As we have 28 cards in our WILD VOICES set, we have decided to dedicate each of the 28 days of our campaign to one of these cards.
As you travel through Africa your heartland, the wild voices of our African Animals
become your guides .......
Rhinoceros, solid, formidable, impregnable tank of Africa, what is your message? Where is your teaching?
RHINOCEROS
Key word: Yielding
Element: EARTH (Symbolised by the DJIMBÉ DRUM)
Expressing the FEMALE quality of Inner Potency
[excerpts from RHINOCEROS’S message in the book Wild Voices: Messages from the Soul of Africa by Anne Keating]
“I am one of the ancient ones. I am here in this prehistoric body to remind you of the inscrutable workings of the Great Mother.
I look at my descendants, tough and sturdy, solid in the knowledge of who they are. With horns thick, assertive and vital, they protect our herd.
Now we are hunted for our horn - ah, hapless man, searching potency from without, when he should know that the search begins and ends within himself. The answer resides within.
The potency I symbolise is not a sexual one Younger Brother; it is there to show you the potency that comes when you stand in your own greatness. When you are able to use your innate talents well, when you are achieving what you feel is your purpose or life path, when you keep to your own values... then there is a natural recognition of your own worth and a knowing you’re in the ‘right place’. Now you have no need to rely on possessions and outer manifestations for a sense of self worth, no need to follow the crowd, no need to kill me to steal my potency.
I have seen the world’s changes; I have tramped the land on this continent through aeons of time. Now my eyes have grown dim, but my ear still receives the messages of Africa and they grow weary at what they hear. Where is my home?
My son beside me at this water hole has some of the eagerness of youth but he too will soon learn that our shared fate is that of living out our lives in reserves created by man. Parks, where we are fenced in, for our protection they say, and where our fate is monitored by man and no longer by the workings of the Great Mother. Where people pay to stare at us and examine and expose our secrets.
I recognise and accept my place within the great planetary scheme as it is at the moment.
Waste not your energy on seeking or yearning for that which never can be; yield to your destiny Pilgrim.
My name is Rhinoceros and I have spoken.”
[The African Rhinoceros (Rhinocerotidea) has been listed as a CRITICALLY ENDANGERED species by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List. In November 2011 the Black Rhinoceros in West Africa was declared extinct.]
As you travel through Africa your heartland, the wild voices of our African Animals
become your guides .......
Rhinoceros, solid, formidable, impregnable tank of Africa, what is your message? Where is your teaching?
RHINOCEROS
Key word: Yielding
Element: EARTH (Symbolised by the DJIMBÉ DRUM)
Expressing the FEMALE quality of Inner Potency
[excerpts from RHINOCEROS’S message in the book Wild Voices: Messages from the Soul of Africa by Anne Keating]
“I am one of the ancient ones. I am here in this prehistoric body to remind you of the inscrutable workings of the Great Mother.
I look at my descendants, tough and sturdy, solid in the knowledge of who they are. With horns thick, assertive and vital, they protect our herd.
Now we are hunted for our horn - ah, hapless man, searching potency from without, when he should know that the search begins and ends within himself. The answer resides within.
The potency I symbolise is not a sexual one Younger Brother; it is there to show you the potency that comes when you stand in your own greatness. When you are able to use your innate talents well, when you are achieving what you feel is your purpose or life path, when you keep to your own values... then there is a natural recognition of your own worth and a knowing you’re in the ‘right place’. Now you have no need to rely on possessions and outer manifestations for a sense of self worth, no need to follow the crowd, no need to kill me to steal my potency.
I have seen the world’s changes; I have tramped the land on this continent through aeons of time. Now my eyes have grown dim, but my ear still receives the messages of Africa and they grow weary at what they hear. Where is my home?
My son beside me at this water hole has some of the eagerness of youth but he too will soon learn that our shared fate is that of living out our lives in reserves created by man. Parks, where we are fenced in, for our protection they say, and where our fate is monitored by man and no longer by the workings of the Great Mother. Where people pay to stare at us and examine and expose our secrets.
I recognise and accept my place within the great planetary scheme as it is at the moment.
Waste not your energy on seeking or yearning for that which never can be; yield to your destiny Pilgrim.
My name is Rhinoceros and I have spoken.”
[The African Rhinoceros (Rhinocerotidea) has been listed as a CRITICALLY ENDANGERED species by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List. In November 2011 the Black Rhinoceros in West Africa was declared extinct.]
Inspired by RHINOCEROS I understand that...
In yielding, I learn more about who I am.
I have something very solid in my life that I can lean on.
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