While I was creating my website for Animal Spirit Talker, I took several days to meditate with 10 different animals. As I contemplated this, I asked each animal what their role is as someone’s totem. The results of this deep meditation changed me. I felt closer than ever to nature and the wisdom that the animals posses and can teach us.
Eagle as a Totem
Freedom and independence are yours, he told me. Free will is your birthright. You must beware, however, that with this privilege comes great responsibility. Do not take this freedom for granted. Guard your choices carefully, for they greatly influence and effect the world in which you live. Value your freedom and your independence.
Native American culture is known for its reverence of nature and its strong belief in the spiritual world. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that one of their most sacred spiritual concepts is a being that brings these two ideas together: the totem animal.
Native American totem animals appear frequently in American Indian art, serving as a prominent symbol on both a cultural and individual level. A totem animal is a teacher and a guide, not necessarily an animal that characterizes you, but one that can help you learn more about yourself. This animal guide offers wisdom and a spiritual connection, helping you to feel joy, peace and clarity.
In Native American culture, a totem animal is
the spiritual symbolof an individual, family, or tribe.
Life Totems
We each come into this world accompanied by an animal spirit that walks with us on our soul journey through space and time. These spirit guides are very personal totems since they strongly reflect our inner spiritual nature. These life totems are animal spirits that are with you your entire life. They are your essence, your character, and reflect your innate core traits. This relationship remains the same throughout your life. They are your closest personal guides to help discover the truth of who you are. They are always with you.
One could have several of these life totems since they guide us along our path and give us courage and strength in our journey. They may appear to you at separate times throughout your life or perhaps alternating in appearances, all to teach us lessons we need to learn.
Spirit Animal Guides
“Animal Guides” are animals that are with you for a long or short duration of time depending on what is happening in your life. This relationship can last days or years depending on the lessons it is trying to teach. They guide you to expand and incorporate knowledge by building up spiritual character and 
awareness. They may teach through the emotional experiences that we need to encounter whether it be fear, anger, insecurity, confidence, strength or patience. These animals may frequently come to you in dreams and meditation and impart valuable lessons and spiritual tools. The length of time they are around depends on how well you learn and incorporate the knowledge into your life.
These spirit animal guides have chosen you and will appear when you are ready to understand the lessons. They are also usually wild in nature (not domesticated). There is an unmistakable familiar knowing associated with its appearance.
Honor, respect and attentiveness must be given because you are now ready for a new segment in your journey. Over time trust is built and we eventually take on those imbued characteristics and merge with the animal spirits, becoming one with the energy.
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Kristin Short, Feng Shui Consultant, Holistic Life Coach, St Paul, Minnesota
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