Naturally Intelligent

I am inspired to be my naturally intelligent me like the Western wolf, a mystical creature of the mountain forest and moon. Her eerie midnight howl lures our Alpha female souls– to reconnect to our authentic “natura vera”, to harmonize with nature, and to again become whole. His haunting Alpha male hunt at the twilight “hours of the wolf”, we will confront. And this is healthy and good, as the warrior wolf awakens us from our innocent, youthful “sheepish” slumber to the dark realities of our waking world asunder. The western wolf trains us and atones us for surviving those black nights, so we may illuminate our brighter inner lights.  We always have the choice to revolve from harmful ways and to evolve at the dawn of a new day. The Cherokee tells a beautiful tale about the white and the black wolf that lives inside each one of us. The white wolf embodies patience, peace, love, hope, light, and forgiveness. The black wolf embodies hatred, anxiety, jealousy, dishonesty, rage, fear, pride, and infidelity. Throughout life and whenever faced with challenges; one wolf will dominate and win. Which wolf, you ask? It depends on the one you feed. Indeed, this powerful message is one reason the wolf totem is tied to the most powerful players in western mythology from Mars to Odin. These messengers of natural intelligence embody the wisdom, magic, poetry, and warlike dance at the edge of life and death; betwixt and between  humanity’s transformative trance to maintain life’s cosmic dualistic romance. Thus, the Western wolf–often perceived (e.g. in Christian parables) as a violent, destructive animal to be feared; actually serves as a Kali-like force to be venerated for his balanced ecological course. By trimming over-abundant ungulate groups, the wolf huntress culls deer browsing, so berry bushes can regenerate to feed bears, beavers, and songbirds carousing.

Reflection: What must we destroy and let go in ourselves and in our lives to feed the white wolf inside and reclaim our natural balance?

Challenge: Go to your favorite natural place and take at least 10 minutes time out to practice “earthing”– shoes off, walk mindfully in nature….even if for now that means pacing your apartment deck planted garden or your walking circles in your backyard.