I wanted to share an adventure we went on at https://tdscats.com/ I was going to throw this into my art journal, but even after a trashed all the absolute garbage shots, I still have half a hundred meh shots. Plus I am always taking pictures of nature, so I’ll add new things here and let me other journal be crafted art.
Don’t be too fooled about the animals being caged… they have acres and acres of land, they were just all near the fences when I was taking pictures.
This place is actually pretty neat because almost all of the animals were either abused or held illegally by individuals without the proper permits and often care.
Nature and animals play right into a lot of the work I do, and I have always loved to sit in stillness and watch. (And of course take photos)
A side note, on the somewhat more magical side:
Visiting places like this can open up a lot of opportunity, particularly for a magician that operates intuitively but also those looking to fold magic or other types of work that have strange ingredients.
Animal fur, dung, body parts and bones have many magical uses, despite the species and can be kinda hard for the regular person to get.
Visiting the places like this instead of the more well known zoos and the like, gives lots of opportunity to snag or purchase some of these items that you might not find anywhere.
No one cares about that but of tiger fur stuck on the fence from where she scratched her ass…
Smaller pens get cleaned and waste is thrown away…
Often you can pick up other mementos directly from the animals in the gift shop, or asking the workers in the area about who to talk to get some of these is quite easy since they are usually all around to make sure we don’t actually climb inside with the tigers and get eaten.
That’s not even getting into the energetic workings you could get into. Do you want to commune with the bear spirit and perhaps invoke some of it’s qualities? Have no idea how to invoke a bear because your new to energy work and not real sure what the energy of a bear is like? Here you could sit down quite literally two feet from him, and practice just like you would with humans.
Also there’s often plants and other wildlife in these areas you might not otherwise find.
I actually bought this little handbag from them, to support their cause.
Now the animalsss!
Most places here on the East Coast have shut the birds up due to an Avian Flu outbreak. We went to the Philly zoo and none were out. Baltimore and DC are still quarantining their birds.
The picture is enough to link to the featured animal as well, in a more direct manner rather than just the archetype energy of the type of animal.
