#380 The Great Spirit of The Skunk

Don't shy away from inhaling the fragrance of high wisdom and empowerment granted from the Great Spirit of the Skunk.

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#380

The Great Spirit of the Skunk

Introduction: If you have ever wondered what it would be like to understand the thoughts and feelings of nature, welcome to the Gaia Translate Podcast. My name is Tracy Shoolman, and I am a nature mystic, a sound healer, and a channel. The Gaia Translate Podcast offers you direct access to channeled conversations with the sentient beings and spirits of the natural world. They are most grateful and excited to reach out to our human family and seek to know themselves, held in the light of awareness and respect. Access to the transcript for this episode's channeling is available at GaiaTranslate.com.  

Greetings all, this is your host, Tracy Shoolman, bringing you today's episode of Gaia Translate. While staying at a friend's summer cottage, we were unloading our beach chairs and other paraphernalia from the day at the beach, when we spotted what looked like a little black and white kitten that was romping around on their front lawn. 

Upon closer inspection, however, it turned out to be actually a baby skunk, no larger than my hand. Ah, yet as small as this little baby skunk was, probably only a few months old at most, maybe even less, we all made sure to keep a respectful distance from this little one, however adorable. As you have guessed, I was guided then to channel the Great Spirit of the Skunk. 

A transcript is available in the show notes for this episode at GaiaTranslate.com.  

Great Spirit of the (Little) Skunk: We have and seek a moment of your knowing, sister. We are that which you observed and knocked, as we felt, most enthusiastically upon the door of your awareness these last cycles of the sun. We are that which has and is a representative, if you will, an emissary, which we are most pleased to have been selected in such service of, of that which is the Great Spirit of the Skunk. 

Channel: Greetings and thank you, Spirit of the Skunk. I am very aware of your presence. You were very present and I'm fully holding you in my field. Thank you for your service.  

Great Spirit of the (Little) Skunk: You are welcome. It is an honor to serve, is it not?  

Channel: Yes, it is. 

Great Spirit of the (Little) Skunk: We have guided you to the door of the awareness of our over-spirit, that which has and is the Great Spirit of the Skunk. And so, we have and take our leave and offer you that which is the gateway to your wisdom in receivership of that which is the Great Spirit of the Skunk.  

Channel: Thank you and blessings be, Spirit of the Skunk. 

Great Spirit of the Skunk: You have served admirably and I am grateful.  

Great Spirit of the (Little) Skunk: We appreciate that, mistress. We have and take our leave. 

Great Spirit of the Skunk: We greet you, daughter. We felt it would be nigh impossible not to receive the persistent knock of our field upon your awareness with that which is the little one, the newly born, who has and is so eager to serve the light that we could not resist allowing that being to offer herself up for your own attunement. And she is most pleased, we would acknowledge, that she served admirably and we are grateful. 

We have sought your awareness as we felt it was timely to offer small guidance and yet most useful, we feel, to those of your species, your collective awareness, those who have and are willing to receive the great wisdom of the Spirit of the Skunk, yes?  

Channel: Greetings and welcome, Great Spirit of the Skunk. Thank you for your clear knock upon the door of my awareness. I am most grateful.  

Great Spirit of the Skunk: You're welcome, daughter. You have and observed that this was a very young specimen of our species, a few months old, perhaps, and still appearing as one who is just getting their bearings in this dimension. And yet, those who you were with, they were wise to honor and respect that which is the power of our physical form and to keep fair distance, as did you, we would acknowledge. Is this not accurate?  

Channel: It is, Great Spirit of the Skunk. You have a powerful method of defense.  

Great Spirit of the Skunk: It may be powerful, but it is wise to honor and offer respect to other members or life forms. What we have and seek to bring forth in our wisdom gift of the day is not that we are in requirement of being held in great fear, for there is a vibrational difference between fearing and respecting or honoring that which you are aware, that which has a nature, that has and would seek to defend itself, not to attack. For we, and it is not our nature, rather we have and are most efficiently designed, we would observe, to protect ourself should we feel our own life form is threatened, either as potential meal or other, yes?  

