How To Find Your Spirit Animal
Rule #1: Let your spirit animal choose you
There are many ways to find which spirit animal is linked you. When starting on the path of discovery, it’s important to remember that a spirit animal cannot be chosen. It “chooses” you.
In most cases, spirit animals will be most present when you journey out of your conventional state of mind, such as during meditations, day dreams, night dreams, or other altered states of consciousness.
They can also come to you in their physical form. You will notice them because of an unusual behavior or multiple encounters in a short time span.
Ways to look for your spirit animal
Finding your spirit animal can lead you to try different approaches. Here are some of the most common ways to get started:
- Look in nature and observe around you. Pay attention to animals and their behavior.
- Be attentive when an animal appears in your life in a way that is noticeable, when it has an unusual behavior; it may be a spirit animal trying to grab your attention
- Watch for repetitive encounters with the animal either in its physical or symbolic form (as object or image)
- Read books on animals and reflect on an animal that is standing out
- Meditate either with the general intention of finding a spirit animal or on a specific animal you’ve found ealier
- Be attentive to dreams featuring animals
- Process of journeying (for instance visualization accompanied with sound, shamanic drumming)
Discover Your Spirit Animal
Discover your spirit animal with the new Spirit Animal Quiz. This online quiz is designed to help anyone curious about spirit animals quickly discover theirs for free!
Finding you spirit animal in dreams
Animals in dreams are common manifestations of unconscious imagery and guidance. If the animal in your dream is a power or spirit animals that has guided you in the past, pay particular attention to the message your dream delivers.
Animals in dreams whether they are spirit animals or not typically represent:
- feelings that have not been fully acknowledged yet by the dreamer
- aspect of the personality or feelings considered as “wild” or hard to control;
- basic instinctual drive or emotions;
- an event or person’s influence in the dreamer’s life
- intuitive guidance using the shape of an animal spirit guide
How to find your spirit animal through meditation
Meditation provides an effective way to connecting to your spirit animal. We use the term “meditation” is a loose way to designate means of relaxing and using active imagination to visualize and “journey inwardly”. Set your intention for this inner journey to connect with one or several animals.
Using meditation allows you to drop into a different state of mind or altered state where you are more receptive to the energy and intuitive wisdom of the animal spirits.
What to do once you have found your spirit animal
Here are a few things you can do once you think you have found your spirit animal or know what your spirit animal is.
- Learn about your spirit animal as much as you can: Observe it when you see it in physical form, learn about it in books or in other media, feel it, imagine it.
- Quickly list the qualities or attributes of the animal you feel could be your spirit animal. Don’t think about it too much, just respond to these questions as quickly as you can, then ask them again and see if you can find more associations:
- How do the animal traits relate to you?
- How does the animal and what it represents connect to experiences you have or had life?
- If your spirit animal had a voice, what would it say to you right now?
Spirit animal questionnaire
Here are a few possible directions to find your spirit animal and figure out what kind of connection you have with it or what message it’s conveying to you. The following questions are applicable to any animal.
How do you feel about the animal and its presence?
If you met your spirit animal in person, how did you feel then? Go back to the roots of the emotional charge of the moment: Were you scared? Did you feel threatened? Were you happy to see your spirit animal?
Are there connections between your spirit animal and situations or events in your life?
Are there connection between how you feel about your spirit animal and feelings you have in other areas of your life? Observe if new emotions or associations emerge, as they may have been out of your awareness until now.
The spirit animal could represent your feelings, but also a person, an event or a situation from your past or present life.
What qualities do you personally associate with your spirit animal?
Look at the characteristics or traits or imaginary qualities or symbols you typically give to your spirit animal. This is a good starting point for the creating meanings and developing a stronger connection with your animal spirit guide or guides.
How is the animal typically portrayed by society or spiritual traditions?
You can also look at conventional images or general cultural meanings that are typically attributed to your spirit animal. Spirit animals can be imbued by this generic meaning. Include this perspective in the exploration to find your spirit animal or use it to complement your understanding. Spirit animals often offer puns or a play on words to reveal a deeper message. Be sensitive to this type of association when you try to find the meaning of power animal.
