Moon: Rest and Cleansing Moon

January 20 to February 18

*** Blackfoot ***

JANUARY - KAA-TOO-Yll - SNOW BLINDNESS

FEBRUARY - SA-OM-MI-TSI-KSI-SOM -TREACHEROUS MOON

Power Animal: Otter
Mineral: Silver
Color: Silver
Plant: Quaking aspen
Clan: Butterfly
Element: Air

Characteristics:  The Rest and Cleansing Moon  is the second moon of Waboose. The stone for this moon is placed midway between the northern and eastern stones. Silver is the mineral totem for the Rest and Cleansing Moon,  the quaking aspen is the plant totem, the otter is the animal totem, and silver  is the color. This position is influenced by the Butterfly clan.

People experiencing this moon are considered as valuable as silver, as lighthearted as the music of aspen leaves, and as playful as the otter. The otter position can help you truly to like people, yourself included, and to be more humanitarian in your views. This is a time when you can excel in communicating, in developing your intellect, and in romance. The Rest and Cleansing Moon can help you both to develop your psychic abilities and to uncover the clever, bold, humanitarian, and gentle aspects of your own being. Although otter people have the potential to be noble and loving, they need to guard against dreaming so much that none of their noble ideas ever become reality.