From the article: Animal Totems
Share Post: Have you been visited by an animal spirit in a dream, vision, or in reality? A hawk spotted flying overhead, a bluebird's feather laying on the ground found at your feet, and a rabbit seen scampering into your backyard each have special meaning. A black bear or rattlesnake that visits through a dream delivers an important message. The flock of monarchs migrating in front of your windshield as you are driving down the highway also offers a lesson. If you have ever been given spiritual guidance through the appearance of an animal please share your story. What animal was it and what did it teach you? Share Your Experience
Wolf Spirits
- I was living in this home for a few years. Lots of property and beautiful trees bushes etc. Every singe time I took a picture outside, there would be perfect shadows or outlines of wolves in them. I had never experienced anything like it in my life. What can it mean? I use to also dream of wolves packs and sometimes a white one.
- —Guest anita
Cats
- Ever since i was 16, whenever I get stressed, I've noticed I start to have the same personallity traits as a cat (wild, independent, not trusting, and doing everything on my own terms) and whenever I get really stressed, for some reason I always see cats. and the part that fascinates me is that the cats come to me and not anyone else... does this mean that Cats are my spirit guide?
- —Guest Abbi
Cougar, Bear, and Others
- I've had the fortune to see many of these animals up close and it is like they purposely show themselves to me! Everything from cougar, bear, beaver, fox, wolf, coyote, eagle, deer, turkey, owl, crow, cats, turtle. I notice them. Are they delivering me messages? I'm in awe when they do show themselves!
- —Guest Connie
The white and black wolf
- If it wasn't for the white and black wolf spirits i wouldn't be here today. I was walking downtown one day and had to wait for the crosswalk sign to change to cross the street. I would normally wait down on the corner, but something pulled me back from the corner because a car ran the red light which was also no turn on red light corner. Had i been standing there I would have been hit by the car and possible be dead from it. If it was for them I would be walking with the sky people. Never be afraid of our animal spirits.They are there to help you in your life's journey and give you guidance.
- —Guest tygerlily75
Animal experiences
- I have had many strange experiences with animals. When I was little I asked my departed grandmother to send me a hummingbird. I love them then after asking repeatedly one flew straight up to the window and stared into my eyes. I also caught a bunnie recently and he was young but he snuggled into me and I let him go at the end of the day. He looked at me and ran. I picked him up again wanting to keep him but then released him. He paused then hopped under a bush. Then I was on my deck and all of a sudden a butterfly out of nowhere zoomed past. I paused to watch but then it turned around completely and came to rest on my shirt, then looked at me and flew away. I'm wondering if these experiences along with many more are my grandmother and great grandmother as my mother says sent them.
- —Guest Animal lover
Snail Visitation
- I've had the same snail visit me for the last 2 days. I haven't seen one in years. I believe it had a message for me. It just happens to be that i needed to be reminded to slow down at this very point and let things be. Usually, i wouldn't put so much thought into things like this but, this time was very different. I feel a connection to it and rushing home to see if I can find him/her again.
- —Guest B
visitation from mocking bird
- I have had 4 days now of a mocking bird singing everywhere I go, day and night. Can you tell me what this means? Could it have something to do with tomorrow? I am scheduled to have a back surgery and am feeling afraid because my mother has been by my side during my last 5 surgeries and this will be my first surgery without her because she passed away last September. I know this mocking bird is a sign, and I'm hoping it is a good sign. (Note from Phylameana: Elizabeth, I wish you the very best outcome and speedy recovery from your back surgery tomorrow. Mocking bird is associated with your voice, if your mother was someone who used her voice to care for you then I would definitely see a connection, or perhaps mocking bird is a reminder for you to find your own voice in dealing with your health. My condolences on the passing of your mother.)
