My share on connecting with my Mayan spirit animal
- JAGUAR
Jaguar is teaching me….
The Jaguar knows that if we don’t write our story, our story writes us. Jaguar teaches us how to be in balance with life. It teaches us how to track patterns and listen to nature. But it also tracks us if we are out of balance and not being true to path. It will devour us if we do not answer the call within us. Who we are.
Jaguars. We are the dark and the light. We are the Sun and the Moon. We are the day and the night. We embody both sides of everything. We are everything and nothing. We exist and we are non-existent.
This complex duality of our beings brings us pain and joy. We want to connect and we want to be by ourselves. All of these things happen at the same time. One of the challenging aspects of our lives involves attachment. We connect to things and it brings us suffering and when we let go, we achieve freedom.
Our dual nature enables us to connect to the physical, material things and still be one with Mother Earth and nature. Even still it is imperative that we learn to detach while still maintaining our presence, our being present. As it says, to be in the world, but not of the world.
While we do have our personal things that we love and enjoy, we must be able to let these things go for the advancement of our higher selves, our Higher Jaguar, we should say. As we become more Jaguar, we should lean toward leading more simplistic lives. We should let go of identifying with the physical, yet still honoring it as we continue on our journey to BEING Jaguar as opposed to DOING Jaguar.
This is something we must do on a daily, moment-to-moment basis. This is important to us because it will allow us to get in touch with our innermost, highest selves. This will bring us freedom. This brings Jaguarness, a unique prowess.
We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say we have lost our connection to nature, we've really lost our connection to ourselves.
We are all members of each other. We are intimately connected to all life. This is the wisdom of the ages. It is the illusion of separation - from others, from Life, from Nature, from Source, from ourselves - that creates disorder, dysfunction, and disease.
Jaguar - Otorongo
The Jaguar is the archetypal animal of the West direction on the Q’ero medicine wheel. It represents renewal and sudden transformation. It is the king of the jungle with no natural predators and moves with precision, certainty, and impeccability. The jaguar is associated with the cycle of life and death. Energetically, it devours what no longer serves us and pounces without hesitation into what we are becoming. There is nothing incremental or gradual about jaguar energy. It sees opportunity in sickness, in that healing is not a chance to get back to normal, but rather to leap beyond our previous circumstances.
On an energetic level, the Jaguar is the place of our mental and emotional self. Curiosity lives here. At the level of the jaguar, nothing is exactly as it appears to be. Our perceptions colour the painting of reality in front of us. Our beliefs systems heavily dictate the world we see. The jaguar knows that stability is an illusion and that comfort comes from being in the present moment, not from hanging on to the happenings of the past. The jaguar knows that if we don’t write our story, our story writes us.
Jaguar teaches us how to be in balance with life. It teaches us how to track patterns and listen to nature. But it also tracks us if we are out of balance and not being true to path. It will devour us if we do not answer the call within us.
The jaguar is associated with the second chakra, the sacral chakra. It is the energetic center at the base of our gut - the place of passion and sexuality, of fear and self-esteem. Inherited stories and issues manifest here and it is the jaguar that helps those things to die so there can be a rebirth into a higher state.
Detaching.
Detachment is important because when we admit it, attachment can be dangerous and toxic. Be it to people, places, or things. Detaching will teach us that we are more than enough. WE ARE. This will allow us to believe and know that WE ARE.
To begin, we need to focus on ourselves. Not in a “me, me, me, me”, type thing, but in that WE are the center of our Jaguarverse, that we are important, and that we are enough. This allows us to maintain our duality and function in this realm.
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