Quote:TYPES OF ANIMAL GUIDES

Symbolic of the four sacred directions, four seasons, and the four colors of man, there are four basic types of animal guides.

Whether an animal spirit comes by dreams, signs and symbolic events, or actual events it is important to first determine if the guide is a Messenger Guide (Totem), Shadow Guide, Journey Guide or Life Guide.

The meaning and lessons an animal guide brings will differ according to the type of guide it may be. Learning to differentiate between the four types of totems is critical to knowing how to react and the actions you will take when an animal totem makes itself known to you. All guides are powerful.

A Messenger Guide quickly comes into your life and then leaves once a message is understood. The time a Message Guide stays in your psychic is relative to you seeing and accepting the message. The message itself can be spiritual in nature, or it can be a warning. The message may deal with a seemingly mundane aspect of your life or it may be a wake-up call for some important action you must make. Sometimes the animal messenger will come during an unusual event and make a powerful statement and others come on the wind as a whisper. A messenger guide can cause you delays or some unforeseen help in your life. They can be both negative and positive in nature for they are totally impartial.

A Shadow Animal Guide is one that invades you with fear. Its purpose it to teach a lesson you have not learned from repeated mistakes because of anger, avarice, greed, insecurity, or other negative thoughts. A Shadow Guide will return again and again bearing strong feelings of fear until its message is acted upon or a change in lifestyle or actions are incorporated into your life. The Shadow Guide is powerful. It can help you to overcome fear by bringing truth and turning fear into a helper animal guide or spirit animal guide. However, if ignored the Shadow Guide can become dangerous and its powers will have a negative affect on your life. The Shadow Guide lives in the spirit world and usually arrives during a time of testing.

A Journey Animal Guide appears at the fork in the road of your life. When a decision is made to follow a certain path in life, the Journey Guide is there to serve as a guide along the way. It represents a path that may take months or years to complete. It can be a friendly traveling companion if the path is right. If you become lost along the way, the Journey Guide is there help lead the way back. Unlike a Messenger Guide who comes and leaves quickly, the Journey Guide remains at your side until the current cycle in your life has changed. appears at the fork in the road of your life. When a decision is made to follow a certain path in life, the Journey Guide is there to serve as a guide along the way. It represents a path that may take months or years to complete. It can be a friendly traveling companion if the path is right. If you become lost along the way, the Journey Guide is there help lead the way back. Unlike a Messenger Guide who comes and leaves quickly, the Journey Guide remains at your side until the current cycle in your life has changed.

A Life Animal Guide is also called a Spirit Guide as it remains a part of you throughout life and reflects your inner-spiritual self. You may have more than one Life Guide and new ones may come during an expected time. Usually a Life Guide does not move away or disappear but remains an integral part of your life, however, there are instances when a particular Life Guide is no longer needed and is replaced with a new one. Its powers are always there for you and serve as a constant reminder of your inner powers and oneness with nature. If for example your Life Guide is Bear, you should be a person who is a solitary dweller, a seeker of knowledge and well grounded. A Life Guide will often call upon other animal guides found within its domain to assist in giving you special messages from time to time. http://www.manataka.org/page291.html

Quote:An Animal Totem is an important symbolic object used by a person to get in touch with specific qualities found within an animal which the person needs, connects with, or feels a deep affinity toward.

You can have several animal guides through out your life. Sometimes an animal guide will come into your life for a short period of time, and then be replaced by another depending on the journey or direction you are headed toward. Your guide will instruct and protect you as you learn how to navigate through your spiritual and physical life. When you find an animal that speaks strongly to you or feel you must draw more deeply into your life, you might fill your environment with images of the animal to let the animal know it's welcome in your space. Animalguides can help you get back to your Earthly roots, and reconnect with nature by reminding you that we are all interconnected. To first do this you need to know what your Animal Totem is. http://www.animaltotem.com/find-your-totem.html

Quote:Animal guides, also known as totems or power animals, have been gaining popularity in recent days. Perhaps the human animal has found an urge to return to nature or to find a connection with other living things we have been missing for the last century.

If we will trust our instincts and listen to these unique teachers we can find a connection with our spirit selves and other natural energies we have lost in a materialistic and physical environment we now surround ourselves with. http://www.softcom.net/users/hawgpig/animalguides.htm

Quote:Native Americans have long believed the search for true wisdom is aided by unseen forces that walk the earth with us. They believe animals not only have healing and inspirational powers, but they possess knowledge that humans have forgotten. Animal spirit guides can teach you many things, if you're attuned to their message.

