Discovering your totem spirit

To discover your totem spirit, you must attain a meditative state in a natural environment and let him reveal itself to you. Your totem spirit will not force the door to enter in your mind. It will come around slowly and show itself in your mind when you are calm enough to accept it.

First of all, install yourself comfortably in a natural environment. It can be by the side of a lake, on a mountain top or sitting by a tree. You must arrange it so that you will not be disturbed for at least an hour. Make sure the temperature will be fine on your body, that you will not have back aches and that your legs won’t get numb after a while. You must be comfortable.

Reach a meditative state while breathing naturally. Keep your mind on the nature around you, and know that it is also within you. This will do a bridge in your mind, letting in the forces of nature. Do this for at least 10 minutes. Let your mind go here and there, and return to the nature within. Even experienced meditators must take enough time to let nature flow lightly.

After a while, keep your physical eyes closed, but open your eyes within to see a natural environment produced by your imagination. See yourself in the middle of this inner world of nature. Do not try to make it like you would want it, but let your mind reveal what it wish to reveal to you.

In your inner world, call out for your totem spirit to reveal itself to you, and let it come. For some people, only one animal come and it is clear for the seeker. For others, a gushing fountain of thoughts come out as they see their environment filled with all the possible and impossible animals throwing themselves around as your potential spirit totem. One will eventually come as your mind quiet down, and it will be clearer for you.

Once you have identified your animal totem spirit, take a bit of time with it, calmly being together, contemplating your inner nature. Know then that your spirit totem will forever be with you.

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You should not consult this list to find out your totem spirit, but it helps. Discovering your totem spirit is a meditative processan, visualation, focus. You can use candles, crystals, prayer beads........etc.

Totem Animal List

Antelope: sacrafice, prey, agility, action

Armadillo: shield, protected,safety, grounded

Bear: Power, healing, nurturing, loving, protective, playful, leader,hermit, mother Earth and her womb, dreaming, self sufficient, introspection, wisdom, death and rebirth, astral travel change, communication, visualization of the new, shaman, the dreams nature, and mystic the bear paw tells you of the direction.

Bat: secretive, good listener, rebirth, initiation, pollination of new ideas, viewing of past lives

Beaver: builds damns to stop the flow, protector, overseer, loves home

Boar: For the Gaelic Celts this is an important totem animal because it represents the Sun giving representing Fire of life

Buffalo: A sacred animal, peace, sacrafice, warmth, life, abundance

Bee: fertility, defensive,

Butterfly: metamorphosis, going deep inside into your insight, successful project, transformation, courage, rebirth

Buck: Strength, woodlands, desire, territorial

Cat: Independence, courage, fighter, good defensive skill, Goddess privilaged, clever, meditation, agility, childbirth, curious, seen into the unseen, healer,organized

Cheetah: Swiftness, agility, speed, brotherly, self esteem.

Coyote: hunter, clever, trickster

Crane: High ideals but grounded, independence, into solitude

Crow: change, shapeshifting

Cougar / Mountain Lion: Motherly, protector, power,use of leadership, balance of intuition, cunning, self-confidence.

Deer: It is said that the Sacred Deer is the Mount to the Upper Levels of the Cosmos and a Spirit Helper that can be called upon during healing ceremonies.

Dinosaurs: Depending on the kind of Dinosaur you see. Water types and Herbivores: Are emotional, can see through emotion, gentle, in favor of peace, able to deal with issue's, graceful. Carnivores types: Stealth, strength, have no fear, vision very clear, persuit, bold, non negative, able to let go of mind of the Land

Dove: Can communicate between the worlds, gentle, a spirit messenger, one of peace and of love.

Doe: Gentleness, watcher, agile, speed,curious, caring, kindness, camoflauge, intuitive, good listener, healer, goal oriented

Dog: Honorable and noble, faithful, curious, honest, test dominance, friendly, hunter, service, energy, guardian

Dolphin: Use breath to release intense emotions, family oriented, water element magick, playful, babysitters, intuitive, sexual, peace, powerful, communication, passion, foreseers of danger, graceful, childlike, balance trust, understanding of life.

Dragon: Ability to move between worlds, power of fire, protector, represents the connection of the birth of the Universe, exists between the thoughts, longevity, wisdom, infinate. The Red Dragon lives in the center of the Earth.

