Animal Speak
The best-selling book, “Animal Speak – The Spiritual and Magical Powers of Creatures Great and Small” 1 by Ted Andrews 2, helps you to open your heart and mind to the wisdom of the animal world. Animal Speak provides techniques for recognizing and interpreting the signs and omens of nature. Meet and work with animals as totems and spirits by learning the language of their behaviors within the physical world.
Animal Speak shows you how to: identify, meet, and attune to your spirit animals; discover the power and spiritual significance of more than 100 different animals, birds, insects, and reptiles; call upon the protective powers of your animal totem; and create and use five magical animal rites, including shape-shifting and sacred dance.
Animal Speak CD
This best-selling book has become a classic reference for anyone wishing to forge a spiritual connection with the majesty and mystery of the animal world. It is also available in a CD version. The following is an excerpt from Animal Speak:
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Awakening to Your Animal Totem
Learning to draw upon the energies of your animal totem through the use of creative imagination is essential to awakening the magic and power of its medicine.
Rather than you choose it, keep in mind that the totem will have symbolic significance to you. The more you learn about it and meditate on how it might reflect your own life, the easier it will become to access its energies.
Eagle
In exercises such as these, most people get into trouble with the interpretation of the images encountered. Your nature totem may be a bird, a mammal, or even an insect or reptile. Read, study, and learn about your nature totem to facilitate your being able to relate it to yourself. Don’t just accept the totem without question. The imagination is a wonderful tool, but if not used properly, it can mislead. Put your totem through a simple verification process:
- How does it feel?
- What emotions/sensations does it arouse in you?
- Is it an animal that interested you in the past?
- What does it make you think of?
- What is your heartfelt response?
Do not haphazardly discard it, simply because it is not as glamorous as what your ego may have wanted. The totem may be quite appropriate to you, but you will not know until you study and explore more closely the qualities and characteristics of it. Use the dictionaries in this book to assist you, but do not limit yourself to them. Do your own exploration. Searching out the significance of the totem and its application to you and your life circumstances is a way of honoring it. It is the first step in opening a communication that can lead to true animal-speak.
If after your studying and exploration you cannot find its application to you, perform the exercise again. If you have a totem appear with fangs showing or it is in any way frightening, simply come out of the exercise. There will be no harm. You can end wherever you wish. You can experience as much as you wish. Totems teach that there is but one moment and you are in charge of that moment.
Angry Bear
Keep in mind too that frightening images are more often than not projections of your own fears. They may also be expressions of resistance. It is amazing sometimes how programmed we are not to accept anything that can’t be rationally explained in the moment. Most people have some degree of programming of the idea—“Better the devil you know than the one you don’t.” When you start exploring the inner realms and their play upon the outer world through nature, it can be a little disturbing. There is often a sense of being vulnerable and unprotected, of having no control. If you find yourself encountering fear and resistance, think about your favorite pet, and imagine taking it along with you in the exercise. This will calm you, and its energy is always loving and protective to you on the inner realms.
With exercises such as those that follow, individuals often wonder if they are experiencing a true shamanic journey. The difference is simply in the depth of experience. In a true shamanic journey, you are actually in it, feeling it and experiencing it first hand. It will not always follow a prescribed pattern. In meditational exercises, such as the following, you often observe yourself experiencing the situation or imagining how it would be experienced. With time and practice the meditation can become a doorway to a true journey.
Most exercises to discover one’s totem can follow a basic pattern:
- Relaxation.
- Entering a cave or tree.
- Leaving the cave or tree to enter a meadow or natural area.
- Experiencing peacefulness of nature.
- Allowing the totem to enter the scene.
- Allowing the animal to speak to you—its movement, sounds, form, color, etc, will give you a message about its power. You may even hear its thoughts in your own. Allow it to tell you or show you how it has helped you in the past and how it will do so in the future.
- Give thanks to it for making itself known, and ask it for some tangible confirmation in the next week or so that it is truly your animal totem. Such confirmations can come in many ways. You may see its face in the markings of a stone. It may come to you in a dream. You may encounter figurines, pictures or television. programs on it, but if it is truly your totem, there will come some confirmation of its presence in tangible form, in a quantity that is more than coincidence.
- Move back to the cave or tree and step back through it to its other entrance point. Then step out from it.
- Take four or five slow, deep breaths and allow yourself to feel grounded and connected.
- Begin your verification process. Research and study the totem and its qualities. Meditate and contemplate on its qualities as they apply to you and your life circumstances.
Preparation:
Drums and rattles are effective instruments to use, although they are not crucial. If drums and rattles are used, the rhythm should be slow and steady.
Drum
You should allow the drum beat to lead you. I recommend you not do any imaging, but simply sit and feel the drumbeat for at least five minutes. This relaxes you and brings your body rhythms into synchronization with the drum. If you do not have drums or a rattle, you may use some soft music that is repetitive and non-intrusive.
Make sure you will not be disturbed. Take the phone off the hook, lock the door, and/or do whatever is necessary so that you will not be interrupted. Make yourself comfortable. Sit or lie down, whichever is easiest for you, but make sure your back is straight so that the blood can flow freely up the spine. Close your eyes and breathe deeply. Then begin to perform a progressive relaxation. Focus on each part of your body, sending warm, soothing sensations through it. Begin at the feet and work your way to the top of your head. Take your time with this. The more relaxed you are, the more effective the exercise will be. Don’t worry if your mind wanders. Just bring it back to where you left off and continue. Then simply imagine the scenes that follow.
Exercise:
As you relax, you find yourself growing lighter and lighter. The surroundings seem to fade, and you are wrapped in the warm dark cloak of your own energy and mind. It is safe, warm and comfortable.
Lake Waterfall
In your mind’s eye you begin to see soft light, and slowly the view opens. You find yourself at the edge of a crystalline pool of water. The sky above is blue, and there is a soft haze on the distant horizon. Above you, the sun and the moon can be seen together in the sky. You are not sure if it is dusk or dawn, but you know it is one of those powerful “Between Times,” a time in which there is a thinning of the veils between the physical and the spiritual.
To your right, at the end of the pool, is a waterfall. The spray from it is cool and misty, and where it touches the pool, water ripples outward, distorting all reflections. It gives the area a surreal appearance. You look about you at the green grasses and the distant trees, and all is silent.
It is as if nature is in a state of quiet anticipation. You look back to the waterfall and you notice a dark area behind it. You move toward it, and as you stand close to the waterfall, you see a cave half-concealed behind it. You step carefully behind the waters and into the muted darkness of the inner cave. You are surprised, for it is illuminated with soft torches. The light given off from them give the open chamber a warmth. Somehow it looks familiar, and it makes you feel as if you were expected.
To the back of that chamber is a tunnel that is also lit with torches. You glance over your shoulder to the area beyond the waterfall, and then walk further into the cave. It is as warm and comfortable as it first appeared, and as you step further in toward that back tunnel, you feel a slight giddiness, and a soft childlike laugh slips out. For the first time in a long time, you feel like a child, about to open and explore wondrous treasures of the world. You step from the chamber onto the path of the tunnel and begin to follow it slowly. It is well lit, and you are not at all uncomfortable. You reach out and touch the walls with your hands, and you are surprised at their warmth. It is as if you could feel the life blood of the earth itself flowing through its walls.
Cave Tunnel
As you move further along, the tunnel widens and grows taller. The torches are fewer and more distant, but you notice that it seems to be getting lighter still. Then you pass a couple of torches that are not even lit. You stop and touch them, just to confirm they have not recently gone out, and then as you look ahead, you see the reason. The tunnel has widened so greatly that the sun is able to penetrate almost fifty yards back.
You can see beyond the end of the tunnel. There is a distant river and lush green grass. The sunlight sparkles off of it as it would the morning dew on a summer’s day. Across the field is the edge of a rich, deep-green forest. You pause only a moment, and then you run the last fifty yards and burst from the tunnel into the warm sunlight of this beautiful meadow. The sun is warm upon your face, and the grass soft beneath your feet. Your nose is teased with the fragrance of honey and spring wild flowers. The air is sweet, and you tilt your head back and stretch your arms wide. You spin and swirl and laugh at the beauty and lightness of this meadow.
Next to the river is a large, ancient oak tree. Surrounding it is the greenest and most lush grass you have ever seen. You run to it and sit down beneath it. You stretch out, and roll in its softness, and you inhale its sweetness. Then you sit up. Next to the tree is a stone, shaped as if carved into a chair. You sit down upon it, and as you do, you find that it fits your form perfectly.
It makes you giggle with wonder. You breathe deeply, and from this chair you look about you. It is quiet and peaceful, and you know that this meadow is a place where wildlife must surely come, and for a moment you envy the animals and the birds for having such a place of beauty.
Stone Chairs
You sit upon that stone chair and you enjoy the beauty of nature. It is as if with each breath you become more and more a part of it, and it becomes more and more a part of you. Then suddenly your breath catches. You see a movement out of the corner of your eye at the edge of the forest. You hold your breath. Maybe you will get to see some wildlife. Then from among the trees comes movement.
It may soar above you or it may step out into the meadow. You sit still. watching, as an animal appears in your vision. Don’t force it. Allow it to show itself to you. And as it does, its eyes seek you out and hold your gaze.
