Tigers And Deity Who Love Them

TIGER GODDESSES AND HISTORICAL MYTHS:

• “Budhi Pallien,” a fearsome Goddess from North India, shape-shifts into a tiger and roams the jungle on four paws.
• “Waghai Devi,” another Tiger Goddess, belongs to the Gonds people. They leave offerings for her in the forest and ask her for protection against wild beasts.
• “Goddess Durga,” a Hindu Mother Goddess, rides a tiger while fighting for justice.
• Also in the Hindu tradition, “Goddess Kali” honors the tiger as sacred.
• In Japan, the tiger symbolizes courage.
• While China has many different tiger myths; quite often the tiger represents military might, as it also does in Japan.
• Some Taoists worship the white tiger for protection and to avoid bloodshed.
• Chinese believe “The Year of the Tiger” happens once every twelve years. A person born on such a year will have courageous and powerful personality traits; strongly influenced by the tiger.

ALL ABOUT TIGERS THEMSELVES:

In the jungles of Asia, where ferocious tigers roam, nobody is safe. That’s because the striped cats hunt with an almost supernatural ability. Typically they travel alone and stalk their prey silently. A single tiger can sneak up on a grazing animal and stay down-wind, where it will remain undetected.

Most often, the predator will crouch behind tall yellow grass or blend in with other vegetation while watching for the best hunting opportunity.  When that moment arises, she bursts forth, previously unnoticed, from one explosive pounce. Her extreme intelligence means the tiger wastes very little time to chase after her food. Although she can run up to 35 miles per hour, a single leap can launch her more than twenty feet forward. Yet, her best hunting asset is her magnificent agility and mental strategy.

A tiger’s night vision is six times greater than a human’s and since most animals can be caught unawares at a watering hole, most tigers start their hunt there; just as the sun goes down. With very sharp teeth, exceptional vision and perfect hearing, the carnivore uses her pointy-hooked-retractable-claws to capture her prey.

How the kill is made depends on the size of the target. Small to medium-sized animals will most likely be killed by a single bite at the base of their skull. {See this video to watch a tiger kill a crocodile: youtube.com/watch?v=D7dazPp20d8). Larger animals, such as a buffalo, will be pulled down by their throats, where the animal most often dies from suffocation. Either way, the tiger’s kill is done with determination and precision.

References:

Excellent Tiger Facts: .andymcdermott.com/tiger_facts.htm

How Tigers hunt - including White Tigers in Zoos (theoretically) natureobservers.com/snowtiger/hunting.htm

Tiger’s diet and eating habits: zooschool.ecsd.net/Tiger.htm

Tigers as man-eaters: lairweb.org.nz/tiger/maneating11.html

Year of the Tiger: c-c-c.org/chineseculture/zodiac/tiger.htm

Tiger mythology: Animal Magick, by D. J. Conway

Tiger mythology: Animal Speak by Ted Andrews.

Focus On Gratitude - Looking Inward - Getting Back To One's Roots

In the United States, the cold months are now changing the landscape and it's the time of year when all of nature draws its energy inward. The trees pull resources from their leaves and send nutrition and sustenance down into their roots. Annual flowers begin to wither and return to seed. The focus of everything in the outdoors seems to be on survival.

Those of us who practice an Earth-centered spirituality, also begin to look inward. It's how we reconnect with our "roots" and by that I mean I am looking at my life critically and I'm asking myself: "have I accomplished everything I wanted to by this time in my life?" "Am I living according to my life purpose?" 

As I focus my attention within, I realize that I have been feeling stuck, as though I've been pushing against a huge wall. I haven't made progress as easily as I had hoped. So now I'm realizing it might be a good time to do spell work to change what energy I attract. This is still the harvest season - Thanksgiving being just this upcoming week - so when my coven mates and I gather on this next full moon we will be inviting all the helpful energies in the Universe to magnetize the resources we need and life will then flow a little more easily.

To that end, instead of rewriting spells that others have already posted on the internet, I'm just going to provide hyperlinks here for each of you to pick and choose what sort of abundance you'd like to draw into your life. My physical coven and I will be doing our work this Sunday, November 21st, on the night of the Full Moon. When you light your candles, realize we are all connected. We can pull positive change to each other, as we work together.

• A spell for greater psychic clarity: http://www.open-sesame.com/SSW2.html
• Cat spells for spiritual growth: http://www.pagan-world.com/paganinfo/spells/A_Cat_Spell_for_Spiritual_Growth.html
• Prosperity spell: http://www.witchschool.com/group/ritualclub/forum/topics/candle-tarot-card-spell-to?commentId=2738669%3AComment%3A73753&xg_source=activity&groupId=2738669%3AGroup%3A11235
• Money prosperity spell: http://www.tarotforum.net/library/5/2003-05/money-prosperity-spell-20030512.shtml
• Prosperity spell with Tarot cards http://www.suite101.com/content/prosperity-spells-that-work-a307770
• Spell to remember a past life: http://www.spells4free.com/Article/SPELL-TO-REMEMBER-YOUR-PAST-LIFE/961
• Spell to increase business:
• Spell to increase what's in your cash register: http://www.elovemagic.com/luck%20spells10.html
• Drawing down the moon: http://www.paganlibrary.com/rituals_spells/drawing_down_moon.php
• Make your own incense to improve business: http://www.spellcentral.com/spell-184/good-business-powder.html
• Gypsy magic to increase business phone calls: http://www.gypsyadvice.com/gypsymagic/labels/Money.html

Many more spells are available just by searching the topic you desire with the words "spell" or "spellwork."


Richest blessings in all the good work you do!

~ SunTiger

WHEN THE WORST THING HAPPENS . . .

Life has taught me that when you or I go through difficult times it's because there's an "ah-ha" moment about to come. We're on the cusp of learning something more powerful and maybe when we look back we'll have a greater sense of "why" this needed to happen. These depressed feelings I experience today are just growing pains.

I've spent the last two days visiting someone dear in the hospital and attempting to offer comfort whichever way I could. Amazingly, because the situation was so dire, I was allowed to perform Reiki and reflexology to the feet. One huge blessing from this situation (which feels tragic) is being able to demonstrate, in a tangible and obvious way, how very healing human touch can be.

With the patient having a frighteningly high heart rate (i.e., 130 beats per minute) and him being hooked up to all sorts of monitors, we could watch the equipment for changes. Each and every time one of us put our hands on him his heart rate went down two or three beats per minute. He might even be asleep and touch made a visible difference.

It seems like a small victory amidst so much uncertainty and concern yet it's a victory nonetheless. People I love are no longer looking at me (with all the healing modalities I've presented to them) as just being silly nonsense. They've seen the monitors themselves and practiced touching themselves. They've had tangible, visible, scientific proof that we can make the world a little bit better, through touch.

Blessed be.

~ SunTiger

Beautiful Faerie Witchcraft

A fabulously intellectual woman whom I first met at a writer's convention (felt energetically drawn to sit by her) has a most fabulous blog on faerie witchcraft. It feels rather authentic for me to read her work so I thought to post a link to her pages here. Please visit: http://www.winterspells.com/


You won't be sorry.


Love and light,
~ SunTiger