Bear Spirit Animal
Bear Meaning
The bear has several meanings that will inspire those who have this animal as totem:
- The primary meaning of the bear spirit animal is strength and confidence
- Standing against adversity; taking action and leadership
- The spirit of the the bear indicates it’s time for healing or using healing abilities to help self or others
- The bear medicine emphasizes the importance of solitude, quiet time, rest
- The spirit of the bear provides strong grounding forces
The bear, a spirit animal symbolic of strength and courage
The spirit of the bear is a strong source of support in times of difficulty. It provides courage and a stable foundation to face challenges. When the bear shows up as a spirit guide in your life, it’s perhaps time to stand for your beliefs or your truth. This power animal will provide for support and strength.
The bear is also a guide to take leadership in your life or in other people’s lives. This animal is feared and admired for its strength. Its presence inspires respect. Its strength and powerful stature will inspire you to step into a leadership role in your life and take action without fear.
When you invoke the power of the bear totem, reflect on the qualities of inner strength, fearlessness, and confidence in yourself and how you can project them in your world.
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The spirit of the bear as healer and teacher
Interestingly, in Siberia, the name used to designate women shaman is the same as the word “bear”. In Northern America, in the Inuit tradition, the bear spirit animal is also connected to the shamanic tradition and women.
For the Inuit people, the bear is a strong power or totem animal. In some beliefs, it is said that if an Inuit hunter accepts to be eaten by a bear, he may reincarnate as a shaman and carry the spirit of this animal. The polar bear is considered as the “Wise Teacher” as it shows how to survive in harsh conditions.
The bear, an ancient spirit animal worshiped in many traditions
The bear as a spirit animal or totem is one of the most ancient worshiped animals. Remains of bears have been found in many archeological sites in Europe especially, where bear bones and skulls were found together with human bones dating back to the Neanderthals.
It is said that the Vikings would wear bear skins in times of war to scare off their enemies. They would appear as powerful as these wild animals. Bears symbolize warrior spirit and courage to fight. The bear’s spirit would be invoked to help the warriors in the battle.
In ancient Greece and Rome, the bear was a totem animal associated with the Goddess Artemis and Diana, goddesses of fertility. In contrast, for the Celts, the bear would represent the sun.
The spirit of the bear and healing
Since the bear is often associated with shamans in many traditions, this spirit animal can symbolize healing abilities and stepping into the role of the healer. If the bear shows up in your life, it may also be time to take care of your own needs for healing, whether it’s at the physical, emotional or spiritual level.
Be sensitive to where you are at and reflect on where you would most need healing. You can call on the bear spirit guidance to direct your energy in a more conservative or focused way.
Bear spirit animal and grounding forces
The bear is an animal that lives a solitary life. Having a bear as a spirit animal can mean that you find balance and comfort in solitude. The presence of this power animal could point to the need to “regroup” and set up boundaries, so you feel comfortable in your own space. It may be a call to find time away from the crowd or busyness and favor quiet time and rest.
The bear spirit can also be a great helper to dedicate time and energy to more introspective practices, such as self-inquiry or meditation. Call on the spirit of the bear to help you find your center and ground yourself in a strong foundation that will support you in more busy and noisy times.
Dreaming About Bears
Dreams are our subconscious minds communicating to us using the language of symbols. Dreaming of bears (or a bear) symbolizes power, strength and protection of yourself or possibly your family. If the bear in your dream is hibernating, it may indicate a need for solitude and to get away. If the bear is dancing, it indicates good luck (or you are having flashbacks of one of those many past Grateful Dead shows you went to). If a bear is chasing you, it may mean that you are avoiding a big situation in your life and it is time to take a stand and deal with it. Bear showing up in your dream may also be a message that it is time to show your power to the world.
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Today is my birthday and I saw a bear on my walk to a lake, sonthis was really amazing to read. Thank you!
On the day my husband and I married beside the Kennebec River in the north woods of Maine, Creator gifted us with the sighting of a large bear sitting in the middle of a gravel road after our ceremony. Our marriage stands strong and after 22 years we continue to fall in love with each other. Thank you Bear thank you Creator of the Universe. We continue to see bears after our ceremony.
On the day my husband and I married beside the Kennebec River in the north woods of Maine, Creator gifted us with the sighting of a large bear sitting in the middle of a gravel road after our ceremony. Our marriage stands strong and after 22 years we continue to fall in love with each other. Thank you Bear thank you Creator of the Universe.
im a bear
I got bear, I don’t know how, and then for the second time I got bear, but the third time, I got Turtle, I just get how I got bear, bear, turtle.
The first time I got the Snake and that just didn’t feel right. I took the test again, being maybe a little more honest and I got the Bear. Then it felt right somehow. It’s just so accurate.
I’m a polar bear
My Spirit Animal Is The Bear.
Mine too
thank you sprit animal got a bear
I dreamt a young brown bear (somewhere between cub and adult) came to me with a torn rope around it’s neck, it behaved fine around me but was still wild, I was feeding it but it kept running away as soon as other people were around and I couldn’t get the rope off it’s neck.
The dream progressed, it was all chopped up and it was basically about survival in some sort of post-societal breakdown world without much resources and we were all sort of scavenging near these overgrown buildings bordering a large forest. The next bear was a slightly haggard black bear, an adult, you could see that once it was a great animal, again a rope around it’s neck, it let me sit alongside it, feed it and put my arm around it’s neck, it seemed comforted, I tried to get the rope off, but again this bear bolted and I could feel it’s anxiety and need for company and rest. I felt I trusted the bear more that the people. It was q very odd dream.
Little lost casey manifested bear spirit and possibly bear in the flesh for protection while lost on woods for 3 cold days. Police may think it’s a “fastasy”, but us bear folks know better. Praise for this child’s animal arriving.
well since i have the spirit animal of a bear i might be doing random stuff like going out on a field and do something and i won’t even notice that my parents are calling me. and i am starting a thing were i do stuff like sell ice cream, sell lemonade, sell baked goods, and washing windows. and doing thing like that i might just stick to being myself and later after i finishing doing 9 things and the 4 i told you about were some of them and the other 5 are for my parents, anyways i think i might hold on to my bear spirit thing and do normal stuff.
We just had a 3 year old little boy lost in the woods here in NC for 3 days. And he said that he stayed with a bear for 2 days. Could this bear be the reason he is alive. The temperatures here have been below freezing a couple of times and we had terrestrial rain on Wednesday and he was found alive Wednesday night.
Yes, the bear protected him