Green Turtle Being is my Internal Guardian of the element of Air, and by extension, of Mind. She is female, because I myself think of myself as female. She also manifests as Turtle because I myself am Turtle. Thus, I am in Harmony with my Mind Template, which helps to keep my thinking settled, deep and even.
It is a good idea for those who have a predisposition towards the shamanic and/or Magick in general to get their relationship with their Air Guardian straightened out. This is so that Mind is not working against her/him/self when one is engaged in other Magickal activity, and thus it won’t be acting to diminish the energy of any Working being undertaken. Also, since a well-defined Air Guardian stabilizes all other energies through thought-resonance, a Magia/Shaman/Witch/Priestess will require far less energy to produce a given result than someone not in Air-Synchrony. To put it in Wiccan terms, the lack of Air-stability is why some spellcasting falls flat on its face. The problem is not that the spell is insufficiently organized or badly enacted, but rather that the caster is literally ‘of Two Minds’, not having done the prerequisite Work of Alignment with the Air Guardian.
Good alignment with Air is also of importance in Works of Healing. Let us say, for example, I am performing a Healing for a female client. While the illness may require Soul Retrieval to cure, the Soul Retrieval will be less than effective if the client’s Mind Template is ‘out of kilter’. In a case like this, I would need to try to get the client to self-balance Air, otherwise their unacknowledged mentality may keep rejecting the Soul-parts no matter how many times one fetches them back.
It might be that the client is unable to join with/express her Female Air Guardian fully, or that the client is physically female but has male mental formatting in the guise of an unaccepted/unexpressed Male Air Guardian. [Note: The sexuality of the physical body is of limited importance in Inner Infolded Space, and is only partially useful as a mapping/organizing strategy there.] Another type of problem arises when the client is trying to use an energy as a Sponsor/Totem that isn’t actually the energy they are physically the most in agreement with. Situations such as these can cause major loss of energy-cohesion, but it is not my place to tell the client what to do. It would merely be my task to report my findings, and then to ask the client, ‘What do you want to do about settling this issue, and how would you like things to proceed?’ Because of suppressed concept-issues, the Air Guardian can be out-and-out terrifying to some people, especially if they have invested a lot of energy in thwarting the full expression of their Core Mind, for whatever reason. Patience is of vital importance in dealing with this kind of situation as a shaman, as is the firm understanding and acknowledgement of the Sovereignty of the client and her/his wishes, which is the guiding Principle of Healing.
I meditate on Green Turtle Being as Totem and Spirit Guide when I need to deal with feelings of Envy and/or Self-Pity, transforming them into Bliss. I meditate on Green Turtle Being as Self when I need to teach, to plan, or to verbalize/illustrate ideas, or to call to Mind thoughts which I may be actively supressing or avoiding.
