Power Animals: The Ant

The ant is very industrious. Some ants are solitary but most are part
of a large community. Within the community there is a repertory of
activities and behaviours. Their activities include gathering and
hunting. Within a community each ant knows its place and performs
its duties with total loyalty to the whole.
Worker ants are excellent architects and can show us how to
construct our dreams into reality. Ants are very persistent and can
teach this skill as well.
The power of ant medicine is teamwork. Each ant will do its part to
ensure the survival and health of the whole colony, regardless of the
role it has been assigned. If ant has to fight, it will; if ant has to dig
tunnels, it will; if ant has to carry leaves for miles, it will, all for the
good of the community.
Ants are selfless servants always looking out for their fellow ant. They
focus on the best outcome for the community and teach the art of
self-sacrifice and true service. The queen ant has wings and the
ability of flight until fertilized. Once fertilized she pulls off her own
wings sacrificing her own flight for the birth of a newborn. Although
there is a caste system within the ant community all ants honour and
respect each other and work for the common good.
Ants are tireless workers and hunters and teach the art of
perseverance and patience in all that they do. Those with this totem
will find that many of their life lessons will involve the mastery of
patience in some way.
Ant medicine is subtle yet powerful. It teaches us how to release our
egos and aligns us with the virtue of equality. Imagine what the world
would be like if humanity held and applied the values that the ant
expresses. The next time you step on, squash, injure or kill an ant
intentionally, ask yourself why you are choosing to destroy the
unconditional love that the ant shares so freely. Valuable insights
about yourself and your history can be learned from this tiny little
totem.

Symbolically the Ant is a tiny totem. One which can find the cracks
and weaknesses of any apparent solid object. Even the most
apparently solid of walls will have a means of ingress to those most
persistent of ants should the ant detect something of worth on the
other side of the barrier. The Ant is linked to the Universal
Consciousness. To the eternal one just the same as you or I are part of
the 'I AM I'. It too is a mere mote in the cosmic wheel. Therefore, the
awareness which is the ant is within us all. Through shamanic
contemplation a journey as the symbolic ant can reveal many things.
Those tiny insignificant things which are often disregarded. From this
most minute of perspectives, it is possible to comprehend the
patterns and structures of sacred geometry. Being the Ant is a
beneficial meditation.