Giraffe Spirit Animal

The Giraffe, An Ally To Practice Your Assertiveness

The giraffe teaches you to face tension with calm, and to cultivate a tranquil force. Extreme solutions must only be used exceptionally. This spirit animal invites you to ban aggression, both physical and verbal. Inspire yourself of the giraffe to be more assertive, which means expressing your needs and emotions calmly and clearly to others.

The giraffe is conscious of the fact that in our human lives, disagreements often are not civilized. Everyday in the newspaper we see examples of violence: both passion and horror crimes, mistreated beings, score-settling, wars… without forgetting verbal violence and bullying.

For giraffes, fights between males during the reproduction period are controlled, the aim being to impress the other contender and to make them understand who is strongest. During their confrontation, the males control the hits they give with their heads, and rarely endanger their opponent. The giraffe pushes you to choose respect, humanity, and non-violent communication.

An Invitation To Keep Calm When Faced With Life’s Harshness

The giraffe reminds you however,  that under certain circumstances you may need to make an exception to the “peace and love” rule. It understands that in extreme cases you are brought to use more aggressive means.

For example, it can happen that in the savannah, the giraffe will be very tough when it births its calf: it expects the newborn to stand up quickly and for it to activate lactation. If it is unable to stand up, the mother giraffe obeys the harsh laws of natural selection and abandons her young, as its handicap makes it an easy prey for predators.

The giraffe invites you to stay cold-blooded under all circumstances. If you are naturally nervous, start by working on yourself, to find peace in the relationship you have with your own self.

The Giraffe And The Opening Of The Heart

For the giraffe spirit animal, emotions, affection, friendship, love, humanism and charity thrive over reason.  The giraffe has a big heart, in the literal sense, and as it is there that one keeps feelings, we understand that this animal guide overflows with positive feelings.

It strokes with tongue licks, and never forgets to show love to its peers. Just like it, build your life through strokes, kindness and loving attention. Verbally express your feelings in an honest way.

The giraffe also invites you to meditate on this principle: favor acts and choices made with the heart.

The Giraffe Invites You To Take A High Stand

The giraffe advises you not to rush into making a decision. It pushes you to turn a problem around in all possible manners, before deciding on a solution. It exemplifies concentration and reflection.

Like the giraffe in the savannah, be vigilant when you are facing difficult situations and observe your environment carefully. Just like the giraffe, analyze the horizon, but also watch your back and your surroundings in order not to forget any of the elements that can play a positive or negative role in the completion of your projects.

The giraffe advises you to keep your spirit awake. It sleeps in intervals, preferably during daytime, standing up, with its head high up to allow a large view on the surroundings. Just like the giraffe, you should not lose sight of your objectives and you must review all factors and determinants before making your choice.

The Giraffe And The Connection Between Earth And Sky

The giraffe is the proof of the living balance that the contact between earthly energies and flows from above brings us. Your head is not as close to the sky as that of this amazing animal, and your contact with the ground and its underground riches passes through two short limbs rather than four long legs. But as the giraffe knows, like all other living species, you are a path where all these energies cross.

In other words, the giraffe reminds you that your body and your spirit communicate and influence one another. Are you aiming for height of thought and spirituality? Or do you prefer maintaining your body’s vivacity as well as its correct functioning? Whatever your way of expression may be, intellectual, physical, or spiritual, the giraffe speaks to you: it suggests to you both momentum towards the top, and terrestrial pleasures.

The Giraffe And Learning To Trust Your Intuition

The giraffe can awaken the need in us to search for a “sixth sense” or intuition, and to activate this as it will be very useful to us in life.

Within yourself, you have a supplementary sense to the five senses used to connect you to the surroundings: hearing, touch, smell, taste. But you are not always conscious of this sixth sense, or you may not have used it yet, when involved with getting to know the people and the events that life places on your path.

Your giraffe animal guide, with its kind, big eyes guide you on the path of clairvoyance. Inspired by its power, you will be able to see the true personality of people you meet. You will intuitively understand the mechanisms in place that lead to a future event.

The giraffe spirit animal speaks to you of the utility of your sixth sense, or third eye. Because just like this animal, which thanks to its long neck places its sight above the landscape and sees everything that can come into its life early, you have within you the ability to perceive everything that is not normally visible.