Never have you seen anything so wonderful, so unique. Such animals have always seemed so wild and out of touch. There is no fear as it moves closer, only recognition and wonder. Surely this must be a dream! Then, as if in response to your thoughts, it makes a sound, a movement, a gesture and you fix your eyes upon it. In that moment you begin to understand. You catch glimpses of memories of how it may have helped you in the past. You now know why you have always been fascinated with it. And then it begins to move toward that tunnel. It pauses and turns to look back at you, as if telling you it is time to go on. You stand and begin to follow it. As you approach the mouth of the tunnel, it waits. It is so close; with a few steps you could touch it.
Carefully, gently you extend your hand out to it, but before your hand gets close enough to actually touch it, it jumps and is heading back to the edge of the forest. It pauses, looking back at you once more and then disappears into the green. You understand. It will take time to develop a relationship. There is much you have to learn from each other. Until then you must be patient. You smile a sweet sadness, and then move back into the tunnel following it back to the waterfall.
Wolf Reflection
As you step from the cave and behind the waterfall, you look into the crystal pool. You see your reflection rippling, and then behind your reflection you see the form of your animal totem. You catch your breath and you laugh, thanking it for opening to you. As you do, its image disappears, and the scene around you begins to fade. You are again in the warm darkness of your own mind. The image of your totem is strong within you, as you breathe deeply and allow yourself to come back to your surroundings.
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The information above has been reproduced here with full permission of the article author, Pamela Nine PhD. Her website is: Pamela Nine, Ph. D
Pamela Nine
Pamela is internationally known as a “Messenger of Spirit” and highly acclaimed Psychic, Medium, Counselor and Spiritual Teacher. She is also a Certified Reiki Master and Ordained Minister with a Doctorate Degree in Religion. She has been in the wellness profession for more than twenty years, and is the Owner of Nine Wellness Centre, located in Knoxville, TN. She specializes in Intuitive, Grief and Spiritual Counseling, Reiki Natural Energy Healing and Educational Programs.
Article source: Discovering Your Animal Totem
Image source: Animal Speak, Animal Speak CD, Eagle, Angry Bear, Drum, Lake Waterfall, Cave Tunnel, Stone Chairs, Wolf Reflection, Pamela Nine
- Ted Andrews, First Edition, 28th Printing 2004. ISBN 0-87542-028-1 ↩
- Ted Andrews – acclaimed author, most notable for Animal Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small, born 1952, died on October 24, 2009. ↩
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Hi Timberwolf,
I so admire the work of Ted Andrews. Thank you for including this article on your site! And, the photos you’ve added are exceptional! You always have a way of making the best come out in the way you add your special light.
I also admire the work you do as a “Spiritual Warrior.” You are an amazing writer and teacher all on your own. God bless you for all you do.
With love and blessings to you….always,
Pamela
.-= Pamela Nine, Ph.D.´s last blog ..Main Content =-.
My animal totem, and my discovery of it, have both been significant aspects of my spiritual journey. With the assistance of The Mankind Project process, I was able to very clearly and certainly confirm the totem that I knew was always there with me. After -2- grueling sessions, I was absolutely 100% sure that CROW is my totem. Crow first confirmed this while I was in deep physical peril, far away from civilization and transportation near Twelve Foot Falls in the midst of an enexpected massive spring blizzard in Marinette County in Wisconsin. The crows hovered, conveying that death was a beautiful part of life. They told me they would eat my eyeballs first. Not so ironically, I was there at the falls on a healing quest after doctors told me I was surely to go blind. Then, much later, after being given my Zen name, for the first time during an intense Buddhist Sessioin, I heard the first crow of the week, highly unusual in crow country that time of year. It landed just behind where I was seated, telling me that its name and its essense had become part of me.
So now, I carry -3- names: John (my original given name); Kabhir (my Zen name); and Shiningcrow11 (my totem name). This is not sheer fantasy. The names and what they represent are REAL.
Again thankyou Timberwolf for your wonderful site, I agree with Pamela, the work you do is lovely. My experience with animal totems is that they change according to the changes in our journey, times when it’s snakes everywhere, or swooping owls, eagles that soar and the animals for me vary, yet certainly the thought I am thinking when I encounter a totem animal experience, how it feels, what experience in me it reinforces, this always changes. Yesterday in conversation a dear friend spoke of a Possum silhouetted against a magnificent full moon perched on a fence…..immediately I sensed it’s message for him and thought no more of it…..until that same night one scurried after a ruckus in the bushes along a fence, you guessed it across a massive full moon…….oh the message was for me as well………..animals are so special, once I sat at a girlfriends gate as a wild fox ventured forwards to allow me to touch it…nothing compares with such a gift. Whatever can touch such a magical moment, animals are indeed such a joy for us …so wonderfully they convey their messages…………Life is a delight indeed!!
Ursula, do you see your animal spirit guides in meditation or in the world about you? What messages do you take from them when you encounter them? The answers would make a good article here at Timberwolf HQ. A guest post perhaps.
I experience, interact with and see animals in my world all the time as a extension/reflection or even an expression of my learning process, usually their behavior in relationship with me in that moment combined with perhaps the thought in my head at that very moment brings it’s meaning to me, I remember the day I stood beneath a tree in my garden with the wife of a man who came to visit us, her head was in a turbin and she was well into her episode with a cancerous brain tumor and……..as I looked into her I saw exactly why she had the cancer, the lesson for her, her children and husband ( she was a control freak and needed this experience to let go) I struggled with my wish to share my message with her until I spied over the top of her head an Owl staring at me very strongly…………………I felt it’s power in my body and heard a voice inside me say……this is not your journey, your intuition is right but silence is the better part of valor in this case, just watch and learn what you can for yourself”…………………..this is very typical of my encounters.
The day I was walking in the bush and knew there was a snake about somewhere……….a man in his jocks came crashing through the bushes in a headlong run, he was training for a marathon and I thought, oh that was what I sensed so I relaxed and a moment later, I am walking right beside a very large tiger snake coming the other way on a ledge at shoulder height…..we were less that a meter apart………..I looked it in the eye as it did me, and I could feel us both say to one another………I am not here to hurt you but I am scared, lets keep moving and we did……………..I have never felt such powerful and deep inner communion…with life itself, it was an adrenaline rush like you would not believe. That which appears frightening is actually safe!!! Often what’s appears safe should be frightening us, I’ve never been afraid of snakes since………I have hundreds of these tales to tell as animals are constant ever-present companions on my journey……….an eagle flying alongside my vehicle less than ten feet away from me and just above the road. telling me, “you can fly wherever you are…ground level affords soaring possibilities too” They also come into my life, pass away and return reincarnated………….more powerful, more evolved simply because they served me and I them and they return to further their journey. I had a cat recently……..Zues, who shielded me from negative projections from my mother that I was not far enough along in my trip to not feel resentful about……..he developed kidney cancer and died, he is often around me, and so on and so forth it goes……animals speak a magnificent language if we go to where they are!!
Their antics, behavior and nature represents always an aspect of our own nature that needs clarifying or understanding………..kookaburras laugh and tell us to lighten up! Ducks waddling past represent emotional balance…always when animals appear it’s just perfect!
Wow! I just found your website, it’s amazing! Are you the same people that have Tranquility HQ website! If so congratulations I think that is the best website! I’ve forwarded the link for Tranquility HQ to a couple of my friends here at the ABC in Adelaide.
Thank you for such a beautiful website. I’ve been told that I’m an animal intuitive and I’ve just bought the book featured on this website. I got a shiver down my back when I first looked at this website, so I must be on the right track!
thanks for letting me share!
Susan
I don’t know how I missed responding to your comment and I sincerely apologize for the oversight. Yes we are the same people who produce Tranquility HQ. I’m really pleased you enjoyed your visit to both sites. We have recently developed another site that you may also find interesting. It is a forum designed to be a sister site to Timberwolf HQ and Tranquility HQ. Please stop by Blogshido and let us know what you think. Membership is free.
Thanks again for stopping by and leaving your comment.
Timberwolf
Timberwolf
I am having problems contackting the totum and imaging everything i need some help plz
Jessie
What seems to be the problem? Are you having difficulty in relaxing, in the visualisation needed to take the journey? Or is it something else? If you can give me some indication I may be able to assist. Otherwise you may just need to read the experiences of other readers on the Wolf Spirit article. This may help you find the necessary calm and quite to succeed.
Timberwolf
Hello, before I post my story (and my questions!) I’d like to introduce myself. My online name is Nevreme, or Nevvy, and since I am underage I do not share my real name over the net. I have always felt a strong connection and love for animals of all kinds, large mammals especially. The horse is my favorite animal and I have been riding for ten years though I do not think my spirit animal is a horse. I have made a few attempts at contacting my spirit animal and only twice has something happened.
The first time I used your method with a few slight modifications that my mind made. To reach my cave I had to climb over large, smooth stones that covered the ground around the waterfall and pool. I went through the cave and when I came out I was in a grassy meadow with a clear pool of water at the far end. I started to walk toward the pool when I began to feel strangely. I looked down to find my right arm had turned into a thick, strong horse leg. Looking behind me I saw the back and tail of a blood bay equine with a thick black dorsal stripe. I immediately thought “Oh! Am I a horse?”. I think now that I should have been scared but I wasn’t. In fact I felt happier than I have in weeks. A sense of peacefulness came over me along with a feeling of childish joy and energy. I began to gallop over the field, bucking and leaping just because I could. I had no real human thoughts, my mind was filled with simple pleasures. It was amazing. Finally I began to wonder if I could change back. As soon as I tried I snapped out of my vision, breathing hard.