Shamans also use the knowledge and energy of the animal kingdom to center themselves and perform healing rituals. Through meditation, they draw on the unique energy of the animals to strengthen their own. Each animal, from the sparrow to the trout to the tiniest insect, has its own strengths and specialties. Because of this, the shaman can draw upon specific animal powers for assistance in many situations. The rabbit deals well with fear, and demonstrates quick thinking, humility and creativity; while the cunning mountain lion flaunts his authority without ego. Even the common housefly sees the world in many different ways and is adaptable to new situations. http://www.dailyom.com/articles/2004/130.html

Quote:Rabbit/Hare's Wisdom Includes:

Guile
Paradox and contradiction
Living by one’s own wits
Receiving hidden teachings and intuitive messages
Quick-thinking
Humility
Moving through fear
Strengthening intuition


"Not to hurt our humble brethren (the animals) is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it. If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men."

Saint Francis of Assisi
http://www.animalspirits.com/index2.html

(05-12-2012, 01:41 PM)Ruth Wrote: Last year I was bit by a spider on my forehead. My Shaman friend says this is a sign that the "spider tribe" of animal spirits has accepted me as one of their own (I never kill spiders).

(05-12-2012, 01:41 PM)Ruth Wrote: I have several - and one story I always hesitate to tell, and have hesitated here because it sounds so bizzare - even to me!

But here goes: between the ages of 6 and 11 we lived in a small town in Virginia. I've said before I was the oldest child and my Mom was very ill most of my life. We played outside as many hours a day as possible, and sometimes, just to be alone, I would go down to the creek and crawl into the storm drain and sit in a spot where two drains intersected under the street. If anyone had known this at the time I'd have had my butt spanked and maybe they would have covered those drains so kids couldn't get in there.

Anyway, I did that pretty frequently on hot summer days because it was cool and comforting down there. Once when sitting there, a little green garden snake crawled up into my lap. I just watched it for awhile, then I started talking to it. Pouring out my little girl secrets, telling it how beautiful it was, thanking it for visiting me. We became close friends that summer and the next (I can only assume it was the same snake). Sometimes the little snake would actually wind itself around my arm, if it was in my lap. A few times I carried the snake out of the pipe and kept it with me during the day.

I was never afraid of it, and although I had been warned many times to avoid the creek because there were water moccasins there, I never saw one. Just this beautiful little green snake. Eventually my brother saw me with it and I had to release it into the pipe to protect it, and never saw it again. :-(


Before we moved away from Oklahoma I saw a very beautiful blue snake. I didn't even know there was such a thing as a blue snake. But there it was - and it was quite beautiful, too.

Last year I was bit by a spider on my forehead. My Shaman friend says this is a sign that the "spider tribe" of animal spirits has accepted me as one of their own (I never kill spiders).

I also have a dog and a cat - two former pets - that are frequently just "there" in my spirit lab when I walk in.

Diana - Thanks for the reference. I'm going to check out the Animal Speak book. Sounds really amazing!

Quote:Those who would listen, and I don’t mean with their ears, but with the receptive mind, those who’s hearts are open to the world and other species, are growing and changing. There are those who perhaps don’t even know why. At least they don’t know yet, but their empathy is coupled with a compassionate heart, and as they become more active our imbalance could be healed. Heal it, and heal the earth. We were not meant to disconnect from that consciousness. We have become like a secondary and antagonistic presence in the Gaia mind. This isn’t necessary.

Like a virus? Actually, not even that useful. Viruses are a part of the genetic pool, and an active evolutionary agent. My own genetic difference is considered an evolutionary defect in conventional thinking.

Our most readily available teachers for healing this are our animals. Communication with our beloved animal family members. We can teach them, but we have been doing it over much. We need more to remember, and reconnect to the world they live in. They are stress reducers for us for the same reason we sooth our own young, if we are psychically healthy enough to effectively sooth our young. They sense the psychic distress, and have a psychic as well as physical response. How many of you sense your pets staring at you? It doesn’t feel weird like human possessiveness does it?

She is reading me when she does that, maybe just to make sure all is well? Yes, your pet can and does, and sometimes even if they don’t approach you, you can you feel them send to you?

Like children also do? Yes, children can also, until we condition them out of it. We toughen our children, and tell them to “think”. They were thinking in our natural way, and could learn even our skills, but for some reason we as a culture believe they have to stop “imagining stuff” first, and animals bond readily with children for this reason. They share the same primal empathy.

It’s not about imagination, but about fears? Indeed, but the fears are created by adults, children just react to them.

Do you follow the belief that owners and pets begin looking and acting alike? I do. The basis of empathy is also the basis of psychic healing. It is known in some scientific circles as the morpho-genetic field. In others, it’s just called the aura. It serves as the psychic framework for the organic body, and it is mutable.

