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how do i find out what my animal spirit guide is?
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Animal guides won't come to you unless you capitalize your sentences.
It's true.
To have a spiritual guide, some say, you must be ready to undertake spiritual guidance. You have to have control over your emotions and body, and then the spirits will send an animal to you to guide your soul. The bardic and shamanic paths especially work with animal and spirit guides.
Everyone has a spirit guide, no matter whether they want to call them ancestor spirits, guardian angels, totems or animal guides. They will reveal themselves to you in various ways but you will always have a definite understanding of it when it happens. You won't wonder, "was that it?" You will have a strong feeling that it was important.
Sometimes a spirit animal is a real animal that may appear to you often, or in times of distress or high emotion, like seeing crows at strange times. It could be an animal companion, a pet that you connect with in a special way, though an animal Familiar is not always your animal guide.
It could be an animal you once knew that has died and remains with you in spirit, particularly if that animal had a strong power and connection to you.
Or it could be an animal that you once were in a past life. The memories and sensations of this animal would connect you strongly to others of its type, and seeing them in real life would be an omen to you.
In other words, a spirit animal is either a personal, exact being, or a generalized creature.
Meditation, thinking deeply about yourself, you can begin to create a list of what traits you possess--both positive and negative--and the traits you wish to possess. During this time an animal may come to you, or you may choose one that you want to be like. If something strange keeps coming to mind that you wouldn't pick, but you can't forget it, that may be a message from your animal guide.
For instance you may be thinking "I wonder if mine is the wolf? Wolf wolf wolf." but a weirdo little otter keeps coming to your mind and you can't make it leave, embrace the otter for its playfulness, peace of spirit, love, speed and ability to hide, and realize this might be your spirit animal.
Once you have settled on something, however unsure you are, look for its presence in your daily life. Where do you see images of this animal, or this animal itself? Where do you find its characteristics? Do you see it in patterns of speech, sounds or colors? If not, you should find a different animal. But if you really feel everything falling into place, you're in a good spot.
Once you have found your spirit animal, you think, let me know and I will give you some simple exercises to do to help strengthen the bond between you.
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