“Finding the Right Herd”

This may be a time of reevaluating past or present relationships, considering what you’ve learned from them & perhaps what has catalyzed within you as a result. Their influence can impart wisdom but they can also add to your collected trauma coloring how you feel about yourself & how you respond to others. Different types of relationships have a knack of identifying which aspects in your life need attention. They can reveal your insecurities, vulnerabilities, or your need for attention, approval or acceptance. The Camel asks you to focus on the wealth of wisdom & understanding you have accumulated from your past experiences- of what these relationships & interactions have left on you and you on them. Any self-knowledge gained will serve as a resource for getting through any tough times ahead. These will be the abilities you will lean on to be able to discern who to trust or not, who will go the distance with you (or not), who will be in your corner (or not) or who is of “your stripe” (or not). The Spider brings attention to unconscious patterning as there may be a question to how you react to different situations & people around you.  Not everyone responds in the same way to the same approach & not everyone deserves the same treatment you are spinning out. Spider takes aim at the reactive way you are responding to challenges in your life & questions is it unsuspectingly catching the people you care about in the lies you’ve weaved inside your head? I’m reminded of the saying, “Flies get caught while the Wasps go free”, so are you punishing the wrong people while the real threats to you avoid confrontation? Save your judgements & condemnation for those who really deserve it. Here both the Camel & Zebra have the fortitude & the courage to face the unconscious patterns of The Spider who is hard at work spinning webs of nothing; anxious stories & tales of illusion unnecessarily complicating your life as well as using up all of your energy without any type of reward.  But patterns can be broken & the Zebra is here to remind you there’s more than one way of looking at things. It suggests you learn how to assimilate your shadowy aspects, your tendency or habit to spin, and create new patterning.

Zebra teaches us that everyone is their own unique individual & so different situations/ people have to be considered as such. Like the Zebra who can survive against all odds out on the plains, you need to surround yourself with people who can watch your back & warn you when something is amiss especially in times of vulnerability- and you for them.  Collect that stripe of people as you journey on.