Tag: totems
Fall 2024
Two paintings:
18×24 oil on canvas
16×20 stretched canvas. Mixed media
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Rhino-symbol of protection
Protection: Elephants with their trunks down are thought to accumulate positive energy and push through obstacles.
Guidance: When an elephant appears unexpectedly, it can be a sign of guidance to trust your instincts and move forward with confidence.
The Gazelle animal totem is seen as a messenger of the spirit world, carrying messages from ancestors or guiding individuals towards their path. It is also believed to bring good luck and protection to those who encounter it.
Bat- transformation, rebirth & good luck.
Horse Eye & putting some magnification of the subject at hand
Polar bear-power, adaptability, and resilience.
Llama. Survival & protection, being able to thrive in extreme conditions and displaying protective behavior towards.
Sloth-generosity and altruism
Mouse-centered on the idea of having the ability to accomplish anything in life regardless of your size. Fertility and abundance, bringing luck and prosperity to those who encounter them. While looking nearby at the smallest things, needs re met.
Frog-stability and letting go of the past
Sasquach-honesty.
eye of horse – creating magicial intervention. Hope that something magical and miraculous will come into one’s life to solve a major crisis.
The paintings I make are like tarot readings only with no cards. Nature spirits appear to put light on different subject matters.
Nudibranchs symbolize transformation and adaptability
Bluebird-happiness, hope, good fortune, prosperity.
Wolf-courage, strength, loyalty, and success at hunting.
Elephant- good luck and wisdom and the ability to learn from past experiences. Generates life force to uncover issues.
Stones – represent blockages between emotional and mental bodies which create chaotic non reasoning whilst trying to Integrate higher aspects of Self. Sometimes called FAtalE.
“A Bun Dance”
I read this painting by starting center:
Dolphin – generally represents peace and harmony, joyful, graceful, compassionate, intelligent, generous and protective. It also symbolizes cooperation and freedom.
Its energy is positive and it is often a symbol of love, life and joy.
Eggs-rebirth, potential, plentiful.
Down:
Pufferfish- ability to adapt and make oneself bigger energetically.
Bear-strength, family, vitality, courage and health.
Then to the left and around clockwise:
Lamb-both suffering and triumphant
Elephant-powerful beings that can remove obstacles and negative forces.
Giant Sloth- generosity, slow, measured movements.
Bluebirds and nest-spiritual development and rebirth.
Blue Azurian dragon- good fortune, prosperity, overcoming challenges, inner strength, gentle and forgiving
Manatee-peace and tranquility.
Cardinal- passion, vitality, good luck, abundance.
Tiny turtle-inspiring us to chart our own course with energy and determination. Another of its important symbolic meanings refers to survival, stability, longevity and protection.
Humpback whale-strength, power, protection, family, tradition, and community.
Raccoons when I was a Gurl
In my twenties, the 1980’s, I was given four raccoons to raise. I lived in the town woods of North Reading, Massachusetts where later I would home birth my two sons. I lived there for years with a generator, no wired in electricity and heated by wood. The first raccoon was when I was approached on the shores of lake Geneva as a toddler.
Zackary
Lilly released into the town woods of Swan Pond and returned for two years with a litter.
Sasquatch Story
His name he tells me is Ben. He has been nearby since my birth. He is my solar guide. “Indomitable spirit, radiant being, white rainbow wind” are the whispers he sends me.
Here are some photos I took in the summer of 2016. After I asked for a sign, I came out to see a weathered soccer ball. It had been missing somewhere in the woods for some years. The ball was square in the center of my field. This occurred minutes after I asked whether I was truly communicating with Ben, the Quvintilear Sasquatch.
June 21, 2024
The Baby Duckling
Hug
The way the paintings are read is from the center, then down, then to the left and around clockwise.
Cave – (MedianEarth entrance to Crystal Core Future Earth 3,200 AD for more info see ArHayas.com )
Dog – strength, courage, tenacity. It shows its ok to face our fears and do it anyway.
Bear – strength, courage, patience, protection.
Elemental being – maybe one from Median Earth? I havn’t seen one like this before.
Seahorse – upper right, symbolizes manages emotions, swim slowly and steadily.
fish – gut instincts intricately correct
Deer – safety, strength, protection, innocence, intuition
What’s the picture about?
I’ve been going back through my paintings and making some available as framed prints on my Etsy shop. Etsy.com/shop/TobinArt
The way the paintings are read is from the center, then down, then to the left and around clockwise.
Brown bear – strength, courage, confidence
Deer – safety, strength, protection.
Llama – self trust, power, knowledge
Horse w/big hand – vitality and emotional capacity to move forward in life
Reindeer- a liberating force, cleverness, inventiveness.
Anteater – dig beneath the surface and see the truth that lies buried.
Caribou – endurance, regeneration, vision, nobility.
Guardian – being of helpfulness
Bird & a Boat – lets fly, lets sail. movement.
white cow – rest a bit, let your team come together, grow oriented relationships with self and others and the environment
criminal cat – those that would lie to you
turtle (upper half) – peaceful, unhurried journey
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