Yeah, I think the balance needs to be neccesary.
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I understand the calmness. I also noticed that a cobra is also a predator. Interesting that my calm jaguar is a predator, and your turtle and cobra are the same mixture.

They make me feel calm, and the water element matches my zodiac, along with a few more reasons. They always seem to pop up when I need to be reminded of how I should act. My Spirit Guide is the Cobra though. All my animals are jumbled up. =P

That's interesting. Never knew a turtle before. Why turtle?

The turtle...
hehe

I think you're right. What's your totem.

Men can have totems too. I think it's just that most women are more spiritually connected than most men, albeit some men are more spiritually connected than most women, and vise versa.

I think everybody's got a partially animalistic soul, but I never knew the name for it. I kind of indentfy with the Jaguar in the picture, but I don't like the idea of being a predator. I think women are more in touch with this than men. I've always known that women have 'totems', like my gf's is the owl. And another gf's is the dragon. Someting like that.

It's when someone thinks or feels like they have a partially animalistic soul. I'm a Snow Leopard/Caracal therian. Which means I feel spiritually in sync with and have characteristics of the Snow Leopard and Caracal.

I chose Jaguar cuz I think it's a cool car. Maybe someday I can afford to own one, especially one of the antique classics. I picked the jaguar pic cuz it looked thoughtful and calm. What's Therian?