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    Circles of Life Australian Animal Oracle
    Circles of Life Australian Animal Oracle
    Circles of Life Australian Animal Oracle
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    Circles of Life Australian Animal Oracle

    By Sue Bagust

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    This Australian Animal Oracle with art by Linda Godden combines the Celtic and Aboriginal beliefs about working with nature to facilitate a smooth passage through life. Instead of telling you a conventional history of our land, we want to share our stories with you: stories of our land, our peoples and the creatures that share our land with us. We hope our stories are useful to you too.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSue Bagust
    Release dateJan 4, 2015
    ISBN9781311268266
    Circles of Life Australian Animal Oracle
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    Sue Bagust

    Sue Bagust is an author, playwright, advertising copywriter and Reiki therapist/trainer who lives in SE Queensland, Australia, with her husband, cats, dog and a few noisy geckos.. Sue previously published two Reiki workbooks and also writes plays.

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    Circles of Life Australian Animal Oracle - Sue Bagust

    Circles of Life

    Australian Animal Oracle

    © Sue Bagust 2015

    Published by Sue Bagust at Smashwords

    The Circles of Life Australian Animal Oracle is a collaboration by artist Linda Karen Godden and writer Sue Bagust and has been a work in progress since 1997. Thank you for downloading this ebook. It remains the copyright property of the author and may not be reproduced, copied and distributed for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you enjoyed this book, please encourage your friends to download their own copy at Smashwords.com, where they can also discover other works by this author. Thanks go also to Pat Ritter, my big-hearted mentor who showed me how to publish e-books on Smashwords and to my husband Roy who listens and gives a truthful reaction.

    If you have enjoyed reading this e-book, I would love to receive your feedback. You can contact me on my e-mail: ideas@westnet.com.au

    Sue Bagust

    www.ideasunlimited.com.au

    OUR COVER

    This original painting by Linda Karen Godden illustrates our Australian earth, showing the energy of the waterholes and the leylines that intersect our land. In the foreground, the Aboriginal and Celtic snakes coil together in a healing circle to highlight the importance of the snake in high magic and healing and the snake’s ability to change, to reconcile and to restore.

    OUR BELIEFS

    People change, and the creatures of the land change, but the land remains constant to be honoured by its people. This belief is central to both Aboriginal and Celtic peoples.

    As well as honouring their land, both nations acknowledged earth powerlines or leylines, developed a strong culture which accepted men’s and women’s business as separate crafts or magics, and dreamed stories of heroes and quests that were passed down to the children in an oral tradition. Both nations respected the land and looked to the animals of their land for instruction and guidance. Both nations became a dispossessed people and the peoples of both nations were then categorised as incapable of determining their own future. The children of both nations are today’s Australians, sharing an ancient land.

    For our deck which incorporates the Aboriginal and the Celtic, we carefully chose uniquely Australian creatures to focus on part of our beliefs, then we found that other animals had chosen to be part of this Oracle. To understand how this could happen, you will need to look at this from the animal’s point of view: It is not a matter of you choosing the animal that you think suits your life or the decor of your home. It is rather the animal that chooses you, that is kind enough and generous enough to give its time to share knowledge with you that you need to know, at this time in your life.

    OUR ANIMALS

    Around 55 million years ago Australia was part of Gondwanaland, covered in rainforest and inhabited by mega fauna.

    Today, we are an island continent with a coastline extending almost 60,000 kilometres. Our continent is almost as long as it is wide and we are a nation of extremes. We regularly experience both droughts and floods; our climate ranges from snowfields in the south to the lush tropics of the north and the harsh deserts of the Centre balanced by the underwater marvels of Ningaloo Reef to the west and the famous Great Barrier Reef in the east. Our challenging climate creates Australia's unique landscape, its plants, creatures and humans.

    For our Oracle, we carefully chose uniquely Australian creatures to focus on part of our beliefs. Then, when we started actually writing about and drawing the animals, we found that other animals had chosen to be part of this Oracle. To understand how this could happen, you will need to look at this from the animal’s point of view: for instance if you can accept that there is no such thing as a feral animal, you are coming close to understanding animal wisdom. Feral is just a label that humans apply to those animals that either won't be domesticated or that don't fit neatly into human economic structures, so feral really only means untamed by humans.

    Working with head, heart and hands

    Eleven creatures of the air, eleven of the water, and eleven of the earth eventually settled into our Oracle, with air meaning head (or the intellect), water meaning heart (or the emotions), and earth meaning hands (or the body). The type of animal you choose will have a meaning for you, apart from the actual message of each animal.

    If you choose a predominance of air creatures, you may be living too much in the mind by intellectualising rather than experiencing. You may need to give more time to your emotions or to ground yourself.

    If you choose predominantly earth creatures, you may be focusing on the physical in life and perhaps not paying enough attention to the intellectual and the emotional.

    If you choose mainly water creatures, you may need to balance your emotions with the intellectual and the practical to ensure that your heart isn’t ruling your head and hands.

    Identifying your challenges

    Believing in reincarnation means you choose to live more than one life. In the Celtic belief, you live as many lives as you need to learn the skills you need before you can become Master of all the crafts and in the Celtic tradition there are thirty-six crafts so you can see how you would need more than one lifetime to master them all.

    While you wait for your next incarnation, you review your past lives and map out a flight plan for your life so you may experience everything you need to experience while you are here, your griefs and joys, triumphs and tragedies, lessons and loves. Then you are born into this world and promptly lose the plot so you spend most of your life querying Why me? or Why this? Even if you regularly declutter the house, or wish on the new moon, or write affirmations, you may still find that you are facing one of the major life challenges you chose before birth so your life is not the easy, quiet journey that some of us believe we deserve. So how do you know if you are currently experiencing one of the major life lessons you chose before birth? One way to do a reality check on your current situation is to ask your friends the animals for their guidance.

    Listening for Animal Wisdoms

    Both the Aboriginals and the Celts were extremely practical peoples and asking the animals for guidance and being honest about what is needed

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