Post by reflections on Dec 23, 2011 15:14:59 GMT -5
I'm Reflections, I'm a Witch and a Whale Therian (i dunno what kind of whale). I'm not new to my Therian self, but I'm new to the terminology and to the communities. On Witchbook I'd come across those--very few--who said they were Therian, but that's it, they didn't explain more...until a one actually described their beliefs in a post.
Before this, I'd experienced a past life of me as a Whale. And I've always had very whale-like tendencies. I also have other behaviors from other animals as well. I've felt phantom limbs in terms of a fluke, claws, and bat-like wings, at different times. I often felt that this was due to my strong connection with nature, Spirits, and my Totems.
Their post was like an awakening in itself. Things began to make sense then. I started to research Therianism, which eventually brought me to another forum, then to this one. When I introduced myself on the other one, someone mentioned 'Cameo-Shift', in reference to my Totems. With also makes a lot of sense, due to me experimenting in the Astral plane with shifting.
I'm here to just get a better understanding of Therians and of myself.
It seems that many Therians hate their Human bodies and just want to escape. I don't feel that way. I'm a Self-Hating Human (well, not as bad as I used to be) who yearns to live deep in the woods with my own plot of land by a river. But i don't feel like there's a war going on within me. Perhaps it's due to having been on land for 27 years? lol I guess I'm just used to being in a Human body. But soon as I see a pool or a large water source, I yearn for it. To swim in it. To fish. Just thinking about water now is making my hands tingle, and my legs and feet tickle. Yet....I don't like the ocean....go figure. I think the only thing that would make me go out into the ocean, aside from a life threatening situation, would be to see the migration of the whales.
Blessings.
Before this, I'd experienced a past life of me as a Whale. And I've always had very whale-like tendencies. I also have other behaviors from other animals as well. I've felt phantom limbs in terms of a fluke, claws, and bat-like wings, at different times. I often felt that this was due to my strong connection with nature, Spirits, and my Totems.
Their post was like an awakening in itself. Things began to make sense then. I started to research Therianism, which eventually brought me to another forum, then to this one. When I introduced myself on the other one, someone mentioned 'Cameo-Shift', in reference to my Totems. With also makes a lot of sense, due to me experimenting in the Astral plane with shifting.
I'm here to just get a better understanding of Therians and of myself.
It seems that many Therians hate their Human bodies and just want to escape. I don't feel that way. I'm a Self-Hating Human (well, not as bad as I used to be) who yearns to live deep in the woods with my own plot of land by a river. But i don't feel like there's a war going on within me. Perhaps it's due to having been on land for 27 years? lol I guess I'm just used to being in a Human body. But soon as I see a pool or a large water source, I yearn for it. To swim in it. To fish. Just thinking about water now is making my hands tingle, and my legs and feet tickle. Yet....I don't like the ocean....go figure. I think the only thing that would make me go out into the ocean, aside from a life threatening situation, would be to see the migration of the whales.
Blessings.