Bison
Sound: Deep / Heavy depth of sound, good resonance
Bison (buffalo) –Manifesting abundance through right action and right prayer
Also linked to White Buffalo Calf Woman – She taught the men and women many mysteries of the earth. She showed them how to pray for and bring forth abundance. Part of what White Buffalo Woman taught to the Lakota is that they did not have to struggle to survive if the right action was joined with the right prayer. By uniting the divine and the mundane appropriately, all that would be needed would be available.
The humps of the bison symbolize stored forces – reservoirs that can be tapped into – it reflects the abundance that is available if we know how to tap into it. The fact that the hump occurs at the shoulder level implies that we must incorporate our own efforts. Shoulders are symbols of the ability to embrace and hold life. Upon shoulders are carried either our burdens or our rewards. The massive head also implies the need to combine our efforts with the Divine. It is a symbol of the heavens and the divine, the higher faculties. In the case of the bison, both aspects are amplified. Both the mundane and the spiritual is necessary for manifesting what we are seeking.
The bison is very unpredictable and can be dangerous. This can serve as warning about not keeping yourself well grounded as you begin to work toward greater abundance in some area of your life. It is a four footed animal, and thus implies groundedness.
The bison also usually follows the easiest path. When we join the right action with the right prayers, the path is not difficult. We do not have to bull our way through. The path opens and flows easily.
Buffalo also implies that the law of synchronicity is operating within your life at the moment. Things will happen in the time, manner and means that is best for us if we allow it. This doesn’t mean that we should sit back and do nothing, but rather that we should do what we have to do and then let the events take their natural course.
Its nice to get from point A to B, and there are ways of forcing it. If you force it though, you may end up at the destination at a time when there is nothing to be gained. If you allow the natural flow to take you, you still end up at your destination, at an advantageous time, and you usually get some nice side trips along the way. Bison teaches us how to work with that natural rhythm.
Some questions to ask when working with bison- Are you honouring that which you seek? Are you remembering that the divine is essential to all things in the physical? Are you giving honour to yourself and to the efforts of others within your life? Do you show gratitude for what you already have? The quickest way to stop the flow of abundance is by failing to honour that which has already come to you.
Sound: Deep / Heavy depth of sound, good resonance
Bison (buffalo) –Manifesting abundance through right action and right prayer
Also linked to White Buffalo Calf Woman – She taught the men and women many mysteries of the earth. She showed them how to pray for and bring forth abundance. Part of what White Buffalo Woman taught to the Lakota is that they did not have to struggle to survive if the right action was joined with the right prayer. By uniting the divine and the mundane appropriately, all that would be needed would be available.
The humps of the bison symbolize stored forces – reservoirs that can be tapped into – it reflects the abundance that is available if we know how to tap into it. The fact that the hump occurs at the shoulder level implies that we must incorporate our own efforts. Shoulders are symbols of the ability to embrace and hold life. Upon shoulders are carried either our burdens or our rewards. The massive head also implies the need to combine our efforts with the Divine. It is a symbol of the heavens and the divine, the higher faculties. In the case of the bison, both aspects are amplified. Both the mundane and the spiritual is necessary for manifesting what we are seeking.
The bison is very unpredictable and can be dangerous. This can serve as warning about not keeping yourself well grounded as you begin to work toward greater abundance in some area of your life. It is a four footed animal, and thus implies groundedness.
The bison also usually follows the easiest path. When we join the right action with the right prayers, the path is not difficult. We do not have to bull our way through. The path opens and flows easily.
Buffalo also implies that the law of synchronicity is operating within your life at the moment. Things will happen in the time, manner and means that is best for us if we allow it. This doesn’t mean that we should sit back and do nothing, but rather that we should do what we have to do and then let the events take their natural course.
Its nice to get from point A to B, and there are ways of forcing it. If you force it though, you may end up at the destination at a time when there is nothing to be gained. If you allow the natural flow to take you, you still end up at your destination, at an advantageous time, and you usually get some nice side trips along the way. Bison teaches us how to work with that natural rhythm.
Some questions to ask when working with bison- Are you honouring that which you seek? Are you remembering that the divine is essential to all things in the physical? Are you giving honour to yourself and to the efforts of others within your life? Do you show gratitude for what you already have? The quickest way to stop the flow of abundance is by failing to honour that which has already come to you.
