AboutIrulan Serena Expertise Able to answer any question dealing with Greco-Roman mythology. Experience comes from teaching classical literature in all levels of the school curriculum from middle school to university level for thirty-eight years.
BEES, Harbingers of Sprint, Earth's fertility, social cooperation, industriousness.
BUTTERFLY Ancient symbol of the soul, exemplifies transformation; represents and early and happy marriage in some Asian cultures.
CAT Personal pride, self-assurance, love of beauty and comfort. Black cats are especially lucky (associations with bad luck come from the Medieval Church, which reviled cats because they were the totem animals of the Love
Goddess); embody the Spirits of Place because of their attachment to their homes.
COW Earth mother, nourishment, taking care of physical needs, the wealth of the Earth, fertility cycles of the Moon.
FISH The Water element, fertility and richness.
FROG Transformation, evolution, small impulses that lead to meaningful things; also, the herald of nourishing rain and the beginning of spring.
HORSE Great power coupled with great gentility, personal power in both physical and spiritual domains.
LADYBUG Good luck coming from the gifts of the Love Goddess.
LAMB Innocence, the playful vitality of youth.
LION The raw power of the Fire element.
LIZARD Basking habits show the lizards love of the Sun, and the Sun returns that love; symbolized the solar powers that value and nourish even the small things.
MOUSE The importance of the small things in life.
PIG Their rounded shape suggests pregnancy, fertility, and abundance, their rooting around also associates them with the Earth mysteries.
RABBIT Fertility, sexuality, abundance.
SCARAB BEETLE Transformation, rebirth into eternal life.
SERPENT Associated with the healing arts because of self-renewal and spiraling coils suggesting the flow of the life Force; and going into the ground represents knowledge of the mysteries.
TOAD A spirit of place that confers well being to a home; recognizing beauty in homely things.
BIRDS (WATER) Associated with abundance, fertility, and transformation.
DOVE Peace, love and fertility.
EAGLE Spiritual power, the ability to soar beyond all limitations.
HAWKS Alertness, awareness, ability to see the heart of the matter. , "Apollo's swift messengers," and eagles, "the birds of Zeus." It was a good omen if the birds flew from left to right, a bad omen if in the reverse direction.
OWL Wisdom, knowledge, go-betweens twixt night and day, life and death, the Middle Earth and the Underworld.
SWAN Feminine grace and beauty that stirs Divine inspiration.
ACORN Concentrated potential, youth, good health, and growth.
MOON A powerful symbol with many layers of meaning, the feminine mysteries; the night side of Nature and the call of the Wilderness; the measure of Time and the tides of Life; the cycles of fertility, growth, fulfillment, and going within; the realm of magic; the unconscious mind.
MUSHROOM Symbolic of the borders of consciousness and the awareness of other worlds (states of consciousness), traditional association with the Faery Realm.
ROSE The fulfillment of Love.
SHELL Historically the worlds most popular amulet, with many layers of symbolism. The Water element, love, fertility, and female sexuality. Growth and the spiraling flow of vital energy, wealth, and perfection. Moon tides and lunar phases.
STAR Affirms you are guided by a lucky star (help from spiritual sources); each person is a breathing star, scientists point out that we are made of the stuff of ancient star dust.
SUN The Life Source, radiant, warm, active, expansive, life-stimulating qualities. Conscious mind, intelligence, personal pride,
TREE Another ancient, honored, and complex symbol; the ability of the Self to reach into heaven while still having roots in the Earth.