I am guessing this is unusual since I have only ever heard of one other person shape shifting while meditating and they had already found their spirit animal.
The second time I tried my own scene. I imagined a massive oak tree in the middle of a clearing and I climbed high into the branches. I sat for a few moments, letting myself relax before climbing slowly back down. From the clearing I followed a trail that went through the woods and over some fields. I have gone horse back riding on this trail before and it makes me feel peaceful. At the end of the trail is a wide, shallow river. I slowly made my way down the bank but when I reached the edge of the river I saw a huge brown grizzly bear standing in the water not ten feet away from me. The bear (I get the feeling it was a female though I don’t know for sure) looked over at me and began to turn toward me. I was not afraid of the bear, strangely enough, but I was afraid of the fact that it had already been there when I arrived. Not knowing what else to do I broke from my meditation.
It was only afterward that I realized my spirit animal may have been trying to contact me also, which would be a reason for it to be waiting for me. I am going to try to contact the bear again to hopefully learn its name and why it was waiting for me. I was hoping you would have some ideas on why I shape shifted my first time and why the bear was waiting for me the second time.
Thank you in advance for your help and thank you as well for inspiring me to try and find my spirit guide.
Welcome Nevvy.
Thank you for your story and for your honesty about who you are and why you are here. This is a rare thing indeed. So is the nature of your shapeshifting. Do you know if you were born in the Chinese year of the horse? This may explain your significant connection with horse energy. Otherwise it is probably a phenomenon related to your affinity with the horse for recreation and the deep seated desire to run free as they do when not being ridden.
As to your experience with contacting your spirit animal, it doesn’t matter what method you use, it is only necessary to be able to relax enough to reach out and call to your spirit guide. You are correct in assessing that she (I feel it is a female bear) is attempting to contact you as well. This is encouraging as it will make your next effort to contact her more successful.
Please come back when you have successfully contacted your spirit guide and share with us what you have learnt.
Timberwolf
Hi Nevvy…I thought I would share with you the experience I had when reading your post…( a week ago) …I read it only moments after asking myself an important question on how to cope with my very difficult aged mother, with whom I was staying for a while…her energy is very draining and debilitating ( it always has been) ! It’s hard to stay on top of things when with her.
So there I was moments later reading…I so identified with the feeling of becoming the horse, loving and living with horses as I do, that was easy…to feel the flow, beauty, freedom of full flight, sweet nature…all as if it was me. As I read on I realized that even though my name…Ursula is a derivation of Ursus, the bear I had never identified with Bear Energy!!! I would be frightened of having that much power!! Aaah I realized, the purpose of the horse experience was to enable me to shape shift into the horse, easy for me, so of course, the next step becoming the bear!! One leading to the other…by way of introduction…Suddenly I saw the meaning of the bear energy and your dream…wanted to post my answer but my mother’s internet dial up is so slow it won’t allow such posts.
So, I decided to use your dream as if it was my own, given it was the very next thing I encountered after my question!! This must be the universe via Nevvy and the Timberwolf site, giving me my answer.
Over the next few days my situation with my mother was transformed. Every time she became unreasonable/argumentative and looking for a fight, setting baits and traps…I transformed into the BEAR Energy, I could feel, see, hear and even smell my bear power, awesome standing strong and massive…my bear roar was deafening. I did feel invincible and YET…in knowing the power of my swipe and how one blow could devastate, I remained in an amazing place of empathy while standing my ground convincingly…my mother seemed to sense the transformation in my energy as did I and somehow…peace began to reign.
For me animal totem energy is best absorbed in such a manner that you become the very being of the creature so that it transforms your frequency and you live from that place. That’s how it worked for me, the horse energy was easy to take on…it gave me the courage to try on the bear energy…and it worked incredibly well…it transformed a situation and answered a question that has been a long time stumbling block for me.
Thanks Nevvy…hope my experience helps you too Ursula…little bear!!
Ursula and Nevvy…What a wonderful thing that has occured here? My site and this article has become the focus of some wonderful discussion and sharing. So much so that I have taken the step to create my own free forum site. I would dearly love for you both (and all my readers) to come by and register as members. We can then keep this discussion and community spirit going, sharing our knowledge and learning. The new forum is called Blogshido Forum.
I would love to see you there.
Timberwolf
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Hi Grandpa2000. Thak you for dropping by. I am also thankful of your offer, however, my traffic here is entirely organic and not prompted by paid advertising. I may in the future consider something like your offer, but not now.
Thank you again
Timberwolf
Hi Timberwolf! I am a teenage European girl. When I casually red your aricle “Discovering your animal totem” I started to see the world in a different way. I always loved animals especially wolves. At the moment I have not found my animal totem yet,but I’d like so much to find it someday. Thanks again for this amaizing articles you post. Do you mind one question? I have some virtual friends in Albania, do you think that they have totem animals (wolf spirit).
Thanks again
Alice
Namaste Alice
Thank you for dropping by Timberwolf HQ and for leaving a comment.
The awakening of your spiritual self will definitely bring about changes in the way you view the world. As to my articles, I am very pleased to hear that you enjoy them. I endeavour to ensure that the information is presented in an unbiased way so that everyone has an opportunity to ask themselves questions about what they have read.
As to your friends in Albania, it does not matter where you are in the world, Wolf can be your guide. I live in Australia and I have my very own wolf guide, Sheba. She is with me always.
I hope to see you back soon and to hear more about your spiritual growth.
Timberwolf
Hello Timberwolf,
I’ve been quietly seeking answers for a little over a year now. The notion of a spirit/animal guide is foriegn to me but I cannot ignore what has occurred. Spring 2010, I was on a ‘training’ weekend (I am military) in the northern Midwest. Our site was in a very isolated forest and we had bedded down for the night in our sleep sacks. Several of my peers mentioned that they had seen a trio of wolves run nonchalantly by an exercise during the day. When I went to sleep near our banked fire, I dreamed of a silver timber wolf. But it was if I was awake and watching the scene, the wolf slowly came up to me and sniffed me curiously and trotted away. I opened my eyes and looked around the camp area. The fire had almost died out but movement caught my eye near the trail. I was still rubbing the sleep out of my eyes but I caught the form of a wolf as it went back into the forest. Occasionally I still see a silver wolf in my dreams but it is always calm, more often than not we just seem to walk around companionably. I am not one for theatrics or drama but it is often brushed off by those around me as if I am making a joke. Out of curiosity I looked up animal totems, my birth month assigns me the wolf. I have audio clips of howling wolves and night sounds that I relax to. Is this a string of coincidences or is there substance behind my fixation with the wolf?
Namaste Marie
First let me say welcome to Timberwolf HQ. Now in answer to your question, we all have a number of spirit guides. They come in all shapes and forms. The article you have just commented on contains a meditation that has helped many readers contact their main animal spirit guide. From what you have said, it would appear that Wolf may well be one of your guides.
Try the meditaion and see where it leads you. When you have completed it come back and let my readers and I know what occured.
I look forward to seeing you back and reading more about your exciting explorations of the animal totems and spirit guides.
Timberwolf.
Hello Marie. Hello Timerbwolf, I read your posts late last night when I returned home from a party……I love life and the way that forces draw circumstances together to form pictures, ideas, thoughts and especially inspiration!!
I have recently returned to counselling finally able to describe what it is I do and therefore understand it better and also enjoy it more, for me other people’s lives, the patterns of energy around them that I can read is like doing a sudoku puzzle….so much fun!! I love it………the name I give it is ” energy interpretation” after 30 years plus of “asking questions” and seeking answers, together with my empathic nature, I have come to be able to read energy in people and give a translation to them of what is happening, as our world and it’s “chores and duties” often causes us to fall into forgetfullness around our ability to accurately and precisely read and see into ~ it…intuit…what’s going on!
As my posts above explain…I believe many different animals come to us over a lifetime, at certain times and for some people I suppose it might last a lifetime if it’s a huge issue…..as we change so does what we attract! My sense for you Marie is that what has drawn the wolf to you is the energy of on the one hand ” I’ve been seeking answers for over a year now” and if you are seeking answers then you must be asking questions……..this is the wolf energy of the pathfinder, the one who leaves the pack and seeks new paths, hence you have found this site….seeking, this in the loner energy of self sufficient wolf…the strong individualistic urge, the one who would find knowledge, information and sing to the moon ( symbol for psychic energy) for answers!!
And then, on the other hand you are ” in the military” and those around you scoff at your imaginings as they might see them! So this again is also the energy of the wolf, loyal and strong with a powerful sense of clan identity! Social and military structure create a world of rules and regulations, so wolf returns to the pack/family and brings that new awareness he has gained with his lone wanderings out into the woods back into the relationships of his familial situation so that his pack may learn and be better equiped for what life brings!
Energetically I sense that you are beginning to connect with new and perhaps foreign ideas to those of the people you might keep company with, even yourself….these ideas are just below the surface of consciousness and hold great potential for knowing of deeper wisdoms…..
