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Original Message
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When discovering totems you must first understand if the totem is a Life Totem, A Journey Totem, Shadow Totem, or a Message Totem. All totems are powerful but the meaning that the totem brings will vary on your action depending on what type of totem has come to you.
Your Life Long Animal Totem works with you throughout your entire life or until such time that you no longer need that animal totem. It is always there when you need it's powers. Always reminding you of your power and connectivity. You may have only one or a few Life totems. They may become your Life totem at any time. But the primary Life Totem will be our focus at this time. The messages that your Life Totem brings are a hard reminder from Mother. Your Life Totem is always there for you and generally reflects your inner spiritual nature. Many call your Life Long animal totem your Spirit totem. For example if your Life Totem was a Penguin you would be a person who should be very spiritual since the penguin moves better in water (the symbol of the astral plane - which is were we go when we dream) than it does on land. Being able to leap out of the water (up to six feet) represents the ability of out of body experiences. It is also important to understand which type of penguin is your animal totem since some have additional characteristics that are important to consider, like most penguins life in tropical conditions not arctic ones.
A Journey Animal Totem reflects a period of time. Not just a day but weeks, months, or maybe year s- the time it takes you to walk the path that the Animal Totem is reminding or guiding you on. During this journey you will find that this animal is always showing up in your life or that several animal totems will appear in your life all to guide you on the path. When you find one, two or three animals all of a sudden making an appearance and their nature all has the same basis then you have found the basis of your path. The difference between the Journey Animal Totem and the Message Animal Totem is a period of time. A Message animal Totem will bring itself to you quickly and impartially where a Journey Animal Totem will slip in and out of your life over the course of a period. Looking into the cycle of the animal also can give insight to the length of the journey.
A Message Animal Totem usually is bringing you a self growth, spiritual message, or a cautionary warning. It is often a wake up call or slap in the face. It will usually be a very unusual experience making it very powerful at that time and very impartial. A Message Totem is a brief period of time, a day, a week, and occasionally as much as a couple of months but can be immediate for just a few hours. Sometimes a Message totem is not bringing you a message but causing a delay in your life. This delay, such as when you are trying to leave to go somewhere, is often in assistance for you; to be sure you are not in a place at a certain time so that you avoid an accident or can catch a phone call or meet someone you are supposed to run into.
A Shadow Animal Totem are those totems that test us. They have great power for us but will put us through tests before they will let their power work with and for us, instead of against us. In all of nature there is prey and predator. In the spiritual or Shadow World there is the same. A Shadow Animal Totem is one that initially you fear. The Shadow Totem often represents inner fears that you must overcome. You may have even been attracted by the animal; a very vivid test to see if you are ready to accept the power of the animal totem. Until you face the fears of the Shadow Animal Totem it's powers will work against you, not letting you soar high. When you overcome the fear of the Shadow Animal Totem you bring it into the Light World as a Spirit animal totem and they become one of your most powerful Animal Totems. Your goal with a Shadow Totem is to learn the lessons and incorporate that animal into your life. If you are scared by something over and over then you still have not accepted the lesson that animal has for you.
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Alligator: Maternal, revenge oriented, quickness, aggression, and basic survival instincts.
Ant: Group minded, determination, patient, active, and industrious
Anteater: Lethargy, curiosity, nosiness.
Antelope: Active, agile, jumpiness, and willing to sacrifice
Armadillo: Safety oriented, grounded, and has boundaries
Badger: Courage, aggressive, healer, having problems relating to others, and energy conduit
Bat: Rebirth, longevity, secrecy, initiation, good listener, and long life
Bear: Industrious, instinctive, healing, power, sovereignty, guardian of the world, watcher, courage, will power, self-preservation, introspection, and great strength.
Beaver: Determined, strong-willed, builder, overseer, and protector
Bee: Organized, industrial, productive, wise, community, celebration, fertility, defensiveness, obsessive nature, and enjoys life
Boar/Pig: A very powerful totem - prosperity, spiritual strength, organized, self-reliant, fearless.
Buffalo: Sacredness, life, great strength, abundance, gratitude.
Bull: Insight into the past, fertility, rushing into things without proper preparation.
Butterfly: Metamorphosis, transformation, balnace, grace, ability to accept change
Camel: Survival, positive, accomplishments
Caribou: Traveler, mobility, preference to be nomadic, adaptability to adversity
Cat: Guardianship, detachment, sensuality, mystery, magic, and independence
Cheetah: Swiftness, insight, focus
Cougar: Leadership, loyalty, courage, taking responsibility, foresight
Cow: Swift, insightful, and focused
Coyote: Trickster, intelligence, stealth, wisdom and folley, guile and innocence
Cheetah: Nourishment and mother figure
Cobra: Swift and decisive
Coyote: Stealth, mischief, rickster, intelligent, clowining around, ability to recognize mistakes.
Crab: Good luck, protection and success
Crane: Solitude, justice, longevity, independent, intelligent, and vigilant
Crocodile: Ensuring your emotions are displayed accurately/appropriately
Crow: Justice, shape shifting, change, creativity, spiritual strength, energy, community sharing, and balance
Deer: Compassion, peace, intellectual, gentle, caring, kind, subtlety, gracefulness, femininity, gentleness, innocence, and seller of adventure
Dog: Noble, faithful, loyal, teaching, protection, and guidance.
