4.2.1.1 Color: Silver

4.2.1.2 Medicine Stone: Silver (Wilson VFEM 18)

• One of the two most sought after metals on earth
  • Used as a measure of wealth; held in high esteem for its beauty
  • Used in the making coins, jewelry, tableware, and chalices
• Silver people tend to be precious to all who know them
  • They tend to attract wealth - physically, spiritually, sociologically, mentally
  • Can be very emotional though may hide it, yet they feel it
  • Some attempt to convert those emotional feelings into intellectual discussions
• Silver is associated with Grandmother Moon
  • Enhances powers of perception, intuition, and properly flowing emotional energy

4.2.1.3 Animal Totem: Otter (Wilson VFEM 32)

• Playful, loves water; uses rocks and shells as tools
  • Rely on thick coat of fur rather than insulating layer of fat
  • Good parents; young remain in home longer than most animal offspring
  • Became nearly extinct in early 1900s when pelts sold for $2000
  • Members of the weasel family; voracious appetites
  • Vocabulary includes wide vareity of chirps, squeals, screeches, hiccoughs, chuckles, and hisses
• Otter people have medicine power of laughter
  • Bring spirit of joy to whatever group they associate with
  • Are talkative, clever, playful, helpful, gentle, visionary, humanitarian
  • Are founders of charitable institutions; make great companions
  • Enjoy floating on the spirit of Earth Mother; are good at working with tools

4.2.1.4 Plant Totem: Quaking Aspen (Wilson VFEM 46)

• Also known as American aspen or white poplar
  • Bark is silvery brown; leaves have silver tint
  • Summer breezes cause leaves to sound as tiny silver bells ringing
• Medicine powers:
  • Its medicinal value is worth twice its weight in silver (Jer 8:22)
  • Tree's bud known as "balm of Gilead"
  • Bark and buds used as tonic and diuretic
  • Tea aids in relief of liver and digestive disturbances
    • Also used for relaxant, hysteria, faintness and hayfever
    • Used externally for skin conditions, eczema, ulcers, burns
  • A powder scraped from bark used as deodorant
  • Powder scraped from inner bark used to treat cataracts
• Quaking Aspen people sway in a gentle way with life's breezes
  • Sing their own delightful song; usually healthy
  • Out of balance, may block energies of emotions, can experience fever, asthma, bronchitis
  • Their medicine can help prevent these problems

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