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Animal Spirit Guides

Animal Spirit Guides

A list of some animal spirit guides and totems and their meanings.

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Badger

Keeper of stories
Bold Self-Expresssion
Aggressiveness
Single-mindedness
Passion
Cunning
Revenge
Perseverance
Control
Antidote to passivity or victimization
Persistence in the service of a mission
Groundedness
Knowledge of the earth
Earth magick and wisdom
Creative action in a crisis
Protection of rights and spiritual ideas

Added: 15/05/2003

Bat

Shamanic death and rebirth
Pollination of new ideas
Transition
Initiation
Viewing past lives
Understanding grief
The use of vibrational sound
Camouflage
Invisibility
Ability to observe unseen

Added: 15/05/2003

Bear

Embodies the solar qualities of strength, power and courage, and the lunar qualities of intuition.

Keeper of the dream time, the inner space.

Hibernate: still your mind and body and go within yourself to find peace, healing, wisdom and guidance, and to dream into being the future.

Develop and trust intuition.

Keeper of healing medicine.

Set healthy boundaries on others so your energy is not depleted by their needs.

Minimise the negative effects emotional challenges can have on your body.

Water, herbs, berries and salmon may be beneficial.

Embodies independent, nurturing and protective qualities.

Calm, thoughtful, slow to anger.

The divine child – the newborn God of vegetation – is portrayed in some traditions as a bear cub, mothered by the Goddess Artemis.

Added: 29/09/2007

Beaver

Maintaining the ability to be productive in all ways by not limiting your options
Being persistent
Using available resources
Using alternate ways of doing tasks
Master builder of all things
Not damming the flow of experiences in life
Achievement through completion of tasks
Understanding dynamics of group work

Added: 17/05/2003

Bee

Connection to the Goddess Diana
Understanding female warrior energy
Reincarnation
Communication with the dead
Helping earth-bound spirits move on to their proper place
Concentration
Prosperity

Added: 17/05/2003

Beetle/Ladybird

Carries the Golden Strand that leads to the Center of the Universe

Past lives

Spiritual enlightenment

Death and Rebirth

Added: 17/05/2003

Black Jaguar

Keeper of the circular time continuum
Gatekeeper to the Unknowable
All wisdom listed above for Jaguar


According to Mayan beliefs, the journey of the sun across the sky and the darkness of night stood for the eternal journey of human consciousness and its transformations. The sun at midday was compared to the Eagle, flying high in the sky. Then it plunges below the horizon, just as we plunge into the dark where we face our spiritual challenges and are transformed. The hidden sun was said to be Jaguar, whose spotted skin symbolized the stars glittering in the night sky. Thus, it was called the "Jaguar Sun." Jaguar is the earth father. As earth father, he presides over the sacred power in the earth and the animals who live upon it. The force that lives within the mountains, which gives them their volcanic and transformative power, is the same underworld source of power and energy as the Jaguar Sun. The Mayan word for Jaguar is IX (pronounced eesh).

Added: 15/05/2003

Black Panther

Astral travel
Guardian energy
Symbol of the feminine
Understanding of death
Reclaiming ones power
Ability to know the dark
Death and rebirth

Added: 17/05/2003

Buffalo/Bison

Earth Creativity
Feminine courage
Abundance
Knowledge
Generosity
Hospitality
Sharing work
Courage
Strength
Challenge
Survival
Giving for the greater good
Formulating beneficial plans

Added: 15/05/2003

Butterfly/Caterpillar

The power of the whirlwind
Reincarnation
Transformation
Transmutation
Magick

Added: 15/05/2003

Buzzard

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

Added: 15/05/2003

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