:0 It is therianthropy day! Happy therianthropy day everyone!!!

I can’t do much, but this morning when I woke up and remembered “hey, it’s therianthropy day!” I did some vocals for myself. I never really get to express my therianthropy, so that was a nice little thing for myslef. Happy therianthropy day!

Hey guys,

Happy therianthropy day!

As is our historic custom, therianthropy day is celebrated on the first full moon in November, which is today on the 27th .

To quote @BearX who posted this back in 2017:

(2017-11-04 14:44)BearX Wrote:  Today is the first full moon of November, 2017. The first full moon of November has been a sort of de facto "Therianthropy Day" since the mid 1990s. It was when, 23 years ago, on the weekend of November 19 & 20, 1994, the first official AHWW howl was held.

I was unable to attend it, although I did make the two that followed. I was a broke college student and had no transportation at the time. It was fun reading the post-howl reports on the newsgroup, though.

I always felt it was a good time to have an official celebration of therianthropy, since the AHWW newsgroup itself was created in November, 1992. Very momentous for therians, November is.

It was first proposed as a sort of holiday in March of 1996, in this thread on AHWW, should you want to investigate the history. Ultimately, AHWW decided to use it, and it stuck. It went through a few iterations of names, "International Werewolf Day", and then the less species-specific "Awereness Day" (since were is the older term for therian), and after the term therianthropy caught on, "Therianthropy Day".

So, happy "Therianthropy Day". Hope it's a good one.

We never quite figured out what we were going to do for Therianthropy Day. Maybe bake a cake. Maybe be proud and celebrate your therianthropy online by bragging about your animal traits. Maybe just chill out and have that one day in a year when you let your animal side out a bit more than usual. There are no rules on what must be done for therianthropy day.

If nothing else, it's a day to be true to ourselves and remember what all this is all about.

Take care.

LP,
Dusty

Some of these are journaling prompts and others types of logs to make or lists and other things

Things to log in a therian journal.
Okay so this is what I mean by a log;
Make two or more columns, depending on what you’re logging, at the top of each column add a subject such as date or something.
On my meditation log, I have three columns. One for date, one for which page I talk more about the experience (“entry #”) and one for type of meditation used (walking, laying, sitting.)

•shifts
Log what kinds of shifts you get frequently, this can be all shifts put into one log, or a separate log for each of the types of shifts you get most.
Column suggestion: date| type of shift| location| entry#
•meditation log
•*Quadrobics log* (optional and only if you do them)

Things to list in a therian journal

•animals and habitats to research
•types of shifts you get frequently
•books and documentaries to watch and read
•habitats you feel connected with/ make you feel shifty
•places and people you feel safe to shift around and in
•ways that work for you to shift
•possible the theriotypes/kin types based on research and shifts
•your shifting triggers
•people and places you never/don’t want to shift around
•favourite shift places to shift
•least favourite places to shift
•behaviours to look into
•animal and habitat research questions
Other lists that are more optional/ less needed
•gear you want
•therian based stuff to do
•therian crafts to make
•gear you want to make yourself

Journaling prompts
•what your shifts feel like
•things you’ve done while shifting others find “weird” Orr have commented on
•how you feel/felt when you became a therian
•random facts and things people should know about therianthropy, but don’t know.
•if you meditate, what did you last meditation feel like
•you least favourite or favourite shift experiences
•what would you do if you met another therian irl
•how do shifts affect every day life
•daily life journal entry’s

Other things to write/draw
•draw your theriotype/kin type
•Draw a territory map (it could be in the woods, or even just your house/room/yard)
•write about your awakening if you had one
•jot down recent thoughts about therianthropy
•write what would happen if you could talk to animalss and could have the opportunity to meet your theriotype/kintype
•write about therian theory’s you have
•write about how you found your theriotype type (in sentences or maybe make a form of chart to show it?)
•reviews of the week
•review the month
•look back on your childhood memories and see if anything hinted to your therianthropy.

Please keep in mind that all of these are technically optional and are just prompts I’ve made.
I made them for myself but I thought it’d be useful for other people like me who sometimes can’t think of what to write or how to write it

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Hope this helped those who probably didn’t need this but found it anyway lmao XD

It's a good way to express your theriotype, and it's very good excercise for your body, but one negative that I would say about doing quadrobics is that it can also hurt your body, because human bodies aren't meant to walk/run on all fours. I'm not a therian myself, so I don't really know what it's like; I'm just animal-hearted.

A big misconception is that quadrobics is only linked to therians. Quadrobics isn't just for therians. For example, Collin McClure is the fastest person on all fours. But he isn't a therian, he just does quads for sport. Anybody can do quads without being a therian.

(2021-03-03 8:33)OakLeaf Wrote:  I tryed it and it's actually quite fun. But I dislike seeing young therians post videos with music of them running on all 4rs with animal masks. It just looks a little cringe.

Eh. It isn't all that cringe. Some people make a true art of it. Just look at wildnettle_115. Their masks, and form are absolutely stunning. There are some truly talented people that do this.

Thats really interesting!

Personally it's really hard for me to tell why i feel what i feel, but i don't think i had a past life. I have two main theories.

1. It's just how i was born. for no reason. I was just born with part of an animal in me. I experience animalistic urges and feelings that happen to match up with an animal.

2. As a child i played so many games as animals, and i grew up around pets, that eventually it just became a part of me. other things came into play like how it made me feel safe and happy, but thats the gist.

I have other small parts of theories but nothing big. I don't really personally believe my therianthropy was really caused by anything, its just how i am.

I'm not. I may have been a wolf in a previous incarnation (figurately speaking), and then my love and life was taken from me. I was rendered a disembodied spirit existing in torment. Over decades I came to realize I have to inhabit the body to "reincarnate." The body is a neural network attached to a bunch of smart machinery. Flesh and blood. I don't like it but I can live with it.

What makes me believe that I'm therian?
The predisposition of consciousness to shifts, sometimes dog behavior, admiration for dogs and their bodies...
In fact, although I know that my therianthropy is psychological, I cannot give an answer why I have it. Until the age of 18, I thought that I was a man; after the awakening, I cannot consider myself that way. If earlier I doubted whether I was therian, now I understand that I am one. It's a part of me and it won't leave me.
It can be suppressed, it can be denied, but it is unlikely to leave us. Because it is part of each of us. And I don't know how or why she came into my life. But I am proud that I got a new path for development, a new meaning and a new impetus. A new plane where I want to evolve.

i know im a therian because ive been a dog since i was young. a young kid hiding in the corner like a scared animal, running outside at night, and just being "abnormal" in general. its definitely partly to do with my trauma and schizophrenia, and i just feel the animal inside me, being me. i am a dog, i just am.... idk if this is just the ramblings of a mad man XD