| ALLIGATOR: Integration, aggression, survival, adaptability |
| ANT: Patience, group-minded, worker |
| ANTELOPE: Action/quick decisive/knowledgeable |
| ARMADILLO: Boundaries |
| BADGER: Aggressiveness/fight for what it wants |
| BAT: Rebirth, guardian of the night, cleaner; knowledge to avoid obstacles, barriers, and troublesome people; undergoing a shamanistic death; releasing old habits and personality patterns; |
| BEAR: Introspection/heal the sick/power/inner strength/courage/wisdom, adaptability |
| BEAR, GRIZZLY: Hunter, nature's pharmacist |
| BEAVER: Builder, gatherer |
| BEE: Spiritual telepathic industry; solar initiation; co-disciple |
| BLACKBIRD: The learning of mystic secrets while in meditation; learning trance; doing deep, purposeful meditations |
| BLACK PANTHER: Embracing the unknown |
| BLUE JAY: Courage, warning, eloquence; divination to check on future trouble-spots in your life |
| BLUE HERON: Self-reflection |
| BUFFALO: Prayer and abundance/provider and protector, sacredness, life-builder |
| BUTTERFLY: Transformation, metamorphosis, carefree |
| CHEETAH: Swiftness, speed, develop your self-esteem so that you move with a regalness of bearing; making events occur quicker |
| COCK: The power of the word to dispel and repel negativity; building walls of protectoin about you, your family and friends, pets, and property; setting psychic guardians in place to warn you of problems |
| COYOTE: Trickster, prankster, insight, playful |
| COUGAR: Leadership, courage |
| CRANE: Solitude, inependence, intelligence, discipline, vigilance; magick; astral travel; learning and keeping secrets; reaching deeper mysteries and truths; learning new types of magick; astral traveling especially in search of spiritual wisdom |
| CROW: Keeper of the acred "Law", gateway to the supernatural; thief, trickery, boldness, skill, cunning, single-mindedness; a bringer of knowledge; prophecy; learn from past but don't hold onto it; swiftness, eloquence; shape-shifting; letting go of past hurts; learning to mentally shape-shift; divination |
| DEER: Gentleness, flower of kindness, embrace from afar, love |
| DOLPHIN: Manna/knows the unknowable/keeper of the sacred breath of life, kindness, play, bridge man to ocean |
| DOG: Loyalty/serving humanity; God spelled backwards; tracking skills, ability to scent a 'trail' through conflicting or confusing situations; companionship, keen hearing, wilingness to follow through; using intuition to find new ideas and solutions; seeking a teacher within by going into the silence; if seen in meditation, you will be guarded from approaching dnager and threats; protection; finding out the truth |
| DOVE or PIGEON: Communicating with friends and loved ones who are in spirit; spiritual messenger between worlds; peace, gentleness, love |
| DRAGONFLY: Illusion, flighty, carefree |
| EAGLE: Connection to the Great Spirit/Divine, freedom, power, swiftness, strength, courage, wisdom, keen sight; knowledge of magick; sees hidden spiritual truths; sees overall pattern of life; rising above material in search of spiritual direction; connecting with powerful spiritual beings; creating a stronger connection with spirit guides and teachers, deities |
| ELK: Spirit helper, stamina/to find a lover/romance, strength, agility, freedom |
| FALCON: Magick, astral travel, healing, releasing the soul of a dying person; sending energy and soul-healing to a dying person for an easy transition |
| FOX: Quick, decisisveness, camouflage, protector of the family unit, intelligence, cunning, provider |
| FROG: Cleansing, honors our tears, connection with the water element |
| GOAT: Leader, inquisitiveness |
| GOOSE: New beginnings, wisdom, inspiration, happiness, for a happy marriage and children |
| GROUSE: Sacred spiral |
| GUINEA FOWL: Protection, warning, spiritual watch-dog and protector |
| HAWK: Messenger of the Gods/Sky, observer, clear-sightedness; far memory or recalling past lives; message from spirit, omens and dreams; overcoming problems; opportunistic; courage, defense, wisdom, illuminatin, new life, creativity, truth, experience |
| HERON: Ability to watch patiently for results; dignity of movement; methodical procedure in matters; gaining dignity and self-confidence for facing personal problems |