The stealth of the wolf and it’s companionable nature is telling me, you have a powerful ally in wolf energy and also that stealth will serve you well….move deeper into your own knowing, trust what you “FEEL” and move with care and do not reveal yourself unwisely….you wouldn’t let the enemy know where you are, to those who might take your inner delving to be a joke, a fancy or some wild imagination not worthy of consideration, keep it to yourself and wait patiently for the “right” people with whom you can share your curious investigations with….there are many, thousands, millions of people like you out there asking questions!! Who is in charge? who has the final authority? Does god have amnesia? Is there a god? Who is running this show? How does the universe work? What is my place in it? Why am I here? What’s happening? Am I happening to my life or is it happening to me? Am I living this opportunity at life right? and so on and so forth…endlessly and it’s so much fun chasing those answers…enjoy Marie, enjoy, it is a grande journey…believe me!
And just for interest sake…..in my March 4 post of 2010 I spoke of how years ago I lost my cat Zeus, who had kidney cancer due to using himself as a shield for negative energy projected as me by a family member!! Well, he’s back….I went to the house of my daughter’s friends, her cat, Shiva had a litter of kittens and there he was! Clear as a bell…..that’s him, not a cat that reminds me of him, but him…..as I looked in his eyes I knew he was returned, reincarnated and he does everything and more that Zeus used to do…..back in my life….my husband named him Occy, after Mark Occhilupo the comeback kid of surfing history in Australia…
Lots of Love to all who come here for interest, wandering and wondering!!
UrsulaXOX
Ursula – Namaste my friend
Thank you for this comprehensive answer you have provided to Marie. It has spoken volumes more than many of the responses I could have provided. Not only that, it has spoken deeply to the motivation behind Timberwolf HQ and what drives readers here. A wonderful summation.
Marie, take note of Ursula’s wisdom. Remind yourself from time to time to revisit your experiences and examine the messages you find there. When the time is right the community you seek will open before you with joy and celebration that you have found your way home. In the meantime, enjoy Timberwolf HQ and the community we are building here.
Timberwolf
Thank you Ursula for the explanation you have given me.
As much as I consider the military a family/pack, I believe that your summary best applies to my greater extended family. Each generation of my family produced at least five children (I myself am one of five), we are an extremely close knit family that literally have not left the same small town. My immediate family however have been the ones to explore and leave this large group. Myself and my brothers became restless and three of us entered the military while the other two brothers live abroad.
Indeed we have always joked, unknowingly, that we were the black sheep or lone wolves of the group for our actions have met censure and criticism. We hoped though to encourage our younger cousins to explore and become open minded to new ideas. Something that I still struggle with when I return home.
I am happy to say that I have found a partner who I believe is my equal in ideology and intelligence, he also has an inquisitive nature and tests the bounds of authority (also within the military). Again, thank you for your help, it has cleared many of the questions I have so long harbored.
-Marie
Hi Timberwolf,
I found your website while researching about Wolf clan, wolf legends and everything about wolves in North American. About two weeks ago I dreamed about a wolf that attacked me, with its sharp teeth and shiny yellow eyes. But then it shifted into a man, a hunter, with nice smile and good looking features. He didn’t attack me further, instead he brought me to a place, green lush mountains with waterfalls, river, and huge pools with its deep blue crystal clear water. He said he would bring me to his pack leader, when suddenly I awoke. The dream was so vivid that it encouraged me to find out what it was. And I was so surprised to find some articles that discussing wolf legends and its relation to water, and how water indeed is a sacred thing for the wolf clan! I am not a person who easily believe in myth or something like that, but I think it was not a coincidence that I had that dream. Something must be related, and one of my best friend actually told me that it might be my guardian angel. I don’t know what actually it means … I’m still trying to figure it out, and I hope after reading all of your posts and related books I can understand it more.
Hello Julie….my sense of your dream experience pertains more so to how it
“feels” to me, were I the one in it………..the message I intuit is that…” Often what feels as if it is attacking us….fierce fangs and delving, piercing eyes….our fears, these painful feelings which seem to over whelm us and cause us to feel afraid, when we approach and face them we find they are actually leading us towards the answers we seek, all the water in your dream…waterfalls, rivers and huge pool, deep crystal clear water speaks of emotion…….as fire is spirit, as air is thought, so water is emotion……these emotions are lush with meaning and information and what at first seemed like an attacking energy turns out to be a nurturing/kind energy and it will take you to a higher place ( the leader)
This dream feels like it is asking you to face what you most fear feeling and you will be taken to a higher place, lovingly and kindly!!
Just a thought…Cheers UrsulaXO
Ursula, thanks so much for the interpretation! When I read your reply, it feels like a relief! XO … Well, yea I have lots of things that I fear lol… maybe it related too to my other dreams where I closed all doors and windows when some wolves trying to enter my house.
Ursula….. can you help me with my dream?….
My name is Carol, I read your articule on bother wolf spirit. I am content to have found you page and since a lot of information share reminds me of myself; I wanted to share a dream I had no to long ago, this dream has been poundering my mind ever since. Not sure if you can interpert and whit that said, I still would like to share and see what would be your response. I had a dream was under the moon light but did not see the moon, in fact I didn’t realize that until two days after the dream. I was in the forest, none in particular and I was carring meat, the meat was raw and for some reason I dropped the meat on the floor, not sure if I did because of presence of wolfs or because I was to there to feed them. I was soundered by wolfs, they were white in color but very few were like gayish and they were looking at me, like waiting for somethinig; I thought they were there to eat the meat but they will not eating it, they would smell it and look up to me, like waitng with something, It bother me a little not to realize they didn’t want to attack me and yet didn’t want to eat the meat, so I started grawling at them and in the dream one of them the wolf stated grawling back, but yet I didn’t feel theaten. It was like they were waiting for something but I did not understand. What they wanted. I am not sure if this has something to do whit a man who I am getting to know and seeing as a potential mate, who I was spending the night with and curiously enough, on top of his bed he has a dream cather form a cherokee tribe in North Carolina that he went to visit once for spiritual cleansing. I wonder what these wolfs were trying to tell me?
You are most welcome and I am happy it brought you some understanding, and relief….my son shared a similar dream he had last week with me, except that the animal totems were snakes, he was surrounded by them slithering all over him, and did feel afraid but none of them hurt him….he woke and asked for a meaning and got that the snakes represented for him shedding his skin, transitions and new beginnings and that he needn’t fear change….to me the nature/behavior of the animal usually represents the nature of the situation you are in….eagles ( see it from a higher point of view) …perhaps the fact that your animal totem is a wolf…indicates family issues, authority in the roles different people play…wolves are strong pack or family animals and have a highly structured hierarchy of power in their clan…they can be loners as well and are very loyal, also paying attention to family rules and mores!!
If you let your fears come close to you you will be richly rewarded will amazing information and insight into yourself…all the best and again….happy to be of service…all the best Ursula XOXO
Maybe my fears come from the misinterpretation of my dream. From where I came, people tend to interpret snakes, wolf, dog, as evils. Tiger and lion were okay, they symbolize power. If i dream about tiger and lion, usually I didn’t feel any worry. But once I dreamed about a snake flying inside my house thru the window when i was a kid, it scared me to death lol… and after that, I dreamed dogs, lots of dogs… before having wolf dream.
Having more knowledge about animals spirit from this site and from you, Ursula, really makes a difference for me
Julie, be welcome at Timberwolf HQ
I see that you have been conversing with Ursula, one of my friends and a guest author here on the site. She has given you much in the way of insight into your dreams and the animals that appear in them. There is a wonderful community here that is happy to help everyone who asks. I am pleased to see that you have received some benefit from your visits here.
I hope to see you back and look forward to reading more about you and your experiences.
Timberwolf
My name is Carol, I read Timberwolf’s articule on brother wolf spirits. I am content to have found the page and since a lot of the information shared reminded me of myself; I wanted to share a dream with you. This dream has been poundering my mind ever since. I have read your interpertations, I am hoping you might want to share some of your own insights with me.
In my dream, I was under the moon light but did not see the moon, in fact I didn’t realize that until two days after the dream. I was in the forest, none in particular and I was carring meat, the meat was raw and for some reason I dropped the meat, it was in bundles, packets of meats. I am not sure if my actions were taken because of presence of wolfs or because I was there to feed them (??). I was soundered by wolfs, the wolfs made a parcial circle around me, I was at the top of the circle, they were white in color but very few were like gayish and they were looking at me, like waiting for somethinig. I thought they were there to eat the meat but they weren’t eating it, they would smell it and look up to me, like waitng for something, It didn’t know what to do, I realized they didn’t want to attack me and yet didn’t want to eat the meat, so I started grawling at the closes one to me which stated grawling right back at me, but yet I didn’t feel theaten. It was like they were waiting for something but I did not understand what it was. During the time I was grawling at the wolf, I woke up and the first thing I saw was the person who I was sleeping in bed with, I knew it was time to stop grawling because I did’t want it to escalate to something unpeaceful, to my suprise, I woke up face to face with the man who was sleeping right next to me and he smiled and said, are you ok? I replied, yes, I was having a dream. After that I went right back to sleep. I am not sure if this has something to do whit him, who I am getting to know and who I see as a potential mate. Curiously enough, on top of his bed he has a dream cather form a cherokee tribe in North Carolina that he went to visit once for spiritual cleansing. I wonder what these wolfs were trying to tell me? Can you please help me?
