The Celebration Collection

About This Collection

Every culture has utilized, to one degree or another, animals or other live forms as symbolic reminders of characteristics they aspire to. Some embracing them more than others. The USA has its Eagle, colleges have mascots and so forth.

They’ve been called Totems, Spirit Animals, Spirit or Personal Guides and Power Animals. Titles given mostly by our ancestors who, because of their closer relationship to the earth; held a much deeper understanding and higher regard for all of Earth’s inhabitants then we do today. Items or representations of them have been, and still are, kept as Talismans.

It was from this basic concept that The Celebration Collection was formed. Each design in the collection starts with the same small image representing their connection to the whole. This image was then duplication many times over, rotated, cropped and rearranged to depict each entities or concepts.

Come, Celebrate

We are all related;
emanating from the same source,
the same creator.

We are distinctively different;
in form and by design.

We are all representations;
of a species or a concept.

We all symbolize the Powers
of those we represent.

Come, Celebrate,
Dance with us in the
never ending circle of life.
Celebrate Earth Energy
in all its diverse forms.
Learn our ways, habits,
unique abilities and talents.
Know our Powers.

Celebrate as we
share these with you.
For we are all Teachers.
We are all Students.
Come, Celebrate,
We are all related.
We are all connected.

“If you talk with the animals
they will talk with you, and
you will know each other.

If you do not talk to them,
you will not know them, and
what you do not know, you will fear.
What one fears one destroys.”

Chief Dan George

Wolf wisdom is about taking advantage of change. It teaches how to be successful in our ventures about organization, intelligent, faithfulness and social order. Wolf is a free spirit.	Fish wisdom is about agility and camouflage. It teaches us about the need for solitude and controlling our emotions. Fish is free flowing.
Frog wisdom is about transformation and cleansing. Frog teaches us how to leap over our problems, handling our emotions and about rebirth after transformation.	Butterfly wisdom is about courage and rebirth. It teaches us how to be successful in our projects and about metamorphosis.
Horse wisdom is about faithfulness, travel and strength. It teaches us how to be a helper, expanding our potential and to be steadfast.	Turtle wisdom is about planning and adaptability. It teaches us about making informed decisions being self contained and about the creative source.
The Web of Life is symbolic of how we are all connection within this Web of life. What happens to one happens to all on one level or another.	Balance is the wisdom of unity in duality, unity in diversity; as above so below. It teaches about life on the Spiritual, Energy and Wisdom levels.
Shaman is the wisdom of male energy; Yang. It teaches about protection, hunting, speaking and logical thinking. It is about doing. It’s elements are fire and air.	Priestess is the wisdom of female energy; Yin. It teaches nurturance, gathering, listening, feeling, being intuitive. It is about being. It’s elements are water and earth.
Tortoise is the wisdom of self preservation, about being grounded and centered. It teaches about being non violent, about patience, ancient wisdom and slow movement.	The Circle of Life teaches us how to follow nature’s rhythms. Not just as it applies to the natural world but the spiritual and mental as well. Plants come to life in the spring, grown during the summer, move inside themselves in the fall and go dormant for the winter. Spring comes once more and all is renewed, reborn.
Hawk is the wisdom of intuition and clear sightedness. It teaches patience, observation and courage. Hawk is the messenger and guardian.	Phoenix is the wisdom of high virtue, justice and peace. It teaches vision, grace, power, prosperity, hope, healing and good fortune.
Arrow wisdom is about reaching your goals. It teaches us how to focus, about finding your direction. It points the way.	Dragonfly is the wisdom of seeing through illusions and awakening true visions, about magic and mysticism. It teaches us about taking time to develop our skills, about the energy of change. Life is never what it appears to be.