Hummingbird Spirit Animal
Hummingbird Meaning
The hummingbird generally symbolizes joy and playfulness, as well as adaptability. Additional symbolic meanings are:
- Lightness of being, enjoyment of life
- Being more present
- Independence
- Bringing playfulness and joy in your life
- Lifting up negativity
- Swiftness, ability to respond quickly
- Resiliency, being able to travel great distances tirelessly
The hummingbird spirit animal and the enjoyment of life
If the hummingbird shows up in your life as a spirit animal, it may remind you to enjoy life’s simple pleasures and take time to enjoy yourself. The hummingbird’s wisdom carries an invitation to take part in and draw to you life’s sweetness, like you would drink the nectar of your own flower.
The call of the hummingbird totem will guide you to open up to love and lightness in your emotional life. When you see your totem, you are encouraged to open up your heart and expose yourself more to joy and love. It might be time to show how you feel to loved ones or people who are close to you.
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The hummingbird and the power of swiftness and flexibility
The hummingbird is one of the most fascinating birds because of its ability to move its body swiftly, change direction quickly and smoothly, seemingly gliding from one place to another. By affinity with this power animal, you can be encouraged to use or develop a similar skill.
When the hummingbird shows up in your life, it may be an invitation to flex you path, perhaps even bending backward or forward, in order to accommodate life’s circumstances. You may be required to adapt to a situation that is a bit more demanding than usual. The wisdom carried by this spirit animal emphasizes flexibility and lightness in your approach to the unexpected.
The hummingbird, a power animal indicative of strong sensibility
By association with the hummingbird power animal, you may have already developed a strong adaptability and are typically quick to respond to any demand. You may also have a high sensibility and feel every nuances of emotions or movement in your environment.
Brought to the extreme, this ability may lead you to emotional instability as you shift rapidly from one feeling or mood to another without warning. The hummingbird totem wisdom could challenge you to figure out how to stand strong while being able to move quickly and fly high, whether it’s through your personal or spiritual aspirations.
How to use the hummingbird spirit guide to lift up negativity
The spirit of the hummingbird is a powerful mean to lighten up your mood when you feel down. This power animal is a useful ally to lift you up and instill more joy and playfulness in your daily grind.
When facing challenges or an environment plagued by negativity, call on the hummingbird to help you bring a positive outlook on the situation and find your way out with optimism.
The hummingbird totem and the wisdom of accomplishing great feats
Don’t be deceived by the size of this spirit animal: Even if the hummingbird is one of the smallest birds, it can travel great distances. Those who have that bird as totem are characterized by their resiliency and their ability to run great distances tirelessly. Inspired by this totem, you will be inclined to accomplish what seems impossible to most while keeping it light and enjoyable.
The hummingbird is known for burning a lot of energy quickly to keep flying and therefore needs to find sources of food constantly. If you have the hummingbird as a totem, you may benefit from resting often and taking time to feed yourself with enough, whether it’s physically, emotionally or spiritually, to keep going.
Dreaming About The Hummingbird
A hummingbird in your dreams is often considered a good omen as it brings luck. The hummingbirds graceful and quick motions are considered a symbol of accomplishing your goals quickly and effectively.
While the hummingbird may be small, it brings the message that even small things can have great power. Hummingbird asks you not to judge something by its size. Even the smallest idea can have great power! What might you have overlooked?
The hummingbird moves quickly here there and everywhere. This frequent and fast movement has been symbolic of freedom. If hummingbird shows up in your dreams, it may be asking you to see if your freedom is being caged somewhere in your life.
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.
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Thank You for this Beautiful article. My Spirit animal is the Hummingbird. It came to me at times of great test and spiritual awakening. I did post your article on my homepage with referring to your homepage, I hope you don’t mind. Thank You again.
I love this article about hummingbirds. I looked it up because I found a hummingbird inside the house where I work. It was in there for over twelve hours when I found it. I was able to enclose him in my hands and take him outside. When I opened my hands he flew away fast. I was left with a deep feeling of grace that I got to hold him. I felt the purity of all animals innocence in that moment. I am glad I found your website from this experience.
It is an unusually cold winter here in Washington. Snow and ice. Two nights in a row at about 3am, (3) humming birds were flying around my backyard. The motion light was on. I ran inside and filled a feeder with warm sugar water and hung it on the gutter. It was amazing to watch them fly about. They were very thirsty. Is it common to see hummers late at night and in such freezing temperatures?
Awesome! From Silverlake area
I had a humming bird sit on my head when I was at the park
Thank you for the article
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Today a hummingbird came and hovered in front of my face. I went out two different times and it came to me. Looking up the meaning of this has brought me great comfort. I have periods of emotional unrest where I empathic ally feel everything. Then I am trying to process and discern what is going on. What my call is. Today with the hummingbird showing up it validates me and brings meaning and direction. May I find the playful lightness in this day.
It’s really a blessing to see a humming bird, I’m an original Jamaican, with that being said, a humming bird is the national bird of Jamaica. I grew up seeing these gifts of nature , anyhow I now reside in the states and I barely get to see these birds, long story long lol. I was feeling depressed one day and I went outside to smoke a joint, there and behold a humming bird came inches away from me and sucked the nectar from the wild plants growing outside, I said to my self, oh shit’ a humming bird! The bird then flew in a pyramid pattern around my little apartment, hovered over the house top and pooped! I laughed to myself and instantly I felt better and got even more high from the good ganja herb. The crazy part is that the following day I went outside randomly, here comes the same bird hovering while feasting on nectars again. I said bloodclaat” Jah is real, there was a hurricane name FLorence heading to South Carolina that week, I had no where to go, I had to stay and face the storm , but the storm came and passed , no damage done to my car or apt or me. That was a message that the bird bring.I could not make this up, this is my experience, all facts! If you see a humming bird just smile and wave, and expect good blessings, and last but not least , say jah is good.
Last night I came home from work to find a dead hummingbird in my driveway. It looked like it was flying and just dropped out of the sky. I have had some traumatic issues with my daughters over the past couple of days and wondered if there was any symbolism behind the hummingbird find.
Today on 9/9/18 a “new moon” I had been putting off my new moon manifestation writings so I had been outside thinking about what to ask for and this large female hummingbird came flying over my head and around the house, I do not see them much, when I heard her again and looked at her coming back around she hovered a foot away just looking at me and even cocked her head to look harder when our eyes locked and then she flew away. I believe she wanted me to believe in my manifestations. A sign from the universe. Thank You????????
My daughter attended my son’s best friend’s wedding on Friday and during the vows a humming bird flew down and landed at my daughter’s feet. It let my son in law pick it up and hold it. My son went to Heaven five years ago.????????
In the past few weeks I’ve seen hummingbirds 1st at a ladies home won is srage4 cancer. Her daughter the same. They refused my help.so now I face issues and this morning another hummingbird came . I Beleive in comfort and decision making. I don’t hardly in 40 years ever see them now they come to me. Lord.
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