Channel: Yes, Great Spirit of the Skunk.  

Great Spirit of the Skunk: We invite your species to claim a higher level of discernment as they are willing, for it is wise to hold that which you have and perceive as vibrating with particular characteristics or nature, and yet it is less efficient to simply replace that which is the respect with that which is the fear and the distaste for another's manner, another's traits that are not intended to seek to wound or to attack another being, rather than to simply protect their own life force as it knows itself in a form, yes?  

We further offer that while we are a rather obvious example of that which is a peaceable being, one who simply seeks to be in its own field and to know itself able to experience the joy of a life in physical form, as that which is our own expression, we do not require you to fear us, and that energy is a little bit of a distortion we would observe that has and creates a form of echo a bit in the energetic field of this plane. Are you not well-served, all of your species, to tease out that which has a nature that has and requires respect, perhaps even admiration, when one has and if one has and invades the boundary as it is perceived by that which is the species of skunk, one may find oneself in an intimate relationship with the consequence of that which is perceived as attack or threat to the wellbeing of their own form or that of their kits yes? 

There are many species whose natural defenses have and would represent an unpleasant consequence to your clan, daughter, and yet we would observe that there are many in your species who simply fear and therefore hold a slight distortion in their field for that which simply is the nature of another. You have a phrase, a “healthy respect,” and that is more in attunement, and we would invite you and all who have and receive this small blessing of wisdom to look within and to consider the rebalancing of the field such that one has and may approach or observe or engage with another species without sending out that which is a mighty vibration of fear, of distrust, and in that way, you have and know yourselves in a place where you have a reactivity of heightened potential of threat that creates a bit of a vibratory wave that is received and therefore may trigger that which is also a similar response.  

We would observe and offer this as a small example that there are those of your species, many of them, who companion a four-legged, with a canine, and enjoy this relation. However, there are a few who are afraid of what it is that their dog, their pet, their canine may do when it encounters other canines or their owners or simply other beings who may have no pet or companion and yet appear to present a threat or the potential of one. The canine is most exquisitely attuned to the emotional field of those they companion with. It is that which has and serves them when they are within a pack as they have and are able to sense the danger, the potential threat, the opportunity, the general state of emotional attunement of their alpha and other members of their clan. 

This is efficient and most useful. However, when one has and holds that which is the lead or perhaps simply is companioning, that which is your canine friend and you perceive there is not the potential of threat to yourselves, mind you, yet the potential for your canine, your four-legged to perhaps misread or react in an aggressive or fear-based manner. Your energy field is much as one who lets out a great shout of danger, of warning, based with the fear of the potential consequence of the coming exchange. 

What is little understood by some is that it is your own fear, your own heightened energy of worry, of not the threat of another but the concern of negative reaction by that which is your own companion canine. That simply through that attunement of your own fear of potential aggressive behavior in some manner that has and is equivalent to raising the volume on that which would be a device such as a radio or other.  

And in this, as you shout, as it were, with your field, your canines are most exquisitely attuned and pick up that which is your vibration of emotion most efficiently. And they will embody it for the most part as they understand themselves that which is, or I should offer their fields, are embedded, if you will, with the instinct to follow that which is the scent, the emotional scent that is discharged from the one who is the alpha, the leader of their pack. Do not confuse this. A pack may be a single being, and often in your interspecies relations that is accurate, is it not? For there are many who have and are not in a living situation with other humans and rather know themselves as singularly companioned at one or another point in their histories with that which is the dog, the canine. 

You are able to observe this when you have and observe the way that the vibration of your own or their own, that of the owner, the human part of the companion relation, has and sends out a great signal of fear of what may occur. And this is simply received and embodied, if you will, by those who are your companion partners in this field.  

We are aware that those who have and offer guidance with regard to such relations, you understand them as the dog trainer, has and for the most part what we observe is training the human in how to relate in a place of discernment, such that you do not discharge various emotional impulses that are received much as any verbal command and more. For often if you hold fear in your heart it is shouting and will overrun any command of the throat. Can you ken this daughter?  

