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A Crappy Power Animal?<\/i><\/b><\/h1>\n

On Sunday morning, I skipped the dawn ritual. I caught a bit of breakfast, and headed down to the stone circle (late) and got a sunny patch for the rite Ian and Liafal were leading. In this rite, we were to find our spirit ally and talk or bring him\/her back. Before the visualization had even started, I was able to see what I would find as my spirit guide: millions and millions of cockroaches swarmed into the circle and around, and I watched them with great interest as they moved as one creature.<\/p>\n

It was like watching a tidalwave rush over the stones. They broke against the fire stand and the well, they washed up the tree and back down. I watched as they swarmed over the others seated in the circle, inquisitively peeking at the ritual participants, who couldn’t see a thing.<\/p>\n

I lapsed back into listening to Ian and Liafal, watching the ebb and flow of the tide of cockroaches around me.<\/p>\n

As we got into the visualization, one in particular stood out from the crowd. He was wearing a pair of Groucho Marx glasses and smoking a cigar, and he climbed onto my shoulder so he could guide me around. I’ve even drawn a picture of him.<\/p>\n

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<\/center>The visualization took us away from the circle, and out into the desert around us.<\/p>\n

We wandered for a while, talking, meeting other animals, and generally raising hell. We played a joke on a bear, pretended to be someone else’s spirit animal (we let ’em know in the end), and sang a rousing rendition of “We Are the Champions” to a group of tortises who had challenged us to a game of volleyball. Eventually we came back.<\/p>\n

We were invited to share our experiences, and to talk about our Sprit Guide if we were so moved. As we went around the circle, I was struck by all the cool totems everyone else had, and was a bit embarrassed by mine. A few mentioned eagles, hawks, or other birds, one mentioned a stag, a couple of wolves surfaced, and Nam mentioned a monkey, and spilled the water all over her neighbor in the circle. Finally, when it came to me, I called the cockroach by his common name, not his saintly name, saying: “Cockroach, for telling me why I couldn’t have a cool totem.”<\/p>\n

It was a wonderfully powerful experience. Profound and comical, and I’m not ashamed to admit that such a powerful experience can be brought about in so simple a way.<\/p>\n

Or maybe I’m making a totem out of a cockroach? Eh, I’ve seen worse \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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