On the other hand, first and fore most I am not a complet beilever of communicating whit animal spirits, I have never done it before. Not sure what am I missing or what I am to learn from the dream. However I feel that the pack of wolfs was a tribe and perhaps one of the wolfs in the tribe could represent my friend(?) Please be mindful that I am only speculating base on the readings of this webpage. On other side of things, I do keep in mind that my friend is marrage material. I also think because what comes to mind about the dream, is the posibility that this tribe is waiting for me to accept the fact that I am welcome? I have always worked very hard for what I have and not sure if the fact of me carring the meat was whit the intent of an offering or something. My sense of understanding tells me there was no need for an offering. Strange! Not sure what to think.
Please help and correct me if I am wrong….I would like to fully understand.
Thanks with ancitipation…
Carol
Almost a month ago, I shared a dream with this website in hopes of find some answers. Was my dream over looked? Did I give someone the impression of not being truthful? I honestly don’t have any idea about animals being a spiritual guide but would love to learn more. Please view my dream and let me know what it means, please!
I had a dream that I was under the moon light and walking in the forest, in the dream I was caring packets of raw meat and I am not sure if I was dropping them on the ground because of the presence of wolfs who were white in color and others which were gray, not sure if I was there to feed them or not, in the dream I felt that they were waiting for something, I did not feel scared but puzzles because I knew they didn’t want to start eating the meat and they didn’t want to harm me but yet they were waiting for something from me. Once I got puzzled I said you don’t want to eat the meat and you don’t want to eat me, tell me what you want, what are you waiting for? So I started growling at a white wolf to my left and he or she started growling back and we got louder and louder so I thought to myself I better stop, I want peace and I don’t want this to get violent so I woke up.
Sincerely,
Carol
Namaste Carol
Welcome to Timberwolf HQ. I hope by now you have had a chance to read Ursula’s reply to your request for an interpretation of your dream. I did not post an immediate reply for which I apologise on behalf of the site. However, the interpretation given in detail by Ursula matches closely with my own first impressions. I too feel that you are about to embark on a new stage of your life journey. One which will see you encounter more and more spiritual connections to the prime reason for your soul manifesting in this time and this place.
As a person who has been called upon to teach and to guide others, the wolf is a particularly strong totem animal. You are meant to delve into your own inner well of innate knowledge and bring it forward to share with others. They do not need the mundane teachings of “…here is the meat you need for physical sustenance…”. Your “pack” needs you to be a shining light (the moon) to show the way (wolves are path finders as well as teachers). Your anger was not at the pack, but at your initial inability to determine the needs of your family. When you realized that it was peace and knowledge, the anger passed.
Carol, welcome to the way of the wolf. I hope you join us here at Timberwolf HQ as a fellow “Spiritual Warrior and Seeker of the Way”.
In love and light
Timberwolf
Hello Carol……I am sorry that I ( personally) didn’t respond to your question….it’s very late at night as I read it now and my brain is overworked with Christmas cheer etc etc…..I am usually notified re any comments on this page which get automatically sent to my email account and then I can come back and read them on the web site which is how I knew about Julie and Marie’s posts/comments and their dreams…..for a some reason which I don’t understand….who understands IT…this didn’t happen this time…so, and I feel very privileged that you feel I can help you….I will read about your dream over the next few days and leave a comment…..or my sense of it’s meaning……many thanks Ursula….xox
Hello Carol, it’s early morning here and I have sat for some time quietly and have read your “dream” and the circumstances surrounding it….doing what I do which is that I put myself into your shoes, as if your experience which I am relating to, was happening to me….then I ask myself how I feel and I notice the things mentioned and their impact on me….in this way, staying with my feelings, which I find to be the BEST indicator and guide to what is truly going on. It is interesting to note that much wisdom and insight can be gleaned from the fertile ground of our feelings and emotions, something women have stronger aptitude for, while we are not the most vocal of the two of us, men and women, well not in a public way, we do however have a deeper ability to mine into our emotional landscape and find meaning there!!
So, I’ll just go grab a coffee and return: So First of all lets look at the fact that you posted your first comment asking for guidance on the 13th November and no-one answered, the fact that you say you have worked hard for what you have, tells me you have spent more of your time in the physical world attending to those matters of survival and creating financial security and perhaps are newly coming to looking within the spiritual realms, for answers
SO…..when you first begin to look at symbols, signs, dreams and life showing you the way in more subtle ways it takes longer for the answers to come….longer for the wisdom to kick in…..and this is also attested to in your dream as you are under the moonlight, but can’t see the moon and you remembered that only several days after the dream….so the answers come slowly at first and then the more we look within and take note of what we are shown the quicker they come!!! You found your way to this site and found similarity in the answers here, seeing yourself in much of what was described….the “wait” has been good because it has sharpened your desire and wanting for answers, it has left you in a state of wondering more and more as the dream has been poking and prodding at you, that is also great…we need to sometimes get frustrated at first and want answers, even to the point of getting desperate for them….not to say you may not have got asnwers elsewhere as well.
Twenty plus years ago when I first taught myself to go within and sit with my feelings ( in my body) it might take me three days to get an answer…now it takes seconds, in fact it is almost instant!! Sometimes I feel the answer was sitting there waiting for me to construct the right question to give it permission to come forwards.
So, it’s very interesting that I became aware of this comment and I answer on the first day of the summer solstice….for three days the sun rises in the same position and then changes to make the longest summer day ( here in Australia) move towards the shorter days of winter…….this speaks of the changes and cycles of life….so with lengening nights we have more mystery, more moon wisdom….and as for wolves, more moonlight to bay at!!!
Your dream came to you, and obviously it was a very vivid one, on the night you spent with you new love….under his dream catcher….so it obviously worked very well and this dream came to help you begin with the spiritual cleansing you are needing and moving into making happen for yourself.
My sense of your dream is that you are accomplished in the world of physical matters, you have seemingly created the material substance in your life that provides for that sense of safety and security we all long for…..and often we think that having financial strength will give us that sense of security and well being, and often it does, but sometimes it doesn’t and we have to go deeper into our lives to find where the true sense of well being actually comes from.
So there you are “carrying the raw meat” which speaks to me of survival issues, on your back…..this tells me you have an expectation of yourself to provide ….to bring the food to the table and feed the tribe….my sense is that you dropped the raw meat because it was heavy and unpleasant to carry, it is now a burden to you to do that and somewhere inside you know it’s not what you are meant to do anymore…..( the time it has taken for an answer has caused you to ponder the dream yourself and find answers from within yourself which is good) ….you yourself have realised that this is an offering you thought you had to make but apparently don’t need to…
There is something other than the meat that these wolves want from you, and you yourself feel puzzled, what is it….and in your frustration you growl at them and they growl back and the anger energy comes up which you want to avoid……what do you want?? You want peace!!!
So my intuition tells me that the thing they want from you is for you to uncover the moon for them…..it feels to me that these wolves know that you have great intuitive power, great medecine woman power and in your engagement with the physical world ( getting the meat) you have moved away from your intuition, your softness and your wisdom and hence the moon cannot be seen even though it’s light can be felt and senses….moon energy represents the emotional and spiritual wisdom of woman…..the sun ( man) is like a rocket that bursts into the sky each day and shines it’s light on the land….but woman is the one who are night captures that light and reflects it back….shining the reflected sunlight onto the land so that we can walk and the way is shown in the darkness of the mystery of life, the night…women open the way for us to see what is hidden….The presence of wolves here in your dream speaks to me of your tribe, your extended family and that they, you, are now needing to turn your attention to the moon…for guidance, for the sense of wellbeing it bestows on us. As I see a picture in my mind of these wolves, as I read into your dream and they are standing around you saying…no we don’t need the meat…..we can get that ourselves, we need you to give us back the moon so we can see it and howl our night’s sojourn under her light!!
This dream Carol is telling you that it is time to turn your attention to matters of the spirit and that this is what will help you, your love, your loved ones, the community around you and finally the world. We spend enough and too much time on what is meaningless and not enough time on what is meaningful and important……I wish you well Carol, I hope this has helped you and have a wonderful Christmas…..are you still with this man as it seemed the relationship was in it’s infancy. And I am…..well no, I was going to say sorry it took so long to answer, but as you are about to find out….things happen when they are meant to…all is perfectly well as soon as we know in our hearts it is. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and hope to see you back here and we find out how you are going….lots of love Ursula XOX
Thank you Ursula for your interpretation of my dream. I appreciate you.
Is EVERYONE’s spirit guide brother wolf here?
Mine in fact, is a cow. I found her after three times of my trying to contact her.
She is soft as the grass she grazes. I went through the tunnel, anticipating the free running feild that awaited. After resting in a patch of clover, i heard rustling from behind me.
Honestly i hoped for something like a fox, or a lion. But it was a COW.
At first i wantes to deny it as my guide. And broke of connection. A week passed and i contacted her again. Now i know that she is my guide. Rightful and true. And i must pass on the message that just because you WANT a specific animal doesn’t mean that is what your guide shall be. I learneyhay ad hope to pass my knowlege on to you, warriors of the spirit
now i fully embrace her, and she is with me always.
Sincerily,
Terri
Hi Terri.