Channel: I can, yes, thank you.  

Great Spirit of the Skunk: We feel it is a straightforward example and one that is easily consumed by your species, for there is far less distrust and fear around the canine. Although we would observe, and we mean no disrespect to the canine that you have and may know various members of your own collective, your tribe, finding themselves on the wrong end of that which is an agitated canine, one that is and holds its own fear or has been bred such that it has and defaults, if you will, to an agitated act of aggression when and through its breeding process it has been what the humans have desired as admirable and usable trait. Is this not accurate?  

Channel: I believe it is, yes, Great Spirit of the Skunk.  

We step forward in our own light and as that which offers you and your species, daughter, the wisdom of high discernment, such that you seek in a point of direct consideration, awareness and mindfulness, and we realize that is a phrase that is worn at the edges and yet accurate, that which is your own individuate relations with all other life forms in this plane. 

To journey to a place that has and stills the waters of your emotional reactivity is to make a journey of ascension, of greater awareness and the claiming of a place of higher discernment, of how you have and are generating frequencies from your own field that may not serve as efficiently and that are not required. We do not suggest that through your respect of that which is one of the great cats, the tiger, the lion, the panther and so forth, that you simply decide because you have great respect you will set aside your concern of negative consequence in an intimate relation. This is a misperception that we would seek to clarify. 

One does not seek to fear that which one has and would not place oneself in front of. One simply understands that there are negative consequence to certain intimate interactions. In the example of the great cats, you may not perceive yourselves as potential prey to feed the belly, as a nourishment to feed the offspring and yet that is what your scent is offering for you fall into one of the consumable food groups and in that your respect for that aspect of the nature is highly advised. 

What we ask and would offer is that one can know this would be unwise to place myself in a place where I appear as a potential meal in service to the natural need state for nutrition of such a being and yet the wisdom to remain in not only adequate distance but in a manner that has and would protect you from too intimate a relation is simply discerning. It does not require nor in truth is it efficient to hold great fear in your field when perhaps you are at a game reserve or you are at one of those places that are zoos or other place where you may observe without concern to your own physical wellbeing. You are not required to also send out that which is the impulse the frequency of fear towards this being as we would observe. Your healthy respect is quite sufficient and there is a great, if you will, flood of fear that permeates this plane and for those who have the ability to smell the scent therein with their own fields it has and serves much as a bit of a virus that has and spreads with ease from those whose nature is not to fear another and yet they catch the virus of it as you do within your own clan.  

It is a guidance that we understand may confuse or challenge many. Yet it is most useful and timely to embrace. We invite your species to have and walk through that which is a list of all those other life-forms whose very name or image calls forth a great wave of fear from your field, and we would invite you to redirect this fear, to release it. It does not serve you. It has, and in truth, is that which may escalate an otherwise uninteresting exchange. We offer that as you have and consider the nature of another, and in truth, your species has much to fear from other members of your own tribe. They are the ones who are the greatest predators of your own clan. 

It is a confusion for us and a place of grief, for we understand this simply feeds that which we have and would offer serves none in this plane. In truth, if you had placed before you, perhaps it is that which is one of your household cleansing compounds, perhaps it would be bleach, you do not fear it, yet you understand that it might be toxic should you ingest it, and you are also aware that it is wise to keep it locked away or out of reach of those children or other members of your own family unit that have and may not have learned or have yet to grasp that it is not that which is to be consumed, for it would cause negative consequence, yes? One does not need to fear it; one simply needs to hold it in a place of awareness and respect for its nature in relation to your own.  

We understand there are places where you may seek to enter into that which is the native habitat of species who will, and without malintent, simply perceive you as a possible meal. Rather than to fear and seek to destroy all members of a clan, we have placed the image of a shark into that which is the mind's eye of the Channel. You have, and we feel, will not encounter a shark seeking to move down the street or into your domiciles to attack or consume, or find you as that which is their preferred food source. Rather, it is wise to understand that as you place yourself into the natural environment, if you will, into the supermarket where they shop, it should not be that surprising that which is a shark or other predatory being as mammal or fish that breathes within the waters, that they would simply consider you another option. 

