Badger is vicious, and attacks with powerful aggression. Badger is quick
to anger and quicker to pounce. The power of Badger's medicine is
aggressiveness and the willingness to fight for what it wants.
The very thought of facing Badger makes other animals run for cover.
Like Skunk, Badger's reputation precedes it. Its hissing fangs will tear
less aggressive opponents to shreds.
Badger is the medicine of many powerful medicine women, for Badger is
also the keeper of the medicine roots. Badger sees all the roots of
Mother Earth's healing herbs hanging in its burrow home. These roots are
a key to aggressive healing.
Roots can ground negative energy into the Earth by allowing illness to
pass through a body into the ground as neutral energy. Badger medicine
people are quick to act in a crisis, and they do not panic.
If Badger is a part of your medicine, you are quick to express your
feelings, and you do not care what the consequences are. Badger people
often times insist on carrying the ball for the touchdown. This attitude,
however, does not endear them to their teammates.
Badger medicine may also point to the aggressive healer who will have
the courage to use unconventional means to exact a cure. Like the mother
who sits for days nursing a child with high fever, Badger is willing to
persist.
Badger people can be vicious gossips, or may exhibit a "chip on the
shoulder" syndrome if they are out of balance. You can be sure that
people with Badger medicine will be aggressive enough to make it to the
tops of their chosen fields, because they do not give up. They are also
the finest healers, because they will use any and all methods to ensure
healing, and will not give up on the critically ill.
A Badger person is often the "boss," and the one that everyone fears.
That same boss will surely keep any company afloat. Badger gets the job
accomplished. Badger's certainty is a source of strength.
If Badger pushed its way into your life today, it may be telling you
that you have been too meek in trying to reach some goal. Badger askes
you how long you are willing to sit and wait for the world to deliver
your silver spoon.
In this medicine, the key is to become aggressive enough to *do*
something about your present state of affairs. Badger is teaching you to
get angry in a creative way and say, "I won't take it anymore." You must
follow-up by keeping your eye on the goal. Honor the healing process as
you express those inner feelings.
Be aggressive, but don't cut others to ribbons on the way --- that is too
much aggression. Use your anger to stop your lolling around, so that
your doldrums of apathy are a thing of the past. Badger is a powerful
medicine when properly used for self-improvement.
Remember that Badger may be signalling a time when you can use your
healing abilities to push ahead in life. Heal yourself by aggressively
removing the barriers that don't "grow corn." Cut away the dead wood
and use Badger's aggression to seek new levels of expression. Use
Badger's medicine roots to keep grounded and centered in the process.
CONTRARY:
Oops! Here comes Badger upside-down and fuming! This could mean that you are
being chewed out by someone else, or that you have expressed your anger
in an unhealthy way. If this applies to you, remember that *all anger*
stems from anger towards the self. It is an anger of helplessness that
is misdirected towards others.
If you are angry at a coworker for telling the boss that you were
looking for another job, you are really angry at yourself for not
keeping your own secret. If you are angry at your children for
disobeying, it is usually anger that stems from *fear* for the
children's well-being. This self-anger condition is usually present when
you have "silly accidents," falls, cuts and scrapes, or when you find
yourself bumping into furniture.
Badger in the contrary position can assure in a time of reflection on
what you feel helpless about. Is it your lack of aggressiveness or
initiative? Is it your fear of being blasted or belittled if you present
a new idea? Maybe it is a time when you need to get in touch with your
own jealousy or envy of others who are willing to put themselves on top
through hard work.
In the reverse, Bagder teaches you the pitfalls of shyness and
insecurity as well as of misused or vicious aggression. Go scream into a
pillow and then punch it a few times. It will surely put Badger back
into balance. Badger can be difficult medicine, and learning to use it
properly is a rare gift.
In another context, contrary Badger could be calling you to use herbs
and roots to heal your body. Badger reversed may also be putting you on
notice to be aware of those areas of your life that need the input of
someone else's aggressive creativity to spark your own. In any case,
contrary Badger speaks of a need for more aggressive action in life. No
more inactivity can prevail without creating pain of some kind.
