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We Silver Elves are excited to announce the publication of ELFIN TOTEM ANIMALS: An Elven Oracle for Finding Your Power Familiar!
We have dedicated this book with much love and appreciation to all our therian and mythical animal kindred who have been such supportive members of our Facebook group “United Otherkin Alliance”.
ELFIN TOTEM ANIMALS: An Elven Oracle for Finding Your Power Familiar will assist you in exploring a deeper magical relationship to both animals of the wild as well as mythical animals. This book is written from an elven perspective, and you will find reading it to be helpful to use as a magical guide if you: 1.) already know your totem animal or familiar and wish to find out more about what magical powers they bring you; 2.) want to find out who/what your totem animal is and what/how this animal is influencing your life; 3.) wish to use this book as an oracle reading to find out what animal energy has come to you in your life in the past or is needed in the present and future for healing and success; 4.) wish to understand the magical meaning of an animal dream symbol that you have experienced; or 5.) would like to understand the meaning and magic in your life of an animal you have encountered other than your familiar.
While animals can be differentiated in a number of ways, we have divided them here in this book into six basic groups or classes of animals in keeping with the most accepted scientific differentiation. These are Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians, Invertebrates, and Fish. To these, we have also added an entire chapter of numerous Mythical animals for several reasons. First, as elfae folk we love the number seven. It is a particularly magical number to us but then all numbers are magical in their own way. Also, while Mythical animals are not known to exist as physical creatures upon the Earth, although some of us still hold that they may still exist, many elfae have mythical animals as totems, just as Scotland has the unicorn as its national animal and Thailand the Garuda bird.
There are oracles for over 250 animals in this book. You will find that we have included in many of the animal families further subdivisions. Thus, if your totem is a bear, or you receive bear as a response to an inquiry of the oracle, you will notice that within the section on bears there are different species of bears. For instance, there are grizzly bears and brown bears and black bears and polar bears and so on, each with their variation upon the main theme of bear energy and symbology. Just as in our elfae world, there are elves, faeries, pixies, brownies, gnomes and other fae beings. But, this further sub-division takes place in this book more for the mammals than for fish, insects, etc. because the vast majority of our readers will have mammals as their totems.
The directions for using this book as an oracle guide are clearly written in the introduction of the book and further assistance is given throughout the book to make it easy. So it will be fun for you to use! All you will need to cast an oracle to read from this book will be a regular playing deck of cards and a few dice (this is also explained in the book).
Our link to animal totems is both ancient and quite powerful and surely extends back into prehistory and our elven ancestors in more shamanistic times. For we elfae folk, the future is in many ways more important than the past. Our heritage is important to us, surely, and we love much of the ancient lore in as much as it is a true reflection of our elvish beings and culture. However, we are ever striving through the present to step into the future, to become those elfae spirits we feel ours’elves to be, aspire toward being, feel destined to be and act in such ways as to manifest in reality and through magic our true s’elves actuating our potential and manifesting Elfin and Faerie upon the Earth. And certainly, totem animals are one way to do this.
Ver nesidas mellun vari te (In shimmering Starlight Ever Be),
The Silver Elves
There are over 250 animal oracles you can draw using Elfin Totem Animals and here are a few short example excerpts:
ITALIAN WOLVES
“These wolves can be found living in the alps of northern Italy, in Switzerland and southwestern France. They are integral to the Italian culture, featuring as the wolves who in legend took part of the founding of Rome. They are also the national animal of Italy. These wolves are different from the common European wolf. They tend to be smaller and have teeth that are more like those of a dog or a golden jackal. However, they are genetically different from other wolves and dogs. These are a unique folk and, in that sense, very elvish.”
“If you have this wolf folk as your totem animal then know that you are a special sort of elfae being, both like and unlike others of our kind. You are something special. However, what constitutes that specialness may not be clear. There is something ancient in your being and you need to look to the ancients and the ancestors to truly understand. Yours is the old magic, the ancient magic, the magic that was before history.”
