When I first went to buy a family crest, I was expecting a chivalrous, heroic design with arms, and shields and swords, but I was disappointed to discover that it was a lizard in a tree !!
But I found a book on Celtic animal spirits and here is what is says about lizards
"All lizards have a residential third eye....associated with psychic abilities. Greeks watched lizards as a form of divination. Native American Indians that the lizard guards the gate of dreams. The lizard is a sought after shemanic ally"
"For the Celts, the lizard was the animal of the sun, and in Celtic lore, this symbolises the soul's search for enlightenment. Lizards are also emblems of resurrection. Lizards shed their skin and grow a new one"
Lizards can see into the Otherworld and are masters of the arts of divination, teaching us how to shift consciousness just enough to see as the seer does. When a lizard is threatened, he can lose his tail to save himself, and so a sacrifice must be made"
"The path to knowledge demands sacrifices, wisdom is not won without a price"
When I compare this to what the phoenix has meant to me, the similarities are amazing and so I re-embrace my crest and know that I just did not understand it in the first place.
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