I've had about four totems my whole life. I have a rather interesting story to go along with it.
When my mother was pregnant with me, she was very spiritual and asked a Native American shaman to do a purification ceremony on my behalf. I'm the only one of her children she mistook the gender of (she was convinced I was going to be a boy) and all of my totems are incredibly masculine.
Another fun fact: I've had an "imaginary friend" for as long as I can remember who was a slightly older male sibling. I had a lot of gender dysphoria for a while, as well. Learned much later (like 2 years ago) that my mom was pregnant before my older sister, with a boy, and had a miscarriage.
When I was very young, my totem was a dog. I'm not sure what breed, but it was a domestic/household dog. A big, sandy colored dog I would doodle on everything, haha. I have a feeling he was looking out for me.
Around elementary school, my totem was the cat. I was eccentric back then and really into supernatural stuff (and werewolves too). I remember meowing at my friends a lot.
In middle school, it was a ferret. I was scatterbrained, all over the place, and I think the ferret was directing me to saying "It's alright, you don't have to have everything together right now. Have fun." But...middle school was definitely the worst part of my life. I won't go into detail, but it was a very traumatic and miserable time for me.
High school and now, my totem is a skunk. Showing pure tenacity in the face of adversity and being sure of myself. It's not my theriotype...I still don't know what that is despite it being pretty obvious that it's
there for nearly 8 years.
The skunk is by far my favorite totem. It's teaching me to keep trying and rely on myself more than others.