Dragonfly: Carefree, on flight, understands dreams, able to escape, swiftness, braking through illusions

Duck: Spirit Helper of Mystics and Seers, water energy, can clearly see and deal with emotions, grace in the water, happiness

Eagle: Solar, Spiritual Guide, spirit connector to spirit teacher, Courage, illumination, clear vision, their feathers are considered healing tools, health and wisdon, personal. The Eagle teaches you to be free and soar high above negativity into a positive self, magickal knowledge, sees hidden spiritual truth's intuitive, graceful, creation, respectful of boundaries. power reclaimed, initiation

Elk: Sensual passion, strength and agility, honoring your gender, paceing ones tasks, stamina.

Elephant: Royalty, strength, ancient wisdom, patience, careful, confident, uses education

Fox: Clever, shapeshifting, cunning, feminine courage, persistence, camouflage, invisibilty, observant, quick witted

Falcon: Merlin's Wisdom, helps get soul to the soul world, healing the soul, the understanding of magick, swiftness, aerobatic

Fish: Emotion, water magick, agility, camoflauge, ocean voyage, friend of man and mermaid, solitude,energy, connection to reefs, use of beauty.

Frog: water magick of the most ancient beginnings, energy, able to leap over a problem, transformation, cleansing, emotion, rebirth, singer of the songs for the ancient beginnings of watery existence.

Giraffe: Communication, intuition, able to reach above others for things that are unreachable, can look into the future.

Goat: Surefootedness, independance, agile, strength when climbing.

Gorilla: Family oriented, mother nurturing, intelligent, strength, useful of the enviornment, gentle, protector, guardian of loved ones.

Hawk: Messenger, intuition,patience, soaring to new hieghts, guardian, messenger of spirit, wise,observant, can recall past lives, courage, clearsightedness,truth.

Horse: mobility, steadfast, mythological from the unicorn to the pegasus, faithfulness, running free, strength, helper, travel, warns of danger, friendly, expanding one’s own potential abilities.

Hippopotamus: Mother-fury, graceful with watery emotion, uses aggresion appropriately, family protector.

Hummingbird: Timeless, passion, brings love like nothing else can, heart of loving fury, beauty, kind, swift, fertile to plants and flowers, nectar for the god and goddess, messenger, adept, if you find yourself with a hummingbird you may need to plant or work with flowers, and maybe an aromatherapists, or work with people since you will find the good within people, fly free.

Iguana: Patient, gentle, kind, ancient, understanding

Jellyfish: Can float through hard times, sensitive to emotions of water energy, can get out of a mess that can tangle you up in life, can sting when necessary.

Jaguar: Shapeshifter, psychic, moving without fear ,empowering oneself, lover of night.

Komodo Dragon: Adept to Earth ground energy, strength, can enter into very long dream state, longevity.

Lizard: Power of regeneration of parts lost, can let go of ego, controlling ones dreams, ability to move in the otherworld, sensitive to ground vibrations, speed.

Lion: Feminine energy, group interaction,secrets silence, patience, seeing detail, understanding your strengths, staying calm till it is time to act.

Llama: Moving over hurdles, kindness, gentleness, warm loving.

Lynx: Guardian, guide, a keeper of secrets, listener, beauty.

Moose: Steadfastness, power, headstrong, movement between the soul world, wisdom, connecting to your elders, speed is unseen.

Monkey: Ability to change environment, health, success, family protection.

Moth: Transformation, movement into shadows, can find the light, flight.

Mouse: Organize, scrutiny, order, examining life's lessons, discovery, shyness, invisibility, stealth.

Manatee: Gentleness, patient, loving, funny, childlike, sees clearly into the emotions, walks gentle on the Earth.

Macaw /Parrot: Communication, flight, beauty, guidance in wisdom, thinks before speaking, mockery.

Otter: Woman medicine, prognostication, playful, sensibility without suspicion, psychic awareness, faithfulness.

Opossum: Sensibility, proper using of deception, strategist, diversion, recovery.

Oyster: Precious, filter out lifes static, knows when it is time to close things to save on energy, sensitive to enviornment, protection.

Owl: Secrecy, seeing behind masks or falseness, stealth, messenger of secrets and omens, shadow self with ease and comfort, Moon Magick, swift movement, freedom, night vision, clairvoyance, great intuition, can be a fierce warrior for food, inspiring, can outfly the Golden Eagle.

