Animal Medicine #15

As I write this I am also working as a volunteer for our town’s annual UFO Festival.  It’s the only UFO Festival in the Southern Hemisphere and for a tiny town in the Far North of Queensland, it’s a HUGE event.  When octopus came forward as a Power Animal with a message for todays reading, I just had (with the aid of AI) to make a picture of an alien octopus making a splash landing in a flying saucer!

There is a question amongst scientific circles that octopus may have arrived on Earth during the Cambrian Explosion – that is a ‘biological big bang’ approximately 538.8 million years ago.  Fossils certainly show that this was when they suddenly appeared.  The theory involves something called ‘panspermia’ – the possibility that life is seeded between planets by space debris, and that octopus, with it’s very different DNA and RNA from anything else on Earth, could have arrived in such a way.

Whether by panspermia or home-grown, octopuses are fascinating creatures with their flexible bodies, camouflage abilities and non-centralised brain.  Did you know that they use tools?  They use tools to hunt and for protection.  They even work collaboratively with other species!  They can be mischievous, and have been known to do things just for fun. 

They are intelligent, flexible, and adaptable which shows us that octopus energy can help us when we need to work out something that is tricky in our lives.  If something captures an octopus, they will shed an arm or two into order to escape and continue their journey.  They can easily and quickly change direction and they are masters of wiggling out of tight places.  They travel with the flow and not fighting against the current. 

For us, it’s about looking honestly at our emotions and attachments, especially in our past experiences, and knowing that we can safely let them go; knowing that we have the ability to regenerate into something much better.  We don’t have to keep following the same path – changing direction can be exactly what you need to do, even if you can’t see it.  Be patient with yourself – some things can be camouflaged until the right time, and often, with octopus energy around you, you will look back and see that all along, there were unseen hints pointing you in your new direction. 

Octopus is intelligent.  He uses tools in the same way that primates do – for hunting, protection, and safety.  He is resilient and determined, and is letting you know that you have everything you need to get the job done.  Use your brain, study, be flexible, understand your potential, and above all else…

Trust in Self.