"Bear is your relationship totem," said the shaman-witch who read cards in ceremony at the end of our healing work.

"I was looking at you so weird," said Tree Woman, "because when I looked at you, I saw a huge grizzly bear."

Dreamtime 2001: I dream I live with a grizzly. In bed, our legs entertwine. I feel her claws. How dangerous it can be to live with a grizzly--a fiercely loving, fiercely mothering, fiercely protective, playful animal.

I am a fierce lover of women and their loved ones, of cats, community, Goddess, and my truth.