Swan

Animal Totems

Native peoples of many countries have animal spirits that play a very important part in their lives. In Chinese astrology all the signs are animals and in western astrology most of the signs are animals.

By getting to know your animal totem, you can gain insight and understanding of your own life circumstances more clearly, and share in the totem power or 'medicine'. Animal totems manifest a specific kind of energy that will align to forces of the spiritual realm that are influencing your life.

Swan

Swan symbolizes grace and beauty on many levels. It is associated with love, music, and poetry. In Roman mythologySwan was sacred to Venus, the goddess of love. In Greek tradition, this bird was often pictured singing to a lyre.The Swan is generally thought to be a symbol of solitude. Many cultures believe that the swan is the bird of life and it combines the elements of air and water. In Chinese mythology, the swan is a symbol of yang and considered a solar bird. Swan symbolism is associated with the virtues of purity, loyalty, unity, and love.

The swan is linked to the God Apollo who is the God of music. A “swan song” is a beautiful song swan is said to sing before she dies. She is a totem for poets and singers alike. The goddess Saraswati rode a swan down a tributary of the Ganges playing her lute while holding a rosary and book. She’s known as the goddess of music, song and poetry as well as spiritual purity. It is easy to see how swans have become a symbol of romanticism, love and devotion, but there is much more to this iconic bird.

They love relationships themselves, in fact. They are a courting species who pair for years, sometimes even a lifetime. When the swan spirit guide drifts into your life, it could be foretelling of a new relationship or reminding you to not take the one you have for granted.

Swan Dream Meaning

With the vision of the swan it mostly depends on his colour. A white swan symbolises the ability to feel deep feelings, the good relation to himself and his environment, spiritual interest and idealism. Black swans point to notions and intuitions of the dreaming. They can sometimes be, unfortunately, also misfortune messengers or death messengers. Lohengrins swan also appears in the dream, - he stands for the secrecy with which one approaches a possible dear partner who may never ask one, however (after the wedding appointment). If the swan goes off in attack position to us, schwant to us in the awake life maybe in a certain thing nothing good. The swan song (after a mistake coming from the antiquity sings the swan, before he dies) points to an expired time span which will be removed from a better one.