Maybe people pick out pets that look like themselves without even knowing? They do that also, and pick out pets that synchronize with their temperament/psychic energy pattern. Which also would mean similar phenotype (basic body shape), because biology works the same across species.

Oh no, I have a old hound dog. What does that say? They are not literally synonymous, but just sympathetically linked. I would ask, do you prefer the simple life? Yes, for sure. Then is the connection not obvious?

Do you think if my dog was reunited with her litter mates she would recognise that? I think it’s possible. But animals psychically mature also, and you would discover it’s true with your other pets just as easily, though it might not feel the same.

Our animals don’t get enough respect. I agree, they don’t, and they are more aware than people think they are.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~
http://dragonintuitive.com/spirituality/psychic/animal-guides/

Quote:Hawk's Wisdom Includes:

Clear-sightedness
Being observant
Far-memory
Messages from spirit
Guardianship
Recalling past lives
Courage
Wisdom
Illumination
Seeing the larger picture
Creativity
Truth
Experience
Wise use of opportunities
Overcoming problems

Quote:Vulture/Buzzard/Condor's Wisdom Includes:

Death and rebirth
Prophecy
Love of the Mother goddess
Knowledge concerning the death of a loved one
New vision
Purification

"You may have a fresh start
any moment you choose,
for this thing we call failure
is not the falling down,
but the staying down."


Mary Pickford

Quote:Tiger's Wisdom Includes:

Power

Energy
Strength and will-power in the face of adversity
Acting in a timely manner
Action without analysis

(05-14-2012, 10:30 AM)Observer Wrote: Interesting indeed. I have come to a conclusion on why the tiger chose me and I am very glad it did.

(05-12-2012, 01:41 PM)Ruth Wrote: I have several - and one story I always hesitate to tell, and have hesitated here because it sounds so bizzare - even to me!

But here goes: between the ages of 6 and 11 we lived in a small town in Virginia. I've said before I was the oldest child and my Mom was very ill most of my life. We played outside as many hours a day as possible, and sometimes, just to be alone, I would go down to the creek and crawl into the storm drain and sit in a spot where two drains intersected under the street. If anyone had known this at the time I'd have had my butt spanked and maybe they would have covered those drains so kids couldn't get in there.

Anyway, I did that pretty frequently on hot summer days because it was cool and comforting down there. Once when sitting there, a little green garden snake crawled up into my lap. I just watched it for awhile, then I started talking to it. Pouring out my little girl secrets, telling it how beautiful it was, thanking it for visiting me. We became close friends that summer and the next (I can only assume it was the same snake). Sometimes the little snake would actually wind itself around my arm, if it was in my lap. A few times I carried the snake out of the pipe and kept it with me during the day.

I was never afraid of it, and although I had been warned many times to avoid the creek because there were water moccasins there, I never saw one. Just this beautiful little green snake. Eventually my brother saw me with it and I had to release it into the pipe to protect it, and never saw it again. :-(


Before we moved away from Oklahoma I saw a very beautiful blue snake. I didn't even know there was such a thing as a blue snake. But there it was - and it was quite beautiful, too.

Last year I was bit by a spider on my forehead. My Shaman friend says this is a sign that the "spider tribe" of animal spirits has accepted me as one of their own (I never kill spiders).

I also have a dog and a cat - two former pets - that are frequently just "there" in my spirit lab when I walk in.

Diana - Thanks for the reference. I'm going to check out the Animal Speak book. Sounds really amazing!

Quote:Raven's Wisdom Includes:

Rebirth without fear
Ability to tear down what needs to be rebuilt
Renewal
Ability to find light in darkness
Courage of self-reflection
Introspection
Comfort with self
Honoring ancestors
Connection to the Crone
Divination
Change in consciousness
New occurrences
Eloquence

Quote:Golden Eagle's Wisdom Includes:

Illumination
Understands the cycles of the Sun
All aspects of clear vision
The Solar Bird
Spiritual power
Sees from the highest places
Courage
Strength

Quote:Jaguar's Wisdom Includes:

Seeing the roads within chaos
Understanding the patterns of chaos
Moving without fear in the darkness
Facilitating soul work
Empowering oneself
Moving in unknown places
Shapeshifter
Psychic sight

(05-16-2013, 09:51 PM)Sagittarius Wrote: Had an interesting experience in America, got a psychic reading and aura photo done in Sedona Arizona and two animals appeared in my aura. Both where quite clearly there in the picture with the outlines creating a perfect picture anyone could pick up. The psychic said she has never seen animals represented so clearly and an aura before. A bear and a beaver. Both represent big changes in my life and also the qualities I'am really concentrating on this year especially the beaver.