4.9.1.6 Hunters Moon (Grey Wolf 72-75)

• Birthdate: August 11 to September 10; Season is Fall
• Thunderbird is Wind Influence, Direction is West, Element is Water
• Wolf is moon totem; Lodgepole Pine is plant totem
• Blue Turquoise is mineral totem; Color is turquoise
• Compatible partners are people of the spring moons, especially those of the Strong Winds Moon
• 4.9.1.6.1 Leaving Summer, Beginning of Fall
  • Moving more solidly into time of adult
  • Adult is a harvest of maturity
    • Time to come out of childish playfulness into something more developed
  • Time of equal days and nights
    • Notice shortening of days, lengthing of nights
  • Moving away from male influence toward female influence
  • People of this moon moving toward female
    • Have deep insights and intuition to offer
    • People of fire, also beginning to be aware of need for more balance
    • Know how to begin to bring things to a conclusion
  • Potential weaknesses
    • Need to learn to look within, claim their power
    • Need to learn how to work toward next part of cycle
    • trusting inner voice and act upon it can be difficult
    • Maturity not quite ripe
    • Need to guard against flippancy
    • Could learn tolerance when things don't go their way
  • Hunters Moon people recognize need for the group
    • Can work well as part of a team
    • Have tendency to be solitary at times when not always beneficial for them
  • Compatible partners from spring moons, especially Strong Winds Moon
    • Balancing of opposite moon will bring focus, clarity

• 4.9.1.6.2 Wolf
  • Animal totem
    • A very strong power
    • Teacher and pathfinder; shows the way
  • People of the West are very powerful people
  • Wolf-person is aware of their very frivolous side
    • Beginnings of awareness to grow into adult
  • Wolf is hunter
    • Knows how to stalk, gather what it needs
    • Has a sense of what will happen at end
    • Can spend days and days hunting, only coming home with a squirrel
      • But it has found its food

• 4.9.1.6.3 Plant and Mineral
  • Lodgepole Pine is plant totem
    • At its full maturity this time of year
    • Can be harvested now to provide structure of the lodge
    • People begin to recognize need to end childishness, playfulness
    • Need to start to be more serious
    • Time to cut the tree; Time to work steadily at way to go
    • Time to start to hunt, gather, put things by
    • Seek out what is needed
  • Blue turquoise is mineral totem
    • Looking into it is like looking into the spirit of Mother Earth
    • Brings clarity; one of the greatest healing stones
    • Purifies, cleanses, refreshes body and soul like cool shower in a mountain stream
    • Will help people of this moon maintain a steady balance
      • To go with the flow
      • Can mean gathering or letting go
      • Will help enhance relationship with inner voice
        • The one that knows where you need to be
  • Color is turquoise
    • Color of the oceans, of healing and tranquility
    • Will help you dive deeply into yourself without fear
    • Can surface to the maturity of the West, of the adult
      • With clear and balanced view of future
  Vision: Roy Wilson ~ | ~ Sun Bear ~ | ~ Grey Wolf

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