- —Guest elizabeth ziegler
Jellyfish animal spirt encounter
- I have a friend whose grandmother teaches her about animal spirits. How to find out which is yours, and other practices. I asked her to help me find mine. I meditated and she asked me questions, "What color do you see first?" I answered "purplish pink", "What is the first sound you hear?" and I said "the ocean waves crashing." Then on to "What movement do you see?" I answer, "a slow kind of gliding..." She told me my animal spirit was a jellyfish. At first I didn't believe her. But a day later I am driving home from my boyfriend's house and I am looking into the clouds, and I see lightning in the sky. It was on the shape of a HUGE jellyfish! The cloud made the inside of him a murky purple color, then his stingers a light pink from the lightning. I told my friend. And she said jellyfish wanted to make himself known to me. And to meditate and ask him to come forth to me in my astral traveling while I sleep, but to be cautious.
- —Guest Kris
Finch
- I have a finch picking at my windows all around the house, when I move from one room to another it also moves. He flies half way up the window and then back down onto the window sill. This happens 100s of times, I have a video of him on my phone, What is the message he is telling me (us). This is happening now for about a week.
- —Guest magsp
Think it's a blackmamba
- In 2010 I was very sick and new @ my hostel then dreamed a large black snake and the snake came to my face and licked me, after licking it spit its poison in my mouth then I woke up and saw the same snake in my dream in bed with me. When I sat it raised its head and looked straight in my eyes. Minutes later my roommates woke up and screamed the snake jumped and tried to bite her. I cried no don't and it stopped .. Does anyone know what that means? Because years back when I was little my friends and I were in a lil bush collecting flowers and I stepped on a large black snake.
- —Guest hlehle
Amazing Hawk Experience
- My neighborhood is regularly visited by hawks. They fly over, and they land in the top of a giant oak tree a couple doors down from my home. Once a Cooper's hawk used the corner of my back yard as a dining table, while she/he shredded its prey and ate. But two days ago, I saw something I've never seen before. A hawk was circling, soaring, sweeping up, swooping down, all while uttering a screeching call, over and over again. It then flew south, out of sight. Several minutes later, a group of five hawks approached from out of the south, circled in formation in the same area where the single hawk had flown for a minute, then slowly flew to the north in single file. I have no idea what this visitation means yet, but it was an amazing one, in my opinion, from my power animal and totem. I was humbled and amazed.
- —reikibev
A Pair of Eagle Feathers
- I dreamt of seeing a bald eagle on a rocky cliff ledge outside my bedroom. I was happy because that meant good weather was coming. I was also happy that the eagle had come closer than any had come before. I ran for my camera afraid that it would fly away before I could take a picture. The eagle was still there but getting ready to take flight. My camera wouldn't work. Then the eagle was in flight and my camera finally worked but very sluggishly and I only got a strange view of the bald eagle's back because I forced the camera button. I watched the eagle fly away over the lake, so beautiful and majestic. I looked to the craggy rock where the eagle had been sitting when I first saw it. There were a pair of feathers there, shorter than usual but laid out like twin fans. I was so excited because the eagle left them for me, but for an instant I was disappointed because they were not long feathers. Then I went to get them and realized how unusual and beautiful they were, like twin fans.
- —Guest sue
White wolf
- Well here lately I've been noticing this very light grey wolf. He looks white and I only see him when I get overwhelming feeling from other things that I see and feel but when I see him all those feelings go away. I think he might be my animal spirit. Can someone tell me more about this please. ( Note from Phylameana: Hello Sandy, we have a forum for member discussions, it is free - go to http://forums.about.com/ab-healing/start/?lgnF=y )
- —sandy6611
To guest margeret
- Your white horse has left you because that was an era of peace. Now you are having turbulent times or have had or will have turbulent times. You might feel uneasy because it is a warning. You've noticed how you've felt. Now you need to learn what it is about.
- —Guest LOWolf
Protection
- When I feel a spirit of some sort I get shivers. thus, I get shivers a lot. Sometimes they're evil sometimes they're not. When they are evil I call upon my wolf spirit guide Moon and her daughter/pup Keelana (River in wolf languages). The point is they offer me protection and I could not live without them. (Sorry other spirit guides, but these are my favorites)
- —Guest LOWolf
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