Lore and her Tiger Totem painting

Foxfire Studios ~ Visionary Portraits

This is a 30”x40” acrylic on wrap canvas Visionary Portrait of my best friend Lore. She is the friend that got me to the Shaman for a soul retrieval back in 1999 and when she had her soul retrieval the Gold Siberian Tiger came in as her power animal. She is a Leo who is a workaholic and when she’s not working she is giving and doing constantly, loving things for others. When the Tiger came through in her soul retrieval she knew that it was time to quit letting others control her life and to exert her ‘Tiger’ Power, which is to exert and manifest the stimulation of renewed devotion and passion for life.

Most Tigers hunt slowly and silently regardless what is being sought and they are nocturnal animals and that she will find she can do her most effective ‘work’ accomplished at night. She will have a new awakened sexuality and sensitivity to touch as well. I teach all who receive certain power animals to become one with their energy and to study them and to read about how power animals work with each person. I use Ted Andrews' books, “Animal Speaks and Animal Wise’ and also Jamie Sams and David Carson’s Medicine Cards and Book. There are many ways to understand how animal totems work with you and the best way taught to me by my friend, Laurie Rainey Schmidt, who is a licensed Shamanic Practitioner, is to meditate or journey and to connect with their power and to become one with them. I also want to make note that we have many Animal Totems as well as Spirit Guides, Angels, Master Teachers, Fairies. God has blessed us with many helpers and all we have to do is ask for help.

When I started the painting I knew I had to use the larger canvas to get the full impact of the vision I was receiving. I saw her running with a spear in hand, with determination in her expression. To show her free spirited nature by the lack of clothing and to paint her moon and background in greens, because green represents healing of the heart chakra and trauma we have experienced through life. To have the Tiger running along side of her, protecting her from any harm.

I saw her take up the spear and with the Tiger at her side her free spirit will charge ahead into a new freedom of powerful psychic energy and healing. The gold coins around her neck represent the abundance that will come into her life through the use of this healing energy of the Tiger and the totality of the Visionary Portrait. I painted this in spring of 2002 and she has definitely been working with the essence of the Tiger and her personality from the healing has gotten stronger and healthier. As you look at the Tiger notice that the eyes, no matter which angle you look at the portrait, they never leave you, the observer. He is her protector.