For have you not chosen to place yourself as that which may be an opportunity, another product on the shelf as it were? It is another place of discernment. There is a sense that your species is entitled to be the solitary presence in every environment in this plane. And any who have and would challenge that simply by existing in their own ecology, their own habitat, many of you seek, with willing intent, we would observe, to destroy that which has, and perhaps was simply minding its own business in its own environment, as that which has and is therefore a great threat. 

This is a place of great distortion. We further observe that there are those of your species who seek to simply destroy, to kill and dominate, that which is the life force of another who has the potential of great protection or possibly potential to seek to consume that which would fill their belly. It is a point that we have and would place gently forward upon the blade of your alignment as beings who seek to know themselves in an expanded field of light. 

One may understand this as an aspect, a stumbling block, if you will, in front of that which is the greater awareness's intent to evolve a bit. And we have offered our own personal field as that which has and would offer what we perceive as clear guidance as to the aspect of distortion that waylays many in your clan. We further observe, and we feel you are, or some, are more and more awakened to this, when you seek to destroy what has or may be an alpha, how you would describe predator, although we would simply describe member of the community, both as that which has and in some manner you feel you may then claim the mantle of their prowess as your own, or because you find them as that which is unpleasant or that which would seek to consume what you would keep for your own consumption, yes?  

To claim awareness and to be in vibratory alignment with the nature of another is to claim your wisdom, to comprehend that there is no living thing, no being, no life form however distant in its physicality or function from your own that does not serve a useful purpose as part of the great flow of life in this plane that also is a place where your distortions cloud your vision a bit. We understand that in your histories you felt it was obligatory to destroy that which might offer that which is an overly aggressive threat to your clan members or tribe. And there are those who began to claim what they perceived as the power, the nature of whatever being they had disposed of as that which was their right to claim simply through the destruction of a life form. 

We do not deny that there are not occasions when one is based in a place of required defensive posture and we are well acquainted and most efficient. We would further offer, as you have and would continue to evolve as a species, is it not wise to consider how you may claim your skunk nature with a bit more enthusiasm, not as one that has an issues for a stench that is so unpleasant, and yet perhaps you might consider this form of defensive protection or a manner of it which some have and are beginning to comprehend as how one has and may hold one's own boundary and protect one's own wellbeing without the full destruction of another life form. We have found it most effective and we are a peaceable field and that also is what we have and would seek to serve upon your awareness, that which is the mantle of your skunk nature as one who has and understands and is able with grace to stand and hold one's own boundary without the necessity of the extinguishment of the life force of another, for we are aware that all have and serve and we may not seek to be on the dinner plate of one or another and yet that does not negate the wisdom we hold that all have and are only present in this form as that which has been called forth by the Gaia and that which has and serves in a manner that we may not perceive directly and yet it is nevertheless that which we have and respect. 

We invite you to receive the blessing of the mantle of your skunk nature and we understand there are those who would hold their nose at that which they perceive would mean you will now be that which would repel all others as you would discharge that which has and offers a less than pleasant fragrance and that is not what we are seeking to serve you. When we seek to serve you the mantle of our nature we speak about our vibrational awareness and attunement such that you have and are able to claim one who has and simply seeks to be a member of a community in a peaceable way, not seeking to wound or destroy, not walking in fear or a sense of continuous threat and certainly not seeking to completely destroy, to kill or maim another simply because they coexist in a particular habitat. yes?  

It is a deeply embedded splinter in the flesh of your collective awareness and one that we have and feel have begun to tease out a bit and we invite you to know that it is not required to always walk with the splinter of great fear embedded within your field but to seek to understand that as you remove this splinter of fear you will no longer feel a pain when you place the foot of your will upon that which is the flow of your existence in this life. It is a far more pleasant manner of coexistence we would offer for we do not fret and worry. We are not feeling that which you would experience as great knots of pain within your gut or your head or other parts of your field, your flesh as that which we carry as constant companion. It is inefficient and not needed. 

