#egeneration

- Meaning of Sprit Animal, The Crocodile –

When the crocodile spirit animal pays you a visit, it comes to alert you to the opportunities that you have been overlooking.

Much is happening in your environment. Unfortunately, you are not always aware of this. But trust that the crocodile spirit animal will open your mind.

This spirit animal has unbridled creative force. This force is usually manifested in the animal’s ferocity, fury, and primal energy. This spirit totem comes to protect and preserve the knowledge you have gained in life. The crocodile marks the end of an era and the beginning of a new one.

This new period in your life means regeneration. You are able to create the balance you need to integrate new ideas in your life. The crocodile presence in your life has one powerful meaning: primal instincts. This totem stands for your survival and ability to reproduce.

The spirit is responsible for your physical strength. When the crocodile waddles into your life, people recognise the raw power that you represent. You can use this to catapult your life to loftier levels. Hardships will not break you. Instead, they only serve to strengthen you, to make you wiser and stronger. You are able to spot opportunities and to move with speed to grab them.

This spirit guide wants you to concentrate on the birth of new concepts in your life. You can use the wisdom of this totem to make your life better.

[Image above: Salvador Dali, The Funny Dreams of Pantagruel: Crocodile, 1973]

−スピリットアニマル・ワニが意味する事−

ワニがスピリットアニマルとして現れた時は、あなたがこれまでに見落としてきたチャンスの数々を警告しています。今、あなたの周りでは、いろいろなことが起こっています。残念ながら、あなたは常にこの事に気がついている訳ではありません。でも、大丈夫、ワニのスピリットアニマルは、あなたの心を開いてくれる事でしょう。

このスピリットアニマルは、際限無くクリエイティブな力を持っています。この力は、野生の凶暴性、猛威、また原始的なエネルギーを現します。また、あなたがこれまでの人生で蓄えてきた知識を知識を守り、維持するためにやってきます。ワニはひとつの時代の終わりと、新しいことの始まりを示します。

あなたの人生にとっての新しい時代とは、再生を意味します。あなたの人生に新しいアイデアを取り入れるために必要なバランスを整えることが出来ます。あなたの人生にワニが現れた時のパワフルな意味の一つは：野生的本能。このトーテムはあなたのサバイバルと復活能力を意味します。

このスピリットは、あなたの肉体的な強さを司っています。ワニがあなたの人生によちよち歩み寄って来るとき、人々はあなたが象徴する真の力を認識します。あなたはこれを利用して、人生をより高いレベルへと飛躍させることができるのです。苦難はあなたを壊さない。むしろ、苦難はあなたを強くし、より賢く、より強くするために役立つだけです。あなたはチャンスを見極め、それをつかむために素早く動くことができる。

Generation Z is over, probably has been for a year or two; the oldest Gen Zers are in college now.  Post-Z kids are already being born as we speak.

Each generation lasts around 15 to 20 years.  The Baby Boom lasted from 1945 to the early 60s.  Gen Xers were born from the early 60s to 1980-ish.  Millennials were from 1980-ish to the mid-to-late 90s.  Gen Z began in the mid-to-late 90s and probably ended in the late 2010s.

I’d say Gen Z ended in 2016 or 2017.  They’re pretty significant years, they definitely feel like a boundary between then and now, before and after.

When I was growing up, nobody had a name for post-Gen X.  The term Millennial didn’t become ubiquitous until the last ten years or so.  “Gen Z” is equally new, which implies that Millennials were Gen Y, though nobody calls them that.