At six months, they have learned to kill, but they are not capable of feeding themselves until they are around sixteen months old. Most tigers hunt slowly and silently, a tactic beneficial to learn for those with this totem-regardless what is being sought. Tigers are nocturnal hunters. Individuals with this totem will find their most effective work accomplished at night. The sleek and powerful muscles and the soft thick coat of the tiger stimulates thoughts of sensuality.
All cats stretch languorously and rub up against other cats and objects.
For those with this totem, there will be awakened a new sensuality - a sensitivity to touch. There has always been a great deal of mysticism and mythology centered on the tiger. A study of these associations will help you to identify its role within our own life and possibly even past-life links to other parts of the world. In Korea, the tiger is the king of beasts. In the Hindu tradition, the tiger was sacred to the goddess Kali, the goddess of creation and dissolution, of sexuality and death.