| Getting to know your totem animals... |
[May. 27th, 2008|01:52 am] |
This one is probably mostly for those who are also parents. I happen to have a son who is 19 months old (my first and currently only child).
For reasons I'm unclear on, my son's totem animal has already appeared to him. This wouldn't be problematic, except that it happens to be a fairly large wolf (the same type as his natural father), and, quite frankly, it frightens him--definitely a problem since it seems to favor nocturnal visits. For the time being, this particular totem animal has been told (not by me, but by my significant other who is a Wiccan scion) that my son is too young to interact with it and to wait until he is older before trying to make contact again. The wolf hasn't been around since.
So, my question, then, is what would be a more appropriate age range to encourage my son to reach out to his totem animal again? For that matter, what suggestions do you have for helping me guide him through the reintroduction? Or is this a matter where I should be completely hands-off and let the wolf's reappearance be left completely up to the two of them in their own due time?
As for me personally, I'm not much in contact with my own totem animal (strongly believed to be feline)--we haven't even been properly introduced, really, seeing as the totems don't play much of a role in the Persephonic tradition I follow--so I'm a bit unfamiliar with this territory in terms of my experiences. ^_^; |
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