ABOUT the DICTIONARY

About this Animal Totem Dictionary

This dictionary has been a personal project of mine for many years now. It's something that I devote time to, as it becomes available to me. I am a big supporter of researching and using visualisation and journeying techniques in order to understand more about the animal yourself; but also believe that having a written totem or animal guide file can be a good launching pad or starting place for further wisdom.

I specialise in working with lesser known animals, like cane toad, seastar, marsupial mole; but within you will also find the very common animal totems like raven and wolf.

These files are not intended as a complete list of an animal's qualities. Even as I'm writing a file, I'm aware that I'm missing things out. Some animal totem files could easily be about 20 pages long if I let myself have free range; and still not encompass all of an animal's wise teachings and wisdoms. One of the most enjoyable aspects of totem work - I feel - is actually going to the animal itself to learn what other lessons it may have to share with you. Research is one way of doing this, specific visualisation is another.

I do occasionally take on requests for these sorts of files (at my discretion), and I can be contacted at ophelias_diary@hotmail.com - or ophelias.diary@gmail.com - regarding requests.

This information can be shared online, as long as you give me credit and link back to this page, or the specific totem page. If you are sharing a great amount (i.e. more than one file), please email me.