Oh that is so gorgeous, a cow, and it’s so true….one’s ego wants the majesty of some great super animal like a lion or cheetah… so funny hey when an ant turns up, and each animal has it’s own quality…it’s like horse riding, you wouldn’t ride a horse built for speed if you need endurance, horses for courses….. my animal totem isn’t the wolf although I love them and what they represent, I came to the Timberwolf site through a search for the Soul Tree and it led me to the article Timberwolf wrote on Avatar, the movie………….from my point of view I sense animals more as a messenger that comes to you at a particular time in your life when it’s energy is meaningful to you, in your case…..I experienced the cow as a very soft, loving, grounding and nurturing energy….like that milky smell of a cows moist nose when you get right up close to them…cows are so gorgeous….I love them………..how curious they are and then they fight their timidity so they are in constant conflict….I want to come and inspect you but you scare me…..I love too how in a herd they have such different personalities, the bold one, the timid one, the one that badgers the others, ones that butt heads, the loner….they are all different!!
I’ve noticed that for example when change is an issue for me I will encounter lots of snakes, if “going my own way” is an issue, it’s possums, when my feminine wisdom needs reinforcement, or shall we say believing in my knowing and intuition, I’ll see spiders everywhere…owls for keeping in the stillness and silence of my knowing. etc etc…every animal has a different message…..I looked up the symbolism for Cows, you probably have too, and it closely matched my own “feeling” into the energy of the cow!!
Here it is: In many cultures the cow is symbolic of Mother Earth, and has been a symbol of fertility, nurturing, and power.
This makes udder sense (pardon the pun), cows have been generous with their life force for eons. They are closely associated with provision and very earth-associated in symbolism.
The cow is also a lunar symbol, aligning itself with feminine (yin) qualities (see list of yin attributes) among the Chinese yin-yang energies.
A quick-list of Animal symbolism of the cow would include:
Patience
Nourishment
Abundance
Fertility
Female Power
Potential
Possibility
Calming
Grounded
Provision
Beginnings
Cheers Ursula XOXOX
Ursula, Thank you for the comment. I appreciate your concern and efforts for giving me a response to what you insights have giving you in return. I am still trying to comprehend the meaning of all of this, it is so new to me. I feel that I have not yet discovered my spirit guide. Not quit sure about some things you mentioned, especially about me being a medicine woman. I am going to read your response again and see what I get out of off for the 2nd time. Once more, thank you for you help. Sincere cheers to you too with love, Carol
Ursula,
Here is my response after reading your comment for the 2nd time. First and foremost, you are so right about the me placing the spiritual matter in 2nd place, yes I have been feeling the urge to go back to my roots, go back to my spiritual life system which I once had a long time ago. Things, unfortunate events have been keeping me from keeping my eyes on spiritual matters, every time I try something just holds me back and distracts me but I know now what I should do. Thank you for helping. Now I most find out about my spirit guide and start understanding more about this medicine woman you say I am. Once more, thank you very much for you help…Happy New Years to you too…:)
Namaste Carol
I am pleased that you have managed to find an answer to your questions. Ursula is a very powerful person and we are lucky to have her as a guest author and commenter here at Timberwolf HQ. Please feel free to come back at any time or use the contact form link at the bottom of the pages to send me a message for her. I am happy to have you speak to each other via comments as well.
Please enjoy the festive season and I hope to see you back here regularly.
Timberwolf
Mr. Timberwolf
Thank you for your concern and your personalized response. I truly appreciate.
Thank you both, you and Ursula.
Happy festive season to all!
Carol
Thankyou Carol for your lovely comments and for your acknowledgement, I humbly accept….and, it’s natural isn’t it, to enjoy the genuine appreciation that others express for what you share and give from your heart and soul!
Thankyou again and always, Timberwolf for the physical and spiritual presence as expressed in this site you have created that in this moment is the vehicle for this discourse and exchange of ideas so rich in meaning.
Today is the 30th December, one day before the last day of 2011 and then we step into a whole new world called 2012. So it is timely and beautiful to express these ideas now.
In respect the the Medecine Woman, Carol, it was the Dalai Lama who said at the Vancouver Peace Summit 2009…”The world will be saved by the Western Woman” …..he went on to describe the powers of insight and wisdom that woman have access to and that it would be women who would lead the way for radical world change….in 2012 we are poised for that change….only recently Scientists have discovered more and more about energy, that if 10% of a group of people hold an unshakeable belief the other 90% are to powerless to prevent the belief from sweeping through their consciousness. Swiss Scientists, the Hadron Collider think they have identified a form of energy that is the source of creation, elsewhere scientists have discovered that the heart has its own mind and thinks more powerful thoughts than the brain does, it emits an electromagnetic energy field that emanates up to 10 feet from the body and in more evolved people, well they are not sure how far but far and wide it is. So we are beginning to understand energy and how it functions and that it is behind every physical phenomena we observe, and we often misunderstand or have a wrong or limited perception based on inadequate or only partial information.
The world we live in today….our institutions, governments, religions, rules, mores, regulatory bodies have build their schemata or matrix of beliefs, values, rules and regulations on a very very limited and superficial observation on the nature of LIFE…..how this planet functions and on many many counts they have been completely wrong and have severely underestimated the life processes that govern our existance, this is of course natural and to be expected as we can only see what we are capable of seeing and perception IS a direct a product of our evolutionary level of understandig and our process….unfortunately humans can be creatures of habit who adopt and cling tenaciously to old ways even when they are outdated and outmoded by hundreds of years of understanding…….Julian Assange has shown the world that the powers that be release only the information that supports the status quo of the old ways that disempower the masses and keep them with their noses to the grindstone of commercial profit..for the few…..this is changing…NOW!!
So old medecine gives you an aspirin to remove the symptom called a headache without addressing what caused it…..New medecine asks you to look within to understand what wrong, vexed thought or misaligned feeling is causing the pain in an obviously conflicted mind that has caused the pain. New Medecine looks for wise ways to proceed and deal with all manner of human issue, it recognises powerful energies that underscore and sponsor every happening and look for change in ways that are permanent, wise and growth evoking.
All women around the world are being called Carol, to “come out” To begin to think, feel, consider, muse upon, build decisions on, emanate, express and share the truth about life, what matters, and what doesn’t!! What is important and what isn’t…how to live more consciously aware of what is really happening in our world, beginning to embrace new ideas about death, creation, life, fear, abundance…knowledge….releasing all victimhood and stepping into the true power of all of who we are capable of being.
In 2012 we will be challenged, where do you stand on LIFE? The Medecine Woman in everywoman is being asked to step forwards and tell it like it is!!
I wish you a wonderful transition from 2011 to 2012 and enjoy your New Year. Put your seat belt on, lift your arms and fly and let your hair out and let the wind blow through your being and >>>> Let the Games Begin!!!
Lots of Love, light and many blessings to you Ursula XO
Ursula and Carol
Thanks be to you Ursula for again sharing of your wisdom and insight. Blessed be to Carol for sharing her story and her questions. That is what Timberwolf HQ is all about. Not just a refuge from the world but a beacon to shine in the darkness of the future to illuminate, educate and be a ‘path finder’ and ‘leader’ in the evolution of a new paradigm. With 10% percent of people worldwide coming to the same conclusions about our spiritual and evolutionary transformation, then we should be able to stand strong against the 90% and bring forth the change for a better world. Our mother, Gaia, expects and requires this from us.
In love and light to you both and all my readers.
Namaste
Timberwolf
Thank you all som much for the information about your totems! It has really helped me alot om my journey trying to find my totem. But i have a few questions:
I meditate every day but i never seem to see anything spessial. Every time i try to look for the animal ( while meditating ) i always think something like, maybe it is a bird! And then a birds starts flying above my head, or maybe it is a cat! And a cat shows up.. But yesterday when i was meditating i saw a big white animal coming towards me. I couldnt se what animals it was because i was blinded by the sun. And then suddenly everything went black and i had to quit meditating. At first i thought it was a white lion, but i am not really sure.. Some days later when i was looking at different animal totems i found the snow leopard, i suddenly felt happy and warm inside. I searched for pictures of snow leopards and while i was looking at the pictures i suddenly started to laugh and cry at the same time. I felt soo happy and i had no idea why XD I have tried to look for the snow leopard while meditating but i never seem to find it.. Does anyone have any advice?
I also tried to meditate in the forest today. It didnt really work though XD it was too cold so i couldnt consentrate.. But when i walked i found some magpie feathers on the ground, i took one of them with me, because i was curious that it may mean anything. I also felt that something was looking at me when i was walking. It was right in the middle of the forest, and i was the only person there. Could it have been my totem animal watching me?
I should also say that i am only 14 years old, but i really want to find my totem as soon as possible. Right now i both need the companion and i am curious what it may be
Thank you
I loved your post and can feel that you are such a lovely energy….my advice to you is to stop looking, stop trying to find your totem animal….so what I mean by that is that Meditation is about resting in a pleaceful place in your heart and allowing yourself to stop trying to do anything. Unfortunately with animal energy, well it’s not unfortunate…..unless we are trying too hard to try to make it happen. But animals are very loving and very kind in nature and they teach us to sit back and allow them to approach us, sometimes there is nothing more they want from us than for us to sit still and give them the space to come to us, on their terms.
