The LightWorker Bear Empowerment was channeled and written by Lisa "Ladywolf" Center for International LightWorkerS, as part of an animal series that also carries Coyote, Fox, Hawk, Ouroboros, Raccoon and Wolf, with visionary cover art by Willow Arlenea. Bear energy is described here as a strongly feminine current of power, dreamtime and the unconscious world.
The manual draws its teaching straight from the animal: bears look slow and plodding but are studious and cautious, solitary for most of the year, fiercely protective as mothers, and disciplined enough to store what they will need before the winter sleep.
People who carry this totem are described as inventors and scholars, often good dream interpreters, and often the ones others lean on for strength. The empowerment is passed through meditation, and the manual gives that meditation in full as the Bear Ceremony.
What this attunement is intended to support:
- It is traditionally used to support introspection, the manual's central teaching of going deep into the cave of the self and learning to be still.
- Practitioners work with it for dreamwork, since Bear is described as a master of the dream world and a teacher of bringing dreams into waking life.
- It is used for grounding, anchoring a person to the earth as a foundation that will hold through trying times.
- It is used for boundaries, learning to stop others taking advantage and to let the people around you stand on their own two feet.
- It is called on for solitude and for the discipline of preparing ahead, the bear's habit of putting a few things away for a rainy day.
What you receive:
- The International LightWorkerS manual, channeled and written by Lisa "Ladywolf" Center.
- The full Bear Ceremony meditation, from the walk up into the mountains to the offering of blackberries at the cave.
- Bear lore from several traditions: the Celtic goddess Artio or Andarta and the god Artaois, Chinese reverence for the bear, Native American myth, and the Celestial Bears of Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
Who this is for:
- People drawn to animal totems and shamanic practice who want one well-described animal to sit with rather than a survey.
- Dreamers and dream interpreters, and anyone whose friends bring their dreams to them.
- Givers who find it hard to withdraw, and who want both permission and a practice for taking time alone.
How it is used:
The empowerment is worked as a meditation. You make your usual preparations for sacred time, burn something sweet because this is a meeting with Bear and bears love honey, send out your prayers and bless the four directions, then walk in imagination up into the mountains and into a cave lit by firelight, where rock has formed into the shapes of bears around you. You set out fresh blackberries as a gift, go quiet until your mind stills, and state your intention to receive Bear's teaching. If Bear speaks, you carry the message out with you, and you give thanks when the change it brings arrives.
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