Key concepts: motherhood, longevity, realization of new opportunities.
Because of its ancient nature and slow metabolism, the tortoise is associated with longevity and thoroughness. The turtle is unhurried. It seems to have perfectly grasped a simple but great wisdom: everything has its time. As a totem animal, the turtle will teach us to perceive time in a new way. This totem can awaken our keen senses on both a physical and spiritual level. It stimulates hearing, sight and smell, as well as clairaudience, clairvoyance and higher forms of insight.
If the tortoise has become your totem, ask yourself some pertinent questions. Is it possible that your life has become too chaotic? Do you have enough time to relax? Do you have time to look around before you make another decision? Or, on the contrary, are you moving too slowly towards your goals? The turtle can help you answer these questions.
The turtle's lesson is that the way to heaven is through the earth. Mother Earth can give us everything we need. She will care for us, protect and nourish us as long as we reciprocate. All we need to do is to give up the mindless pursuit of false values and listen carefully to the world around us. We need to realize that everything in the world is interconnected. Just as a turtle cannot leave its shell, so we cannot go beyond this single system of connections that permeates the entire universe.