| HORSE: Physical and unearthly power, stamina, mobility, strength |
| HUMMINGBIRD: Joy, awakens the medicine flower, feathers used for love charms, messenger, stopper of time, relaxation, non-judgemental, happiness, love |
| IBIS: Magick on spiritual level; wisdom, enlightenment; learning magick and spellworking; wisdom to understand and properly use the ancient deep magicks |
| JAGUAR: Integrity and impeccability |
| LION: Learn to relax; don't carry the stress of one situation into another; strengthen family ties; strength, courage, energy; releasing stress and tension |
| LIZARD: Dreaming, conservation, agility |
| LOVEBIRD: Love, companionship, marriage; drawing a loving companion into your life |
| LYNX: Secrets, keeper of the lost magic |
| MAGPIE: Omens and prophecies; the mysteries of life and death; divination of any kind |
| MOOSE: Self-esteem, head-strong, unstoppable, longevity |
| MOUSE: Scrutiny, more to learn |
| MOUNTAIN LION: Use of power in leadership |
| NIGHTINGALE: Inspiration, using your talents with joy, moon magick |
| OPOSSUM: Diversion, strategy |
| OSTRICH: Spiritual truth, protection from troublesome spirits, exorcisms |
| OTTER: Women medicine, joy for others, laughter, curiousity, mischievious |
| OWL: Clairvoyance, astral projection, magic deception and wisdom, truth, unmasking those who would deceive you, patience, guide to and from underworld, shape-shifting, secrets, and omens; moon magick; wisdom to make positive changes |
| PARROT: Imitation, mockery, unintelligent repitition of something; think carefully before you speak; don't repeat gossip; guidance and wisdom to think before speaking |
| PEACOCK: Dignity, warning, self-confidence; use symbol of peacock "eye" to see into the past, present, and future |
| PORCUPINE: Child-like innocence and humility, protection |
| PRAIRIE DOG: Retreat, family |
| QUAIL: Good luck, courage, victory; for success in a project |
| RABBIT: Fear, alertness, nurturing |
| RACOON: Generous protection |
| RAVEN: Magic, carries the medicine, trictster, teacher, hoarder; helps with divination; often represents the upset in life necessary to create something new; wisdom, eloquence, a change in consciousness; messages from spirit; something unforeseen but special is about to occur; magick of the Crone; divination |
| ROBIN: Happiness, new beginnings; for guidance in beginning a new cycle of life |
| SALMON: Wisdom, inner knowing, instinct, persistance, determination |
| SEAGULL: Spiritual messengers; opening yourself to communication with deities |
| SEAHORSE: Confidence, grace |
| SHARK: Hunter, survival |
| SKUNK: Reputation, respect yourself |
| SNAKE: Transmutation, power of creation, sexuality, shrewdness, transformation |
| SPARROW: Love, desire, fertility, pregnancy |
| SPIDER: Weaving, creation, creative pattern of life |
| SQUIRREL: Gathering |
| SWALLOW: Good luck, success; changing your luck |
| SWAN: Grace, balance, innocence; spiritual evolution, developing intuitive abilities, seeing into the future, divination on a spiritual level; aid with dream symbol interpretation; transitions |
| TIGER: Power, energy; if action is called for, don't analyze it to death, just do it; unpleasant but necessary action only gets worse if you procrastinate; finding strength and will-power to tackle an unpleasant situation |
| TURKEY: Give-away Eagle; symbol for gift is coming; asking for helpful gifts and blessings from the Gods |
| TURTLE: Mother Earth/Goddess and energy, self-contained, creative source |
| VULTURE: Cycle of death and rebirth; prophecy; deep love of the Mother Goddess; asking for understanding and widom concerning the death of a loved one |
| WEASEL: Stealth |
| WHALE: Record keeper, wisdom, provider, cleanser |
| WILD BOAR: Confrontation |
| WOLF: Teacher, family, spirit, great hunter, loyalty, success, perseverance |
| WOODPECKER: Warning of approaching trouble; good luck; prophecy; divination for checking a situation for problems |
| WREN: Messenger from the Gods; prophecy; living life to the fullest; protecting yourself when necessary |
RESOURCES: Animal Magick by D.J. Conway; Totem Power Stones; Watch Your Dreams by Ann Ree Colton; and this website author's (Deidre's) personal observance and experiences |