We simply offer as you are willing, you will find it most useful for your own individuate sense of well-being and for the greater realignment of your entire collective field to revisit that which you simply hold in a place of fear, that of the nature or the nature, yes, of any other physical object or life form and to divide into certain categories not what is to be feared but what is to be understood as perhaps less than discerning such as the consumption of that which has been identified as a poison or the jumping into the cage of that which has and is a being who has and whose nature it is to consume the flesh of another as their primary foodstuff. This is wisdom, this is discernment, this is not fear.  

It is the blessing we seek to offer, that which is the separating out of your constant companions that of fear of possible threat or of another being as conflated as that which has and is a threat from that which simply is respect for the nature of another. 

We seek to offer you this for you have and so many of you walk with great weights of fear around your field. It is that which has and weighs down the potential for your ease of flow and this point of desired evolution in our place of flow. As you are willing, we would invite this exercise, if you like, where you have and consider this and that of so many life forms in this plane and so many constructs that have been born of your own will and creative flow. Much as you do not fear a car, yet you would be well served not to step onto that which is a highway when it is populated with many cars traveling at great speeds upon it. It is this shift in your relation from that which you understand is simply good sense and the wisdom you have and offer to those of your own clan and have embedded deeply into your field of late. Look both ways before you would step into a street. 

Do not consume that which has and is toxic to your field. Do not light the couch on fire and so forth. You are not afraid of the match, yet you have and understand the potential for negative consequence if your intimate relation or another's is less than discerning. 

There was a point, and it continues, where there are those who inhale the plant substance that is of tobacco, cigarette, or of hemp or other, and we do not hold judgment of this. It is rather that where one has and is in a reclined position in your nest, your den, and you have and keep a lit object, such that if you have and drift off, or you have and are not careful in your placement of it, it may, through its nature, alight and seek to consume whatever it has and finds itself in intimate relation with, be it the bedsheets, be it the curtain, be it the rug, be it the book, and so forth. There is that which has, and we invite you to observe, as you are willing, certain habitual patternings that some of you have and claim as you have and grow accustomed to that which is the perception that while it may happen to others, it would not happen to you. This is not an invitation to fear, although we would observe the inhalation of certain substance into your lung cavities may be a point of far greater potential damage than that of your resistance to a healthy respect for the spirit of the flame, however small. 

We have felt, we have given ample example and a range therein, such that our desire and our blessing is available to all who would seek to claim it, and we offer a prayer of joy-filled gratitude for that which is the great consumption of all we have placed upon the plate of potential wisdom that those of your species have and would be blessed to consume.  

It is that we sought to serve, daughter, and we would observe it feels more than timely to invite those of your clan to embrace, as they are willing, these aspects of their skunk nature in service to your own wellbeing and that of all life in this plane. 

We appreciate your patience, and we have and would take our leave for the song of our blessing is complete, as you have and are so willing to grant it.  

Channel: I have and I am Great Spirit of the Skunk. Thank you for the light of your wisdom. I have and consume it with joy and gratitude.  

Great Spirit of the Skunk: We appreciate that, daughter, and we would offer it is a great, a great offering where there is no lack of sufficiency for all to help themselves from this dish we have placed upon the table of the collective meal, that which is called forth at this beautiful point in our collective history, yes? 

Channel: Thank you, and blessings be. 

Great Spirit of the Skunk: And to you, daughter. It is complete. 

Conclusion: I'm so grateful you could join me today for this episode of the Gaia Translate Podcast, bringing you conversations with the sentient beings and spirits of the natural world. Be sure to subscribe or follow the Gaia Translate Podcast so you don't miss an episode. And if you would like to connect further with questions or to your own experiences, simply reach out to me on Instagram at Gaia Translate. 

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