Beaver
People born under the Frogs Return Moon, the second moon of Wabun, have the beaver as their animal totem, the blue camas as their plant and chrysocolla as their mineral. Their color is blue, and they belong to the Turtle clan.
- Dates
- April 20 – May 20
- Moon
- Frogs Return Moon
- Elemental clan
- Turtle Clan (Earth)
- Spirit Keeper
- Wabun (East)
- Plant
- Blue camas
- Mineral
- Chrysocolla
- Color
- Blue
Source: Sun Bear & Wabun, The Medicine Wheel: Earth Astrology (Prentice-Hall 1980), Reference Chart
Personality
Like chrysocolla, Beaver people are rooted — sometimes too rooted — and very stable; what looks like luck is the fruit of hard work, and they are loyal friends. Like the beaver, they change their surroundings in a slow, deliberate, constant and resourceful way; they are clever and nimble, patient and persevering, drawn to water and creative in decorating their homes. Like the camas, they sustain and sweeten those around them, but in reversal they can choke the life out of themselves and whatever they touch. Their feelings are dammed up: they must let them out a little at a time, or risk being drowned one day in a flash flood of emotion.
From the text of: Sun Bear & Wabun, The Medicine Wheel: Earth Astrology (Prentice-Hall 1980), “Frogs Return Moon (Beaver)”
Love & Relationships
Like their totem, they take relationships very seriously: when they find a mate, they hope it is for life. They are devoted parents with a good sense of when to let their children go, though their devotion can drive the other parent away. Their children can be testy until they have a set routine.
From the text of: Sun Bear & Wabun, The Medicine Wheel: Earth Astrology (Prentice-Hall 1980), “Frogs Return Moon (Beaver)”
Work & Career
They can succeed in any field they apply themselves to, and their minds, capable of wonderful feats of engineering, can redesign most jobs or projects to run better.
From the text of: Sun Bear & Wabun, The Medicine Wheel: Earth Astrology (Prentice-Hall 1980), “Frogs Return Moon (Beaver)”
Health & Wellbeing
They have strong bodies and good health as long as they curb a tendency to overindulge, which can cause blockages in the neck or throat and harm the liver or gallbladder.
From the text of: Sun Bear & Wabun, The Medicine Wheel: Earth Astrology (Prentice-Hall 1980), “Frogs Return Moon (Beaver)”
Mythology & Symbolism
The blue camas, a wild lily, was a staple food for Native people in many parts of the United States: they marked the edible plants with strips of bark while they flowered, then steamed the bulbs, which taste like brown or maple sugar and sweetened other foods before sugar was known. Its look-alike, the death camas, should never be eaten — the image the book uses for the Beaver who, out of balance, chokes the life out of things.
From the text of: Sun Bear & Wabun, The Medicine Wheel: Earth Astrology (Prentice-Hall 1980), “Frogs Return Moon (Beaver)”
Compatibility
Complementary totem
Compatible totems