Orca picture!

[moonvoice]

Orca

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[sidheblessed.livejournal.com]

So pretty!

[tsukikokoro.livejournal.com]

I really, really love it!
I'm also really tired, so I want to respond properly when I've had more sleep. :)

[erynn999.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm, that's gorgeous. I didn't know orcas went as far south as Australia? I thought they were north Pacific? Shows what I know.

[lupabitch.livejournal.com]

Oooooooo :)

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

*doesn't remember if I actually said they came to Australia*

This is a commission for someone in America. :)

Though Orcas can be found throughout Australian waters, though I don't know if they breed here, they're certainly found across most of the coastline of Australia.

Sightings are rare in Indonesian and Philippine waters. No estimate for the total worldwide population exists. Local estimates include 70-80,000 in the Antarctic, 8,000 in the tropical Pacific (although tropical waters are not the Orca's preferred environment, the sheer size of this area — 19 million square kilometres — means there are thousands of Orcas), up to 2,000 off Japan, 1,500 off the cooler north-east Pacific and 1,500 off Norway.

Since we are one of the closest continents to Antarctica, it stands to reason that they hang around here as well. :)

[grondfic.livejournal.com]

Totally superb. I adore this one.

[jet-ski.livejournal.com]

soooo gorgeous!!! though orca does look kind of unhappy... or is that determinedness? :P)

[dibeartach.livejournal.com]

Ah, I saw the "so far" version, and I like it better more brightly coloured.
Semi-shamanic question - I was wondering where you got Vilturj from? I mean, your mum or dad's side? Which ever it was, do they practice it at all, or teach it to you in the past?

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

It was on my Dad's side of the family, and my interest in everything eclectic comes from my Mum's side.

I was taught by some elders / uncles in the family on my Dad's side when I was much younger, but I haven't had anything like real contact for some years now. I also haven't really sought it out, and aside from some recent emails, I don't really seek it out either. I don't have a speaking relationship with my father, and his parents are uninterested, preferring the path of less resistence (i.e. Russian Orthodoxy).

My Grandma on my Mum's side on the other hand believes in ghosts, is a medium, has practiced Wicca / Buddhism / Goddess Spirituality / Taoism / Spiritual Christianity etc. She is a tarot reader, a Reiki master, and god knows what else. It is through her that I had contact with Western shamans, contemporary shamanists and other spiritualists from a very early age (11).

Because I have had more exposure to my Grandma and her 'working groups' throughout my lifetime, I am significantly eclectic despite being a custodian of some of the Vilturj stories and customs. I think... I've had a bit of a strange upbringing! Lol. My sister is an athiest, my stepdad is Anglican, my Mum is agnostic, my brother is Anglican but believes in reincarnation... my Aunt on my Mum's side is coven-bound Wiccan...

We're all just a strange bunch really.

[goddessofchaos.livejournal.com]

That's fantastic. I get a real sense of energy from it.

[dibeartach.livejournal.com]

Hm. I know about that to some extent. My family - Gods, my uncle and his family, and my mother, are atheists. The other uncle and his family to the best of my knowledge just deny religion exists, so - secular humanist? My beloved Granny a lay-Anglican and her ex-husband a Thai Buddhist.
Dad is Irish Pagan, but a lot of it has slithered out of him. He celebrates the Sabbats with me in an absent kind of way, and keeps his altar though I doubt even he knows that's what it is, and believes a lot of the Irish "folk" ways.
It's funny how religion weaves in and out of the family, and who picks up what. Your Grandma sounds like an awesome lady. It always pissed me off that there was so little left of religion in my family by the time I arrived that there was no one to teach me anything at all. Not that I'll ever have children, but I'd like to think that kind of oversite wouldn't be repeated by me. *Shrug*

xoxo

[erynn999.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. I didn't realize it was a commission for somebody in the US. But it would make sense that if they migrate to the Antarctic, they'd come by you at the very least! I'm used to them being a strong native presence up here but hadn't studied them enough to realize they were migratory like some of the other whales. We have resident pods here in Puget Sound.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Yeah I don't think they breed here, just probably come for the seals / penguins etc. and other food sources at different times of the year. :)

I haven't seen them myself. I'm more used to seeing blue and humpback whales off the coast. We get a few of them.

[mirrorred-star.livejournal.com]

Ooh, very nice. I realy like. Really, really.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :) I like this one a lot too.