AboutChristine Zimmerman Expertise I am a well rounded pagan, born and raised in the tradition. I know quite a lot, except for some forms of divination such as Runes although I read the tarot. I am knowledgeable in almost all areas of practice.
Experience Herbs, Kitchen Witchery, gemstones and crystals, Reiki, Feng Shui, animals and their totems, spells and rituals, sabbats and esbats, solitary and eclectic, Wicca, Goddess Studies and I could go on.
Question a friend of mine was driving home one night and seen a fox walking up the middle of the lane he was in after a few minutes it turned into a driveway and he noticed it was carring an egg there are no chicken coops in the area he thinks he figured out what the fox means but he is stuck on the egg any thoughts about this. Thank you for your time larry.
Answer Merry Meet Larry,
Well the Fox is truly an amazing totem to have. It means the following:
Stealthy messenger of the gods,
Cunning and wise, reliable friend,
Guide my steps through this maze of deception
And see this problem to its end.
Magic, Shapeshifting, Invisibility
Fox are seen as totems throughout the world:
the Chinese believed they could take human form,
in Egypt the fox brought favor from the gods,
there was a fox god in Peru,
foxes help the dead get to the next life in Persia,
Cherokees, Hopi other American Indian tribes
believed in its healing power;
the Apache credited the fox with giving man fire.
Since the fox lives "between times" --
on the edge of land, visible as dusk and dawn, and can guide the way to the Faerie Realm.
A fox can teach you to control your aura so that you can be more in harmony
with others and the world.
If you have a fox totem, learning to be invisible is very important in your life.
Imagine yourself blending in with your surroundings, becoming part of the background.
Be very still and quiet.
Through practice you can be unnoticed even at a party or in a crowd.
I have an acquaintance who used this power to evade several muggers;
he stood there in plain sight next to a building ,
and blended himself into the wall;
they did not see him and left without harming him. It can be done!
A fox totem also teaches good eating habits;
the fox eats small amounts frequently which medicine is now telling us is better for our health.
But fox people already knew this.
The fox is a wonderful totem to have.
AS far as the egg is concerned, the fox is a natural born thief (hence keeping them out of your chicken coops) but the egg he probably got from a bird's nest as this is the time of year that they are laying their eggs and really doesn't have any significance to it, other than his next meal.
Here is why foxes steal eggs:
Arctic foxes create "nest eggs" each year to prepare for leaner times, according to a new study.
Like squirrels gathering nuts for the winter, the small foxes hoard bird eggs in case there's not enough of their favorite prey—the collard lemming—to go around in the spring.
The stored eggs can last for up to a year after being buried, thanks to the Arctic permafrost and natural preservatives inside the eggs.
"It appears as if cached eggs are used as a backup for unpredictable changes in lemming numbers," lead study author Gustaf Samelius of Grimsö Wildlife Research Station in Riddarhyttan, Sweden, said in an email.
"This is a neat adaptation in an environment where food abundance changes dramatically both among seasons and years."
Samelius added that the study is the first to show the extent to which the carnivores can depend on stored rations.
Other carnivores are known to store food, the researcher noted, but they generally cache for only a few days and base their diets more on fresh kills.
"Our results of about 50 percent of the [arctic fox's] diet coming from cached foods might be on the extreme end" compared with other meat-eaters, Samelius said.
Cold Storage
Samelius's team based its findings on the behavior of arctic foxes living near Karrak Lake in the Queen Maud Gulf Bird Sanctuary in the territory of Nunavut, Canada, between 2000 and 2004 (see a map of Nunavut).
Karrak Lake is the summer breeding ground for up to a million snow geese and Ross's geese. The birds' nests supply ample pickings for the region's foxes, which store between 2,000 and 3,000 eggs a year.
I hope this information was useful. Should you have any other questions, don't hesitate to ask.
