Red Fox Totem

I have a copy of the book entitled: "Animal Speak," by Ted Andrews, which I use on a daily basis.

Lately, the Red Fox has come back into my life, urging me to be more like her.

I am working through a particularly sticky challenge, and yesterday, as I was thinking about how was I going to handle it, a Red Fox went trotting across my pasture.

Once upon a time, humanity recognized itself as part of nature, and nature as part of itself, says Ted Andrews.

Dreaming and waking were inseparable realities; the natural and supernatural merged and blended. People used images of nature to express this unity and to instill a transpersonal kind of experience.

Andrews goes on to say: "In the past, shamans, priests and priestesses were the keepers of the sacred knowledge of life. These individuals were tied to the rhythms and forces of nature. They were capable of walking the threads that link the invisible and the visible worlds. They helped people remember that all trees are divine and that all animals speak to those who listen!"

Keynote: Feminine magic of camouflage, shapeshifting, and invisibility
Cycle Of Power: Nocturnal, Dawn and Dusk

The fox is a totem that has touched almost every society on the planet. It is a totem that speaks of the need to develop or awaken camouflage, invisibility and shapeshifting. It is one of the most uniquely skilled and ingenious animals of nature. It can teach these skills to those whose life it enters.

For those with fox totems, it will be important to learn the art of camouflage and its related art of invisibility and shapeshifting. The fox uses its ability at quiet camouflage to its benefit. With practice, you can learn this same sort of ability and apply it so that you may see and hear things that otherwise you could not.

The senses of the fox reveal much about the potential within those who have it as a totum. Its hearing, vision and sense of smell are acute.

The sense of smell is also associated with higher forms of discrimination and discernment. One working with fox medicine should sniff out each situation. This will let them know who to avoid and who to connect with.

Does this person smell right?

Does something smell funny in this situation?

Probably the fox's cleverest hunting technique is "charming." Here the fox performs various antics before her prey. It will jump, and roll and chase itself so that it charms the preys attention. While performing, the fox draws closer and closer without the prey ever realizing it, because the playfulness doesn't make the prey feel threatened! Then at the right momet, the fox leaps and captures its prey.

This is a camouflage technique, one associated with behavior.

It is one that those with fox totems can win any prize.

As you develop attunement to the fox and learn its magic, any prize can fall to you.