If you get this as an oracle:
“Simply, be your own s’elf. Some people may think you are like everyone else but they are wrong. But you don’t need to point that out to them. Let them think what they will. Inwardly, know that you are special and if some people feel a bit uneasy around you because they feel you are different but can’t quite figure out how, soothe them and give them a smile and go on your way. Look to the ancients and the ancient magic to help you resolve the situation you are asking about. Old magic, folk magic, what many consider superstitious practices, passed on to you by your parents or grandparents, may serve you well here.”
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POLAR BEAR
“While the Polar Bear is kin to the Brown Bear, it is actually the largest existent bear species today, as well as, the largest carnivore on land. However, the Polar Bear, unlike other bears, is a marine mammal and listed in that way along with seals, dolphins, whales, porpoises and other mammals that survive along and upon the seas. This should include fishermen and merchant marines as far as we elves are concerned. Also, Polar Bears survive in a very narrow and cold ecological niche and this, besides their white fur, makes them rather special as bears who have adapted to living fulltime among the ice and snow. Theirs is a magic that is apart from the normal world. They survive where few others can and that is great magic, indeed. If this is your totem than you can do this as well.”
If you get this as an oracle:
“Then the solution to the question you asked is to find a niche where your special abilities and talents will be successful and productive. You don’t need to fit into the world at large, you just need to find a corner of the world, even if it is a narrow corner, a small space where you can thrive and where your particular work, magic or style will be appreciated. Also, if you must be in the world, take on some of the jobs no one else wishes to do and master them. In this way, you will become indispensable.”
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PELICANS, HERONS, HAMMERKOPS, SPOONBILLS, SHOE-BILL STOCKS AND IBISES
“These are medium to large water birds. Their nostrils have evolved into small slits, so they need to breathe through their mouths (mouth breathers). They have webbed toes. They nest in colonies but are monogamous in individual association. Their young, like those of humans, are born naked and helpless and need feeding and care until fledged. Ibises have long been associated with magic and mystery. Pelicans are often seen to be humble and generous. They do not ‘hog’ their food or eat more than they need. Herons are frequently seen as indicating prosperity. Spoonbills can indicate strength and freedom and the ability to sweep obstacles out of their way. Some African tribes saw the Hammerkop as being a ‘lighting bird’ bringing revelation. Shoebill Stocks are often seen as having a supernatural ability to detect danger and the power and purity to overcome evil.”
“If this is your totem, then you are surely a magical wielder and/or a mystic of some sort. That leads some people to believe you are not as intelligent as they are or as you really are, because your belief in and experience with the supernatural is beyond their understanding. You, naturally, ignore them and pay no heed to their ignorance.”
If you get this as an oracle:
“Use your magic for the good. Overcome evil, create prosperity for yours’elf and others and then good luck will come to you and you will fall under the protection of the Shining Ones. It may seem like this situation calls for you to do something material but really magic and spells are the key to succeeding here.”
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And for an excerpt example of a MYTHICAL ANIMAL oracle included:
CHIMERA
“The Chimera is a being that is usually depicted as having the body of a lion with the head of a goat protruding from its back, and its tail often ends with a snake’s head. Because of this the term chimera has come to be used to designate any mythical or fictional creature with its parts taken from a variety of animals. By extension, from that idea, it is used to describe anything that is made of disparate parts, or anything that is generally accorded to be outlandishly imaginative, to be implausible or, at the same time, dazzling in its contradictions or incongruities.”
“If this is your totem, then you are a puzzle to most people. You have a wide range of varied experiences, have probably lived in different cultures all over the place and are simply hard to define or categorize. You probably seem strange to them but fascinating at the same time. If you are of elfae being, you are most likely a combination of myriad fae types, some of which may seem contradictory.”
If you get this as an oracle:
“You are probably going to have to patch together a number of different things to make this situation work. This is a jerry-rig situation and the solution is not to be found in a single act or a simple series of actions but in trying a number of different things and seeing which work and which don’t and continuing on with those that do, which in themselves may prove to be quite disparate. But if you wish to succeed here, that’s what it takes. And, remember, the tried and true just isn’t going to work in these circumstances. You will be forced to think ‘out of the box’ if you wish to resolve this situation.”
— End of excerpts from ELFIN TOTEM ANIMALS: An Elven Oracle for Finding Your Power Familiar
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