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Calling in the Animals Around 55 million years ago Australia was part of Gondwanaland, almost completely covered in rainforest and inhabited by mega fauna. Today, we are an island continent with a coastline extending almost 60,000 kilometres. Our continent is almost as long as it is wide and we are a nation of extremes. We regularly experience both droughts and floods; our climate ranges from snowfields in the south to the lush tropics of the north and the harsh deserts of the Centre balanced by the underwater marvels of Ningaloo Reef to the west and the famous Great Barrier Reef in the east. Our challenging climate creates Australia's unique landscape, its plants, creatures and humans. Over 70,000 years ago, the Aboriginal nations settled in Australia, from the northernmost tip of the Darwin peninsula and Cape York to Tasmania and all the lands between. The Celts were a nation of tribes who, over 2,000 years ago, shared a common language and spiritual belief system and who roamed through Europe from Asia Minor to Ireland, and from Germany to Spain. Both nations respected the land and the animals of their land, just as tribal people throughout the world rely on their animals for food, companionship and guidance. This belief that animals are an integral part of our natural connection with our world is central to most peoples. It is as if we all drew wisdom from some deep primal source, using this knowledge to improve our daily life. It is only civilized man who looks on the animal world as a commodity to be used selfishly. Identifying your challenges Believing in reincarnation means you choose to live more than one life. In the Celtic belief, you live as many lives as you need to learn the skills you need before you can become Master of all the crafts – and in the Celtic tradition there are 36 crafts so you can see how you would need more than one lifetime to master them all. While you wait for your next incarnation, you review your past lives and map out a flight plan for your life so you may experience everything you need to experience while you are here, your griefs and joys, triumphs and tragedies, lessons and loves. Then you promptly lose the plot when you are born so you spend most of your life querying Why me? or Why this? No matter if you regularly declutter the house, or wish on the new moon, or write affirmations, you may still find that you are facing one of the major life challenges you chose before birth so your life is not the easy, quiet journey that some of us believe we deserve. So how do you know if you are currently experiencing one of the major life lessons you chose before birth? One way to do a reality check on your current situation is to ask your friends the animals for their guidance. Hearing Animal Wisdom Both the Aboriginals and the Celts were extremely practical peoples and asking the animals for guidance and being honest about what is needed in each situation is an extremely practical way of stepping lightly and with grace through life’s challenges. When you take time to look and to listen with an open heart, you are likely to find that animals are queuing to offer you messages to help you in your daily life. You can ask for guidance from the animal world in so many ways:
Our Circle of Life Animal Oracle uses the unique animals of Australia, with uniquely Aboriginal and Celtic animal wisdoms. Although we share our stories with you, please do not limit yourself to the meanings we attribute to our animals. Your own story is just as important as anyone else’s … if you have a particular animal that comes to you at certain times with a blessing or a warning, then that is the wisdom of that animal especially for you. If you would like to know more about our Circles of Life, just click on the link to visit other pages available on this website:
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