Shark Relationships

So Shark is my totem for the Moon of Inter-relationships and I have been very remiss because we are now into the Moon of Surrender, so I should be writing about Horse.  But I didn't want to miss out Shark because Shark and I have issues....

I don't feel strongly connected to Shark an I don't think this Moon is fully functional at all.  Last year when I dreamt of my totem for this Moon I was hunting for Shark but did not actually find it.  My Years of Inter-relations have not been easy and bullying has been a feature.  But I can see parallels here to Shark - a few bad sharks and the rest get picked on...  They compete with man for fish and man tries to cull them hard.  Man likes to eat their fins and there is a huge market for them, no matter the age of the Shark.  I remember seeing a programme about the Oceans and in the Far East sharks are struggling, there was a n image of rows and rows of juvenile sharks laid on a beach with all their fins removed and the rest of the shark was just scrapped.

I wonder if my fortunes within inter-relationships are linked to those of the Shark...  Maybe Shark needs my help, just as much as I need it's...

I have watched a couple of programmes featuring Sharks this Moon.  The first was on swimming with the Great White and showed that they are intelligent and very hierarchical and that they understand we are not prey.  The second was on the changing behaviour of Black Tip Sharks off South Africa and how it also shows that they are hieararchical, highly intelligent and co-operative...  This seems to be a shock to science.

We have this image of Sharks as almost rabid creatures, lone, mad creatures attacking things not their food in a frenzy.  Not true.  Not at all.

I remember my first encounter with a Shark where I feel in love with them.  I went to see a high tech graphics simulator presentaiton nearly twenty years ago.  Every day tech is probably getting up to what I saw then.  They had programmed a Shark.  They had looked in detail at how Sharks move and watching this shark swim around this room made the sheer complicatedness of it's movement very clear.  It was beautiful.  They are amazing creatures...

And I find I  have run out of time because the drumming circle calls....  I shall have to come back to this tomorrow...