Deer Medicine
In Celtic story the Deer often leads one into the Otherworld
Deer Medicine
The Deer have so much to teach us: about grace, strength, agility, intuitive spirit, and supreme adaptability. Deer can live almost anywhere! Deer is tenderness woven with attuned power, deep listening, and quick instincts–qualities of which we might all do well to cultivate within ourselves, yes?
Deer is gentle and vulnerable, but Deer is also the old “mossy-backed” stags of the forest, who is also attuned to the ways of nature and presence that they are practically invisible, and easily elude the blundering presence of humans, especially those bent on their destruction. They have their many-tined antlers that display their ability to side-step death (be it from hunters or doubt or fear), to battle successfully for their place and mates, to say yes to life.
As a healer, harper, and just plain human being who has long been inspired and fascinated by the Deer (read here about some of my connection with the Deer) I have surrendered to learning and exploring the metaphor and lore of the Deer, to seeing what Deer has to teach me, and to practicing the Way of the Deer (however that may unfold!) in my healing artistry and in my own life.
The deer watch us
