A little bit about animal totems, or how I knew this template was the right one

When I looked at opening this blog last night, I was following the instructions to start it; and was, at one point, asked to select a template.  You can't really look at them first, and can only see a tiny image, but I picked the one called "ethereal" because it seemed simple enough and ... possibly... because some of what I want to talk about falls into that realm.

When the page came up, I saw that it had hummingbirds in the design, and then I knew that, accidentally or otherwise, I had chosen the right layout.

I have a tattoo of a hummingbird on the inside of my right arm, which is one of the two most recent tattoos I had done.  Unlike most of the other designs that I carry on my body, when I was choosing designs last summer, I did a lot of research into what I wanted on my skin this time.  I was also thinking about the direction of energetic flow, and what I wanted to be going outwards from me to my clients.  The hummingbird symbolizes a great many things, chiefly among them:  ecstatic love, healing energy, endurance, persistence, miracles, beauty, and joy.  (It is also symbolic of the warrior spirit, which is the soul tribe I belong to.)

Here is a great link to interpret animal totems.

A few months after getting inked, one of my clients saw my aura during a session, and he told me it was green (healing) and it had hummingbirds in it.  He did not know of my tattoo, and was startled to see it.  We were both a little startled (and pleased) with the coincidence or synchronicity of that vision.

I don't know exactly how or why I went down this path to working in the healing arts, but the end result is that I am doing work that is more meaningful to me than any other work I have ever done in this life.... and it has come to me that this work is something I have done before, in many lives, many times.  There are a lot of things I have learned about myself in the last three years, and it has been a rush of information, much like standing on the receiving end of a fire-hose.  What I do know for certain, though, is that being still enough -- to listen, and see, and notice  -- has been vital for me to make connections and integrate all the knowing into my work.