Mine is the Wolf.
Got it twice on the quiz.
As i mentioned in my other post, the last few weeks i’ve had the same dream every now and then where i’m met by a huge white wolf. We walk side by side for what feels like a very very long time, before we sit down and i pet it and play with it for a while before i wake up.
Not sure what it could mean, then again, which i’m not sure why, but i’ve always had a strong connection with animals from my earliest memories and the Wolf has always been my favorite animal ever since i saw one in the wild many many years ago.
It was fun and interesting to come across this website.
I am a wolf too
I am the racoon
Is it possible to have more than one spirit animal? i took the test countless numbers of times but i always got the deer result, only thing is I adore owls and feel at peace when i am around them, not to mention i’ve never come across a deer in the wild so i believe that the owl is the true spirit animal… so i am confused…
Why don’t I have a spirit animal!
I wish I can see my spirit animal, I have no idea how to meditate, I always go to sleep near 9:00 but I never see it, and I don’t think I ever seen it in real life! I think maybe i’m too young, i’m just 9 years old and everyone else is close to 13 or 18! Why did school give me a chromebook just at 2nd grade!
I’m also 9 years old and sleep at 9:00 but just take the quiz and you will find out! I got wolf even though I changed my answers and did the test multiple times
My favorite animal is a wolf I have a pet dog and I also have a hamster my dog likes to play outside and my hamster likes his wheel
Hey! I really wanted to know what my spirit animal is, and according to some ressearch I’ve done recently I came across two animals that could both be my spirit animal. First, there’s the cat. I see cats all the time, know many people that have cats (I actually have one) and I love them (but i love all animals, even giant snakes that could kill me). Besides, I am sure that I’ve seen my cat wink at me more than once (yeah I know, you guys pobably think I’m crazy). The, there´s the wolf. Despite I’ve never came across a wolf in the street (which I think it’s okay given the fact that where I live is very hot all the time), the wolf just seems to be popping out of nowhere all the time. And I really mean ALL THE TIME, I’m even talking to my friends and when I pay attention they’re talking about wolves.
I’ve had all sorts of strange dreams and it is not uncommon for me to dream of animals, including these two I mentioned. So basically, if you have time I´d like you to tell me how am I supposed to know which one is my spirit animal, and maybe it isn’t even any of these and maybe something else,and I really hoped this could help me because damn I am so lost and so angry all the damn time and I just want to be free and understand what the f*ck am I supposed to do with my life.
Thanks
Actually, to be honest, there are plenty of other animals that, like the wolf or the cat, keep popping up. I could tell more about horses, lions or dogs, but I feel like my mind could be pushing me, and this could be just all in my head, so idk…
I do not know i will do some research to try to help.
i did some medatation a wile back and i saw a bobcat and a wolf.
When I found out I was a butterfly after I had my conscientious happening and Awakening happened within seconds like a light switch minutes after I became a reader he just clicked and all this time I’ve been in hell and I know I’m going to be happy that it happened I’m still ecstatic I’ve got energy running through I made it people I’m so proud of him. My spirits awesome I wish you the best please send me Positive Vibes for clarification of people
I recently had some serious emotional, physical and pych setbacks in the last 7 months. The last three times I was out hiking I have seen a bear. I”ve lived here for 38 years and only ever seen one once before this. I’m claiming it for strength, healing and grounding. I don’t believe in coinsidences!
I wasn’t surprised at all to find that my spirit animal was a butterfly, since I’ve identified with butterflies from the time I was just a little girl. And the day before I took the quiz, I actually made physical contact with a single butterfly that thumped me on the head 3 times, one right after the other. I never knew a butterfly was strong enough to do that, lol! Then the following day, another butterfly tapped me on the shoulder! I think the message was,”Slow down and see the beauty around you, my dear.” Now, you can bet I’m looking for butterflies to commune with!
I took it twice. I was a butterfly the firsttime. Which had my go hu because butterflies have been a family tradition for generations with jewelry or newer tattoos lol.
The second I got was the wolf.
I took it twice.. I was an eagle the first time and an owl the second time