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My Guardian Totem Spirit

My guardian totem or spirit is a chipmunk, and don't ask me how I know.

The Chipmunk

Chipmunk, like squirrel, embodies the quality of trust. They have little fear of people and are often found in rural areas, city parks and in the wild. Chipmunks are very curious and take the time to explore everything that comes across their path. They are inquisitive, fearless and playful. They do what they want to do in their own time frame. They are quite vocal often drawing attention to themselves. Chipmunk medicine people will not tolerate being told what to do or when to do it. They make good leaders and spokespersons

By watching the chipmunks behavior much can be learned. They appear to scamper to and fro always in a hurry to get somewhere. Starting in one direction, circling around and arriving back where they started from. There is no detail that goes unnoticed by the chipmunk as they circle around and see beyond the obvious. Chipmunk teaches the art of observation and appropriate movement.

Chipmunks have an air of independence and certainty about them. Their inquisitive nature leads them into unexplored territory and their detailed mind leaves no stone unturned. If chipmunk is your totem pay attention to how your energy is being used. Are you thoughts constructive or destructive? Are your fears keeping you from playing and enjoying life? Are you in charge of your life or have you given you authority over to another?

Chipmunk is the messenger of many realms. If this is your totem you are on your way to self discovery.

---From Chipmunk Totem description at http://www.sayahda.com/cycle.htm.

Chipmunk

Pronunciation: (chip'mungk) -n.

any of several small, striped, terrestrial squirrels of the genera Tamias, of North America, and Eutamia, of Asia and North America, esp. T. striatus, of eastern North America.

Alteration (probably influenced by chipping squirrel) of earlier chitmunk, of Algonquian origin; akin to Ojibwa atchitamõ ("squirrel") any of numerous small striped American squirrels that are semiterrestrial in habits and intermediate between the typical tree squirrels and the true ground squirrels.

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totem

Pronunciation: (tO'tum) -n.

1. a natural object or an animate being, as an animal or bird, assumed as the emblem of a clan, family, or group.
2. an object or natural phenomenon with which a family or sib considers itself closely related.
3. a representation of such an object serving as the distinctive mark of the clan or group.
4. anything serving as a distinctive, often venerated, emblem or symbol.

Tsohoqgwais - The Chipmunk spirit in the Iroquois pantheon. He is marked as He is owing to an encounter with Bear, who took a swipe at Him and scarred His back.

My two pregnancy losses have their own totems. Click on the image to be taken to the memorial pages.