Awhile ago, I was talking with a couple of friends when one of them asked me if I knew my power animal . I have had many meaningful and profound encounters with animal totems and friends, including Bear, Moose, Wolf, Cat/Panther, Honeybee and Slime Persons (known disparagingly by humans as ’slugs’ ). But when I tried to identify one of them as my particular power animal, I couldn’t come up with one. Then in a flash of inspiration, it came to me.

“Gaia is my power animal,” I stated firmly.  It felt like one of those goosebump moments of truth when the molecules in the air seem to resonate with affirmation. After a moment of silence, my companions said in an awed kind of way, “I felt that.” “Yeah!”

Now, on this Earth day, I feel it’s also a bEarth day for me. Now I am sitting at the Camelot Coffee House, a place I like to go to work on my computer and drink coffee (it’s the only place nearby I can do both those things). While I was writing the last post, about the bEarth of my ‘Salon Phoenix’ project at SoulSpeak, the server (a young woman I have done a card reading for in the past) said to her boss, “She reads cards!”

“Oh!” she replied eagerly, “Would you like to set up here with your cards?”

As a matter of fact, I said, I’ve been looking for a convenient place to set up another day of the week. We agreed on Tuesdays. Then I let her know I was a musician. And wouldn’t you know it, she also wants to open the space for folkie countryish stuff of the very sort that I play. I love the idea of having another regular venue. I don’t need big crowds. I’m just ready for some space in which to play for folks. Even one or two is good. It’s a start, and it feels like a nice balance to the Salon evenings.
It feels like another bEarthing for me. A new beginning. It is significant to me that these openings are manifesting on this day, this Earth day, my power animal day.

It may seem like hubris to claim the entire planet as one’s totem. But it feels more like She has claimed me, and what can I do but surrender? Why would I want to?

I’ve updated the ‘what i do‘ page to reflect these new openings and shifts in my world. Do check it out.

Hallelujah and glory be to She.

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