Octopus: Feminine energy, Goddess energy and moon cycles, protection by being able to put up a smoke screen, can move fast when danger is approaching, can get past negative barriers, intelligent.

Polar Bear: Solitude, adversity,death, rebirth, dreams, transformation, patience, communication with the spirit, dreams for shamans, mystics, defensive, strength, protection, swimmer, can break through emotional barriers.

Peacock: Beauty,self confidence, visionary of the past and present and future.

Panda: Eastern hemisphere connection, understands moving at a careful and slow pace, adaptable to enviornment.

Penquin: Male and female energy working together, father nurturing, astral projection, patience.

Porcupine: Defense when needed, protection, trust, innocent, wonder, creation of your own path.

Quail: Peaceful, courage, loving, camoflauge.

Rabbit: Fertility, stealth, ability to hide, timidity, quick thinker, intuitive, afraid of tragedy, learner of life lessons.

Raven: Self knowledge, courage, introspection, rebirth, find light in darkness, honor of ancestors, connection with waning moon (crone) being able to change consciousness.

Raccoon: Disquise, seeing through ones mask, curiousity.

Rat: Fertility, invisibility, stealth, defense, scavenger, intelligence, wealth, can be destructive.

Salamander: firey element though it connects between Earth and water, things hidden, can cloak itself in the face of adversity, magickal.

Seahorse: Male, graceful, the only species where the male has the babies, can deal with emotions, courtship dancing, happiness, the loveliness of the sea.

Sheep: Comfortable in groups, warmth, patience, fertility, rebirth, courage to keep balance.

Snake: Transformation, swred, mystery of life, psychic energies, Shamans travel to the soul world using the snake as a magickal form of connection cord, Goddess energy, primitive energy, protection from the religious persecution of others on the attack, the Snake is the Messenger of the Rainbow Serpent, infinitive existence.

Skunk: Defensive when need be, stricking, courage, will power, sensual, confidence in ones self.

Seal: able to dream lucid dreams, protection from danger, can move through emotions with ease, creative, gentle, playful, talkative, sunning, can be lazy, adaptable.

Shark: Power, strength, instictual, predator, adaptibiliyt, survival, dangerous to mess with, senses injury, stealth, able to move constantly, shapeshifter, A predator God of the Ocean's, ancient knowledge.

Spider: Weaver of the universal web of fate, wisdom ,creative instinct, shapeshifting, divination, Goddess energy.

Squirrel: Understands the need for saving for survival and energy, good planner, speed, protective, fancy, one with the trees.

Swan: Beauty, grace, gentle, understands meaning of group, can deal with emotions flow, innocense, understands the symbols of dreams, divination, spiritual growth.

Sow: Crone Goddess, Earth magick, intelligent, can hide in danger, celtic wisdom, ancestral mythology, sacred.

Stork: Messenger of rebirth, protection of the young.

Tiger: Energy, power, strength, ability to act instantly, beauty.

Tortoise: Earth symbol, feel at home where ever it may go, will hide in shell when scared, mystical, grounding traits, patience, non violent, self preservation, ancient wisdom, feminine energy and healing of feminine illness, centered, slow movement, can psychically protect self.

Toad: altered state of ones consciousness, Earthly energy, luck can change, adversity, courtship with sound, longevity, magickal

Turkey: Patient, keen eye, up for the game, wild challenge, generosity, life-giver, shares, sticks with the group.

Unicorn: Virtue, virgin quality, patience, beauty, connects with the forest and faeries, weather patterns,

Wolf: Free spirit, mate for life, faithful to pack, organized, strong sense of self, spirit teacher, social, faces death with dignity, rebirth, courage, steadfast, shapeshifter, intelligent, preserverance, success, can take advantage of change, guide, fights only when necessary.

Whale: Ancestral connection, very intelligent, gentle, kind, patient, king of the waters, provider, friendly, family oriented, keeps the record of all eternity, voice is knowledge, highly psychic, intuitive, telepathic, movement of grace and beauty, able to flow with all emotion and change.

Weasel: (ferret): Keen, tricky, stealth, sees hidden reasons, revenge, cunning, playful, can hang out and just observe.

Zebra: Seeing the balck and white and understanding the grey shades of life, power, sureness, individuality amongst the herd, balance, trust in its path.

Good Luck and warm journeys

Raven

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