Dolphin: Kind, salvation, wisdom, happiness, playfulness, prudent, capable of deep emotion, and happy.
Dove: Cross-world communication, spirit messenger, peace, gentleness, love
Dragonfly: Flighty and carefree, strong imagination, higher aspirations.
Duck: Water energy, helper of seers, can clearly see/deal with emotions
Eagle: Divine spirit, sacrifice, connection to creator, intelligence, renewal, courage, illumination of spirit, healing, creation, freedom, and risk-taker
Elephant: Strength, power, affection, loyalty, royalty, and wisdom
Elk: Strength and agility, pride, majestic, independence, purification, strength, and nobility
Falcon: New beginnings, adventure, passionate, and leadership.
Fish: Graceful, slyness, open-minded, quick to change one's mind.
Flamingo: Heart healing, psychic, people person, flirtatious.
Fox: Cunning, agility, quick-witted, diplomacy, wildness, feminine magic of camouflage, shapeshifting and invisibility
Frog: Water energy, cleansing, rebirth, sensitivity, medicine, hidden beauty, peace, adaptability, poor character judgment and power.
Gazelle: Aggressive
Giraffe: Communication, intuition, attaining the unreachable, seeing the future
Goat: Surefootedness, stubbornness, independence, diligence, lack of foresight.
Goose: Self-demanding, reliable, prudent, rigid, vigilance, parenthood, and productive.
Gorilla: Family-oriented, intelligence, strength, environmental protector, keeps peace through aggression.
Grasshopper: Good luck, abundance, forward, progressive.
Grouse: Personal power, enlightenment.
Hawk: Messenger, intuition, victory, healing, nobility, recollection, cleansing, visionary power, and guardianship.
Heron/Egret: Aggressive, self-determined, self-reliant, multi-tasking, balanced.
Hippopotamus: Power, creation, imagination, healing.
Horse: Freedom, stamina, mobility, the land, travel, power, and freedom.
Hummingbird: Messenger, timelessness, healing, and warrior.
Jaguar: Chaos, shape-shifter, aggressiveness, power.
Kangaroo: Forward, balance, creative, stamina.
Lion: Family, strength, energy, courage, guardian and protector.
Lizard: Conservation, vision, self-protection, hidden defenses.
Llama: Comforting to others, secure.
Lynx: Keeper of secrets, guardian, listener, and guide.
Mole: Sensitivity, guidance, searching.
Monkey: Ability to change the environment, health, success.
Moose: Headstrong, longevity, steadfastness, and wisdom.
Mouse: Scrutiny, order, organizer, and an eye for details.
Octopus: Intelligence, camouflage, nocturnal.
Opossum: Diversion, strategist, and deceiver.
Ostrich: Grounded, practical.
Otter: Playful, friendly, dynamic, joy, helpfulness, and sharing
Owl: Deception, clairvoyance, insight, messenger.
Ox: Sacrifice, chastity and self-denial
Panther: Protection, hidden emotions, introspection, caution, careful decisions
Parrot: Communication, beauty, guide for wisdom, mockery, thinking before speaking
Peacock: Immortality, dignity, and self-confidence
Pelican: Resilient, unselfish, rising above.
Penguin: Self-discipline, grace, self-confidence, spiritual
Porcupine: Innocence, companionship, and trust
Prairie Dog: Swiftness, industrious, constructive, preparedness
Puma: Companion on journeys to other worlds, grace, silent power
Quail: Group-work, team play, creator of harmony and group tolerance, protectiveness (especially toward children)
Rabbit: Fear, timidity, nervousness, humility, rebirth,
Raccoon: Curiosity and cleanliness
Ram: Stoic, sensitive, persevering, curious, imaginative.
Rat: Fertility, stealth, scavenging, intelligence, enjoys luxury
Raven: Introspection, courage, self-knowledge, magic
Rhinoceros: Wisdom, solitary, insightful, solid.
Roadrunner: Mental agility, speed, opportunistic.
Rooster: Vanity, likes to be showered with gifts and attention, early riser, settling for nothing less than the best
Salmon: Proud, intense, confident, wisdom, inspiration
Scorpion: Transforming, strong, inspiring, chaotic, passionate
Seagull: Versatility, loud, easy-going nature, creativity, laziness
Seahorse: Confidence and grace
Seal: Love, longing, dilemma, active imagination, creativity
Shark: Hunter, survival, and adaptability
Skunk: Reputation, presence, and strength
Snail: Protective, aware, solitary.
Snake: Impulsive, shrewdness, rebirth, transformation, initiation, and wisdom
Spider: Balance, wisdom, creativity, communication
Squirrel: Planner and gatherer
Stag: Lord of the forest, masculine power of regeneration, signs.
Swan: Grace, balance and innocence, soul, love, beauty, of the self
Tiger: Strength, valor, power, and energy
Toad: inner strength, luck, self-examination
Turkey: Generosity, life-giver, and sharer
Turtle: Nurturer, shy, and protecting
Weasel: Strength, energy, ingenuity and stealth
Whale: Wisdom, provider, intelligence, and kindness.
Wolf: Loyalty, perseverance, success, intuition, and spirit
Woodpecker: Sensitive, protective, and devotion
Zebra: Agility and individuality
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