My advice to you is to meditate on the lovely feelings that animals give you, their soft comforting fur, the inspiration of flying, how wonderful it feels to fly, what it feels like to have an animal rub up against you, touch you with it’s fur, lick you, play with your hands…purr or snikker in the case of a horse in your ear….fill yourself with the lovely companionship energy of animal support and love…… and I promise you, your totem will come and reveal itself…but don’t get attached to it…you are young and you will have many changes so one day it is a bird, the next day a lizard….animals speak to us….just yesterday I was walking in the bush with my dog and “thinking intensely” about a change I need to make in my attitude to a person I know….I have to change how I see that I said and there not more than a couple of metres away was a pretty big snake slithering through the grass….Jarrah, my dog noticed it too but let it be….I was so excited and happy to see her slither across my path and noticed I felt no fear or anxiety, I gave her space, she gave me mine and she reinforces and confirmed for me that my thought was right!! Yes, change is needed here!! Snakes mean change because they lose their skins and when they do they are very sensitive as we all are when we make changes in our lives.
I hope that helps Ceto….lots of love Ursula XOXO
Thank you Ursula! I will try to be more relaxed about it, and make the animal come to me instead
I have some other questions too ( if thats ok? I dont want to bother you…. ) I was wondering, how do you know that one animal is truly your totem/spirit guide? Do you just feel it? Or do you get signs? And i was also wondering about the gender of the totem? Do they have genders? And ( another question XD ) how do you seperate imagination and whats really your animal? I seem to have a problem trusting myself when it comes to meditation. I dont have problems relaxing or visualize, but i just cant trust myself enough to say that i really meet my totem or just imaginate everything XD I must say that i am new to this whole spirituall thing, and i have never been religious or spirituall at all, but lately i have found this urge to contact my spirit guide, and try to find myself. It is hard to explain.
I believe that is it more between heaven and earth than we can see and explain… haha, some years earlier i would probably have laughed off myself if i saw this post XD I didnt believe in ghosts or totems or god at all. Well, people change i guess…
If you have managed to read through this whole post i must admire your patience. And again thank you! I love to have someone to talk to when it comes to these things.
Dear Ceto….I love to talk to people about “these things” …these things that speak of what is there, more than we know or sometimes see, between heaven and earth….and just remember, here on earth in this funny world we live in, you’ve been taught that you have to get it right, you need a tick against your answer and someone telling you……YOU ARE RIGHT…or WRONG!!
And in this space between heaven and earth where spirit resides, if it makes you feel good then it’s right!!! I am older than you and I remember years ago when counseling or just helping friends as people have always confided in me, I began to see pictures, like a movie playing of times gone by, olden days and I would see this person in it….playing a role, maybe 100, 200 or much older and it frightened me at first…should I say something? am I imagining it?…I would get hot under the collar, afraid to say something…one day I just said…what the heck!! And off I went……….turned out the other person could always relate to what I said, and saw and in fact it often explained things really well, in ways they could not have better understood, the more I trusted and went with what I saw the clearer and better able to see I became!!
Answer: Trust what come to you…..you will feel it and it will be right!! The other thing I want to say to y0u is that the best best best and most FULL proof thing you can do is…………….Keep asking questions, don’t ever stop asking questions and the best way to ask is…..to be Wondering, Curious and interested…and you already are that, so you are on the right track…..and above all EXPECT an answer….it will come and when it does you will know it is right!!!
Have fun and enjoy the flight!! Ursula S
Hi Timberwolf,
I was reading your article on how to find your spirit animal. I have always been fascinated with wolves, ever since I was a young boy. I’ve never been able to find my spirit animal, per say, but for some reason, I feel a strong connection with wolves. Not only that, but I’ve had dreams of a white wolf appearing in front of me, not to mention that I do have some characteristics of a wolf. And I’ve always felt the presence of that same wolf. I am going to try this excise to see if my animal spirit is a wolf or not. But my question is, what does this tell me? Have I already felt my animal spirit already?
Namaste Alex
Many people seek understanding of their guides. Some find them straight away while others struggle to meet them. Still others like yourself may find that their guides manifest spontaneously and in dreams. I would like you to try the meditation contained in the article: Discovering Your Animal Totem.
This meditation should assist you verifying your spirit guide and ultimately meeting them on equal terms. Remember though, do not try and force things to occur, it must be as natural as possible.
Please come back and let me know how things go.
Timberwolf
Hi Timberwolf,
My name is Matt, can you help me?
I would like to know what my spirit animal is.
I’ve read the Discorvering your Animal Totem article and noticed that it’s a meditation; the problem is that I am not fimilar how to meditate or how to perform the meditation it’s self and I would like someone to guide me.
When I tried to meditate for the first time, I had trouble trying to keep my mind quiet.
I would like to have a spirit animal that I can talk to.
I’m worried I’ll never meet my spirit animal, can you help me?
P.S. I’ve also been to your website a few times before and I like it, keep up the good work and let brother wolf guide you forever.
From, Matt
Namaste Matt
Is there anyone close to you who would be willing to guide you through the meditation? If not let me know and I’ll see what I can do.
Timberwolf
There might be a person I know who might be able to guide me through the meditation, no guarantees though. I think I’m going to be seeing her soon in about a couple of weeks I think. I’ll ask her if she can guide me through the meditation.
Matt
Hi Matt
Sounds good. If that doesn’t work, then contact me again and I’ll see what I can arrange.
Timberwolf
Hello Timberwolf,
Thank you so much for creating this website– it is wonderful to find a place with such integrity where the animals and humans can coexist. I read people’s stories and dreams about animals and feel at home. Animal dreams are usually so vivid and intense– these dreams help us to “wake up” in a whole new way.
I am a painter of animal spirit medicine (mostly), so I am always feeling into the meanings of the wild.
I recently had a dream that I am having trouble finding the meaning in, and I’m hoping you can help me. I was in a house that I was told nobody lived in, and I was wandering around between the rooms, when suddenly I knew a mountain lion stood behind me on the stairs, so it was at eye level with me. I knew it to be a mountain lion though it had the mane of an African lion. I immediately decided to kill it in self defense– though it made no moves towards me. I grabbed a piece of wood nearby and stabbed the mountain lion to death. There was no fight– it just died.
What does it mean to kill an animal in your dream? Are you defeating a part of yourself that no longer serves you– or are their gifts elements that you need but are destroying somehow in your waking life? The cougar is about balance and leadership, cunning and strategy, respecting other’s boundaries. I have recently moved to Iceland as an American, and am starting a healing business here with my husband, and find that I need many of those elements in spades right now! Do you have any insights?
I appreciate you!
Erin
Namaste Erin
First let me say that I have visited your website and I found your art amazing.
As to your dream, I can only give you my initial perception as to the way it feels to me. That you are in an abandoned home gives me the impression that you are feeling a little uncomfortable with the move to a new country and that you are still feeling your way. This is not a bad thing and it is what one would expect from such a dislocation. Your animal, a mix of African Lion and Mountain Lion (the latter being the more obvious to you) tells me that you are dealing with a number of things. The lion symbolises pride and the mountain lion leadership. Again this relates to your move, one in which it would seem to me that you devolved your leadership in the decision to that of your husband. The killing of the lion means the swallowing of your pride and the feeling that you have or requiring the qualities of balance and respecting of boundaries shows that you are willing to compromise with others decisions and try new things. There is much good to come from your decision and it will take time to discover the full manifestation of these things.
As I said, this is only an initial feeling. I hope it makes sense to you. Please come back anytime and let my readers and I know how things are progressing for you.
Timberwolf
Hi Timberwolf, it’s me Matt again.
I haven’t meet with my friend yet to help guide me on the meditation, I asked her if she could but when she messaged me back she said she could can apparently “see” what my totem animal is, and she also posted a video off of YouTube called Finding your Power Animal with Denise Linn. (if your interested then go check out the video) I don’t know if I should try this meditation or if I should wait until she could help me on the other meditation. What do you think I should do?
From, Matt
Namaste Matt
If you are feeling ill at ease in attempting the meditation by yourself, then I would suggest you wait until you have your friend with you. This will make you more comfortable and they can guide you through it. When you are more relaxed you will have a better chance of completing the meditation.
Timberwolf
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Hi Timberwolf it’s Matt again.
Do you still want me to try the meditation on my own?
From, Matt
Hi Timberwolf it’s Matt.
I’ve booked an appointment to see my friend so that she can help guide me on the meditation on August 23rd
Talk to you soon
From, Matt
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Hi Timberwolf it’s me Matt again
Is there any meditations on how to find your spirit animal you would like me to try?
From Matt
Hi Matt
I know its been a while, however you should try the meditation in this article: .
Let me know how you go.
Timberwolf
Hello Timberwolf
Im 12. Is that too young to find my animal spirit as I have quite a wild imagination? I really want to find out what it is but I am afraid that my imagination will take over while I meditate to find my guide. I’ve always, all my life, grown up with dogs and had a very close connection to them and wolves. Almost like I can communicate with them them.
I have always had a feeling that my animal guide would be a white wolf with grey eyes. I was gazing into the moon the other night, attracted by its beauty, and thinking about the white wolf when I suddenly heard the name Nyra. Im not sure if this is my imagination or not??
Thankyou
Petra
Hello Petra
Welcome to Timberwolf HQ. I’m certainly happy to make your acquaintance.
As to your question, an active imagination could cause one of two things to happen. One, you could take your over active imagination and provide yourself with an entire fantasy about what you have experienced. This can seem quite real, however it would not be. Two, knowing that you have a very active imagination could help you focus more on what it is you are trying to do, in this instance, discover your spirit guide.
