When Lion came forward as an animal ally there was some confusion and it took me a few days to work out what the problem was.  It’s not actually a problem it’s more that there are two sides to some problems and for this reading we are being shown that we need to look at both sides – because, as often happens in our human lives, both have merit. 

Honestly, it was like a bickering couple!  “Lion” said the voice in my head.  “Lioness” came the rebuttal.  Seemed they both have a message for the Collective Consciousness of Humanity and neither were about to give way.  Today we got the team – Lioness joined Lion for this message to humanity and we now have two messages beautifully entwined from two amazing creatures.

Lion is about masculine Energy – strength, raw power.  His role is that of protector, guardian, leader.  He is logical, analytical, dominant.  His Energy is from the Sun, represented in the physical world by his beautiful, lush, mane.

Lioness is about feminine Energy.   She is the true leader of the pride.  She is responsible for the continuity and the well-being of the pride.  Her Energy is from the Moon – fertility, pregnancy, birth.  She is also nurturer, carer, provider, and a fierce protector. 

Lion is often a loner.  He is seldom seen with other males, whereas Lioness works together with the other female members of the pride.  She brings strategy into the hunt, and she knows how to create opportunities that will enhance the pride’s survival.

Lion and Lioness, each with a totally different skill set, can yet work together in a way that is focused on the whole of their community more than on specific individuals.  We humans are more than capable of the same, yet too often we fall short.  We fail to see where individuals in our community are struggling; and even worse, we often fail to act.  We don’t always come together for the wellbeing of all members of our community.

What we have here is a beautiful correlation to what is happening in the human world.  In the Lion Pride we have the male – magnificent, impressive.  He might have a loud roar, but really, he’s just a figurehead.  It’s the females – they are the ones who quietly get on with the job.  They do most of the work to sustain the Pride – and just because they don’t roar we should never underestimate them.

We have a similar situation in our Collective.  We have those quiet workers; the people who just get on with the job as they see it needs to be done.  These are the lionesses.  These are the groups that can work together to create opportunity, who can develop a strategy and implement it for the benefit of the whole. 

Then, we have those others – the ones filled with a strong sense that their belief, their way is the only way and they will come together and puff up their chests, fill their lungs and let rip with their roar – and often this display will lead to violence – because it’s birthed in violence.

But the thing we must remember – and this is the Message of Lion and Lioness – is that both groups have the same aim.  Both groups are being protective in their own way from whatever the threat to the Pride is.  Who is to say what that threat looks like?  Which action is right, and which is wrong?  When the Lion defends his Pride – the result is often destructive.  He will fight to the death if need be because he knows that if he looses that fight, his Pride will be destroyed.  All the youngsters will be killed by the winner.  His destructive fight is about survival of the group.

When Lioness defends her young, it is about survival of the Pride.  She too will fight to the death if need be, knowing that if this happens, and the Lion survives, her sisters will raise her young ones.  If it’s a choice of living and being able to bring up her young ones herself, even as an outcast – she will do that.  She does what is necessary.  For Lioness it is all about survival.

And this is where the message of Lion and Lioness is important.  Lion and Lioness BOTH work for the survival of the Pride.  On the one hand there is the big, magnificent, testosterone-dominated male making a whole lot of noise.  He will fight to the death – but he is not the one who will make the decisions and choices about what happens next.  In this he is just the figurehead.  The lionesses will not join the fight unless their cubs are directly threatened.  And then, watch out!  By working together, utilising the skills each possess they can be very successful in carving out their future survival. 

And the survival of their species.