What Does Dreaming Of A Giraffe Mean?

The giraffe can slide into our nights or provoke daydreams if we have a strong link with the animal’s energy.

A giraffe with a very long neck. This dream speaks of clairvoyance. You dream that like Alice in Wonderland your neck is long and flexible. You feel great happiness to turn around in all directions and you suddenly understand the significance of problems that until now were obscure. Your giraffe teaches you the benefits of the gift of double vision through this dream. The giraffe comes to speak to you through dreams of the pleasure of travel and discovery. The giraffe invites you to be curious and to open your spirit to the entire universe.

The giraffe which analyses everything. Or how the giraffe teaches you the right method to manage your private life.  Through  this dream, your giraffe invites you to realize the necessity to see all facets of a family or relationship problem,  or all angles of a professional project. You will be happy thanks to your forward-looking ability and admired for your way of resolving difficult situations.

The giraffe’s tongue, symbol of active communication. A giraffe’s tongue measures approximately 50 centimeters long, it wraps it around leaves on trees to pick them. This giraffe pushes you to communicate, to exchange verbally, to get out the words that you keep inside you. You will feel a deep relief and your psychological pains will disappear.

Interesting Facts About The Giraffe

The giraffe from Rouen. Several years ago, the French city of Rouen wanted to have an artwork as monumental as the Eiffel Tower. The city council called for offers to be made to build a monument on the left river bank of the Seine. This giraffe was planned to be a big metallic structure with a long neck, having a platform that would offer a new perspective on the city.

It would also serve to give the chance to the inhabitants of Rouen to re-access the lower river bank of the Seine, through a stair tower. The idea of this construction stems from the fact that in harbor related vocabulary, a giraffe is a giant crane. We keep the idea that the giraffe symbolizes connection and a wide view.

To irrigate the brain of the giraffe, the heart’s pump as well as its vessels need to be particularly efficient. NASA carried out a medical study of the giraffe’s heart and of its blood circulation, in order to better understand the effects of gravity and weightlessness.

Myths And Legends Associated To The Giraffe

Some think that a carpet woven from hairs of the giraffes mane allows us to fly. Perhaps, as the writer Robert Desnos states in his poem “The Giraffe”, this animal “lives close to the sky”. This belief ties in with the idea that the giraffe is a symbol of spiritual elevation.

The Greeks believed that the giraffe was a cross between a camel and a leopard. This explains its name “kaleopardalis”. The giraffe drinks water sparsely, like the camel, and is a quick runner, like the leopard. Symbolically, this cross signifies that those whose totem animals the giraffe are resistant to deprivation, but energetic in action.

In Japan and in Asia, a legend associates the giraffe with the kirin, a mythical animal close to the unicorn. The unicorn with its unique horn and the giraffe with its long neck, are two totem animals that hold a narrow connection with cosmic and divine forces.

A Message From Your Giraffe Spirit Animal

The giraffe, with its big eyes, asks you to take a high ground under all circumstances, but never to disconnect yourself from reality. Whatever the successes it brings to you, cultivate the art of staying humble, and lead a peaceful life.

The giraffe lets you choose your rules according to what your heart dictates: base yourself on your feelings and and on the power of your emotions in all confidence and tranquility.

Your giraffe spirit guide encourages you to enjoy earthly energies as much as the energies from above: you will become a balanced and accomplished person.

Last Words On This Spirit Animal

The giraffe is a spirit animal that teaches us lessons about living, being humble and having faith in ourselves. It represents the elevation of the spirit, sincerity, kindness, and softness-all characteristics that we might want to cultivate more in our lives. Not only do these features make us strong but they also make us a better person- someone who looks out for others just as much as themselves.

Inspired by the giraffe, we can take high ground under all circumstances while never disconnecting ourselves from reality, leading a peaceful life. The giraffe is a powerful symbol for those who wish to become spiritually stronger. It is capable of rising above everything life throws at it, provided it has the determination and strength to persevere through difficult times. As long as we continue to stand tall and maintain our spirit we will never have to fear falling down or losing sight of what matters most in life.

Elena Harris

Elena Harris is the chief editor of Spirit Animal. Her approach combines the traditional wisdom of ancient cultures with the latest scientific research to bring a fresh, engaging perspective to the world of spirit animals.