How Do I Know if My Animal Guide is Contacting Me?
With winter approaching, bees, butterflies and several bird species vanished. Squirrels are scurrying around madly hiding food for the upcoming months. I wonder if I’ll see any animal friends in the upcoming season.
With winter approaching, bees, butterflies and several bird species vanished. Squirrels are scurrying around madly hiding food for the upcoming months. I wonder if I’ll see any animal friends in the upcoming season.
- Visual signs are the easiest way to meet your guide. It could be a raccoon that waits alongside the road as you drive to work. (Remember, it must always be a live animal.)
- A love or an obsession with a certain animal. Always collected unicorns. Then it’s possible one could be your guide.
- Your yard is the wildlife meeting place. Check out who your regular visitors are.
- Bird Feed Visitors-check out who comes to visit your feeder. It’s not surprising to get sparrows and the occasional chickadee. The unusual birds should catch your eye. I’ve had ducks, hawks, even woodpeckers visit.
- A special reward from domestic animals, including extra eggs, better milk and richer honey. There is some disagreement among people if domesticated animals can be totems or messengers, but keep in mind; they had to be wild at one time too.
- Had a desire to be a vegetarian? Perhaps a particular animal inspired it. This an example of resonating with this creature.
- Whom do you intercede for? It pains me to watch my small students try to stop insects out of existence. I’m always moving the grasshoppers out of reach because of their importance to me.
- An animal keeps showing up in an unexpected places and unexpected ways. (Often it is because our attention is drawn to it as opposed to it being that unusual.)It could be a decorative bear, a stuffed bear, and a stained glass bear, someone calling me a bear or even a card with a bear. There may have been equal bird symbols, but I didn’t notice them.
- Magical / psychic experiences you may share with an animal. I worked very hard this year to enlarge my bee and butterfly garden. When I was outside watering the plants or picking vegetables, bees, butterflies, even dragonflies, would follow me around even to the point of riding on my shoulder. (I felt like it was their way of saying thank you.)
- Your soft touch. There may be one animal you’re crazy about. I’m not allowed to go to the dog shelter unaccompanied.
- Animals acting out of character. I had a possum that would knock on my door when there was no dog food in the dog bowl. Sometimes, it climbed the screen door when it saw me. I didn’t find out until later that possums were very shy creatures. The possum is a symbol of healing, protection and guidance when I was working through a very difficult time in my life.
- Rare animals that normally only appear in animal specials show up in your yard or near you. Once when trying to find a friend’s house we became lost on the winding country roads and spotted a white pileated woodpecker that had been classified as extinct. At the time, I didn’t feel as if I had made any progress on my spiritual walk. The woodpecker showed itself to us staying clearly in sight. It reminded me of progress and discernment.
- Repeated interactions- not all interactions are of the gentle type. It could be because most don’t notice the animal messenger’s initial intent. My husband tends to get dive bombed by the birds when in the garden while they leave me alone. Have you been sprayed by a skunk more than once? Attacked by jellyfish whenever you wade into the ocean? If so, you might want to sharpen your observation skills so your animal messengers don’t have to resort to such desperate means.
- Every now and then by a gifted individual might feel compelled to mention your totem or power animal. It might not be the type you actually wanted as a spirit animal, but be open to it.
- Meditation and dreams often yield animals messengers. Just the other night when I was in that transition between wakefulness and sleep, snails crowded my mind waving tiny tentacles in my direction. (Curious what they meant I got out books. Animal messengers are often like Tarot cards meaning something slightly different depending on the individual and circumstance. Their message was I was making progress even when I felt I wasn’t. They also reminded me that fast wasn’t always the best way.)