Brown Bear
People born under the Harvest Moon, the last moon of Shawnodese, have the brown bear as their animal totem, the violet as their plant and amethyst as their mineral. Their color is purple, and they belong to the Turtle clan.
- Dates
- August 23 – September 22
- Moon
- Harvest Moon
- Elemental clan
- Turtle Clan (Earth)
- Spirit Keeper
- Shawnodese (South)
- Plant
- Violet
- Mineral
- Amethyst
- Color
- Purple
Source: Sun Bear & Wabun, The Medicine Wheel: Earth Astrology (Prentice-Hall 1980), Reference Chart
Personality
Like amethyst, Brown Bear people have good judgment, a sense of justice and courage, and more discrimination than people of most other moons; they are coolly rational, precise in thought and accurate in what they say. Like the violet, they hide tender feelings behind a cool exterior. They love the ideas of work and duty, like to run a clean and tight ship, and see through lies. They are curious, slow and deliberate, good-natured, cheerful, gentle and confident — but formidable when cornered. Out of balance they can turn cynical, overly critical and bitter out of all proportion. They are not terribly home-oriented, and they are enthusiastic eaters.
From the text of: Sun Bear & Wabun, The Medicine Wheel: Earth Astrology (Prentice-Hall 1980), “Harvest Moon (Brown Bear)”
Love & Relationships
Brown Bear women are affectionate yet strict mothers; the men are slow to come to parenthood.
From the text of: Sun Bear & Wabun, The Medicine Wheel: Earth Astrology (Prentice-Hall 1980), “Harvest Moon (Brown Bear)”
Work & Career
They make powerful speakers, good supervisors and teachers, and they often become leaders in whatever field they pursue because of their fairness, strength, courage and tenacity. They also like to fix things.
From the text of: Sun Bear & Wabun, The Medicine Wheel: Earth Astrology (Prentice-Hall 1980), “Harvest Moon (Brown Bear)”
Health & Wellbeing
They are prone to illnesses of the stomach, bowels and heart — diseases of blockage — and to skin problems that go with a nervous stomach.
From the text of: Sun Bear & Wabun, The Medicine Wheel: Earth Astrology (Prentice-Hall 1980), “Harvest Moon (Brown Bear)”
Mythology & Symbolism
In most animal legends the bear is the head of the council of the animals, and in most tribes the Bear clan was the medicine, the leadership or the defense clan. The book’s brown bear, also called the cinnamon bear, is identical to the black bear: a female can have one brown and one black cub in the same litter.
From the text of: Sun Bear & Wabun, The Medicine Wheel: Earth Astrology (Prentice-Hall 1980), “Harvest Moon (Brown Bear)”
Compatibility
Complementary totem
Compatible totems