Spirit Animals and You: Discovering Your Animal Companion!

Spirit Animals and You: Discovering your Animal Companion!

A Spirit Animal (also known as a Totem Animal, Spirit Guide, or sometimes Familiar) is an animal that aids you not only in everyday life, but in spellwork. This article is geared more towards the Pagan/Wiccan community, but anyone can have a Spirit Animal, no matter what your faith is! If you’re new and curious to finding your Spirit Animal, forget everything you have learned (Well, don’t forget EVERYTHING, but be prepared to set some old information out on the curb and put the new information in its place). You are about to be schooled on the proper way to find your companion!

Spirit animals go back to the shamans, who usually had an animal companion in the astral realm to assist them. They are also prevalent in the Native American lifestyle (many shamans were Native American, but they’re present in all parts of the world). Now, more and more people want to meet their astral guides; but some are going about it the wrong way. Here is a list of the things you SHOULDN’T do to find your spirit animal.

1.       Online quizzes. There are MANY quizzes that say “Find your Spirit Animal”. They give you a list of questions, and then word your answer to trick you into thinking it’s true. Let me tell you right off the bat that this is wrong. No quiz ANYWHERE will tell you what your companion is.

2.        Picking your Favourite Animal. Sometimes, one’s favourite animal from childhood is their Spirit Animal. There is nothing wrong with this; sometimes a favourite animal has become so because they are constantly around, teaching a person or giving some sort of message. What has been happening quite frequently is people simply assuming that their favourite animal is their Spirit Animal. While this CAN happen, it is NOT always the answer!

3.       Picking a “majestic” animal that “relates” to you. One of the themes in this article, I should mention, is that you do not pick your Spirit Animal; your Spirit Animal picks YOU. A lot of people choose the Wolf as their Spirit Animal without thinking about what it teaches and truly means. Your Spirit Animal might not relate to you at all; maybe there’s a lesson that needs learning!