Try the meditation in this article: and be watchful for anything fanciful that enters into your mind during the meditation. Allow yourself to only see the things described in the meditation and come back to Timberwolf HQ to let me and my readers know the results.
It may well be that Nyra will be there for you when you find what you seek at the end. Please share it with us.
Timberwolf
Hi ,
thanks a lot for your website and people comments where we can find lots of informations .
i am a medium and a psychic and i am 31 . i am from France .
Here are 2 dreams , hope you may accept to help me .
i’ve dreamt about three giant lions that ate my brother .
i told them to stop but they did eat him . i was on the top on my balcoony and i’ve saw everything from there .
when the lions had finished , they sat down and look at me then, one of my friend came , she want to enter the door downstairs but one of the lions bite her hand but without hurting her . i was so scared because they still sat down and waited for me , they werent dangerous at all paradoxally . they were ” me ” or my family guards when i looked at them . but i was too afraid of them .
in real life, my brother hurted me with violence and is a very sellfish , mean person .
and i am Leo , born in august . i dont know if it has a point ? i am not so into astrology ..
another one , is that i were with my father . we went to a a tiny boat with a crow on it .
it was like death , but when we arrived to the destination , it was like a city full of dead people who were ok and happy .
i sat down with my father near a river and there was a white tiger with huge swords teeth with us . a big car crash happenned and a truck almost felt down on my father , i couldn’t raise the truck because of its weight . but the tiger with sword teeth raised it ! lol and my father was ok i was so afraid he dies !
another one , is that a huge creature like , without face , came up from the fire down the earth and said he was my father .
so please, i would like to know please if you think or feel that theses are just messages or one of them is my totem animal ?
thanks for reading me,
Regards,
Sam
Namaste Sam
Welcome to Timberwolf HQ. First let me tell you that I am not a medium and do not claim any psychic skills. I follow my heart when I read and interpret the questions I am being asked.
Your dreams are very powerful indicators that you are not happy with your life. You would like to have a better relationship with your brother and yet you keep your distance. He will understand, all you need to do is tell him that you forgive him. If he asks what he is forgiven for, tell him “everything you have done” and then walk away. Let him come to you.
As for your father, you are both afraid of him and in awe of him. He is what you aspire to be without wanting to have to go through the same things he did to reach his point in life.
These are all normal things that people all around the world undergo every day. I’m glad that you found Timberwolf HQ. Perhaps there are other readers here who may have further insights for you.
Please come back and let us know how things are going with you.
Timberwolf
sorry, i would like to add that meditation scares me , because i see so many strange thing and i feel so much that i am afraid to see something scary or have flashes when i close my eyes and meditate , i am too receptive .
it happens i can”t sleep because i see strange figures and strange “images ” that i dont always understand .
Hi Timberwolf,
I’m so glad I found this site. I am quite certain that I have already found my spirit animal, I found that when I was nine (leopard). That’s my lifelong spirit animal. But I also had an experience recently with some animal that I don’t quite understand but link to spirit animals. I was standing in my office when a dark wind blew through. I saw a vivid cat, brown, wisp with the wind at my feet then suddenly pain hit my leg and a felt a warmth spread, almost like blood.
I went to shower an hour or so after (nighttime now) and was a little scared still. My shower has glass walls that fog up when the showers on, so I saw my female cat (not brown, could not have been any of my three who was in the office) sitting on the counter near the sink. I sketched her, starting with the eyes. Then suddenly the brown cat wind figure jumped onto the counter through the cat eye I had drawn. I felt his presence wildly. I looked suddenly at the window thy I could vaguely see myself in (across from shower) and the brown cat’s face innertwined with mine. Then it disappeared. And I continued showering. I know that isn’t TOO scary, but my heart was beating really hard now. Then I looked back and my face was mine, but changed. My eyes were slitted and narrow, and my face was car like as well. I was frightened and got out of the shower. I didn’t dream that night. I thought maybe “Is this my totem animal?” but thought it couldn’t be. I SEE leopards everywhere and have a very strong connevtion with them. There is no doubt that they truly are my totem animal. What was this?
Welcome to Timberwolf HQ Kerensa
The leopard may be your animal totem and main spirit guide. If that is the case, then having leopard as your guide indicates that you have the power of choice over your life and its path.
Many people have more than one animal spirit guide throughout their life. Each appears at the appointed time to guide us through a life lesson. The cat as a guide means magic, mystery and tactile senses. Perhaps at this time in your life you are in need with getting back “in touch” with the magic and mystery of your life.
I too, have experienced the changing of my facial features for an instant or two and realise the power that this can have over you. Embrace your vision and learn from it. Get back in touch with what is important to you and not what is important to those around you, that will come back in its own time.
Please return to Timberwolf HQ to let me know how things go.
Timberwolf
Hello anybody!
I read this article and It’s making me anxious to meet my spirit animal. I’ve been trying for a couple of years to meditate but I cannot seem to relax enough. I’m resorting to dreams and signs. I’ve thought of animals that have meant aomething to me. One time I was visiting a conservation park for large cats. There were many species of cats there, but this one tiger named Wally, would just come up to me. I looked into her eyes and I felt a strange connection. Like I could understand her. Also, I’ve known skunks to be very cautious of humans, but one night I was out walking my dog, and I see a shadow not to far ahead. I thought it was a cat at first, but then I noticed the white stripe on its tail and I realized it was a skunk. Casually walking towards me. I have no idea if my dog had anything to do with that but it seemed abnormal. And yet another.. Deer. They always seem to bring me a sense of peace and serenity when I see one. I alsi had a vision once that I was in a clearing and a male deer came out. He beckoned me to follow him and I did. The woods got too thick and I lost him. I havent seen him since. But I seem to always see deer around me. Please, help me decipher these.
I would like to say discard my last post. I’ve found my spirit to be a jaguar.
Hi Kayti
Thanks for stopping by Timberwolf HQ and sharing your story with us. I am excited for you that you have found your animal guide to be the jaguar. This is a guide who can teach you the merits of personal integrity. Just remember that while jaguar may be your main animal guide, we all have many different guides that come to us during our lifetime to teach us, guide us or help us through a given situation.
Timberwolf
Hi! I was just wondering if it would be possible to have two guides, because a wolf seems to appear in my meditations, but the dear in my dreams.
Hi Shshgr
Each of us will meet many different guides on our journey through life. We will have many different animals, people and angels looking out for us, teaching us and guiding us through this turn on the “wheel of life”. They will appear to us in dreams, meditations, accidental meetings with strangers that delay us for the few moments it might take so that we don’t get hit by that truck or instruct us that we need to be more mindful of others.
Please come back to Timberwolf HQ and share more of your story with us.
Timberwolf
Namaste Timberwolf ,
Thank you so much for your interesting answer . And , yes , you are right , now i’ve forgave and i am learning following my own path without trying anymore to take my family’s pain . It is very difficult when there is a kind of “empathic telepathy “.
i trust the Universe and i let it go now more easily now .
Another point , each time i ‘ve asked for a sign above , my road always crossed animals … owls , lamas and alpacas , foxes , etc…all kind of animals that is very difficult to cross where i live in France .
i even played like a child with the lama . he was very lovely and made me full of joy . wonderful moment i won’t forget because it was like i knew him for years .
i always had cats and special relationships with them and they ‘ve always learned me a lot , i can’t live without them in my life . .
i always thought it was my totem animal but through the years … i discover something else .
i felt an emergency . i don’t know what it is . it is like a scream that want to get out . i thought it was a kind of emotion or anger or joy . but when it finally goes out, i was very surprised that it was a Wolf HOWL !
when i hear or see wolves ‘ howling , it both scares me and vibrate in me very deeply . i don’t know if it make me sad or happy , everything is mixed emotionnally inside me .
sometimes i really feel the need to howl …
it soothes all my depth inside , it is like a connexion between me and i .
it doesn’t happen often but when it does, it is a like an emergency or a need .
so now , i listen a lot to wolves howling , it is like a consolation to my heart , a food to my soul and it make me work a lot about who i am .
it makes me meditate a lot .
sometimes we think we are things that we are not and we are very surprised to discover some truths .
maybe it is my totem animal for now ? i don’t know .
it may be too much questions but if you could help me, i would raise !
i am at a moment where i don’t know where i am , what to do or what i want .
it seems i dont know anything and i keep asking myself ” what do i need” but i feel myself too far . i don’t know where i am and what i want . i have no answers from myself from months !
it is not a confortable feeling because sometimes i feel really lost and don’t know what to do .
Thank you again for all the advices and benefits of your advices on this website and my apologies for my english .
.
Hi Timberwolf it’s me Matt.
Long time no see.
So I did the meditation with my friend back in August and to tell you the truth, I wasn’t so successful in the meditation so instead my friend told me that my spirit animal is a wolf named Butch, and apparently I had a past life with him but he’s not going to show up until 6 months after August (so sometime in February). But in the mean time what will happen when he does come into my life?
From your friend Matt.
Hello Timberwolf sir,
I am still new about this thing so i am going to move straight to the point.
i truly think that my spirit animal is a wolf,but i have no idea how to talk to him or contact it.But a few weeks ago i had this dream that i still can remember. “I was walking through the woods with someone but then i wandered off into the wilderness and as i walked a dark wolf jumped out and tried to hurt me but just seconds later a White wolf appered and jumped between the black wolf and me adn told me to run, I did as i was told and then i woke up” any idea what the dream might mean?