All That Surrounds Us

Feminine magic of camouflage

shapeshifting

and

invisibility

SYMBOLISM OF FOX

by Ted Andrews

A few days ago, I was in a friend's car and we were taking a short-cut through a residential neighborhood.  I happened to glance out the passenger window and my eyes discovered a young red fox standing in a driveway. It is my belief that when an animal appears in your life, there is symbolism behind the appearance that can directly apply to your personal life. 

As soon as I returned home, I took out my trusted book resource, ANIMALS SPEAK by Ted Andrews and read the definition and characteristics of the fox. The fox is a totem that speaks of the need to develop or the awakening of camouflage, invisiblity, and shapeshifting.  

In a broader sense, the Fox represents "a new world opening up, that the process of creation is beginning.  It reflects that the world is growing and shapeshifting itself into new patterns that will be beneficial."

This dictionary of animal totems states, "Practicing and using camouflage is something everyone should learn to do.  Working to blend in with surroundings, to come and go unnoticed, moving silently about without revealing your intentions is all part of what a fox teaches."

The information suggests adjusting your frequency and intensity of your energy field so that you harmonize and blend in better with others.  The intention is to hear and see things that you otherwise might not. 

A fox has great ability to move into other dimensions in the outer world ... in water or up trees ...  and embodies feline energies for greater movement and expression.  It indicates "a need to assert the feminine, creative energies."

Credited with acute hearing abilities, the fox reflects a deeper ability to hear a great distances.  Symbolically, this depth of hearing reflects an ability to hear what is not being said or whispered. "This ability is also tied to clairaudience, the ability to hear spirit."  The keen sense of smell determines who or what needs to be sought out. It may be associated with higher forms of discrimination and discernment.

The fox has a love for home and only takes one partner.  The cubs, not having vision or hearing when born reflects to humans who may have had great tests in childhood with the instinctual abilities in the art of survival. 

A fox will go out of its way to avoid potential danger.  It is very patient and uses non-threatening techniques to capture its prey.

So in summary and in application to myself, I have learned to pay attention to the world as it is changing around me.  It would be beneficial for me to adjust my energy and blend more amongst others, observing, listening, and seeing what normally might not come into my awareness.  There might be a need for me to use my creative energies in a more assertive and positive way. 

Human beings, animals, and all of nature has its own language. We can live more fully in our world if we can learn to dialogue with all that surrounds us.