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#awakening

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#awakening is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 75 people shared 356 posts with it — around 12 a day. Activity is down 15% versus the previous week, peaking on Nov 3 with 27 posts.

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Posts with #awakening

Susitar
@susitar.bsky.social
2 days ago
X-post from r/therian. Response to "How did you find out you were a therian?" Kind of long. But typed it out, so might as well share. Going to put the text in alt. #therianthropy #millennial #awakening
Well, it took me over a year of active searching before I found the therian community. I feel like people knowing about therianthropy before they have lived it is kind of... backwards and risks confusing a lot of people. 

One experience itself does not make you a therian. Kind of like having *one* daydream about being the opposite sex does not make one trans. A lot of non-therians can experience moments of imagination, instinct, or feel a connection to nature. But the animalistic feelings in non-therians tend to be temporary. For therians, it's a core part of ourselves and keeps on coming back.

So: there were some signs in childhood. But it was mostly during my teenage years that my instincts grew stronger. I had recurring impulses to growl, howl, run on the balls of my feet, run on all fours, bite, chase prey animals. Sometimes to the degree that I lost my balance on my hind legs. I yearned to be a wolf or werewolf, and felt a sense of melancholy about being "stuck" in a human body and human society. I made a faux fur tail and wore fake claws, and while I liked it, it also reminded me of what I didn't have. The tail had no movement or sensation, and so I just felt frustrated. No costuming was enough. I sometimes dreamt that I was a werewolf, and those dreams felt fulfilling and important.

I tried to find an explanation. Asked around. Nobody else seemed to feel this way. Even some friends who enjoyed howling and wrestling, who even dressed up as werewolves, really *felt* it. Some were concerned about my mental health when I talked about this. My older sister didn't feel the same. On the Internet (this was around 2004), I found furries, roleplayers, shamans, and werewolf movie fans. I read about medieval werewolf legends and cryptozoology
crypto zoology.  Nothing quite fit right. This wasn't a roleplaying thing, neither was I a scary or violent person like the werewolves in movies. In the summer of 2005, I saw a documentary that interviewed a coyote therian ('werecoyote'). Everything he said reminded me a lot about my experience. Through that documentary, I found the therian community. Read a FAQ. It fit pretty well. But I still decided to think about it for a couple of months before applying the label to myself (internally, that is). And waited for two more years before actively participating in the community, because I was a teen and the community was mostly young adults as that time. Didn't want to embarrass myself, and thought it would be good to wait until I was 18, in case it was just a phase.
Through the community I understood that those moments of intense instincts and urges could be called mental shifts. That those meaningful shapeshifter dreams could be called dream shifts. That the melancholy and frustration about having to be human I experienced, could be described as specied dysphoria. That i didn't have to be a scary Hollywood werewolf. I was just a wolf in a human body, and real wolves aren't violent monsters. Just animals trying to survive.
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Jeanne Jess 🌿 Angel Channel & Spiritual Counselor
@jeannejess.bsky.social
about 21 hours ago
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Articles & Reflections | Spiritual Writings by Jeanne Jess

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