Witches' Weekly

The first week's questions - Animals

1. What animal do you feel best represents your personal totem/spirit, and why?

I've never really used Totems in my personal practice - no particular reason, I've just never felt a need to... but if there's any particular animal I seem to connect with the best, it's horses. I can't remember a time (and neither can my mom, for that matter) when "A horse" wasn't on my Christmas list as a child, and before we got married, I made my husband promise me that if we ever get rich and famous he's buying me one! One of my absolute favourite memories has to be the time my parents took me to Montana so they could visit an old friend of hers, and I got to spend the day riding his horse across the land he owned. It was just me, the horse and nature around us, and I don't recally any other time when I felt so free or at peace.

Acyl :)

She's your perfect black cat, too. (If you want to see her, there are pics of her up at http://www.thunderhaven.net/photos/acyl.shtml).

She went into "retirement" a few years ago and now lives with my parents. She's almost 16 years old now, and when we got the dogs, she wasn't at all sure what to make of them, or terribly comfortable around them. When my parents had to put their dog to sleep, I knew they would be loney and that Acyl would be much happier at their house where she could be the center of attention, so it worked out well for the three of them. But when it was just she and I, she always seemed to know when I was working on spiritual matters and would just come and sit beside me, quietly. She's a really great cat...

I'm often asked if her name is Greek for something (why "Greek", I've never understood, but....). Anyway, it's not. When I first got her, I was a huge Pink Floyd fan (still am, actually), and since black is what you get when you mix every colour together, I named her for their song "Any Colour You Like" - ACYL.

Oh, probably a horse. Of course, my mom used to joke that she thought I was a horse in a previous life, so maybe next time I should pick a zebra or something - horselike, but still a bit different. :)