Looking for A Spirit Animal?
Spirit Animal Meanings
Top 5 Spirit Animals
Wolf spirit animal
Owl spirit animal
Bear spirit animal
Hawk spirit animal
Fox spirit animal
How To Find Your Spirit Animal
When developing a meaningful relationship with your spirit animal, prepare yourself to explore a world where you can rely more on your imagination and intuition, rather than only using your intellectual abilities and rational mind.
There are many different ways to find your spirit animal:
- Meditation
- Going in nature and observing
- Calling the animal
- Process of self-inquiry
- Writing about it in your journal
- Imagination
- Journeying with sound
These are a few methods among many used to find the animal or animals you have a special connection with. >> Learn more on how to find your spirit animal.
Spirit Animal Symbolism
Animals are omnipresent in our lives whether they are pets or live in the wild, yet we often lack a clear understanding of their symbolic nature and what they could mean. When we relate to the spirit of animals, they may offer us powerful insight.
In the world of spirit animals, animals can symbolize:
- Aspects of your personality
- Skills or traits that we have cultivated successfully or have yet to develop
- A situation or emotions that have recently arisen
- Spirit animals can also offer guidance, an intuitive understanding
Search the list above for more information.
How to develop a meaningful connection with your spirit animal
When we bond with an animal spirit guide, we are encouraged to:
- Discover ourselves, get a felt sense of our strengths and weaknesses, the skills we have developed and our potential
- Loosen up our personality and habits and open up to transformation
- Open up to new perspectives on our relationship with nature and the earth as a whole
- Feel the power of the animal and be inspired by its qualities
- Call on the animal spirit to get support and guidance
Connecting with spirit animals brings new understanding about ourselves and our relationship with our world. When we cultivate our connection with animals and their spirit, we form powerful bonds with allies and guides that can help us in learning more about ourselves, engaging in life more fully and facing challenges.
Discover Your Spirit Animal
Is it the Owl or the Butterfly? Find out now with the new Spirit Animal Quiz. This free online quiz will help you find your spirit animal the easy way.
The Purpose of Spirit Animals
Spirit animals carry meaningful messages and lessons for those who are listening and know how to decode them. A function of your spirit animal to guide you and bring to your attention something that needs to be acknowledged, dealt with or a skill you could use or develop further.
Spirit animals can provide guidance on:
- An aspect of yourself that is already strongly developed or needs to be explored more
- A situation or environment in your everyday life that has a strong emotional impact
- A life direction you could consider or reflect on
what are opossums info. I always pay attention to any animals that cross my path or that come around me Today I found a dead teenage opossum on my deck that my dog must have gotten to last night. It is the second one on my property and it upsets me greatly when this happens.
The raccoon?
I only had one out of normal experience with an animal. I’d just had an abortion an was staring at the sea when out of nowhere, an otter appeared between the waves and stared at me for what seemed like a couple of minutes. It looked at me straight in the eye, it made me feel calm and like everything was ok. Does that mean the otter is my spirit animal?
Firstly I want you to know that I have never had to terminate a pregnancy, nature does it for me ( 3 healthy bio sons & 1 adopted son) but I have miscarried 2 sets of boy&girl twins & 5 girls. Not fun. I also interned at NARAL in Washington DC in high school and while I am so grateful I’ve never had to make such a difficult decision there are going to be 100,000’s of women around the world who do have to go through the ordeal which is traumatic and painful both physically and emotionally. If it is not legal and subject to compliance like other medical procedures they will still happen and women & girls will die, suffer horrible injuries and be subject to all manner of exploitation. From one woman to another I am sorry that you had to experience that alone but I am so glad you are protected & loved by Otter! Otter is the epitome of the very best qualities of woman or more precisely feminine energy and it’s physical embodiment. For example; strength,courage, protection and affection of every member of her territorial family/community of otters especially the young and adolescents. All of these feminine gifts are within the sleek, agile, swift form that is capable of out smarting predators on land and out swimming/maneuvering them in the water. Plus they have the softest fur in the world apparently though I’m 100% against hunting except for survival so I wouldn’t know. Last but not least they are incredibly playful, cheeky, kind and generous. Just as wonderful a being as was ever created! I have had powerful dreams of animals as far back as 3yrs old & many inexplicable as far as adults were concerned, interactions with non-domesticated animals,birds, insects. I didn’t find out my siblings and I were 20% or 1/5 Mohawk until college and that’s also when I learned that all the dream and waking interactions with animals had tremendous significance. Now this is just my opinion based on a lifetime of mystical experiences with and 30+yrs of study and embracing my native heritage and the ancestors and spirit guides that have always watched over, guided and protected me and many family members but I have no doubt that the Otter Spirit which came to you specifically that day was to comfort you, share her feminine love, power, encouragement, let you know that you are never alone but always protected and cared for and also I believe she was letting you know that your little one is in her care and the embrace of your beloved ancestors who are in the world in between lives and they’ll be there to greet you when you cross over. I hope I have not offended you in any way and I apologize if I did. I wish you peace and joy, Regan
[…] As Elena Harris writes “The frog as animal spirit or totem reminds us of the transient nature of our lives. As symbol of transition and transformation, this spirit animal supports us in times of change. Strongly associated with the water element, it connects us with the world of emotions and feminine energies, as well as the process of cleansing, whether it’s physical, emotional, or more spiritual or energetic.” (Her wonderful web site) […]
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During meditation I was standing on a beach looking at the ocean and far off ws a mountain.i started swimming and next thing I know I’m floating on my back and to my left is a humpback whale, I stared into its eye and petted it.then a shark and a killer whale showed up,we were just floating,then a small seal showed up and I hugged it. I then started swimming to shore and sat in a lounge beach chair then a snake crawled up and framed me around the chair. I’m deathly afraid of snakes and as I was looking at it framing my chair I asked myself ” why arnt I afraid?” Then tigers, gorillas,lions,a giraffe and birds showed up just standing around me.then there was this upside devdown tornado that sucked all of this down into a silver suitcase and the lid shut. I picked it up and noticed my surroundings was all dessert brown. I walked forward as if I knew where I was going then I sat the suitcase down and opened it,I stepped back and everything that went in even all the vegetation appeared all around and I’m now seeing people enjoying the animals,water. I smiled and turned around and walked away.for some reason I asked if there is anything else you have to show me,now I’m laying in a bed,everything is white and I can see I.V’s going into me.i knew I was done and opened my eyes.needless to say I can’t stop thinking of this and saying WOW.
Nancy
Sounds like the arc and the possible demise of earth
The IV sounds like a peaceful passing into the spirit world. Amazing dream by the way
Such an inspiring story
wonderful and abundant dream. in the suitcase – going with you conveniently packed and unpacked… you decide. were the iv’s replenishing and refueling you? ahh… you are the dreamer and the dream, all the wonderful parts of you. without fear.
Why is there no info on the crocodile? And many other animals.
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