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Deer Medicine In December 2006, I led a guided meditation at my Reiki Circle in which we sent a grounding cord from our 1st chakra to the iron crystal core of earth. As everyone connected to the core the energy in the room shifted and we entered an altered state. The silence was so deep... so beautiful... and then, in my inner eye, I saw Deer Spirit enter the circle! How auspicious to have Deer Spirit enter our circle! To some tribes, notably the Huichol in Mexico, the deer is the most important of animals. The Huichol believe the deer represents the heart and is the gatekeeper to the spirit world. The Deer Dance is the most sacred dance for the Huichol, one that helps them pierce the veil between worlds. The Huichol word for deer is Kayumarie.  "If you've never been really up close and personal with deer they really can be the sweetest beings.
They do have such great hearts. I used to have a friend who referred to deer as the king of the animals and this is not because deer had some power over others but rather because they have great heart.
They have great compassion not only for their own kind but for others and also because they are prepared to make sacrifices not only to preserve their own families and their own communities but sometimes so that human beings might live and thrive." - quoted from Robert Shapiro's blog
Later, while studying Aluna Joy Yaxkin's wonderful book - "Mayan - Pleiadean Cosmology", I discovered the Mayan sun sign called Manik. Manik means "the hand that heals" and the power animal for Manik is the Deer. Later that week, Granny Wolf and I went to Pennsylvania to take part in the sweatlodge ceremony. Wanagi Wi, our host, spoke of Kayumarie in the lodge. The Lakota Sioux prayers and medicine songs were so beautiful! After the lodge, the whitetail deer came near the house to eat the apples we left for them. We went inside to eat dinner and I saw the wands that Wanagi Wi makes from antlers and quartz crystals. One of them was calling out to me - "take me, take me!" I bought the wand and now I use it to draw the Reiki power symbol in the 7 directions for the opening blessing at the circle. The next monday I arrived at Madison Wellness Center to set up for the Reiki Circle and there was a little Christmas reindeer on the chest where we set up our Reiki altar. Now I knew without a doubt that the Deer was the totem animal of our Reiki tribe! The main qualities that I see embodied in Deer are gentleness, silence, grace and love. Let's take a look at these qualities and see how we can incorporate them into our healing practice. Silence Grace Love
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