So you say you are a wolf? Really???? Pt 1.
Being an elevated being with a host of strong opinions based in both experience and academic literature, and particularly in the evolution of metaphor, mythology, and human abstract conceptualization and totemic associations in general I am often struck by fallacies adopted throughout different societal groups when they search for identity. Most I really could not gaf about in the least outside of the academic, some I am like really? Others I straight up laugh at the absurdity of. But one in particular I have noticed is so flawed, so inaccurate, and in practice so antithetical to the totem invoked it is both pathetic and irreverent, and frankly insulting. Yeap, obviously from the title it is the wish for so many men to self identify as wolves.
You are thinking 'hey you yourself self identify as a wolf.' No I don't. The wolf came to me twice and I was chosen to live as wolves must because it is what I have always been, and I would wish the wolf's life on no one. I was given one other choice, and it was the worse option. I have to be the wolf, or I die.
What do I mean twice chosen? Let me get there, but first I have to ask you a few questions...
Why do you self idenitify as a wolf? The wolf's life is hardship and suffering incarnate. It is full of hunger, pain, loss, eternal vigil and endless threats everywhere. He must live with and protect both pack and territory from the bear and the lion, and some of his prey is capable of killing him with ease. Often at the end of his days when he can no longer protect and provide for his mate and pack he is exiled to die alone. If you are fat, if you are an open shirt puffed chest douchebag obsessed with flashy shit, if you seek out weak easy women you wish to own or control, if you think you are the wolf of wall street, forex trading, the local bar, whatever... you are not a wolf. You are at best a dog living off the table of the man, at worst a bearded beta bitch licking his ass trying to be part of his pack. Then there is the world of the man and his society, which is antithetical to the life of the wolf and whose every advancement destroys the world the wolf lives in. Do you have to go out and be seen, do you have to share every thing you think makes you cool on social media, are you an adrenaline junkie who uses it to stoke the ego and assuage your fears? Then you are not a wolf. You are a Peacock fascinated by society's shiney things. Let that all sink in a few minutes. Then ponder the first answers.
Did you choose to call yourself a wolf because you admire and wish to emulate the wolf, or did the wolf come to choose you? Furthermore, did the wolf come to you in the world of dreams and visions as totem? Did you fear it and shrink, or reach out to it in desire of acceptance, and then did it approach and accept you as well as assist you in a trial or task, or fend off an attack or appearance by an equally powerful totem? Or did it attack you, your loved ones, or take your possessions? After the first manifestation did it then come to you in the waking world as well? And in what order did this occur? Then there are the questions how and why did the wolf appear in those worlds? And what powerful life events surrounded these manifestations? When claiming the identity of a powerful totem like the wolf there is risk, and no matter what there is always great struggle, suffering, and sacrifice demanded by the wolf, Only one totem demands more in sacrifice than the wolf, and when it comes to collect he takes everything, including your last breath. There are also rituals and specific rites of passage that must be observed and respected for the knowledge and blessings the wolf brings. In other words, practice care in the fate you would call to you by name out of pride, and when attempting to speak its tongue do so with humility and the willing acceptance of a heavy burden, not misplaced arrogance and a need to stoke a weak human ego with the trappings of power. Seeing a wolf at the zoo, and then having a dream about one does not make the wolf your spirit animal, just like searching out one or a hybrid to buy in some false belief a human can own a wolf does not make you a wolf. It makes you a fool for seeking and bringing the totem of suffering and hardship into your home as well as a deadly predator into your family if you have loved ones. Treats, a roof, and the occasional "No" are not going to serve you. You are in for a ride, and make sure you never forget there is an untamed engine of death and destruction next to everything you love, including your children should you have them.
Lastly, in both the dream/vision, and waking world, what did you give to the wolf. You cannot be part of the pack without giving to the pack. Tribute or service must be given. Again food, money, things of a material nature do not count.
I would love to see some replies from the "wolves" out there.
Pt 2 tomorrow.