptability and its remarkable voice range. Mythologically, Crow is associated with creation and the archetypal forces that surrounds us, and is symbolic with “magic that is alive within our world every day and available to us”...