Description: Immensely powerful, the bear knows about death through its ability to deal it as well as survive it. Associated with highly potent and thus dangerous spiritual domains, the bear is also emblematic of the drastic repercussions for uninitiated who violate them. In alchemy the bear corresponds to the potentially devouring affective energies of psyche's unconscious realm that can size us destructively, especially if we are naive or disrespectful enough to underestimate their significance. Might. Fortitude. Liberty. Emptiness. Gold. My personal guide and a friend from the realm.
Description: Wolves: "Skilled predators, at the top of the food chain, they evoke the vital and entirely unsentimental instinctual energies of the animal psyche. Our projections on them reveal our longing for a (re)connection with our own animal soul, and our terror that the encounter will result in the dismemberment of the ego." - The Book of Symbols
